Category Archives: Daily Trading Videos

Daily Video for May 15th, 2012

Better-than-expected New York manufacturing data highlighted a spate of positive pre-market news releases that helped to offset broader global market concerns over the immediate political and economic future of Greece. After the US markets opened however, we noted that trading became quite volatile as the $DX climbed to session highs, and put downward pressure on the the stock index, currency, and commodity markets.

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Daily Video for May 14th, 2012

Continued political instability in Greece, and a slowdown in China's economy, conspired to create negative sentiment coming into the open of the US trading session. Fallout from JPMorgan's hedge fund losses was also dragging on the markets, as light volume and volatility ruled the day.

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Daily Video for May 11th, 2012

JPMorgan surprises everyone by announcing a $2-4 billion loss in hedge fund derivative trading activities, and casts a negative sentiment on the markets heading into open. With consumer confidence data schedule for early session release, our plan was to sit back and react to how the markets would respond.

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Daily Video for May 10th, 2012

Futures were moving higher on better-than-expected jobless claims, and as a result, the markets saw an opening gap up for the first time this week. After all the extreme moves we have seen over the past few days, we expected the markets to calm down a bit and be less volatile.

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Daily Video for May 9th, 2012

Continued negative news from Europe plagued overnight trading as most markets were near session lows entering the open of this morning's US markets. We knew there was the potential for significant price volatility across the board, and needed to be ready to take advantage of fast market moves.

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Daily Video for May 8th, 2012

Serious concerns over Greece's political and economic future weighed heavily on overnight markets as we approached the open of the US trading session. As a result, we wondered if the markets would continue to sell off, or level out, and recover some of their losses in what promised to be a tricky trading session.

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Daily Video for May 7th, 2012

Weekend elections in France and Greece dealt a blow to the incumbents and created even more uncertainty around how the European Union will deal with its mounting sovereign debt crisis. As a result, the markets were selling off in active overnight trading as we approached the open of the US trading session.

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Daily Video for May 4th, 2012

Although the US unemployment rate dropped to 8.1%, the number of new jobs created was less than expected and sent the markets into a selling frenzy. This gave us some much needed volatility and several trading opportunities to consider.

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Daily Video for May 3rd, 2012

US jobless claims came in better than forecasted, and helped point the markets into positive territory as we got ready for the open of this morning's trading session. We also knew there was a key economic report coming out just after the open and had to carefully pick our spots.

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Daily Video for May 2nd, 2012

Investor concerns over expanding recession in the European Union had the overnight markets moving lower as we approached the open of the US trading session. As a result, we knew we were going to have to be extra careful in our trade selections as we navigated around the release of several scheduled economic reports.

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