With a possible end (more or less) to the Greek debt crisis taking shape last week, investors were once again confident enough to get back to their buying ways. When it was all said and done, the market gained about 2.4%, crawling back above some key resistance levels in the process. And yet, stocks didn’t quite…
GBP/USD Signals Update Last Thursday’s signals expired without being triggered. Today’s GBP/USD Signals Risk 0.75% per trade. Trades must be taken between 8am and 5pm London time today only. Short Trade 1 Go short following a bearish price action reversal on the H1 time frame immediately upon the next touch of 1.5673. Put the stop loss…
As Wall Street is well into the new earnings season, analysts and investors alike are anticipating quarterly results from their favorite companies. What should investors look for in Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) and American Airlines Group Inc (NASDAQ:AAL)? Qualcomm, Inc. Qualcomm is set to announce its third fiscal quarter 2015 earnings results on Wednesday, July 22 after market close. Wall Street…
There has now been a clear trigger of a bearish descending triangle formation in Gold (XAU/USD), as can be seen in the monthly chart below. Initially, there was a false breakout last November (dropped below $1,180.20), and another test of support of the pattern in March of this year. Each time Gold managed to rally…
The New York Stock Exchange publishes end-of-month data for margin debt on the NYXdata website, where we can also find historical data back to 1959. Let’s examine the numbers and study the relationship between margin debt and the market, using the S&P 500 as the surrogate for the latter. The first chart shows the two series…
A popular view these days is that the euro is a failed experiment because economically and/or politically disparate countries cannot share a currency without eventually bringing on a major crisis. Another way of expressing this conventional wisdom is: a monetary union (a common currency) cannot work without a fiscal union (a common government). This is unadulterated…
Although the details of Greece’s third bailout program have yet to be finalized, Monday marked the beginning of a new dawn for Greeks. Last week, PM Alexis Tsipras forced a set of draconian “reforms” through parliament and sacked political rivals, effectively legislating away the country’s sovereignty while condemning the Greek people to a fate of…
For what seems like forever we have been mechanical in managing the precious metals because they have been bearish; period. This has been based on short and long-term technical indications and incomplete macro fundamentals. Gary the robot has had no difficulty whatsoever holding this stance despite Gary the human’s unwavering view that the value of…
For what seems like forever we have been mechanical in managing the precious metals because they have been bearish; period. This has been based on short and long-term technical indications and incomplete macro fundamentals. Gary the robot has had no difficulty whatsoever holding this stance despite Gary the human’s unwavering view that the value of…
