Deflation Fears & Chart Set-up Say “Short Euro” Europe is in trouble. Eighteen months after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi halted a collapse in the euro by promising to do “whatever it takes” the… Read More
What’s Next for E-Mini S&P 500?
Has the long overdue correction finally begun? Back-to-back sell-offs on Thursday and Friday could be just the beginning. The key is what happens now. Previous declines have been short-lived as investors, convinced that stocks are… Read More
Is Gold Finally Ready to Rally?
Gold plummeted $30 an ounce in less than a minute but – unlike previous times when big sell orders like this started avalanches of new selling, gold quickly recovered traded higher on the day. We… Read More
Is Gold Finally Ready to Rally? Four Possible Reasons Why
The chart says it may be. Friday’s close was the second consecutively higher close over a previous day’s high, which is something the Midas metal has been unable to do since October. Combine this with… Read More
Exit January Japanese Yen .09700 Puts. Or not…
Our decision to “roll” our December Japanese Yen short positions in the yen over to January prior to December’s Unemployment report turned out to be a good one. With the Japanese currency currently trading a… Read More
Unemployment Number Big For Japanese Yen (and All Currencies)
All Fed, all the time? That seems to be the story in all the financial markets. Tomorrow’s Unemployment Number is no different. A strong number increases the odds of an early “taper” in the Fed’s… Read More
Stocks Are Overdue for a Correction
The chart says it all… E-mini S&P 500 futures are encountering big resistance at the top of the five-year uptrend channel that has contained prices since the 2008 crash and appear poised for a correction… Read More
Lindsay Hall: Hedging can save you a lot of headaches [Wall St. for Main St. Radio Interview]
RMB Chief Market Strategist, Lindsay Hall joined the crew over at Wall Street for Main Street to discuss methodology in combining trading fundamentals with technical strategy. Lindsay pointed out that for novice traders, it is… Read More
“Cheap” Put Options in Japanese Yen May Be Fleeting Opportunity
Ghosts and goblins won’t be the only scary creatures roaming the globe this Halloween. The monster lurking within financial bowels of Japan won’t disappear any time soon. With a debt to GDP ratio of 250%… Read More
Consider Exiting Synthetic Gold / Crude Spreads
Time waits for no one. Will it wait for us? After months of heading in the wrong directions, gold and crude oil are finally started to converge, putting the synthetic “long gold / short crude… Read More