Is Jail enough for reckless bankers who bring an entire economy to its knees like they did in 2008? (leave your comments below). Some would argue that perhaps the ultimate punishment for banks should be to stop bailing out and rescuing them with public money every time they screw up!…
Watch this short 3-minute video: I am bearish on bonds for the long term and in fact I have been shorting bonds since they topped back in early May 2013 (see video below). However in the short term I am looking for a bounce or a pullback in order to…
A month ago I speculated as to how low gold prices will go. I came to the uneasy conclusion that the $1100 region was a likely target for gold. A few days ago, Goldman Sachs came out and said that Gold could hit – get this – $1050 an ounce…
Here’s a question for you. What’s so special about a chart signal when one line crosses above another line? The answer is not much… Except when it occurs on the markets’s Volatility Index (VIX) – also known as the “Fear” index. Whenever this signal has occurred on the VIX “fear…
How to trade the Fed announcement when the Federal Reserve makes its regular briefing on monetary policy on FOMC Day. This is a simple “ABC” day trading strategy. Watch video:
“This could be the trade of the decade, and I am looking to risk several hundred points to make thousands over the next few years”, the best trader I know told me yesterday. Kevin Burton, whom you may have met at our Leading Trader webinars, is the best currency trader…
According to Goldman Sachs’s former chief economist Jim O’Neill, Bond yields are headed near 4% and not even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can stop the “inevitable shock” that’s coming. O’Neill was writing an op/ed column for Bloomberg on Wednesday, entitled, “Can Bernanke avoid a meltdown in the bond market?” He…
Here is a short video I made earlier about the potential next moves on the FTSE UK 100. We focus on the LT Sigma indicator and what it means for UK Shares. Plus we take a look at the next levels of support and “long” opportunities on UK stocks:
According to a recent poll, almost 67% of U.S. economists think the Federal Reserve will start to retreat from its huge bond-buying programme (or Quantitative Easing) in the final months of 2013. Nearly one third of those who expect the Fed to reduce bond purchases believe the bank will begin…
Dollar-Yen or USD/JPY and Japanese Stocks have been some of the biggest trends of 2013. But after a 20% correction in the Nikkei Index and a decline in the USD/JPY, we ask whether it is time again to buy Dollar-Yen and Japanese Stocks? George Soros seems to think so. The…