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‘Euro-grip’ = Shake, Rattle and Roll (by Strawberry Blonde)

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The following 60 min (market hours only) charts of the YM, ES, NQ & TF illustrate the reactions to this week’s unsettled (so far) banking crisis/bailout battle between the EU and Cyprus.

There is lots of indecision in these markets as they react to the ongoing saga in Europe’s fragmented banking, political, and economic systems (on which the Troika is attempting to get a firm grip by implementing ‘unusual’ and what will become precedent-setting methods, as the irrefutable Law of Attraction dictates).

 

Spring Slaughter (by phantomcapital)

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Those who fail to learn from history’s mistakes are bound to repeat them.  Its an age old saying, yet every new mania in the markets screams how this time its different.  Financial markets are actually very boring from a historical perspective.  The same thing happens over and over again.  So here we are, at the end of Quarter One 2013 pressing on new highs, yet it seems the market has forgotten all about what happened a long long long time ago.  And by that I mean, exactly one year ago.  (more…)