Analysis Topic: Currency Market Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Bitcoin Price Still in Important Territory / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: speculative short positions, stop-loss at 283, take-profit at $153.
This week the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules regulating small companies' access to capital, we read on CoinDesk:
On Wednesday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted regulations permitting crowdfunding for business startups.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
USD JPY Shorts Break Down / Currencies / Japanese Yen
By: Ashraf_Laidi
The charts below show net speculative shorts in JPY vs. USD have broken out of a 4-year channel (signifying a potential turn), while the chart on the right shows protracted yen weakness will inevitably restore the trade balance into surplus for the first time in 4 years.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
US Dollar - Americas Phoenix / Currencies / US Dollar
By: John_Mauldin
“Just a little patience, yeah…” - Guns N’ Roses
Lastweek the FOMC essentially removed forward guidance and placed all options back on the table, and at the end of the day they’ve opened the door for further tightening. As Yellen recently explained in advance, the removal of the word patience from the Fed’s guidance amounts to fair warning to the rest of the world’s central banks: an interest rate hike is on the horizon. Govern your actions accordingly. (My personal guess, for those interested, is September, with the Fed proceeding exceedingly slowly and cautiously thereafter.)
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Bitcoin Price Gearing Up for a Fall / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: speculative short positions, stop-loss at 283, take-profit at $153.
Nasdaq is going to provide a new Bitcoin exchange with technology allowing its future users to trade Bitcoin, we read on the Wall Street Journal website:
Read full article... Read full article...Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. has agreed to provide New York-based startup Noble Markets with core technology to power a new marketplace aimed at allowing companies and institutional investors such as hedge funds to trade bitcoin and related digital-currency assets.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Global Currencies Teeter as Bonds Offer “Return-Free Risk” / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: MoneyMetals
Stefan Gleason writes: Never before has holding bonds denominated in national currencies been more risky and less rewarding. That may seem like a provocative statement, but it’s not hyperbole. It’s the reality investors around the world now face.
Sovereign debt issued by Western governments sport record-low yields – in some cases, negative yields! Earlier this year the yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury dipped to an all-time low of 2.25%. Meanwhile, despite talk of rate hikes to come, the Federal Reserve continues to keep short-term rates near zero.
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
No Rest for Bitcoin Traders / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: speculative short positions, stop-loss at 283, take-profit at $153.
Intel might be looking into Bitcoin, we read on CoinDesk:
Read full article... Read full article...California-based semiconductor manufacturer Intel appears to be dipping its toe in the digital currency space, following a bitcoin-related job posting.
The multinational company is looking for a cryptographic researcher to join its Special Innovation Projects Group, part of its in-house research organisation, Intel Labs.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Sharp Fall In USD Index And Its Implications / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Nadia_Simmons
Yesterday, Ms. Yellen said that the Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates later this year, but it will not occur after the FOMC next meeting in April. She also added that the decision will depend on the data. In response to this announcement the USD Index reversed and dropped below the barrier of 100, accelerating further declines. As a result, the greenback hit an intraday low of 94.77 against the basket of major currencies. What impact did this correction have on their short-term picture?
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Renminbi The Market is Simply NOT Expecting This to Happen / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
By: Submissions
Miha Zupan writes: To succeed in investing you essentially have to beat the majority of other investors. This will not be achieved by thinking like everyone else. You will have to think and act differently to everyone else.
How do most people think when it comes to trading, or at least what do they spend most of their time on? The majority spend their time attempting to determine what will happen in the future? Very few think about risk and reward. That is, how much will I make if I am right versus how much will I lose if I am wrong! Yes, to succeed you must think more about payoffs of future events not the future itself.
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
US Dollar Forex Pairs and Gold Chartology / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Rambus_Chartology
When you look at these different currencies you will see some massive topping patterns that reversed their bull markets. You will also see they still have a long ways to go to the downside before this bear market is over. If that is the case then the US dollar has a long ways to go in its bull market.
Lets start with the CAD which broke down from a blue triangle consolidation pattern on Tuesday of this week.
