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The Russia story refuses to go away for President Trump, this time with rumours circulating that the President’s son in law Jared Kushner met with senior board members of a Russian bank under sanctions imposed during Russian incursion into Ukraine. The headlines come only a few days after the President failed in his bid for […]

The EUR/USD moved slightly upwards last week, testing the resistance line at 1.0800 many times, without being able to close above it on Friday. Price may eventually go above the resistance line at 1.0800, but there may not be protracted bullish movement after that, because there are high chances of EUR pairs getting weak this […]

Here’s the market outlook for the week: EURUSD Dominant bias: Bullish EURUSD managed to hold out its bullishness last week, in spite of the current short-tern consolidation in the market. Price reached the resistance line at 1.0800 and moved sideways till Friday. Many unsuccessful attempts were made to overcome the resistance line at 1.0800, but […]

Oil prices dropped by 10% last week, with the news of the North American production being stronger than expected. This news triggered the oil market’s price volatility. The volatility of the international oil markets fell from September 2016 to January 2017. The expected output cuts from OPEC countries including Russia caused the expectancy of crude […]

Since the FEDs increase in benchmark rate by 25 basis points last week, the gold prices have reached near the highest level of more than two weeks. In other words, the fall of the US dollar has led to further strength in gold prices. The spot gold fell 0.2% to $1.232.41 per ounce at 3pm […]

One of the frustrating things about being a trend follower is that it takes time to overcome the inertia of a new system, particularly if that system is based upon slightly longer time periods such as weekly data. Part of the frustration that traders encounter is based upon the simple mechanics of how systems work. […]

The EUR/USD went north last week – just as it was predicted. Although the market went south on Monday and Tuesday, it went northward in the last few days of last week. Price went briefly above the resistance line at 1.0750 and later closed below it on Friday. This week, some vivid correction is expected, […]

Here’s the market outlook for the week: EURUSD Dominant bias: Bullish This pair trended downwards on March 13 and 14, testing the support line at 1.0600. From the support line, price rose by 180 pips, going briefly above the resistance line at 1.0750 and then closing below it on Friday. The bullish signal is still […]

Lloyds shares (LSE:LLOY) are currently consolidating, having trended downwards in the months of October 2016 to February 2017. Price is now consolidating. In the chart, it can be seen that in spite of its consolidation, price has managed to stay above the upper Trendline, which was breached in December 2016. The RSI period 14 is […]

Microsoft stock (NASDAQ:MSFT) is a bull market, which started several months ago, and which is supposed to continue for the rest of this year. Price has been going upwards slowly and consistently in spite of occasional pullbacks and equilibrium periods. 4 EMAs are used for this analysis and they are EMAs 10, 20, 50 and […]