There’s much media focus on the world economic forum taking place in Davos Switzerland which begins Wednesday evening. The event has given many organizations the opportunity to publish their own findings with regards to the state of the global economy. Yesterday there was leaked information from the IMF declaring that global growth in 2014 would […]
Germanys ZEW index takes a surprise fall down to 61.7 Read More »
The USA markets were closed on Monday due to their bank holiday in recognition of Martin Luther King. As a consequence the markets were relatively quiet throughout the day as the two main trading sessions concentrated on Europe singularly. However, despite there being very little in the way of high impact news events published on
Germany’s economy and its banking sector featured significantly in the morning news items. Producer prices in German factories fell slightly by 0.1% on an annual basis compared to the same period last year. As to whether or not this print will begin to herald the beginnings of ‘deflation concern’ stories in the mainstream media, or
Our swing trading analysis for the coming week concentrates firstly on the fundamental policy decisions and high impact news events for the coming week, secondly we move onto the technical analysis for some of the most popular securities. The publication of the Australian inflation rate begins our week of high impact news events and fundamental
Trend/swing trading analysis for the week beginning January 19th Read More »
In the UK market commentators and analysts have become very excited with regards to the retail figures just published, which (on the face of if) look like a very healthy print. Cable immediately spiked to be currently up 0.54% on the day. However, closer inspection reveals that the retail figures may not be all they
Discussions regarding how much of our account we should risk on an individual trade are as old (and lively) as the modern day trading industry. Many experienced, successful traders and analysts will suggest a fixed amount of risk, whilst some will suggest that it should be variable, or both. But one aspect of trading that
A very interesting study, regarding the state of many European banks, was published across several of the wires during Thursday. Reuters were citing academic research from Berlin suggesting that, in order to survive the upcoming stress tests the ECB will subject banks to, the banks might need up to one trillion USD in order to
In Japan machinery orders have hit a 5-year high, the news could bolster the country’s expansion. Orders of new machinery by businesses, considered a leading indicator of overall capital investment in Japan, rose to a five-year high in November 2013, rising 9.3 per cent to Y882.6bn. The year-on-year increase was the second in two months
In the early stages of our career and relationship with trading we endure many baptisms of fire. One of the most exciting ‘trials of trader life’ we endure is shortly after we discover technical analysis. For many of us our discovery of technical analysis begins with someone, either in person, in a trader school environment,
Is technical analysis a fallacy, do we see what we want to see? Read More »
Optimism was in evidence on both sides of the Atlantic in Wednesday’s trading sessions with Europe particularly bullish as Germany’s main DAX index once again posted a record high. The reason for European bullishness was for two reasons; the Euro area posted a very encouraging trade surplus of €17.1 billion in November 2013, in November
