————————————————————————————— The James’ Report: Professional Resources for Professional Traders ————————————————————————————— Today’s Global Overview (what you don’t need to know) – Markets await the response from the rating agencies and whether a Greek default would trigger CDS. – European shares rose after Eurozone leaders reached an agreement for a second bailout of €109B for Greece. Financials […]
Continue reading————————————————————————————— The James’ Report: Professional Resources for Professional Traders ————————————————————————————— Today’s Global Overview (what you don’t need to know) – EU Summit agreement on Greece could still provoke a selective default – Risk aversion sentiment picks up momentum as the session wore on in Europe – Major European PMI readings disappoint – China HSBC Manufacturing […]
Continue reading—————————————————————————————- The James’ Report: Professional Resources for Professional Traders —————————————————————————————– Today’s Global Overview – Growing optimism on a ‘shock and awe’ plan to prevent contagion in Europe —————————————————————————————– ***Speakers Overnight:*** – EU Finance Ministers are said to meet ahead of Planned Thursday EU Summit (in line with speculation); the officials may discuss a narrowing of […]
Continue readingSorry for the title of the email..our trade room is closed today. Re-opening Monday @ 745am ——————————————————————- Highlights from earlier today… – Few Signs of progress in US debt talks and the markets are sluggish because of this – ECB’s Trichet: He is confident that worst-case debt scenarios in both Europe and US can be […]
Continue reading————————————————————————- Gold pushed to new highs earlier this week, and this morning we see gold stalling at the highs while investors take profit from these record-breaking price levels. Crude Oil continues to get pushed lower this week on concerns over demand in the global marketplace. Recent news reports have confirmed slowing manufacturing reports, more […]
Continue readingWe get our first clue this morning from the dollar, we see the 89range BMT is right on top of our price. This means price action on other markets will be sloppier than normal until we get further away from the BMT. US Dollar index is trading sideways in the short term trend, which tells […]
Continue readingSam Fletcher OGJ Senior Writer HOUSTON, July 14 — Energy prices continued climbing July 13, with crude posting a small gain in the New York market on a weaker dollar after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated an additional monetary stimulus may be in the works. “Putting the remark in the context of the recent […]
Continue readingInside Day on the US Dollar Inside Days = trade inside the range (buy lows, sell the highs, expect a fake-out breakout) Outside Days = trade outside the range (buying pullbacks with new highs, selling retracements with new lows, looking for breakouts The dollar is a correlation tool, so we don’t actually trade the dollar, […]
Continue reading——————————————————————————————————— Day Traders are seeing higher gold prices this morning after Ben Bernanke spoke about more stimulus for the US and investors seek shelter from inflation across the globe. Crude Oil is also higher this morning, getting stubbornly-closer to that big round number of 100.00 again, after news this morning gave it strong support out […]
Continue readingWednesday = Crude Oil Inventories This means we need to pay close attention to the 3-phases of crude oil inventories. · Phase 1 = before news 800-1015 · Phase 2 = during news 1015-1035 · Phase 3 = post-news 1035-1230 We need to be aware that during the 2nd phase price action gets very sloppy […]
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