Commentary

  • Picking Up the Pieces

    Japanese equity markets showing big signs of strength today following the open, trying to recover from 5 straight losing sessions. US home sales came out a little better than expected today, and the U...
    Oct 27, 2008 1 Comment

  • Take the Easy Ones

      Staples would love me for putting up this picture. Looking at price action tonight, we’re seeing a somewhat difficult zone here, particularly on GBP, EUR and CHF that is going to require a b...
    Oct 22, 2008 No Comments

  • USD Has a Pretty Good Week

    ….for the US dollar, who else? This USD uptrend doesn’t want to give up, and I’ve been playing dollar longs and short term countertrend shorts all week mainly on EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/CHF. Pi...
    Oct 21, 2008 3 Comments

  • Manufactured Money: Let’s Print Some Cash

    Nowadays, if you say “please”, chances are someone will give you $150 billion dollars. World indices are showing sluggish gains tonight but not expecting it to last, or with huge strength. Economi...
    Oct 20, 2008 1 Comment

  • USD Consolidation Continues; OPEC Under Pressure

    Optimism floating around the world markets tonight as volatility continues and seeing further bailout signs of hope coming in from other parts of the globe, namely the Netherlands and South Korea. SPX...
    Oct 19, 2008 No Comments

  • *POOF* – And Then There Were None

      The stock market rally went as far as the middle of last night, with SPX futures climbing steadily before the sellers came stomping in again. We didn’t even get our shoes on. Yesterday I expe...
    Oct 15, 2008 No Comments

  • EQUITY MARKETS FLY; REVERSAL INDICATIONS PLANTED

      I really hope you weren’t one of those people that liquidated your retirement account last week.   The picture to the left is a scientific way of explaining what the equity markets did t...
    Oct 13, 2008 No Comments

  • Today on GBP/USD

    Updated at 9:29am EST
    Oct 10, 2008 No Comments

  • Euro Intraday


    Oct 09, 2008 No Comments

  • Ranges in Play: Points and Levels for 10/9/2008

    The most notable levels that got hit from yesterday ‘s post were: EUR sell at 1.3735, GBP buy at 1.7270 and CHF buy at 1.1220. If used in good judgment it was a strong day and I’m hearing that ma...
    Oct 09, 2008 No Comments

  • Points and Levels for 10/7/2008

    Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 1.24 am EST Recap from yesterday: We posted a trade yesterday for a GBP long, which got taken out rather quickly on news of the US Fed offering approximately double the amou...
    Oct 06, 2008 No Comments

  • Points and Levels for 10/6/2008

    Monday, 10/6/2008, 2.36am EST Main points tonight: -Everyone is running away from risk tonight – UJ and carry pairs falling off the map as the carry trade holding onto little value. Japanese invest...
    Oct 05, 2008 No Comments

  • Points and Levels for 10/3/2008

    New site, new format tonight. I know you’ll like it better, so here we go: Main points: -EUR got slammed yesterday after Trechet said the words “economic growth is slowing” – before that we w...
    Oct 02, 2008 No Comments

  • ECB Draining 200bb Euro Today, Bailout Almost There

    Dollar demand is heavy again tonight driven by climbing Libor rates and optimism concerning the bailout plan (I know, we’re all tired of hearing about it). But mainly, it’s the need for dollar fun...
    Oct 02, 2008 No Comments