Why Are Markets Out Of Synch?
For speculative traders, the last few weeks have offered wonderful trading opportunities across all markets, and provided you have no directional bias, the opportunities are there in abundance.
For speculative traders, the last few weeks have offered wonderful trading opportunities across all markets, and provided you have no directional bias, the opportunities are there in abundance.
As another trading week and month gets underway, it’s time to take a look at several of the major currency pairs in the futures market ahead of what is likely to be an interesting time.
The AUDUSD pair tried to rally during the day on Monday, but found enough resistance to turn things back around and form a shooting star.
WTI Crude Oil (USO, quote) prices moved slightly higher during overnight trading in Asia. Volume remains light as we approach the U.S. first trading of the week with New Zealand and Australia closed for holiday.
AUDUSD has formed a reversal pattern on its 1-hour time frame, indicating that the uptrend may be over and that a selloff is ready to take place.
AUD/USD is testing a major support level, as seen on its daily time frame.
We had a subscriber ask about any suggestions where to look for possible currency ETFs action. Interest rates at record rates not only in the U.S. but globally as well. Add into the mix huge amount of monetary easing like QE3 from U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks around the globe like Japan, Australia and England just to mention a few has seem have broken the system.
Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S markets started off the 4th quarter with strong trading intraday gains, although the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes did close solidly in the green the markets did exhibit the most recent trend off lately of selling off into the close. U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs with the NASDAQ falling into negative. The averages ended the day well off
After yesterday’s massive rally – in fact the biggest rally since December by the Australian Dollar and the Dow Jones Industrial Average since December 20, 2011 – it would appear that all global issues have been resolved.
– RBA shocks markets and cuts by 50bps to 3.75% – Decision surprising given RBA track record – Aussie sold aggressively across the board in response – UK manufacturing PMIs disappoint; weighs on Pound