This article is by our guest contributor and trader Goncalo Botelho. When I usually mention to people I’m a trader, it doesn’t take long until they throw out the word “play” somewhere into the conversation and it hits me every single time. This notion that trading is somehow a casino…
Gold and Silver look like they could be a short sellers wet dream right now. Gold is struggling to get past resistance at the daily 21 Moving Average and the downward trend-line. It is also worth noting the action on the US Dollar index which is looking increasingly bullish right…
Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive director, has said that he has fallen out of love with the Goldman Sachs’ culture – which has “disappeared” – and that Goldmans no longer put their clients’ interests first. Greg – come on, give me a break! Tell me something we don’t…
Silver faces a wall of resistance at the $35.50, a confluence of key levels: Daily Downward trend-line resistance at the $35.60 level (see above video) Daily 200 Moving average Weekly 50 Moving Average Symmetrical projection of the September-October swing The only thing helping Silver is the daily squeeze that is…
It’s amazing to me how many traders I meet who have completely the wrong idea of what it means to trade successfully. Let me make it clear. Trading success and profitabiliy have absolutely NOTHING to do with the following: Owning or using the next “holy grail” fancy technical indicator; Tweaking…
While most of the major stock markets have been ploughing higher this week, one key market index has not followed suit. The Dow Jones Transportation Index has in fact dropped by 4% since last week. Why does this matter? This is because the Transportation Index (or Transports) are composed of…
Stock Markets are showing signs of weakness and an imminent reversal (see above video). The volatility index (VIX) – also known as the market’s “fear index” – surged by nearly 16% on Friday and closed above its 21 EMA. A rising VIX usually has bearish implications for the stock markets.…
In the following video I explain how we can apply Fibonacci Analysis to identify the next price target for Gold and Silver. Link to this post!
One of the markets I watch in order to see what the hedge funds are doing, is the AUDJPY currency pair (also known to forex traders as the “carry trade”). The relationship between the AUDJPY and the stock market is a subtle and interesting one which is often wrongly ignored…
You will notice from the above chart that Gold completed a 5 wave trend – a down trend which started on 8th November and completed on December 29th. For traders who are not familiar with Elliott Waves, this phenomenon is explained briefly by the fact that when markets trend, they…