Commodity Trading & Trend Following

Firstly, I nor anyone else know if the US Dollar will rally or crash. No one knows the future. The only thing I am certain of is uncertainty.
There will be trends that are extreme but in most cases there will be false breakouts and whippy trades in which you might lose money. Trend following [...]

There seems to be tug of war between those who ” Predict” this harsh Recession will be over this quarter or next year and those that react to the economic situation. Truthfully no one knows how long this Recession will last or when it will be over. The fact is those more money has been lost recently trying to call a bottom. The next reality is that there is further evidence that there is a deepening of the slowdown not just in the US but from around the world.

The flood of US dollars seems to be coming, as well as inflation. The Federal Reserve started buying massive amounts of Treasuries and is gearing up its purchases of mortgage debt. The Fed will buy as much as $300 billion in long-term Treasurys in the next six months. It will increase it’s purchases of mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to $1.25 trillion, up from $500 billion. The printing presses got an injection of high octane yesterday. The FED will buy or lend against everything from corporate debt, mortgages and consumer loans to government bonds.