Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Japan GDP Surprise Lifts Nikkei
The release of Japan’s GDP data Wednesday gave an encouraging sign for the health of the Japanese economy. The country’s growth domestic product (GDP) expanded an annualized 2.4 percent compared with the previous quarter, passing the 1.5 percent print expected by most economic analysts. In the October-December quarter, the economy expanded 1.5 percent during the […]
May 20th – Trading Signals
With the Federal Reserve releasing its minutes from the last meeting during the session today, as well as the Bank of England, it’s likely that we will see a lot of volatility based upon perception. However, it’s very difficult to quantify how the market might react. Because of this, we will have to play technical […]
Liquidity Is A Cloud Bringing A Flood Of Fiat Money
USAWatchdog interviewed Hugo Salinas Price, a well-known and highly successful businessman operating in Mexico. Born in the United States, Price is now a passionate advocate for sound money and has been pushing for the Mexican government to adopt monetary silver again. Unfortunately, he sees far too much political pressure against sound money, particularly from the […]
NYSE Adds Bitcoin Index, Paypal Fined $25 Million & More
NYSE adds Bitcoin Index The New York Stock Exchange is launching a new Bitcoin index (NYXBT). It will track the dollar value of one bitcoin based on how the currency trades at select exchanges. “Bitcoin values are quickly becoming a data point that our customers want to follow as they consider transacting, trading or investing […]
E Hockey Pucks, Finding Funds, And BnB
Morningstar, which 20-odd years ago ended its useful coverage of individual foreign stocks from Japan, is now going global again, with a “travel kit for global investors”. Then I went to Chicago to plead with Morningstar to reconsider. Now it has thought better of hiding behind our borders and is telling Americans their stick-to-home portfolios […]
EUR/USD Forex Signal For May 20, 2015
EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals expired without being triggered. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trades must be entered only before 5pm London time today. Short Trade 1 Go short following a bearish price action reversal on the H1 time frame immediately upon the next touch of 1.1200. Put the stop loss 1 pip above the local […]
The ECB Just Launched Bizarro QE Taper
Less than 48 hours after the official launch of the ECB’s celebrated PSPP Q€ initiative (or what we might call ‘Draghi’s descent into delirium’), we examined the program’s structure and noted that full implementation might prove challenging. Citi had already posited a scenario whereby the central bank may be forced to raise the issue cap on non-CAC […]
Are U.S. Drillers Actually Making A Comeback?
Is U.S. shale about to make a comeback? Oil prices have rebounded strongly since March. The benchmark WTI prices soared by more than 36 percent in two months, and Brent has jumped by more than 25 percent. There is a new found bullishness in the oil markets – net long positions on Brent crude have […]
How To Avoid Choppy Stock Market Periods
There is a simple answer on How to Avoid Choppy Stock Market Periods..You can’t!!! You have to keep on plugging away in the stock market… However using a combination of moving averages and % moves to the up and down you can stay on the right side of the stock market…
