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Tug of War to Tug of Weird

Last week’s market tug of war seemed to be better than expected U.S. earning versus European woes. Europe clearly won Friday as the markets spent the good part of the trading session face down in the mud, refusing to move after their loss. While a number of big names including General Electric beat

See No Easing, Hear No Easing

Since day one of Ben Bernanke’s testimony did not provide any clear signs of when we could see another round of quantitative easing, Big Ben has gone into obfuscation mode and he’s playing it close to the vest Perhaps, we might need to look at the moon for a market tip. On Tuesday Mr. Bernanke will

Swap Meet

The Dodd-Frank Act, the financial reform measures that Congress passed in the summer of 2010, (or more aptly name The Frankly-Do-nothing Act) called for the majority of the $600 trillion derivative market, including credit default swaps, to be traded on exchanges and for transactions to go through

Rally Time

Friday’s stock indices all closed markedly higher, which came after huge higher gap opens. What happened in between the higher gap opens and the close was nothing. The markets were dead…until the closing bell. Only then was there life when the markets went even higher on a short covering explosio

Fraud

Occasionally the SEC and other regulators will castigate, actually punish, fraudulent events on Wall Street. Of course the real punishment is only meted out to individuals and small companies. Mega banks – the banking mafia – are largely immun Martha Stewart was convicted of insider trading in 2004

Forex News by TradingAdvantage

When Ben Bernanke was appointed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve seven years ago, the national debt was $7,932,709,661,723.50. For those of you not interested in counting digits, that number is nearly a cool $8 trillion, but still a tough sum to wrap your brain around. After yesterday’s end of the

Secret Trading Tips

The world of trading has many parts that seem a little foreign to new traders. There are plenty of catch phrases, symbols, and other banter that can be intimidating or even confusing at first. One of the biggest sources of confusion includes the shorthand that you see for many markets. Understanding

Secret Trading Tip #3 : A Little Lesson in Lingo

Twilight Zone

Ben’s Twilight Zone Power Poin The market closed lower for only the second time in the last ten trading sessions, yet it can hardly be considered a pullback. Instead, it was just another lethargic trading day with mostly sideways action and light volume. It’s been about as exciting as watching paint

To QE or Not to QE

There is a one-day FOMC meeting tomorrow where the #1 topic of discussion will be “to QE or not to QE.” Should the FOMC print more counterfeit money out of thin air? The answer certainly lies in how badly the banksters want it, and if inflation is creeping up. The good thing for the Fed is that as

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