Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Look at some of these prices on the left hand side of the chart next time you get angry at the pump.

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After watching this video the real estate bubble of China is very clear. I was in China 2 years ago and was in shock actually seeing this first hand. For those that think China can continue at this pace this video will change your mind. Can you imagine if China falls what the impact will [...]

There was an article in the Wall street journal today regarding the recent price action of the Australian Dollar. So many investors eat this type of article up. They seek the answers and try to learn from a fundamental perspective why a currency should move. As a trend follower I have been in this trade [...]

I received this article and is worthwhile to read, especially the aspect of good economists and bad economists.
Economic Lunacy
By Walter E. Williams
Economic lunacy abounds, and often the most learned, including Nobel Laureates, are its primary victims. The most recent example of economic lunacy is found in a Huffington Post article titled “The Silver Lining [...]

Sometimes when trend following the news can work for you…and as in Friday sometimes the news can be to your detriment. The key however is to have a good broker working your orders. On Friday the news came out and the Japanese Yen took off 100. Stops were hit. The Yen hit an intraday of [...]

If you want to lose sleep you should watch this video from Damon Vickers. Vickers is a Seattle hedge fund manager in which he paints a very realistic probable story regarding the collapse of the US Dollar. It has had 19,000 views on Youtube. Maybe it is just to sell Vicker’s upcoming book but ……You [...]

I have always been thinking through this crisis who will be the lender of last resort. The answer seems to be China.China promised to buy Spanish bonds as well as Portugal and Greek debt. European governments and banks need to refinance hundreds of billions of euros of debt and raise new money. China has pledged [...]

First we had a housing crisis which some traders made fortunes by betting against the obvious. Meredith Whitney spoke to 60 minutes and brought out another obvious outcome. The financial day of reckoning for the US economy seems to be the fallout of pensions & the failures of local & state Governments. We all know [...]

As in the last of my posts…I have been mentioning Japan and the situation it faces. Rob Prector from the Elliot Wave institute correctly predicted the crash of 1987. Albeit he has been bearish for quite sometime upon reading his web site he had an interesting comparison on the same theme I have been mentioning, [...]

Marc Faber the author of Gloom Boom and Doom gives his opinions in his latest video regarding QE11 and the stock market. Marc Faber feels that if the stimulus is not enough ( in his view less than $1 Trillion dollars) could potentially disappoint investors and lead to a market sell off. The fact is [...]