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Currency Wars - U.S. Dollar Soars, Economy Disappoints / Currencies / US Dollar
By: John_Rubino
The point of competitive devaluation, aka currency war, is that a cheaper currency gives a country several advantages over its trading partners, leading to better growth and generally happier voters. The trading partners, meanwhile, get the ugly mirror image -- slowing growth and disgruntled citizens -- so they eventually respond in kind, with devaluations of their own. If nothing happens to stop the war, everyone's currency ends up being worth a lot less and a whole generation of savers is partially wiped out.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Bitcoin Price Reversal? / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: no speculative positions.
IBM might be working on the adoption of blockchain to serve traditional currencies, we read on the Reuters website:
Read full article... Read full article...International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the "blockchain," to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Trading the Parabolic U.S. Dollar / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Zeal_LLC
The mighty US dollar has been red-hot in March, rocketing higher on the incredible divergence of major central-bank policies. While the Federal Reserve’s first rate-hike cycle in 9 years looms, the European Central Bank has started aggressively monetizing sovereign debt for the first time ever. The resulting yield differential has catapulted the dollar parabolic, portending a major reversal and fantastic trading opportunity.
Currency trading is the biggest financial market in the world, with trillions of dollars changing hands every day. Yet since major currency price levels generally meander slowly, this massive market lurks beneath the surface with scant limelight. But this month the soaring US dollar and plummeting euro have utterly dominated mainstream financial news. These warring currencies’ huge price moves have been epic.
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Lessons of History, Part 1: Not a Mention of Money / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: John_Rubino
I’m listening to the audio version of George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, written by Miranda Carter and brilliantly narrated by Rosalyn Landor. It’s the story of some almost supernaturally dysfunctional governments blundering into a war that seems more rather than less crazy with the passage of time.
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
U.S. Dollar, Euro May be in a Reversal / Currencies / Euro
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
The US dollar hit its Master Cycle high overnight, rising to 100.05 before dropping down to an early morning low of 98.65. The reversal is coming very late at day 254 in the current Master Cycle. This leads me to believe that there may be a strong down draft in USD over the next 3 weeks.
USD/JPY is retreating this morning. It is still at 120.94 after reaching a high of 122.02 on Monday. The Yen carry trade will likely start to unwind beneath USD/JPY 120.00.
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
U.S. Interest Rate Hikes Already Priced into the US Dollar Index / Currencies / US Dollar
By: EconMatters
Buy the Rumor, Sell the News
All those bemoaning what rate hikes could potentially portend for the US Dollar need to get a grip, the rate hikes are already priced in. That`s how markets work, buy the rumor and sell the news or actual event. Moreover, not just one 25 basis point rate hike, taking a look at that chart, several rate hikes have already been priced into the US Dollar Index.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Is There a Shortage of U.S. Dollars? Will it Sink the Global Economy? Again? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Mike_Shedlock
Reader Patricia is wondering about a recent ZeroHedge article, The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And "This Time It's Different".
Read full article... Read full article...The last time the world was sliding into a US dollar shortage as rapidly as it is right now, was following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The response by the Fed: the issuance of an unprecedented amount of FX liquidity lines in the form of swaps to foreign Central Banks. The "swapped" amount went from practically zero to a peak of $582 billion on December 10, 2008.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Forex Traders: The Only Question You Should Be Asking / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: EWI
Elliott wave analysis foresaw the USDJPY's recent rally. Find out what else we're expecting for the world's leading forex markets (plus stocks, gold, oil and bonds) -- absolutely FREE
I can't help it. Whenever I read the mainstream financial news, I feel like I'm eavesdropping on a job interview at Microsoft.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
China wants to have a Reserve Currency / Currencies / China Currency Yuan
By: BATR
Common wisdom has China as the future model for the Globalist economy. Also, conventional thinking has the Western financial debt created money system as the backbone of the New World Order. The big question is, are both components of the same intentional plan? When China Has Announced Plans For A ‘World Currency’, the world is put on notice that a fundamental shift is about to take place.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
How Low Can The Euro Go? Or Is That The Wrong Question? / Currencies / Euro
By: John_Rubino
The euro is tanking again, as the ECB starts buying bonds for its long-promised "whatever it takes" QE program. Today's exchange rate move is dramatic enough to generate headlines like this, from Forbes: Euro Nears Parity With U.S. Dollar
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Market insight: U.S. Dollar at 11-Year High Against Euro / Currencies / Euro
By: EWI
And why now may not be the best time to bet on the greenback
By Elliott Wave International
Editor's note: You'll find a text version of this story below the video.
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