Tag Archives: market analysis

To hell and back? A review of TSX after a V-day

By Paul | Published: May 6, 2010
As every trader knows already, the Dow tanked 1,000 points (about 9%) in like 15 minutes today.  But what’s more amazing is that all the indices made their way back just as quickly.  Figure 1 below is today’s chart of TSX Composite (blue) and S&P 500 (red).  So what does this mean for TSX? Let’s [...]
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Lucky exit for CAD/JPY long yesterday, downtrend resumes now?

By Paul | Published: February 22, 2010
I booked my profit on my CAD/JPY long last night mere pips away from the top.  It was a lucky move, that’s all.  Now it looks as though CAD/JPY will do one of the following:
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On reactive trading and why I don’t make market forecasts anymore

By Paul | Published: February 17, 2010
It seems to me that the popular trading blogs have one thing in common.  They all make some form of forecasts about the market, or even better, calling out to a particular stock or currency pair.  My guess is that there’s a lot more people looking for trading ideas for quick profits than actually interested [...]
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How Goldman Sachs Robbed You and Me of $3 Billions in 3 Months

By Paul | Published: October 17, 2009
After watching the videos below, and from months of observation of this latest global financial debacle, I am suddenly awashed with a feeling of hopelessly powerless to this gross unfairness. In which the average, hard working citizens are pouring money into the pockets of the filthy and uber rich. If you don’t know what I’m [...]
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Inter-market analysis after a new 2009 high in the equity market

By Paul | Published: August 22, 2009
The market made a new high for the year on Friday.  There’s no doubt that the current trend is very bullish with the recent relentless climb since March.  See Figure 1. However, why was 1025 on the S&P500 (for example) so hard to break?  Since the market doesn’t operate in a vacuum.  Here’s a look [...]
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A technical analysis of 80 years of S&P500

By Paul | Published: August 7, 2009
One of the earlier popular post on this site is my view on the pre-tech-bubble trendline from before year 2000.  However, that trendline was broken in October 2008 as I’ve noted. Since the recent actions in the market has often been compared with the Great Depression, I’ve decided to chart S&P500 all the way back [...]
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