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FED POMO Schedule November 2011

The Fed has posted its POMO Schedule for Novemeber 2011 – operation twist continues as the Federal Reserve looks to push its portfolio duration further out the curve. Based on the chart below the most significant dates of monetary movement putting upward pressure on markets would appear to be November 7, 11, 16, 18, 23,...

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Riding Up the Euro Fix

Sponsored LinkSo were riding up the Euro fix today, with the EMU / ECB having successfully kicked the can a few months down the road. Have you noticed how hard Goldman Sachs stock is up today? Bank stocks – specifically those TBTF bank stocks have been granted an early Christmas present, and all markets...

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Binary Trading Puts

Are binary trading puts the right answer in today’s market? Given the recent runup in the major indexes it certainly begs the question as to whether the timing is right to add some binary trading puts to the portfolio. Market tops are always tough to call and hardly ever strongly defined by singular events...

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Stock Market Rally Fading into the European Summit?

So is today's stock market rally fading into the European Summit this weekend? It sure looks that way to me. I'm watching the forex markets all day (kind of a habit... like breathing) and seeing a nice robust risk on pattern pretty much all morning - with a sprinkle of CHF risk off mixed...

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Fed POMO Schedule October 2011

In case you missed it here is the Fed POMO schedule for October 2011. Operation Twist – as it has been named in the media – has been quietly changing the consistency of the Fed’s balance sheet toward longer dated securities. The size of the overall operation is expected to be about $400billion and this...

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How to Beat Inflation or Deflation

Today’s economic uncertainty leaves us wondering whether we need to know how to beat inflation or deflation. Prudence (and economic conditions) suggest that it is in our best interest to learn ways to defeat both scenarios. While some solutions are mutually exclusive, other potential activities we engage in regardless of whether we care about...

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How to Make Money on Stocks Today

People are learning how to make money on stocks today the hard way: with steep losses. That doesn’t have to be the case however given the wide variety of trading opportunities even the smallest retail trader has access to today. There are still plenty of income generating trades to make money on stocks. Here...

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Trading with Confidence

In uncertain times trading with confidence is difficult. It’s much easier to trade in a more normal market environment where expectations of growth are met with solid performance and steady political leadership. Clearly these are not those times, and yet somehow we still have to earn a living trading online. Fear not, however, for...

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Export Economy Economics: Boy Are They Dumb

Anyone who has followed export economy economics for a long time understands the basics: separate nations engage in trade of goods and services in exchange for money. Seems straight-forward enough doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ve noticed that the United States has run a trade deficit for (effectively all of my adult life), well, forever....

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Pricing in QE3

This is a short post on the pricing in of QE3 by the market. If you think I’ve been too quiet of late, you probably haven’t been following me on twitter. Twitter is a faster way to get messages and commentary out, so I have been tweeting what I’ve been seeing in stock and...

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