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Gold Prices Surge amidst the Federal Government Facing a Shutdown Next Week (source - forexminute.com)

Gold Prices Surge amidst the Federal Government Facing a Shutdown Next Week
Gold prices surged and ended up about 1.0 percent on Friday trading. According to investors the surge was due to a possible shutdown of the U.S. government operations next week and the threat of a debt default in mid-October. Spot gold stood 1.14 percent higher at $1,338.95 an ounce by late in the New York session.

The price of $1,338.95 an ounce is just off the one week high set earlier at $1,343.80 an ounce. An increase has also been seen in futures as U.S. gold futures for December delivery were up $14.70 an ounce which is an increase of 1.11 percent, at $1,338.80 an ounce. Silver was also up 0.18 percent at $21.71 an ounce with gold.

Demand of Gold from China

According to the China Gold Association, the country’s gold output was 232.189 tonnes in the first seven months of this year which is an increase of 11.5 percent from the same period of 2012. The association also informed that output in the month of July alone stood at 39.367 tonnes.

Forex Trading Sessions

The Forex week begins Monday morning at 8:00 am in Sydney Australia ( 5:00 PM Sunday eastern standard time; 9:00 PM Greenwich mean time). Think of Sydney as being the start of the Forex day. The Tokyo session opens three hours later. The London session opens 7 hours after that and finally the New York session opens 5 hours later. Each session runs nine hours. So:

Sydney runs from 9:00 PM till 6:00 AM GMT
Tokyo runs from 12:00 AM till 9:00 AM GMT
London runs from 7:00 AM till 4:00 PM GMT
New York runs from 12:00 PM till 9:00 PM GMT NYC is in the Eastern Standard Zone see below

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Interview With Al Brooks, Price Action Day Trader

Forbes : Treasury To Sell More GM Stock, Exit Draws Closer

The U.S. Department of the Treasury will continue to sell shares of General Motors GM -0.62% by launching a third pre-defined written trading plan, the Treasury announced on Thursday morning. At the end of the second defined trading plan, taxpayers held 101.3 million shares of GM stock.

Tim Massad, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, said in a statement that taxpayer investment in GM was a critical part of the government’s response to the financial crisis and that it helped to prevent the collapse of the auto industry, but that the Treasury intends to continue winding down this taxpayer investment.
read more here http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/09/26/treasury-to-sell-more-general-motors-stock/

There are many different ways you can trade stocks online with an online broker. Investment strategies come in all different shapes and forms and can integrate both technical and fundamental analysis together, while some strategies just involve one or the other.

Stock Trading Strategies are in no particular order:

Day Trading
Momentum Trading
Swing Trading
CANSLIM Trading
Buy and Hold
Penny Stocks
Biotechs

Types of Traders

Scalpers

Scalpers’ main objective is to extract small quantities of pips (25 to 50) as many times as they can throughout the busiest times of the day. These guys and gals must be in front of a screen all the time, thus they are often called screen junkies. Theylove the excitement of rapid candle reactions.
Day traders

Day traders act on their belief of a daily bias to the market derived from pivots, Fibonacci lines or other indicators that retail speculators use to give them peace about a decision. They execute an entry and then close their trade during a single session, finishing the day with either a profit or a loss. These kinds of traders do not hold their trades overnight, as they have often been taught never to do so.
Swing traders

Swing traders hold onto trades for several days at a time. These traders refuse to be held captive to a screen, monitoring their charts only momentarily throughout the day. They dedicate their time “in the market” to hours outside the market, performing an analysis every day prior to their trading session decisions.
Position traders

Position traders make trades that last for weeks, months, or even years. These traders execute based on trend and manage their trades by adding more positions as the trade blossoms. These men and women analyze the markets and charts based on high time frame charts, making entries based on many factors that for the sake of this article will be defined as numerous, varied, and complex.

Forbes : S&P Falls 5th Day In Row: Shutdown, Default Deadlines Loom

The S&P 500 stock index fell for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday as investors worried about upcoming deadlines in Washington to avoid a Government shutdown and debt default. Stock indexes in Asia also edged lower early on Thursday amid the uncertainty.
read more here http://www.forbes.com/sites/markmcsherry/2013/09/26/sp-falls-fifth-day-in-row-as-deadlines-on-government-shutdown-and-default-loom/

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Strongly recommended to read.

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