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The Bollinger Bands are self adjusting which means the bands widen and narrow depending on volatility. Standard Deviation is the statistical measure of the volatility used to calculate the widening or narrowing of the bands...

Margin is the amount of equity that must be maintained in a trading account to keep a position open. It acts as a good faith deposit by the trader to ensure against trading losses...

Far from Wall Street in a Chicago neighborhood once synonymous with urban blight, two futures industry veterans are using secrecy and speed to mint fortunes. Their firm, Jump Trading LLC, was all but invisible until it was among six companies subpoenaed in April by New York prosecutors...

The Nikkei as you can see had a positive week, closing close to the ¥15,500 level...

The thirtieth trading week of 2014 comes to a close with US markets lower in the last hour. Most actively traded stocks include Facebook (FB) up 0.11%, Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI) down 0.14%, Apple (AAPL) up 0.33%, and Ford (F) down 1.46...

Prices are testing below support at 1297.74, the 50% Fibonacci expansion. A daily close below that exposes the 61.8% level at 1291.48. Alternatively, a reversal above the 38.2% Fib at 1304.00 aims for the 23.6% expansion at 1311.75. China's gold demand slumped 19...

The DAX as you can see initially tried to rally during the course of the week, but was be back at the €9900 region. The resulting candle is of course a shooting star but it sits on top of a significant amount of support in the area of €9600...

The NASDAQ rose during the course of the week, using the 4300 level as work. We closed at the very top of the range, and although you could make an argument for a “double top”, we feel that the market has enough momentum underneath to continue going higher...

EUR/USD Weekly “Long term, a failed breakout and top would keep with the pattern of 3 year cycle tops. 1.3750 is an important reference point (year open).” “1.3670/85 is a level that should inspire a reaction (selling). How the market reacts at that level will help in assessing the next move...

AUDUSD Technical Strategy: Longs preferred Doji highlights indecision suggesting range may persist Harami on the four hour timeframe yielded intraday recovery AUDUSD continues its consolidation between the 0.9320 and 0.9440 mark with a Doji on the daily suggesting indecision amongst traders...