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Nov 5, 13 •
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As regular readers of our columns will no doubt testify we often have one eye on the new traders in our community when we pen our articles. Having seen so much erroneous advice offered to new traders, on various forums and through other brokers’...
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Nov 4, 13 •
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Mind The Gap •
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Comments Off on Eurozone PMIs are up increasing optimism that the economic recovery is robust is supported by the Sentix index rising by 3.2 points
The PMIs published for various member states of the Eurozone (and the EZ itself) have been published in the morning European trading session and the numbers point towards a sustained, but slow recovery in the Eurozone area. Spain’s manufacturing PMI...
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Nov 4, 13 •
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Comments Off on Trend analysis for week beginning November 3rd
Sunday evening/Monday overnight is a relatively quiet opening for high impact news events, there’s a bank holiday in Japan, whilst late on Monday the retail figures for Australia are produced, with the expectation that the print comes in at 0.5% from...
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Nov 1, 13 •
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Comments Off on PMIs reveal that UK manufacturing slipped slightly, whilst China reaches 18 month high.
A raft of PMIs, published courtesy of Markit economics, has come in mainly positive in the overnight and early morning European sessions. The UK’s was slightly below expectation, but still above the minimum term trend. Whilst China’s reached an 18...
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Nov 1, 13 •
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When traders browse trading forums they’ll notice that the forums are generally sub-dived into various sections. You’ll have: general trading discussion, broker discussions, trading journals, platform discussions and the “anything...
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Nov 1, 13 •
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Comments Off on Jobless Claims in the USA Drop as California Begins To Clear Its ‘Off Grid’ Backlog
One of the most important weekly high impact news events, the unemployment claims in the USA, came in as the economists polled had predicted. However, the headline figure that the mainstream media led with, actually betrayed the negative information that lay...
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Oct 31, 13 •
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Comments Off on Greece credit rating is downgraded by Standard & Poor’s, as Japan’s central bank commits to more monetary stimulus.
One of the most respected credit agencies in the USA, Standard & Poor’s, has downgraded Greece’s credit rating this morning to that of an emerging market. S&P Dow Jones states that Greece no longer classifies as a developed market....
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Oct 31, 13 •
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Comments Off on Why managing your emotions when trading is essential to your development
Many successful traders will testify that learning to trade was one of the most difficult challenges they’ve experienced in their adult lives. In many ways it’s impossible to fully describe the emotional roller coaster we ride to eventually find a...
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Oct 31, 13 •
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So the biggest event of the day, the week and perhaps the month came and went and the market impact was negligible; the FOMC two day meeting ended today with a whimper not a bang. And once we’d stripped away the layers of rhetoric and sophistication the...
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Oct 30, 13 •
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Comments Off on Euro-zone Retail sales fall at faster rate in October, as German unemployment rises marginally whilst the markets await the FOMC decisions this evening
Eurozone retail PMI data from Markit showed a steeper drop in sales at the start of the final quarter of 2013. The Markit Eurozone Retail PMI remained below neutrality and declined to 47.7, from 48.6, indicating the fastest monthly rate of decline since May....