Biased Information Extends to Economic Reporting as Much as It Does To Global Affairs Nearly one month from now, on the 3rd of November, the U.S mid-term elections will be held. Today the Non-Farm Employment Change date will be published. But will these economic numbers matter? The coverage of the…
The Fed Should Not Raise Rates But It Will What and who you believe will play an important part in today’s market for speculators. While investors who are looking at long-term prisms can comfortably wait on the decision from the Fed’s FOMC regarding interest rates later today, retail traders who…
USD/SGD: Conflicting Desires From the Federal Reserve and Financial Institutions The world of Forex is about to grow murkier in the coming days as shadows loom over financial institutions regarding their near-term decisions as they try to gain clarity regarding what appears to be confused and concerning mid-term outlooks for…
You Don’t Have to be a Buyer in the Current Marketplace in Order to Profit There are moments when the markets are calm and then there are these times. It is beginning to look like increasingly bad timing for President Trump and his administration’s hope to keep WTI Crude Oil…
The NZD/USD is around 0.59550, last Friday’s highs near 0.59885 vicinity flirted with mid-term highs The NZD/USD remains a speculative currency pair that offers fast results and velocity. The relatively low liquidity of the NZD/USD compared to the upper tier of major currency pairs allows for sudden bursts of movements…
Unintended Consequences: USD and Gold will now get their turn in the casino because of Scott Bessent’s QA Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s decision to begin injecting money into U.S Treasuries needs to be looked at by Forex traders. There is reason to suspect USD centric weakness may prevail moving forward. Yesterday’s…
Sentiment Storms as Financial Institutions Remain Unsure about Outlooks Price action in the USD/SGD has continued to demonstrate a rather significant turn downwards since the last week of June. The price of the currency pair is near 1.27800 as of this writing and is traversing near values seen the 1st…
Do Retail Traders Understand They Are Being Misled? As day traders ponder what they should do next via their speculative wagers in the broad marketplace, now is a good time to remind small speculators stepping into the casino of global assets that a lot of the production value they are…
Quick Thoughts on Why Gold Should Remain a Friend Did you stop paying attention to Gold after it stumbled from its record highs in late January? Was it no longer interesting because it wasn’t churning like an invincible machine upwards? Is Gold boring because it has produced sluggish results the…
The Markets Can and Will Harm You, Can You Survive? The U.S Dollar Index is back to where it was trading on Friday the 13th of March. (Yes, a Friday the 13th). Literally a week and half after the Iranian war started from a trading perspective. We are almost half…
Fed’s Rate Announcement Tomorrow and Underlying Market Conditions as Folks Talk Tomorrow’s FOMC rate decision from the Federal Reserve continues to cause some angst in the investment community as folks try to decipher Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s disdain for tea leaf reading. What is being missed by seemingly a lot…
Energy and Commodities in a World Where Legacy and Infrastructure Collide Google (Alphabet) finished yesterday’s trading near $ 317.69, as of this moment WTI Crude Oil is around $88.50. It might seem rather odd to pair the two into the same paragraph, but this is not a coincidence. Both are…
