Bears taking control or just a break? — While the selling pressure today on top of JP Morgan's earnings and the 'rumored' downgrades of France & Austria is intense, the overall bullish wave count for the S&P's and risk related FX pairs like ...

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S&P and AUD/USD Poised for Higher LEvels — Traders, to say the markets are a touch quiet is an under-statement. As Bill Fleckenstein noted yesterday: "...it almost seems appropriate to change the name of the column from the Market Rap to ...

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Education: Correction or Impulse? — Quick little instructional video explaining how to correctly identify the difference between an impulse or correction - url

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Chart of the Day — First - just a quick update on AUD/USD: 1.0350 target met per last nights posting (see above). Next objective - 1.0400 Today's Chart of the Day: image

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AUD - catching a bid — As noted in the previous posting, in the short-term AUD/USD had room to run higher despite our slightly bearish forecast over the medium-term. Now targeting 1.0350 image

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Inter-Market Analysis - Unclear Start to 2012 — Often times the ushering in of the New Year brings many changes to trading and investing - some are welcome; some are not. Thus far in 2012 we have witnessed a lot of cross-currents in the market ...

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Getting 2012 Started With A Bang — Good morning traders and Happy New Year. I sure hope you enjoyed and maximized your time with friends / family and downtime from the markets, because we’re coming out of the gate roaring in 2012. From the ...

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Year-end price action — A little EUR/USD & AUD/USD analysis from my biz partner Todd on CNBC this AM: url

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S&P 500 vs. Shanghai Composite — Just a friendly reminder that Chinese equities were down again last night by 1.78% - continuing a string of poor performance. The S&P's do not seem to care - but do not be too quick to dismiss the ...

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DSI & CFTC Data — NOTE: our frequency of posts will decline over the next week and half with the holiday's coming into play - we will ramp back up on January 2nd. Happy Holidays! Just going through some various reports and newspaper ...

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Lower yields = lower stocks — Once again, 10-year Treasury rates prove a useful tool for gauging S&P movements and by that measure FX movements. The 'risk on' trade is precarious at best here and with our forecast for yields to head lower ...

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Elliott Wave Webinar — In case you were not able to attend the The Basic 5-Wave Elliott Pattern Explained webinar today - here is the recording: url

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AM FX Analysis & EUR/GBP Outlook — Looks like we got ourselves a little Santa Claus rally here - 1205 did manage to hold - now the question is for how long? In this market, take it day by day or hour by hour - stay nimble is the operative ...

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Lower - but based on the wave count - not the symmetrical triangle per se - that simply adds another layer to the analysis process as does the seemingly inevitable break lower in the S&P's (support at 1205/10 looking dicey) as 10-year rates break ...

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Intro To IPA — The 'P' component of our IPA Trade Methodology is Pattern Recognition, or more specifically, Elliott Wave Analysis. On Thursday, Bark Marek, Director of Marketing & Client Education, will host a 30-min webinar that will break ...

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S&P 500 Follow-Up — With 10-year Treasury rates cracking 1.90% and likely to head lower and the Bank Index (BKX) unable to gain ground higher, it is looking increasingly likely we are going to be weak over the next few days. With ...

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Adding in some inter-market analysis to the mix here, the current count we have on the S&P 500 is bullish (although pre-holiday liquidity could make things less clean) as 1210/05 might provide dent support, thus would be supportive of a bullish ...

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The Basic 5-Wave Elliott Pattern Explained — The 'P' component of our IPA Trade Methodology is Pattern Recognition, or more specifically, Elliott Wave Analysis. On Thursday, Bark Marek, Director of Marketing & Client Education, will host a ...

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EUR/AUD Analysis on CNBC — Just in case you missed the interview with Todd this AM: url

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We too were watching USD/NOK as a short set-up into the 5.80/90 area, but with weak equities, weak oil and then the 50 bp cut by Norges Bank - it tossed the framework out the window.

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