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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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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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…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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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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Non-Farm Primer – The ADP Implication and Technical Misconceptions

Following the release of ADP on Wednesday I was groaning on Twitter about this lack of reliability in terms of this report, and how it is really no better than just a consensus estimate. ADP
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The Need to Know – Bloodbath Edition

Not, exactly, a quiet day yesterday.  World equity markets collapsed on a culmination of poor data all across the board. The tally: S&P500: -2.28% DJIA: -2.22% FTSE: -1.02% DAX: -1.05% …and as of this writing:
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Had you listened….

….to the bulk of FX analysis on the planet yesterday you probably would have been fiercely buying into EUR/JPY or USD/JPY following the uptick higher leading into yesterday's London session. Consistency seemed to remain across
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The Currency / Equity Correlation

Many investors that try to decipher market flows and attempt to understand the way money moves in and out of this or other markets are likely to, at one point or another, refer to the
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How To Improve Your Equity Curve With Zero Skill

There are a number of things that make a person a better trader, and several of those things have absolutely nothing to do with a person's ability to trade. Over the years, I have seen
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