Hope everybody had a happy Easter — Major European markets are still closed which leads to slightly illiquid day. Asia flat overnight. Go Taiwan, ETF’s opened up big on the elections and potential trade relations with China
What does or how can I trade well when Interventions is on the table?
Froth in the market leads to [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Tune Into Monday’s Audio Commentary
Posted in Audio commentary, tagged Audio commentary on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The After Fed Effect
Posted in Economics, Fed, tagged ben bernanke, dollar, federal reserve, usd on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been a week now since the Bear Stearns collapse and the Federal Reserve decision to bail them out and lower rates by 75 basis points. Now what??? We see that Oil is starting to head back up and that the rally that we had in the markets were short and sweet. The dollar [...]
Tune in to Thursday’s audio commentary
Posted in Audio commentary, tagged Audio commentary on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
James ‘I want to sell you some commodities’ Boyd- Outlook on GLD, USO, UNG and commodity related stocks.
What pairs to focus on going into the weekend? CAD/JPY, AUD/JPY. GBP/CAD, EUR/GBP, USD/CAD
Follow up with EUR/USD, AUD/CAD, NZD/USD. EUR/GBP. Watch for the lower highs on JPY and CHF crosses
Persian new year’s affect [...]
Tune in to Wednesday’s audio commentary
Posted in Audio commentary, tagged Audio commentary on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Uncle James please tell me more about the Commodity Squeeze, the narrowing of the spreads between interest rates, economies, and supply and demand.
Attributing commodity sell off to the lack of the fed to meet expectations. What was the expectations? 50 – then, 75 then – 100 -
Look at the commodities [...]
The other side of the bay
Posted in Psychology, tagged investing plan, Psychology, trading plan on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Coach Nick Jensen has provided part II of a great article he did last week, What does Alctraz and your trading rules have in common? Thanks Nick!
Last week I talked about the importance of having a trading plan and mentioned that having a psychological plan as well is an [...]
Tune in to Tuesday’s audio commentary
Posted in Audio commentary, tagged Audio commentary on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cat’s outta the bag and 8-2 the fed has decided to drop the interest rates by 75 basis points to 2.25%
First time commodities or inflation come up in comments
How much does the housing affect this – Gotta clear inventory starts/ permits down
CAD – Looking good with CPI which means [...]
While you were sleeping!!
Posted in Carry trade, Commodities, ECB, Economics, Euro, Fed, Gold, Japanese yen, U.S. dollar, tagged ben bernanke, Carry trade, dollar, economy, Euro, Federal Resereve, interest rate, rate cut, usd, yen on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, maybe while you were getting ready for bed. The Federal Reserve Bank decided to make an emergency move this evening and cut the bank lending rate to 3.25 percent from the 3.50 percent it was at earlier. This move made by the Fed was meant to “try” and create some stability in the financial [...]
Tune in to Thursday’s audio commentary
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
USD/JPY-PARITY open up “new chapter”, USD/CHF, closing in on Parity
*** Fed announcement, w/ Bear Stearns, opening up Earnings next week, risk aversion pushing yen higher.
EUR/USD-finding no resistance, “where is the strong dollar policy”
½ pt/ ¾
Commodity etf’s—dbs, gld, dba, dbc.
CPI #’s (Probablly lower, off 2 for 1 sales, and [...]
Euro Gone Wild
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not to be mistaken or associated with the all-too well know similar title with “wild” in its heading (guys, you all know what that is all about from those late night infomercials), the euro has now hit the target on an ascending triangle formation (as seen in the below chart.) It has run and mad [...]
Who is Gmantrading
Posted in Trader interviews, tagged CMT, coaches, Commodities, currencies, equities, investools, MTA, trading on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so I failed to introduce myself and I apologize. Gmantrading is my alias, Edward Goettig is my name. No, I wasn’t a former FBI agent, (but played one often as a kid!) Trading currencies is one of my passions in life that I can enjoy and have fun and have been with the Investools [...]
Tune in to Tuesday’s audio commentary
Posted in Audio commentary, tagged Audio commentary on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How upset I am at the Fed and the bull crap that they pull because it messes with my technical analysis. I saw this one coming after such desperate news yesterday.
Commodities up a little and GLD and SLV follow suit. Watch for the bull trap
EUR/USD rallies then collapses on news that [...]
Fed to Add Liquidity
Posted in ECB, Economics, U.S. dollar, U.S. stocks, tagged dollar, ECB, Euro, federal reserve, interest rates, monetary policy, usd on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Federal Reserve moved today to add liquidity to the markets by announcing a series of actions with other central banks to help improve liquidity and lending for the markets. The Fed are taking this coordinated action without cutting interest rates due in part of rising inflation. US markets showed instant gratification in pre-market [...]
Your Currency Trading & Investing Future Foretold: 20 Predictions for the New Year
Posted in Forex basics, Money management, Psychology, tagged nostradamus, nostrashayus, predictions, trading advice, trends on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
* Contributed by Investools coach Shay Aslett
Happy New Year! (Well, it’s only 20% gone – we still have 80% of the year) In this article, I’m going to predict your future and forecast exactly what kind of results you’re going to get in the next 12 months. Sylvia Browne, step aside… [...]
Tune in to Monday’s audio commentary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Audio commentary on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Never thought that I would say that Eliot Spitzer might be involved in a prostitution ring and you might want to sell commodity currencies at all time highs.
Risk off is more pervasive than commodity highs – Buy risk aversion today which is primarily CHF/JPY, ag. commodities, currencies – then majors.
Choppiness [...]
Tune Into Tuesday’s Audio Commentary
Posted in Audio commentary, tagged Audio commentary on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What’s cookin’ James? Greenback Stew– “Lessons Learned from Lower Highs”
What makes up a lower high technical — Insights from Shay.
What makes up lower highs fundamentally?
Why am I not bullish on commodities?
AUS/NZD — USD
James why are you spooked by the Dow?
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