Search results

2008 posed the largest threat to the system, and ended up in a bout of financial warfare between the US and its major competing trading partners. China and Russia, and middle-eastern countries saw the weakness within the US financial system due to excess liquidity, and tried to end the dollar...

As in the past, when dollar confidence falls in the international financial system, inflationary forces become prevalent. In the 70’s OPEC did not support US policy towards the middle-east and the support for Israel. This created a dollar crisis that lead to a decade of low dollar confidence...

The main thing to watch is how China deals with their capital account. If they open it and allow the currency to float, they will be submitting to the dollar system. China cannot create the renminbi as a reserve currency without finding a reliable source of oil that will be priced in renminbi...

The rise in the yield curve is what fed is trying to produce. They were pushing as hard as they could with policies to get the cash out of treasuries. The only way to get the financial system to work again was to get all the trillions of cash sitting in treasuries to move back into the debt...

I have noticed a lot of media coverage about the rising treasury yields. The situation is portrayed as something the Federal Reserve policy makers do not want. In reality, it’s quite the opposite. Since the Federal Reserve is the sole provider of mortgage credit in the United States now, they...

The rise in the yield curve is what fed really wants. They were pushing as hard as they could to get the cash out of treasuries. The only way to get the financial system to work again was to get all the trillions of cash sitting in treasuries to move back into the debt markets. There was a huge...

Come on guys. Anyone that is trading futures should be paying attention. GM is out of the Dow monday. So, there was some major re-balancing. There was also a major re-balancing in the russell 2000. Plus the credit default swaps on GM get triggered as soon as they file bankruptcy, so debtholders...

Prem tells you what has just happened, not what is going to happen in the future. Your idea is built on a false premise about the market. The market is not a computer that moves the same way depending on certain variables. The market is made up of millions of individuals trading for different...

With a huge burst of monetary stimulus, real interest rates are falling if they are rising slower than the rate of money printing. So, in a way it is working. The real 30 year fixed could be at around 4%, if the money gun is shooting out 2 or 3 percent inflation.

Since the dollar is the reserve currency and most commodities are priced in US dollars worldwide, the strong dollar deflates commodity prices. The falling dollar inflates commodity prices worldwide.

Oil going from 40 dollars a barrel to 65; That is very inflationary. We are going to see higher prices as a result. Higher oil prices filter into every area of the economy. So, to say that inflation is under control is highly contradictory to what we are seeing right in front of our eyes. The...

I took 200 to 1,000 last month and withdrew 800. It took about 2 weeks for the check to arrive.

If you put tradestation tick versus esignal, you will see that tradestation is way faster. It's close enough to real-time to get pretty decent readings off it. You can put the $tick on a 1 min chart and recognize up trend days when it continuously bounces off the zero line. You can take profits...

There is no press. It's a computer terminal.

I agree. It's already very visible. The collateral damage this time will be the dollar. Debasement of a national currency has been the downfall of many great societies of history.

That's why the fed is devaluing the dollar. The dollar index will be in the low 70's by the end of the year. We will see rampant inflation.

You're trading too much. Get some ritalin. Seriously, be more patient for the good setups. Don't think you need to be in the market every second of the day. Wait for the good setups!

It's going to spike over the summer. Just wait until after memorial day holiday.

Oh, hell yes.

I assume this strategy only works in a trending market after looking at it. So, you need to add that on inside days, you shouldn't trade.