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    US Dollar Taking Cues From Other Major Currencies

    Video Length: 00:10:03 The US Dollar continues to take its cues from the other major currencies as light calendars on Wednesday and Thursday have ceded the spotlight to developments in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. While the DXY Index is trading lower still on Thursday after giving up all of its early gains on Wednesday, the greenback is not the focal point for much of the movement in FX markets thus far today. The commodity currencies were all trading higher earlier following the release of Q3’17 Chinese GDP data, which showed stronger growth than economists were expecting, and thus, implying demand for base metals and energy c...
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    FV This Week’s Amazing Earnings Charts – Thursday, Oct. 19

    Video Length: 00:04:15 Earnings season kicks into high gear this week with over 190 companies reporting, including many big-cap Dow and S&P 500 names. But who has the best earnings track record out of those names? It’s not easy to beat nearly every quarter in a row for years but these companies have managed to do that. Additionally, the shares, on many of them, have been breaking out to new highs. Will another beat push the shares up even higher? This Week’s Amazing Earnings Charts 1.    Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM – Free Report) has missed just once in the last 5 years. Like a lot of the semis, shares are at 5-year highs. W...
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    The European Small-Cap Rally: What Fundamentals Are Telling Us

    For investors trying to anticipate the next big inflection point for European equities amid a year of strong gains and moderate volatility, what should they be looking for from one of the best developed market equity trades of the year thus far in European small caps? Year-to-date, Europe has largely paid off as a contrarian trade as a result of the Unraveling of the “Trump trade“ Market-friendly European election outcomes Improving corporate earnings and economic growth Market Multiples Falling on Strong Earnings Gains A typical concern for investors is buying yesterday’s trade after share prices have run up and valuations...
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    BTC/USD Forex Signal – Thursday, Oct. 19

    Last Monday’s signals were not triggered, as none of the key levels were reached during that session. Today’s BTC/USD Signals Risk 0.75% per trade. Trades may only be entered between 8am London time and 5pm New York time today. Long Trades Long entry after a bullish price action reversal on the H1 time frame following the next touch of $5409.57, or $4911.53. Place the stop loss 1 pip below the local swing low. Move the stop loss to break even once the trade is $50 in profit by price. Take off 50% of the position as profit when the trade is $50 in profit by price and leave the remainder of the position to ride. The best method to identify...
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    EC Three Reasons Why The ‘FANG’ Phenomenon Will End Badly

    Those who do not wish to draw any parallels between today’s stock market and the 1999-2000 tech stock bubble typically claim that “All of those turn-of-the-century dot-coms weren’t making any money. Today’s 2017 superstars — Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Google/Alphabet (GOOG) — make money hand over fist!” The problem with this rationalization is threefold. First, the 1999-2000 tech balloon was not an online-only phenomenon. The ‘Four Horsemen’ that controlled more than half of the market capitalization for the ill-fated Nasdaq — Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Cisco (CSCO) and Dell — were exceptiona...
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    Why “Early” Means Extremely Low Cryptocurrency Prices

    This week is the 30-year anniversary of the 1987 crash. Can you believe it? Appropriately or ominously (depending on your view), the market continues its eight-year march up the charts. Nowadays, it’s setting records with each new high it hits. Are investors nervous? Should they be? This bull market is old by historical standards. At 102 months, only the 115-month bull market of the 1990s lasted longer post-WWII. If that doesn’t make one a tad nervous, the stock market has been undergoing a shocking under-the-radar reduction: from 7,500 publicly listed companies in the 1990s all the way down to fewer than 4,100 today. I could go on. It’...
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    RIA Chart Book: Q3-2017 Most Important Charts

    Michael Lebowitz and I have produced a number of charts that have generated a lot of questions, comments, and shares over the last year. We decided that each quarter we will begin producing a “chart book” of the “most important charts” from the last quarter for you to review. We have provided the links in most cases back to the original articles as well for further clarification and context if needed. We hope you find them useful and insightful. Time To Breakeven While individuals are inundated with a plethora of opinions on why the index is moving up or down from one day to the next, a portfolio of dollars invested in the market ...
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    EUR/USD And GBP/USD Forecast – Thursday, Oct. 19

    EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair initially fell during the day on Wednesday but found enough support to turn around and form a hammer. The hammer sits just below the 1.18 level, and a break above that level not only breaks the hammer from the Wednesday session, but it breaks above the hammer from the Tuesday session as well. I think at that point we go looking towards the 1.19 level, and then eventually the 1.20 handle above. Longer-term, I still expect to see this market break towards the 1.25 handle, but I’m also cognizant of the 1.17 level below being massive support. If we were to break down below there, you could make an argument for head and ...
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    Low Volatility In Everything

    A rising number of investors are anxious about the “bull market in everything”, but the markets are calm, based on rolling 90-day volatility (standard deviation). It may be the calm before the storm, although research on volatility clustering suggests that the tranquil times can roll on for longer than expected. The tide will turn eventually, of course, and perhaps soon, but the rear-view mirror at the moment shows that the landscape is unusually serene across the board for the major asset classes in recent history, based on a set of exchange-traded products via rolling 90-day standard deviation of one-day percentage returns. Ranking...
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    Qualcomm, LG Electronics To Jointly Develop Next-gen Connected Car Technology

    LG Electronics announced that it is teaming up with Qualcomm to jointly develop a range of next-generation connected car solutions. The two companies will also establish a joint research center in South Korea to develop 5G for vehicles and C-V2X technologies essential to the success of next-generation autonomous vehicles. With connection speeds of up to 5 times faster with 10 times lower latency than the fastest LTE technology, 5G will be able to deliver data at the speeds necessary in a real life driving situation. The collaboration will be based out of LG Electronics’ Science Park in Seoul. The two companies will begin working togethe...
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