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Month: October 2011

Markets Get a Wakeup Call, Chuck Norris-Style

High yielding assets are getting a roundhouse kick to the face, and news appears to just be getting worse as the day continues… Last night's intervention took USD/JPY as high as 79.52 before subsiding circa
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NBT Wallpapers

For those of you seeking some full-time inspiration.  A few of our more notable quotes around here.  There's no branding on these…we're not that lame.  Adobe Illustrator files found below the images so you can
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The Real Reason The Euro Shot Through The Roof Today – Take One Glance At This Correlation

For EUR/USD to shoot up over 3 handles in a trading day isn't just any kind of normal coincidence….here's the gist: This chart overlays the now-dead Greek CDS over EUR/USD for the past year and
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More Leverage, More Support, More Handshakes, And We're Done

The “ultimate solution” devised at this summit was also the most predictable…..more leverage, more support, more handshakes, and we're done.  Why?  There is nothing else they can do.  No creativity came out of this one.
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Create Your Own European Utopia or Dystopia with Reuter's Interactive Bank Stress Test

Depending on your overall perception of the world, this might or might not make you want to vomit.  It is one thing to read the black and white everyday but another to actually see what
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Trading Tomorrow's Emotional Trainwreck

With tomorrow unofficially being declared as “who gives a shit other than everyone on the planet” day in the Eurozone, one thing we can expect is a lot of money floating in and out of
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…And Here's the Stagnation

The very day before European leaders are expected to come to any conclusions, Euro flounders. It never seems to fail…..the weeks leading into an event of this magnitude are filled with hopes of a positive
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Trading Human Behavior Expectation Versus Reality

Charts Don't Create Charts…People Do; A Primer on Forecasting Human Behavior

There is nothing more relevant to the movement of any market than the human element. A large pool of thought exists behind simple “fundamentals”, “technicals”, and how to use them to profit in various markets………but
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Why You Shouldn't Be In Shock and Awe That Risk Hasn't Completely Subsided Today

If you make the news rounds every morning like I do, visiting the handful of commonly skeptical armageddon theorists that write on a daily basis, you'll notice a lot of hoopla over how risk appetite
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