NFP - A whole lot of nuttin' going on — Like I wrote earlier, I love NFP. Generates a lot of market movement to only end up right back where we started.... great when you want to add to your position Ok, so looks like the NFP numbers were a ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Well done! — However after this couple of weeks I find myself in uncharted territory how do you deal with big wins? The same way you deal with any other trade: YOU FOLLOW YOUR PLAN And as Strat would say: "You do have a plan, don't you?"

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

None of the above — I don't have any view on planetary or lunar cycles. I speculate on business cycles.

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

NFP — NFP will cause volatility during a day, but it's doesn't impact the larger economic forces. IMO, NFP won't change the trend in USDJPY. NFP may push USDJPY around a bit today, but a reversal? No. Over the long term the fundamentals are ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

Yes — IMO, yes, I'm anticipating a continuation over the MEDIUM TERM with minor corrections in the SHORT TERM.

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Strat doing funny-mentals?? — Strat doing funny mentals?? Never thought I'd see the day! A story for the grand kids! Haha.... just kidding. Well done Strat! It's a good effort, unfortunately I don't think that it's quite this simple. I ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

One more regarding NFP — I love NFP! NFP can be very profitable, provided that you have a good grasp of the "big picture" If you look at what's been happening in the last few weeks, it's clear that the markets are in risk aversion. I'm ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

LOL!!! Hahahahaha!!! — I've got CNBC business news running in the background and all the journalists and reporters were frantic while the economic and financial "experts" are trying to "explain" why the markets "crashed" today. ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

Fundamentals for beginners — Don't need to spend any money. I haven't spent a dime. Please look at post #58 in this thread. Start at that website then move on to the advanced stuff.

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

Portugal — It started with an auction failure for Portugal when the gov't tried to sell 500 million € in debt to investors and failed. But the markets have been waiting for a correction. So this was just the trigger. If this didn't happen it ...

Damn the markets are going crazy right now!

Welcome — Hi TG, Welcome to the thread. Please read through the thread. I've explained in excruciating detail my views, why markets move the way they do, what books to read, news references, where to get information etc. After reading through ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

You're welcome — No problem, dre. Glad it helped. Feels nice when you can anticipate these things in advance, doesn't it? Not so good news for Japan though, I can already hear their screaming and shouting at this weekend's G7/8!

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

It's been in the works for a while — Soverign debts in Europe (Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Greece) and China's monetary tightening.

Damn the markets are going crazy right now!

Risk Aversion — One word: Risk Aversion Sorry that's 2 words.

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Crazy? Not really — Not crazy, I've been anticipating this for weeks/months. url

Damn the markets are going crazy right now!

AUDUSD knocking on the 0.87 door — url AUDUSD is knocking on the door. USD is picking up momentum and I believe there is still quite a ways to go, I'm looking at 0.77 - 0.80 before a turnaround to the upside. EDIT: It just blew through 0.87 ...

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Just got lucky! — I made this call in post #13662 on Jan 15th in the "AUDUSD" thread: url On my charts, the trendline from .8733 is still in tact with the daily bar piercing it. Please keep in mind that I use daily charts and higher. I'm ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

Welcome to the forum — Hi Sydney, Yes, it's one of the best books I've read regarding fundamentals and Intermarket Analysis. There aren't any trading systems in the book so don't expect any. And you should have a fairly good grasp of economic ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

Good discussion! — Yeah, I tend to write as if I'm speaking to myself and tend to leave out details or leave things unclear to who ever is reading my posts. But it's good that you're asking questions, it keeps me on my toes! I’m not quite ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading

China's monetary policy — It looks like the uncertainty regarding China's monetary policy will continue for a little longer. Inflationary pressures are increasing and China will need to let the Yuan appreciate. Not to mention that developed ...

Identifying Market Swings - Medium and Long Term Trading