Category Archive: 4) FX Trends
Greenback’s Sell-off may Stall Ahead of Powell Tomorrow
Overview: Don't fight the Fed went the manta as the
market took the US two-year yield back up to 4.50% in the aftermath of the FOMC
minutes last week, the highest in over a month. The minutes warned of a
premature easing of financial conditions. And then bam, softer than expected
hourly earnings and a weak service PMI and bonds and stocks rallied, and the
dollar was sold. This is a key part of the backdrop for this week, for which
several Fed...
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Forex Trading to Beat Inflation? The Key Considerations
Inflation rates are continuing to rise across the globe, with the UK arguably leading this trend. More specifically, the UK inflation rate hit 10.7% in November, and while it dipped slightly from a peak of 11.1% in October, it remained considerably higher than the Bank of England’s target of 2%.
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Falling US Yields Stymie the Dollar’s Recovery
We have been torn between our conviction that the dollar's cyclical rally ended last September-October, and the near-term momentum indicators that warned that the dollar's pullback was overdone. Aside from the Japanese yen, a consolidative phase dominated December, but the momentum indicators still seemed to suggest upside potential dollar.
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TRANSITION: The weekend forex technical report (and more) for the week of Jan 9, 2023
There are a lot of transitions that are going on from a fundamental and technical perspective.
In this weekend video, Greg Michalowski of Forexlive, talks about the transitions that are occurring in the economy, politics and in the markets in his weekend Forex technical report.
Set yourself up to understand the dynamics in play and how you might benefit in your trading this week.
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Accessing Paper Trading in TradingView
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You may also try TradingView's fantastic and straightforward paper trading, as seen here.
Now some traders claim: Live trading...
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US CPI Featured and Why the Fed may Still Hike by 50 bp
The most important economic report in the week ahead is the US December Consumer Price Index on January 12. To be sure, the Federal Reserve targets an alternative measure, the deflator of personal consumption expenditures. However, in this cycle, when households, businesses, investors, and policymakers are particularly sensitive to inflation, CPI, which is reported a couple of weeks before the PCE deflator, has stolen the thunder.
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The morning forex technical report. The USD moves lower after the US jobs reportt
The USD moved higher in anticipation of the US jobs report. That report showed wages were less of a concern with an increase of 0.3% versus 0.4% MoM. Moreover the prior month was revised lower from 0.6% to 0.4%. Good news. The not so good news for a rate perspective is the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% from 3.6% (revised from 3.7%). That puts the unemployment rate near full employment which has potential for what wage gains down the road....
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USD Stretched Ahead of Employment Report, while Yuan Jumps on Hopes of New Property Initiatives
Overview: The US dollar extended yesterday's gains
as the market adjusts positions ahead of the jobs data. Yesterday and today's
price action looks to have strengthened the near-term technical outlook for the
greenback. However, the intraday momentum indicators are stretched. This warns
of the risk of a counter-intuitive move after the data, barring a significant
surprise. Meanwhile, one of the Fed's leading hawkish voices, St. Louis Fed
President...
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Natural Gas technical analysis: Go Long, go big!
An excelland spot to go Long (at your own discretion) at this amazing technical junction.
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The morning Forex technical report for January 5, 2023
A technical look at some of the major currency pairs with the US dollar
Click on the above video to watch the morning Forex technical report for January 5, 2023. IN the reported take a look at the lows and play for some of the major currency pairs versus US dollar including the EURUSD, USDJPY, GBPUSD, USDCHF, AUDUSD.
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The Market Appears to Shrug Off the Fed’s Warning
Overview: The US dollar is consolidating in a mixed
fashion today. The FOMC minutes drew much attention but failed, at least
initially, to spur a significant shift in expectations. The pricing in the Fed
funds futures strip is still consistent with a cut later this year, which the
minutes were clear, no officials anticipate. Today's US ADP jobs estimate, and
November trade balance are being overshadowed by tomorrow's nonfarm payroll
figures. The...
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The morning forex technical report for January 4, 2022
A look from a technical perspective at some of the major currency pairs vs the USD. The USD is lower in trading today, reversing some of the price action seen yesterday.
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Yesterday’s Gains Unwound may Make the Greenback a Better Buy Ahead of FOMC Minutes
Overview: Yesterday's greenback gains have been
mostly reversed today. New efforts by China in its property market and
anticipation of more stimulus helped rekindle the animal spirits today. Asia
and Europe shrugged off yesterday's losses on Wall Street and the rally in
bonds continued. The 8-12 bp decline in European benchmark 10-year yields comes
even though the final composite PMI was better than expected fanning hopes of a
short and shallow...
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VIDEO: A technical look at the EURUSD, USDJPY and GBPUSD to start the trading day
The USD rose vs the EUR and GBP but is dipping in early NY trading. Meanwhile the USD fell and is now rising vs the JPY.
It is the start of the new year and that has the markets a little more awake with some active trading ranges in some of the major currency pairs.
The EUR and the GBP moved lower vs the USD in early European trading helped by some weaker inflation data and warmer weather perhaps which has some inflation fears abating. However,...
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The Dollar Jumps
Overview: Market participants have returned from the New Year celebrations apparently with robust risk appetites. Equities and bonds are rallying, and the dollar has surged higher. The markets seem to be looking past the surge in China's Covid cases and anticipates a recovery, helping Chinese equities lead Asia Pacific bourses higher, where Japanese markets are still on holiday.
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A broad look of the EURUSD going into 2023
The EURUSD is starting the trading year with more upside momentum and in the process retraced some of the declines from the EURUSD's decline in 2022.
The pip trading range for the 2022 year was about 2000 pips which is near the extreme of the low to high trading range over the last 12 or so years.
What will 2023 bring us, if we anticipate a more normal range of about 1400-1600 pips and the rallies are to be sold in the EURUSD?
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2023 investing outlook
Adam Button from ForexLive talks about 4 Themes for 2023:
1) Give China a KISS
2) Europe is a weather trade
3) One data point to the next
4) The biggest danger to Canadian housing is the US consumer
Adam expanded on the themes he is expecting: https://www.forexlive.com/news/4-trading-themes-for-2023-1-never-underestimate-the-spending-power-of-the-us-consumer-20230101/
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A happy new year (2023) with this Bitcoin analysis from ForexLive.com
Bitcoin may be making a very early comeback. This technical analysis shows what are the bullish and bearish prices that provide a higher level of confirmation.
Visit ForexLive.com for more technical analysis.
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S&P 500 technical analysis: A bull climbing out of a hole.
Last day of trading for year 2022. On the back of the unemployment data yesterday, we had a big bullsih day as price breaks out of the yellow bull channel. A big and clear breakout that gets the bull out of the hole but price now needs to clear the next red channel as it eyes 3900, afterwards.
Trade the S&P 500 at your own risk and visit ForexLive.com for additional perspectives.
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