Forex Round Up As Greek Tragedy Continues
As the Greek tragedy continues to drag on, it’s perhaps an apposite time to take a tour round the four major futures of the 6A, the 6B, the 6C and the 6E for the September contract,
As the Greek tragedy continues to drag on, it’s perhaps an apposite time to take a tour round the four major futures of the 6A, the 6B, the 6C and the 6E for the September contract,
One of our readers asked about strategies in trading sugar futures. One of our commodity experts, John Turner, weighs in…
U.S. equity futures turned sharply lower over the crisis in Greece. Most recent last night the IMF discontinues negations with the Greek government and walked away from the table.
With the US dollar continuing to remain under pressure, despite last week’s positive jobs data, and with various central bank governors adding their weight to the mix, it’s a good time to take a quick look at our four major currency futures of the AUD/USD, CAD/USD, EUR/USD and the GBP/USD.
Regardless of what asset you are using to build a portfolio or trade having a clear idea of its risks and rewards are very important. However, understanding yourself is even more paramount.
With many of the major trading centres closed yesterday for public holidays, and with little in the way of meaningful fundamental news to drive price action, trading volumes in currency futures remained thin, with the Aussie dollar, the British Pound, the Canadian dollar and the Euro, all consolidating further following the volatile price action of last week.
There are so many trading maxims it’s often hard to ignore them, but there are two that spring to mind considering the daily chart for the Emini NQ this morning.
Oil prices continue to remain heavily bearish on the daily chart following the initial failure at the $106 per barrel area in early July which was the tipping point for the commodity, with the final phase of this particular price action, clearly marked with a shooting star candle and pivot high, coupled with high volume, and confirming the weakness at this level.
The last few days have seen some clear and unequivocal signals from the gold futures chart, that the precious metal is on the way lower, something I have been suggesting for several weeks.
The USDJPY continues to deliver a masterclass in patience for longer term traders, with the long term consolidation phase continuing once again last week, as the pair closed with a narrow spread down candle on the weekly chart, ending the futures trading session at 101.30.