Published in September 30th, 2011
Cross ref:
http://anatrader.com/?p=1396Ray on CNBC today
Slowdown in Chinese Economy Not Due to Global Crisis
Fri. Sept. 30 2011 | 10:30 AM[04:24]
Daniel Hui, FX Strategist,Senior FX Strategist at HSBC, says that the slowdown in the Chinese economy is because of policies implemented by
HSBC […]
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Published in September 29th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: A Crisis in the Making?
While the Western markets are focusing on the woes of Europe and the US, there is a possible crisis brewing in China that is likely to have far reaching consequences for S-E Asia, Australia and Canada - given that the Chinese have been extensive and expansive buyers of property […]
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Published in September 28th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: A Double Dip for the US?
In his latest blog (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/are-we-headed-recessdepress-ion-answer-9-simple-charts), Tyler Durden has come up with some traditional charts that suggest the US is headed for a double dip.
If you want to see some leading indicators with a great track record, you only have to go to ECRI’s public page: http://www.businesscycle.com/reports_indexes/allindexes (press ‘+’ […]
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Published in September 27th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: A Question of Flexibility II
Up until the close of Monday, I’d have said that the probabilities favoured:
A breach of 1100 before Oct 3 to Oct 6 and
The cycle highs of Oct 3 to Oct 6 would prove to be a retest of the breakdown point 1100 or perhaps 1000. (See Fig 1)
But, yesterday […]
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Published in September 23rd, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: A Question of Flexibility
I am forever grateful to Peter J Steidlmayer. Whatever success I have known from the markets, comes from his willingness to share with the newbie traders his insights of the markets. I am not just talking about his idea on the Market Profile; his greatest contribution to my learning?
The way […]
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Published in September 21st, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: Twist and Shout II
I received quite a few e-mails asking about the Twist. (I called it Twist & Shout because I fell in love with John Mauldin’s description).
Here’s how I understand the strategy.
The desired outcome is to produce a yield curve that will lead to economic growth. The FED will sell the short […]
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Published in September 20th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: One Step At A Time
“I no longer use actual physical doors or gates to symbolize each transition in my life. When I reread years of diary entries while writing this book, a clear pattern emerged. Each door or gate enabled me to move on to the next level. My life was a series […]
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Published in September 19th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: QE 3?
On Thursday, the ECB said it will coordinate with the Federal Reserve, and other central banks to conduct three separate dollar liquidity operations. This idea is to ensure European banks have enough of the currency through the end of the year. The three-month loans are in addition to the bank’s regular seven-day […]
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Published in September 15th, 2011
BarroMetrics Views: Trading and Myopia
It affects all of us: we form a view of the markets and seem to automatically block out information that contradicts that view; or we interpret the possible contradictory information in a way to conform to our view. For me, it calls for a conscious effort to ask and answer continually […]
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Published in September 12th, 2011
BarroMterics Views: Resource for Position Sizing
Forex Decoder is offering an interesting free resource for FX position sizing (DDSMM). The free download will work with Futures, CFDs and Shares; but you need to normalise the pip results to conform to FX sizing.
The claims for their spreadsheet are interesting. They claim that their position sizing software will […]
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