Here’s a $9 Trillion Question (Bloomberg) What Do Low Interest Rates Mean for Stock Market Returns? (A Wealth of Common Sense) Tech Leads the Way as Nasdaq Climbs (WSJ) 25 Ways to Get Smarter About Money Right Now (Time) Predicting the Next Wall Street Disaster (Newsweek...
Life in the Algorithm: The searches we make, the news we read, the dates we go on, the advertisements we see, the products we buy and the music we listen to. The stock market. The surveillance society. The police state, and the drones. All guided by a force we never see...
Why the Bond Bull Market Isn’t Over (Barron’s) Cry me a river that leads to Omaha (Michael Santoli) see also Protégé Partners: These factors ‘wreaked havoc’ in our bet against Buffett (Adam’s Angle) Investors Snap Up Online Financial Advisers: Startups Get Lofty Valuations From Venture-Capital Ba...
Humans in general grow up being taught by their environment of the importance of always being right. Those who are right are envied as the winners in society and those who are wrong are cast aside as losers...
I have tried everything . You name it Trend Following, Harmonics, Square Waves, Renko, Ichumoku, Fibonacci to name a few of my favourites. Nothing however works as well as the entry points my EA finds...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday that the number of people employed fell by 12,200 to 11.668 million in January, against market expectations of a fall of 5,000. This took the official unemployment rate to 6.4 per cent from 6...
Veteran trader Larry Pesavento explains a powerful tape reading technique in his 2000 book Opening Price Principle: Best Kept Secret on Wall Street. Through years of observation, he noticed how the first trade of the day often serves as support or resistance for the entire session...
Bollinger bands are very similar to moving averages. The bands are plotted at two standard deviations above or below the moving average. This is typically based off of the simple moving average, but an exponential moving average can be used to increase the sensitivity of the indicator...
The relative strength index or RSI is probably the most popular oscillator used by the FX trading community. It was developed by J. Welles Wilder Jr. to gage the strength or momentum of a currency pair...
The “Misery” Index Falls to an 8 Year Low (Pragmatic Capitalism) see also Fed’s Rate Dilemma: Job Gains vs...
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The stochastic oscillator is a commonly used momentum indicator that measures the current currency price compared to its historical price for a given time period...
Booming jobs and falling gas prices make this the best economy in 15 years (WaPo) see also Revisions Made This A Blockbuster Jobs Report (fivethirtyeight) Jeffrey Gundlach’s Surprising Bond Forecast (Barron’s) Who Will Rule the Oil Market...
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD) Crossovers The most common way to use the MACD is to buy/sell a currency pair when it crosses the signal line or zero. A sell signal occurs when the MACD falls below the signal line, while a buy signal occurs when the MACD rallies above the signal line...
Scalpers seek to profit from small market movements, taking advantage of a ticker tape that never stands still during the market day...
Traders love breakouts and breakdowns, but profit strategies that take full advantage of these market phenomena can take a lifetime to master. The trouble starts when we forget our game, fixate on the emotional crowd and react to their excitement or fear...
Plush Life: Why did people lose their minds over Beanie Babies? (Slate) Dimensions of Popularity: The Journal of Portfolio Management (IIJ) Diversification: From Free Lunch to Greedy Fee-Eater? (Chief Investment Officer) What on earth is the ECB up to...
A 230K rise in U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) accompanied by faster wage growth may heighten the appeal of the greenback and spur a short-term selloff in EUR/USD as it boosts expectations of seeing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) normalize monetary policy in mid-2015...
Finding a strong directional move is the first priority of any trend trader. However, when having to select a currency pair to trade, it can be difficult to identify the best trends. For the ADX 50 strategy we will be using the ADX (Average Directional Index) indicator for this process...
