By Sean Hyman, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com Let me go on record right now as saying a trailing stop is one of the most MISUSED orders out there in Forex. At first glance, it appears that if you put in an order and a stop with a trailing stop, then it seems like you’re guaranteed to ...

By Jack Crooks Do we have a dollar breakout or fake-out in the making? It depends on the euro here. The European currencies are lower against the dollar this morning on news that Germany didn’t want to throw its hard-earned Treasury at central and eastern European problems.  Why should they? Oh y...

By Chuck Butler, editor www.worldcurrencywatch.com I have to apologize right here, right now, that I contradicted something I said and my friend John Mauldin said yesterday. (I didn’t mean to and it shows what happens when you write pre-5 a.m.) I thought that the U.S. losses were larger than those...

Make no mistake; I don’t normally advocate government intervention. But these aren’t normal times. Without government intervention, the house of credit and leverage would have (completely) tumbled down……resulting in massive bankruptcies and a total collapse of the banking system and the glob...

By Sean Hyman, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com  Good question, right? Especially right now as unemployment rises all over the world… At last glance, Canada has 6.6% unemployment, the U.S. has 7.2% unemployment, the U.K. has 6.1% unemployment, and Japan has 4.1% unemployment. Only Swit...

By Sean Hyman, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com Being something of a veteran in the currency markets now, there are plenty of things I do on auto-pilot when I’m trading. But that wasn’t always the case. I’ve learned some tricks over the last few years that have made trading much eas...

By Sean Hyman, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com Being something of a veteran in the currency markets now, there are plenty of things I do on auto-pilot when I’m trading. But that wasn’t always the case. I’ve learned some tricks over the last few years that have made trading much eas...

By John Ross Crooks, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com Over the next six to eight months, our core trading strategy is based on three key ideas: 1.    Global demand will continue to deteriorate2.    China will surprise on the downside3.    Commodities prices will sink back to thei...

By Chuck Butler, Editor of Currency Capitalist www.worldcurrencywatch.com This is getting ridiculous. Reuters reported last night that the U.S. is close to extending billions more aid to Bank of America. And as I said yesterday, Citigroup is selling off units to raise capital, after the government a...

By Chuck Butler, editor of Currency Capitalist www.worldcurrencywatch.com There’s something else I need to address this morning that deserves front page notice. It’s the ADP jobs report that printed yesterday. Up until this report hit the news, the stock jockeys were feeling pretty cocky. The ri...