Posts Tagged ‘Short’

Source: ForexYard
This afternoon’s investment data from Treasury International Capital (TIC) revealed worse than forecast growth in foreign investment levels for domestic, long-term securities. The TIC Long-Term Purchases report measures the difference between domestic securities purchased by foreign investors and foreign securities purchased by domestic investors.
A positive reading represents a higher level of foreign investment in [...]

USDCHF remains in short term uptrend from 0.8553, and the rise extended to as high as 0.8904. Further rise is still possible later today, and next target would be at 0.8950 area. Support is now at 0.8820 followed by 0.8720, only break below these levels could indicate that the rise from 0.8553 is complete, then [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Amazon’s stock fell 5.7% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company reported first-quarter earnings that fell by one-third compared to a year earlier — and sharply missed Wall Street forecasts.
After the bell Tuesday, Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) reported that its net income in the first quarter fell to $201 million, or [...]

Over the last three months, the Euro has appreciated 10% against the Dollar and by smaller margins against a handful of other currencies. Over the last twelve months, that figure is closer to 20%. That’s in spite of anemic Eurozone GDP growth, serious fiscal issues, the increasing likelihood of one or [...]

The swissy has bounce considerably higher and into resistance that I have been waiting on. A good friend of mine and I instant message from time to time through Gmail and he’s just getting back into trading from a work-related hiatus. He’s getting his chops back quickly too. He bought into the rally on the [...]
Hello. Here’s a quick update to the EURGBP trade setup highlighted 2 days ago:
EURGBP daily chart 3-24-2011
EURGBP weekly chart 3-24-2011
So far, so good. As planned 2 days ago, I’m currently holding a long position and will look to close it only if the rally fades – hence EURGBP returning into the .86 region.
Another setup worth your [...]

With the threat of a bond market crash on the horizon, a series of new products promise to turn a profit by selling short Treasury bonds. But not all of them deliver for buy-and-hold investors – and some of may perform no better than the bond indexes they’re supposed to short.
Last week, ProShares launched a [...]

Recent price action in stocks and commodities reinforces the “don’t fight the Fed” mantra. What would our central bank be doing if it were not devaluing our currency, attempting to create inflation, and openly manipulating financial markets through a series of supposedly calculated open-market operations? I do not have any market [...]

FX Trading – Are stocks telling us it’s time to get short?
The pace of growth in the euro zone’s services and manufacturing sectors slowed much more than expected this month, but surveys published on Thursday showed businesses were more optimistic. Markit said its flash purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data for September pointed to strong economic [...]
