Archive for January, 2012

  • January Effect high in place in EURUSD
    Posted by on January 31st, 2012 at 1:09 pm, Comments: 0

      January Effect in progress in $EURUSD — target remains 1.0800 I have posted extensively about the January Effect in the forex markets in recent [...]

  • Special feature: Steve Briese on EuroFX CFTC COT data
    Posted by on January 30th, 2012 at 11:58 am, Comments: 0

      Last week I asked Steve Briese of the Bullish Review to respond to two CFTC COT debates presently taking place. The first item is [...]

  • Charts I am watching, week of January 29, 2012
    Posted by on January 30th, 2012 at 8:01 am, Comments: 0

      Markets: $SB_F, $ZN_F, $GE_F, $HE_F, $USDCAD, $HG_F, $NQ_F, $USD_JPY, $GC_F, $GLC, $USDCHF, $TSM, $UGA   . Share on StockTwits

  • Contraction of volume in stock market is not good news
    Posted by on January 27th, 2012 at 12:35 pm, Comments: 0

      A cardinal principle of technical analysis is that healthy market advances should be accompanied by expanded volume As shown on the charts below, the [...]

  • More on the CFTC COT data
    Posted by on January 26th, 2012 at 9:42 pm, Comments: 0

      The subject of the CFTC COT data is the subject of considerable conversation and interest given the composition of open interest in the EuroFX. [...]

  • Another update on the EURUSD January Effect
    Posted by on January 26th, 2012 at 5:48 pm, Comments: 0

      Composition of open interest is a story for the history books Earlier this afternoon I posted a piece on the January Effect in EURUSD, [...]

  • EURUSD and the January Effect – An update
    Posted by on January 26th, 2012 at 3:21 pm, Comments: 0

      Will the January Effect work in EURUSD in 2012? If so, what’s next? I have written about the January Effect in the forex markets [...]

  • Pigs getting ready for the slaughter house
    Posted by on January 26th, 2012 at 12:11 pm, Comments: 0

        The pigs are ready to roll over   The chart of the April Live Hogs could not be any more bearish. Following the [...]

  • S&Ps diverge from Baltic Dry Index
    Posted by on January 26th, 2012 at 9:37 am, Comments: 0

      Baltic Dry shipping rates are often a leading indicator of the global economy. The BD Index has fallen off the cliff. Is this a [...]

  • Committment of Traders data in action — Sugar, look out above!
    Posted by on January 26th, 2012 at 7:32 am, Comments: 0

      CFTC Commitment of Traders data present the prelude to strong rallies As a general rule (and there are a couple of major exceptions I [...]