And the name of the game is still … FADE THE FED … markets lost faith into Bernanke and his brotherhood … so … they SELL … Lehman figures out … 1st look good … second look … autsch … so stock trades down some 4% … Easy to trade markets … are different … [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: Markets sold off again after the huge gap, caused by the moves on liquidity by the centralbanks. We traded down to new lows before recovering 20 S&P points into the close on rollover … NEW FRONTMONTH on the US equities from TODAY on … MARCH 2008 … so S&P is 10 points [...]

I watch the market since I was a little kid, reading the economics section every morning as Sports were on the other side of the newspaper and my father started every morning with the Sports section … and I trade fulltime since 1982 … so I traded the Paul Volcker markets … the whole Greenspan [...]

Sometimes … there happen such outlier events … that the only thing, which can help you … is a STOP … cruel, but true … Even having the view, that the day after the FED very often brings the opposite move and seeing Goldman buying yesterday in the last hour … was not enough to [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: Markets sold off big time after the FED decision to cut rates each by 25bps … Nasdaq best performer with 2,4% loss, the Russell lost 3,7% … So, America followed the Dax, rebreaking the downtrends. But … reading the statement and trying to make sense of it … isn’t it positive, that [...]

Ahead of the FED decision … markets settle down a bit … Dax after trading new highs for this upmove, came down around 1% to “avoid” a negative surprise by the FED … So … if we close here … what only God and maybe Goldman knows We technically have a rebreak … which means [...]

Situation: U.S. Markets: Firmed a bit on interest rate cut hopes … seemingly everybody already is sure about the outcome. Today morning prices higher on Texas Instruments raised outlook for Q4 , the possibility of Motorola being a take over target soon and lack of fresh bad news form the financial sector. Asian Markets: Higher [...]

As market was pressured in the morning on UBS news … some wanted to see it negative … market not only made it back to Fridays highs … it was even squeezed above the important levels … not long though … FESX holds downtrend … Dax was shortly above it … as even bond insurer [...]