Category Archive: 4) FX Trends
Bitcoin follows the key technicals that can lead to big dollar moves
In bitcoin, the most active digital currency, traders ask me if they follow technical tools like the ones I use in analyzing currencies, stocks, bonds, and commodities.
The answer is .....YES.
Traders like to define and limit risk and certain technical tools do just that no matter the instrument.
IN this video, I look at the price action of bitcoin on the daily and hourly chart and show how traders can and did, use technicals that led to some...
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VIDEO: The morning technical look at some of the major currency pairs for July 26, 2022
The USD is stronger to start the day. How has that impacted the technical picture for the EURUSD, USDJPY, GBPUSD, AUDUSD and USDCAD
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Greenback Jumps Back
Overview: With the exception of Japan, Taiwan, and India, the large equity
markets in the Asia Pacific region traded higher today. The Hang Seng led the
move (1.65%) amid reports that Alibaba will seek its primary listing there. Europe’s
Stoxx 600 is edging higher today. If it can hold on to the gains, it will be
the fourth consecutive rise, the longest advance since May. US futures are slightly
under water. Benchmark 10-year yields are mostly...
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EDUCATION VIDEO: Do you want to learn how to read a chart from a technical perspective?
In this video, I look at a random pair - the CADJPY - and outline what technical levels have contributed to the downs and ups for the pair.
You have the opportunity to find those levels in all your charts and learn how to define and limit your risk and have the potential to benefit from that work.
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VIDEO:A technical look at some of the major currencies to start the US session on July 25, 2022
To kickstart the NY session, what has the price action in the EURUSD, USDJPY, GBPUSD and USDCAD showed us so far in the day. What levels are in play.
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Greenback Softens, but Think Twice about Chasing It
Overview: Aside from political economic risks, three
other challenges are emerging. First, the new sub-variant of Covid is spreading
rapidly. BA5 reportedly is accounting for around 80% of the new cases. It is
better able to evade antibodies from vaccines and earlier infections. Hospitalization
rates are also climbing. Dining, retail, and travel may be impacted. Second,
the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global emergency. The US...
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Stock Market Today: Updates, S&P technical analysis and stock market forecast
Asia follows Wall Street's bearish lead from Friday. Slow growth and tighter regulations affect markets.
Today's losses on the Australian stock market extend yesterday's. The S&P/ASX 200 fell below 6,800 on Friday.
After Snapchat's (SNAP) dismal results and stock price drop last week, investors wonder if this is a sign of bigger economic concerns. Alphabet, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and Meta will report earnings this week.
Oil fell in Asia...
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A technical look at the forex major currencies for the week starting July 25, 2022
In this video, Greg Michalowski of Forexlive.co;m, takes a look at the technical driving the forex markets for the week starting July 25,2022
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Momentum Indicators Warn of Further Dollar Weakness, but will Sellers Emerge ahead of the FOMC?
The dollar fell against all the major currencies last week but pared the losses ahead of the weekend. The sub-50 EMU flash composite PMI unwound the half-cent gain the euro recorded after the ECB delivered a 50 bp hike to kick off its first tightening since 2011.
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Bitcoin technical anlalysis & managing a profitable bitcoin short trade
We follow up on the trade idea shown here:
https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/a-bitcoin-technical-analysis-with-a-bearish-measured-move-20220721/
And how to manage a profitable trade by adjusting a stop in order to break even within a worse case scanrio. We do that by exiting one third of the position at a new take profit target. We show the principle of calculating that.
Furthermore, Bitcoin is cooling off after faking out a breakout...
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The Fed and GDP: Week Ahead
The outcome of the Federal
Reserve Open Market Committee meeting on July 27 is the most important event in
the last week of July. After a brief flirtation with a 100 bp hike after the June
CPI accelerated, the market has settled back to a 75 bp move. The Fed
funds futures are pricing about a 10% chance of a 100 bp
hike. The market anticipates that after the second 75 bp hike, the Fed will most likely return to a 50 bp hike in September. Fed...
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Dismal EMU Flash PMI on Heels of First ECB Rate Hike since 2011
Overview: The euro is over a cent lower from yesterday’s peak, pressured by
the drop in the flash PMI composite below 50 for the first time since early
last year. More generally, the flash PMIs have shown the global economic
momentum is waning, and the bond markets have responded accordingly. The US
10-year yield is flirting with 2.80%, its lowest level in more than two weeks. European
yields are 15-20 bp lower and the spread between Italian and...
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What if? Traders are constantly asking “What if”, but what does that mean?
IN this video, I extend the short term EURUSD analysis to incorporate a view from the daily chart and ask "What if?". I hope you find it interesting.
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What does it mean to “lean” in your trading?. The AUDUSD price action today shows what that means.
Leaning is a key way traders enter trades, and more importantly exit trades with risk defined and limited. What does that mean.
Let me show you in the this video using the AUDUSD as my guide.
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The EURUSD moves higher after the ECB 50 basis point hike
The ECB rate decision has pushed the EURUSD higher. WHat is in play for that pair and what about the GBPUSD and the USDJPY too
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Italian Politics Complicate the ECB’s Task
The appetite for risk seen earlier this week is fading. Yesterday’s US equity gains helped lift most of the large markets in the Asia Pacific region, but China’s CSI 300 fell 1.1%, giving back most of this week’s gains as credit issues from the property sector haunt sentiment.
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Bitcoin technical analysis, short the measured move
Bitcoin seems to be in a good spot for a potential bearish measured move driven trade, with an attractive reward vs risk.
See the technical analysis for BTCUSD and the potential bearish measured move.
https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/a-bitcoin-technical-analysis-with-a-bearish-measured-move/
Reminder: technical analysis can increase your chances of better reading the market but does not guarantee it. That is why traders must have...
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EURUSD backs off resistance, but price action remains contained as buyers/sellers battle.
With the ECB meeting tomorrow. the price action in the EURUSD is being contained by technical levels. A battle is going on. However, in preparing for the decision it is important to know the levels that will give the pair the next shove.
In this video, I talk to those levels so you can prepare your trade.
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