Ever heard of spoofing? If you have been trading for a while, you must have come across this term. Spoofing is mostly done in the commodity futures market. Spoofing is a disruptive algorithmic trading entity employed by traders to outpace other market participants and to manipulate commodity markets. Spoofing techniques have evolved over the years.…
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Many investors and day traders are panicky these days due to the Chinese stock market. Stocks all over the world are crashing then rallying. The same goes for the currency traders. EURUSD rose 400 pips on Monday and then fell 500 pips in the next few days. GBPUSD fell 450 pips. But this Japanese day…
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Warren Buffet is one of the history’s greatest investors. At one time, he was the richest man in the world. As of today, his net worth is $72.3 Billion. This is what Warren Buffet said: “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too…
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Amazon shares AMZN made history when AMZN skyrocketed on posting a surprise second quarter profit. Read this article that explains 8 things that you should know about Amazon. On Friday morning Amazon share rose a spectacular 20% in just one day. But Amazon stunning profit maybe short lived. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had been expecting…
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Apple shares AAPL fell this week in after hour trading shocking many investors. It was unexpected. Apple had reported a strong quarter. But still AAPL share prices fell. Some called it silly. Why? Because Apple is still the most successful corporation in USA with a huge pile of cash with it. The initial response to…
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Hedge funds are net short on gold for the first time. This means expect gold price to plunge down more. Hedge funds are holding the first ever bet on a decline in gold prices since the U.S. government started collecting the data in 2006. The funds and other speculators shifted to a net-short position of…
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China stock market rally that lured so many investors has turned into a plunge. Chinese stocks are crashing. Trillions of dollars invested have been wiped out. “At the moment there is a mood of panic in the market and a large increase in irrational dumping of shares, causing a strain of liquidity in the stock…
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Economic forecasting is a science plus an art. You will be surprised to find out that there are many central banks who get their economic forecasts wrong most of the time. This includes the FED and the Bank of Japan. The best forecaster is the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But IMF is not a central…
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Gold standard reined the world for more than a 100 years in the time of the British Empire when they backed British Pound with gold. It worked because ultimately all the currencies got linked to the gold and countries kept gold reserves with their central banks. The only problem was that the supply of gold…
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Do you know this that the small caps are out performing the S&P 500 stocks. Talk about making a small fortune. The small-cap Russell 2000 hit a record high Thursday, and is seriously outperforming its large-cap cousin; the Russell is up 6.6 percent this year, versus a mere 3 percent rise for the S&P 500.…
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