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  • Oil Trading Alert: Crude Oil Declines Slightly

    February 21, 2014, 9:37 AM

    On Thursday, crude oil moved lower as the U.S. dollar straighten after solid U.S. economic data and stocks of distillates fell less-than-expected. Despite this small drop, light crude still remains near a 4-month high, slightly below $103 per barrel.

  • Bitcoin Trading Alert: No News Is Bad News on Mt. Gox

    February 20, 2014, 2:26 PM

    Mt. Gox released the much-anticipated announcement today, saying that… It didn’t have that much to say at all. Read our alert to find out what impact this might have had on the Bitcoin market.

  • Gold & Silver Trading Alert: Silver's Upswing and Euro's Resistance

    February 19, 2014, 10:00 AM

    Not much happened in gold and mining stocks this week, but silver moved higher. We sometimes saw this type of divergence right at the local tops, but it was not an extremely reliable sign. In today's Gold & Silver Trading Alert we take a closer look at what actually happened and analyze it along with the situation in the USD and Euro Indices. In short, not everything is as bullish as it appears at the first sight.

  • Stock Trading Alert: Uncertainty following recent rally

    February 18, 2014, 1:00 PM

    S&P 500 close to its all-time high. Will uptrend continue?

  • Forex Trading Alert: U.S. Dollar Remains Mixed

    February 17, 2014, 3:01 PM

    The U.S. currency was little changed near recent lows against major currencies as U.S. markets are shut for the President’s Day holiday and trade volumes remain thin. Nevertheless, it’s worth noting that the greenback declined to a four-year low against the British pound earlier today. What is the current outlook for major currency pairs? We invite you to read our today's Forex Trading Alert.

  • Bitcoin Trading Alert: Bloodbath on Mt. Gox

    February 14, 2014, 11:34 AM

    Panic. This one word sticks in the back of everybody’s mind when assessing what’s been going on in the Bitcoin market for the past couple of days. It might be hard to get one’s head around the fact that the currency was at $900 on Feb. 5, only to almost reach $300 today. The sell-off continues, today coinciding with news of another hacker attack. Is this enough to open short positions? Read this alert to learn our opinion.

  • Oil Trading Alert: Crude Oil Hits Fresh Monthly High

    February 13, 2014, 12:37 PM

    On Wednesday, crude oil rose on better-than expected economic data from China and climbed to its highest level since late October. Despite an increase to a fresh monthly high, light crude reversed after the EIA data showed that crude inventories rose more than expected. In this way, crude oil lost 0.11%, but closed the day above $100 per barrel.

  • Bitcoin Trading Alert: Bitcoin Exchanges under Attack

    February 12, 2014, 11:00 AM

    The news of the day is probably the denial of service attack carried out on major Bitcoin exchanges: Bitstamp and BTC-e. They have both announced they would experience the same kind of problems that earlier hit Mt. Gox.

    On Mt. Gox, Bitcoin was relatively stable yesterday, losing 0.6% at the end of the day. Overall, the picture yesterday was of a move declining in strength. Does the action today support any kind of reversal? Read our alert to get to know our take on that.

  • Forex Trading Alert: U.S. Dollar Remains Mixed Against Major Currencies

    February 11, 2014, 12:25 PM

    The U.S. dollar remains mixed against major currencies after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signaled that recent soft economic data haven't swayed the central bank from a strategy of trimming its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion at each of its policy meetings this year. What impact did this event have on major currency pairs? If you want to know our take on this question, we invite you to read our today's Forex Trading Alert.

  • Stock Trading Alert: Market sentiment improves as investors await Fed testimony

    February 11, 2014, 8:05 AM

    Stocks have retraced most of their recent move down. Is the correction over?

  • Oil Trading Alert: Crude Oil Hits Fresh Monthly High

    February 10, 2014, 11:13 AM

    On Friday, crude oil gained 2.27% as the U.S. dollar weakened against major currencies after a monthly U.S. employment report came in weaker than expected. Thanks to this circumstances, light crude extended gains and rose above $100 per barrel for the first time in more than a month.

  • How Can Money Printing Exist and be Absent at the Same Time?

    February 7, 2014, 8:09 AM

    In the past years, the Federal Reserve dropped many inflationary bombs on the markets. Inflationary in the purely monetary sense by supplying money in almost ridiculous amounts, especially base money figures. During this process some commentators believed that the dollar would soon evaporate, that investors will run away in favor of the euro (like the EBC had not been printing euros for their banks), or maybe in favor of the yen (like the Japanese central bank was not that inflationary), or who knows maybe even the yuan. The dollar was supposed to be either dropped by international investors, or killed from within by internal inflationary rates (or possible by those two factors combined together). None of this happened. How are we to explain this if the Fed went almost crazy in monetary creation?

    Has Fed printed all this money or not?

  • Bitcoin Trading Alert: Storm Has Come, or Just a Headwind?

    February 7, 2014, 5:07 AM

    Yesterday, Bitcoin showed some weakness and ended the day 2.4% down. The volume increased markedly.

    Today is even more volatile. The volume has already doubled compared with yesterday and is already highest since Jan. 7. What's our take on the market now? Read through the alert to find out.

  • Stock Trading Alert: Stocks consolidate following recent selloff

    February 5, 2014, 7:34 AM

    Indexes set to move sideways after small rebound. S&P 500 within October-November trading range, as investors await economic data releases.

  • Forex Trading Alert: U.S. Dollar Declines Against Major Currencies

    February 5, 2014, 7:28 AM

    Earlier today, the U.S. currency erased some losses against the euro, yen and Swiss franc. However, the greenback moved lower against the British after data showed that construction output in the U.K. rose at the fastest rate since August 2007 in January, suggesting that the economic recovery is continuing. The U.S. dollar also declined against its Australian counterpart after the Reserve Bank of Australia left rates on hold at 2.5%. What impact did these numbers have on major currency pairs? If you want to know our take on this question, we invite you to read our today's Forex Trading Alert.

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