One of the dangers of forex trading is liquidity risk. Today’s Brazilian Real announcement regarding the potential rule changes for foreign equity investments highlights one of the significant problems forex traders face: trading restrictions which result in illiquid investments. What Impact Will the Proposed New Forex Trading Rules in Brazil Have on Day Traders?...
The next Fed POMO Schedule 2011 is out and we’ve had a chance to digest it. Interesting to note is the occurance of some TIPS purchases in the mix. TIPS for those not familiar with the acronym are Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. Taking a quick gander at the schedule tells me that the highest...
The price of gold and oil (as well as other commodities) have runup dramatically over the last 12-18 months, and yet despite the surge have yet to induce a market buying panic. Seems to me this is what the traders holding long and or leveraged positions are waiting for. They seem to be waiting...
Well the Fed POMO Schedule is out again for the next few weeks of quantitative easing, and like prior releases the goal is the same: keep the overall treasury debt below the debt ceiling. This also has the nice benefit of reducing the real-dollar costs of the US deficit via monetary base inflation. The...
The Fed POMO Schedule 2011 edition is out for the next several weeks so keep these dates on your radar as treasuries keep getting pulled out of the market and monetized by the Federal Reserve Rank of New York. As always we look for ways to make money day trading information like this because...
I write a lot about day trading news releases, or more importantly forex movements of the major currencies. The reasoning is simple: when the forex market traders take (or unwind) large positions in a particular currency pair, stock markets around the world are immediately impacted by money multipliers. Right now the number one un-leveraged...
The good news is that the Bush Tax Cut extension will likely boost markets (today), regardless of the longer term implications of the fiscal/tax policy. What the longer term implications are for the stock market and the US Dollar in general remain to be discovered. Here’s a few thoughts. Extentsion of Tax Cuts Sticker...
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