Foreign Exchange

It’s been a busy week yet again with big moves on many of the major markets, and yet again a lot of these moves have been generated by the uncertainty created by President Trump and the latest news out of his administration. With the resignation of Michael Flynn to his scathing media attack yesterday it […]

The EUR/JPY consolidated from Monday to Thursday and then broke out to the downside on Friday. Price closed below the supply zone at 120.00 on Friday, after generating a bearish signal, which may continue to hold out this week. EUR/USD: The EUR/USD went downwards from Monday till Wednesday and later bounced upwards. The upwards bounce […]

After a more turbulent market last week, we’re opening this morning on a fairly positive note for Sterling, after the Friday fall which was due to weak Retail Sales figures, which put a turn on the weekly strength. The data suggested that higher inflation is starting to act as a bit of a headwind to […]

Here’s the market outlook for the week: EURUSD Dominant bias: Bearish From Monday to Wednesday, this pair went downwards, moving below briefly below the support line at 1.0550. Price then rallied above the resistance line at 1.0650, before getting corrected lower on Friday. The outlook on the market is bearish, and further bearish movement is […]

The FX Reserves; which is the money or other assets held by a central bank or other monetary authorities has deteriorated to $117.3 Billion in December 2016 from $118.2 Billion in November 2016 in the United States. In other words, the FX Reserves in the US averaged $534.3 Billion from 1957 until 2016. The all-time […]

I was having a catch up with my good mate and uber cool pad holder Jarrod yesterday – we both share a fascination with human performance. We are both interested in what we can get out of the machine we wander around in all day. As part of this quest he had recently been to […]

Yesterday, Britain’s jobless rate figures were published for Q4 of 2016, indicating an 11-year low of 4.8% as firms keep hiring workers post-Brexit, but wage growth had reduced. The number of people in work grew by 37,000 in Q4, confirming 31.84 million people are in work, up by more than 302,000 employees from a year […]

Yesterday Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen delivered the semi-annual testimony on US monetary policy outlook. Overall Yellen stuck with her previous message from January repeating that the Fed expects to raise rates in the coming year if the US economy continues to perform. Yellen did point out that the Fed needs more clarity on the […]

Yahoo! stock (NASDAQ:YHOO) has been in an uptrend since the beginning of this year. Price trudged south in the last few months of 2016, but that trend is now being reversed. Price went above the upper Trendline in January 2017, and it has continue going upward since then. The RSI period 14 is above the […]

Ebay shares (NASDAQ:EBAY) have been trending upwards since the last several months. The market is in a clear uptrend and this is what is supposed to happen most of this year.   4 EMAs are used for this analysis, and they are EMAs 10, 20, 50 and 200. The color that stands for each EMA […]