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What an action-packed morning! The big event just took place, which is that Mario Draghi, in his fiscal swan song, pulled out every bazooka available for the European Central Bank. The Euro, already in a bear market going back for years, is falling yet again.
As I type this, the markets have surged yet again, thanks to more backpedaling from the President. I pulled the charts for this post before this latest surge, but the purpose is the same: what indicators were most helpful in nailing the bottom we saw in mid-August? I offer some SlopeCharts below, with remarks captioned for each.
On this solemn day, I wanted to republish what I wrote on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Here it is:
Today the entire nation will be transfixed on the tenth anniversary of the vicious attacks on the United States. And rightly so, as the events of that day permanently altered the history and trajectory of our nation.
I just did a search of my email archives for anything written that day, and I was surprised to actually find some items. I was, on that morning, in front of my screen at home making sure – as I always did – that all the systems were running smoothly at my company, Prophet.net
(more…)I only glance at FOREX currency cross-rate charts from time to time, but I found this one extremely interesting. It is the Chinese Yuan versus the Japanese Yen. Look ready to plunge to you? Yeah, I feel the same way.
Commodities have been strong for weeks now, but the price gap (marked in red) represents, to my eyes, an important point of resistance.
