There’s a strange phenomenon taking place in the UK’s premiership title race at the moment and its relevance to our trading world will become apparent as we expand this article. The current champions of the league, Manchester United, are lying seventh in the league having been humiliated by one of their fiercest rivals Liverpool over […]
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The USA central bank announced on Wednesday that it was lowering its monthly bond purchases under its quantitative-easing stimulus strategy from $85 billion last year, citing improvements in the job market and economy. The Fed has undertaken three rounds of bond buying since 2008, swelling its balance sheet to a record $4.2 trillion. Federal Reserve
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The UK’s unemployment count was published earlier this morning and it revealed that the unemployment rate remained the same at 7.2%, this despite more persons being employed although there was a marked drop in the amount of full time employees, versus an increase in self-employment. The ONS is claiming that there are in fact an
There are many figures published regarding the win loss ratio of traders. Some writers and publishers put the losing rate as high as 95%, certain brokers cite a 75% losing rate, others will suggest that it’s much smaller, at perhaps 50%. What is for sure is that you’d have to be an exemplary supreme human
Germany’s confidence has apparently been hit by the Crimea crisis according to the latest ZEW reading which fell by a highly significant 9.1 points to 46.6. As to whether or not this is a convenient excuse will not become apparent until the next reading is taken. The USA published its latest inflation figures on Tuesday
Overnight the RBA published its recent policy meeting minutes in which it committed to more of the same whilst noting the slight weakness reappearing in the USA economy. However, analysts and investors failed to take anything contained in the report as an open door for rate rises or asset purchase schemes, therefore the Aussie has
Italian trade balance collapses as deflation becomes a real and present danger to the EU Read More »
Shortly after finding our industry and then plunging head first into our unique world and environment, we come across many strange industry terms and references. One term we quickly see referenced on many forums and blogs are the words, “Holy Grail”. In medieval legend the Grail was the cup or platter used by Christ at
There is a ‘Holy Grail’ of trading is, but it’s not as we’d imagined it to be Read More »
Inflation in the EU has fallen to what many analysts and policy makers are fearing could be “dangerous” deflationary levels. The inflation rate has fallen by 1.1% in the year to date to reach 0.8%. This level could cause policy makers in the ECB to consider using one of two tools they have in their
In the UK the news that the property market is beginning to fire on all cylinders was re enforced by two news items, firstly there is a return to what’s termed gazumping and secondly prices in the London capital, according to Rightmove, have reached a new recorded high of £555K. However, it actually gets worse
UK house prices increase, consumer confidence improves in New Zealand Read More »
Our weekly trend/swing trading analysis consists of two parts; firstly we analyse the fundamental policy decisions and news events for the coming week. Secondly we use technical analysis in an attempt to determine any potential trading opportunities. Traders reading our key calendar events for the week should note the predictions, as any deviation, from that
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