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China reported positive figures over the weekend, sending risk currencies higher. The Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by China’s logistics federation and the National Bureau of Statistics, rose to a one-year high of 53.1 in March from 51 in February. As Australia’s largest trading partner, Ch...

This week's top trading blogs... DailyFX Always remember that an indicator has absolutely no concept of trend. An indicator can provide invaluable information when it comes to momentum but it does not possess any insight as to the trend…the direction that the pair has been moving over time. Rea...

I admit it – I’m jealous. Right now, I want to be American.  I want to buy cheap houses and eat mega-huge fast food. But most of all, I want a stock market that goes up. Ours appears to have forgotten how.  In fact it’s almost as though it’s pulled the doona* over its head and decided never to g...

From the Sep/Oct 2009 issue of YTE, David Burton’s article on the effect of astrometeorology on commodity markets is of particular interest given current weather conditions.Astrometeorology is the study of planetary movements in order to forecast weather conditions. Most people don’t realise WD Gann...

Recently I got a little surprise jolt of happiness. It happens occasionally when some of my favourite things are combined – like coffee, Bailey’s and ice-cream; or suncream, salt water and sand. My happy combo today was diamonds, ETF’s and Tadas Viskanta. Mr. Viskanta kindly shared this link on...

This week's top trading blogs... MarketPulseFX Everything is fine in the world if you are holding mostly “bear” dominated positions. With global equities seeing red for the third-consecutive day, its longest losing stretch in two-months and market rumors rife, has investors again coveting the r...

It’s quite funny, really, the extent people go to to make themselves feel certain and ‘safe’ in the market environment – an environment that is characterised by uncertainty and risk. It’s not only private traders like myself, either; this desire to create certainty extends to money managers and ...

This week's top trading blogs... FxPro Spending a few days in Asia is focusing my mind on the extent to which this region can detach itself from what is going on in Europe. It has successfully de-coupled from problems elsewhere (in 2007-08), but does the water that has passed under the bridge ...

I don’t like being wrong. I especially don’t like being wrong when it involves money. When I see a sea of red on my screen, it makes me just the teensiest bit tetchy.  I’ve gotten a whole lot better – it used to make me nauseous. And when I’m wrong, I beat myself up. Horrible, bitchy alter-ego Je...

Trading a small account can suck. As you’ll already know if you’re a regular reader of my blog, I spent a good amount of time last year ‘testing’ a system I devised, and as luck would have it, it performed brilliantly.  In percentage terms, it was pretty incredible.  Unfortunately in real dollar...

This week's top trading blogs... Swing Trader's Edge Well if you want a catalyst, than here it is. I have always used the charts to guide me in my trading but I certainly do not ignore wider macro and fundamental issues. Tuesday's decision by the RBA to leave rates on hold will prove to be shor...

Last week in trading blog-world I stumbled across something truly frightening. I know that sounds very dramatic, and you may think there is nothing all that frightening about trading – it’s just trading after all – but let me explain. One of my recent followers on Twitter has a neat little trading ...

This week's top trading blogs... Forex Trading Blog In the UK, a weaker than expected CPI figure and increased speculation about further quantitative easing by the BOE has seen the currency remain heavy in the past few trading sessions. The opportunity exists for a short EURGBP trade at levels ...

You look at thousands of charts and reams of fundamentals, but how do you keep track of which stock has real potential, which ones are slightly interesting, and which ones you actually want to trade? I’ve developed a simple system that helps you monitor hot stocks that you’re about to trade, but al...

This week's top blogs... Don Miller's S&P Trader Tank This week’s Briefing continues following the theme discussed in recent issues related to short- to moderate-term expectations for the market and how we’ve structured client portfolios of varying risk profiles. To those new to the Briefin...

There seems to be a lot of carrying on about momentum stocks imploding after huge runs, as if it’s something terrible and scary.  Stocks like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) and Netflix (NFLX) have plummeted over the last six months or so. ‘Oh my god, a momentum stock has fallen sharply’!!...

It is very often the case that creative decisions and ideas tend to arise when our brains are left alone to quietly digest information by applying subconscious thought to a problem at hand. It is very difficult to think creative thoughts when our brains are being deluged with a never ending stream o...

One of the major issues emerging from the never ending flow of information with which we are being constantly bombarded is the complete breakdown in our ability to make decisions and to choose a course of action. Every bit of information we receive presents us with a choice – do we need to pay atten...

Even if we do manage to make a decision despite being inundated with information research has found that the more information we use to make these decisions the more we then tend to regret the decision we have made, fearing that we may have forgone too many other options! In another study in 2006 I...

One of the failings of the human brain is its inability to ‘weight’ the information it receives. All the information the brain receives is given the same level of importance and it is only through time and subconscious processing that we are then able to filter the information and provide weight to ...