What does not move the market, but makes traders feel good: opinions What does move the market: consensus among the smart money about what the central banks are most likely to do. The U.S. is the largest economy & the FED has said that it wants to ...

Too much debt is a common problem with almost all human institutions as well as individuals, who can declare bankruptcy to rid themselves of overwhelming debt. Sovereigns cannot declare bankruptcy except by defaulting on debt. If they default, they ...

We are talking apples & oranges here. Obviously, you are using fundamentals to predict long term trend. My post was simply an attempt to let traders who are trying to trade off of news releases know that there are many different factors that move ...

Why is the market going in the opposite direction to the one it should logically be going in? Too much supply, the market is supposed to go down, right, immediately, darn it! There should be some kind of direct connection between what we're hearing ...

Who could respect regulation that after the 2008 crash passed the forex restrictions on retail traders, FIFO, & anti-hedging, both of which benefit the broker, & recently repealed all regulatory restrictions on the banks that caused the 2008 crash? ...

If traders let the SNB push them around as it did with its intentional unpegging smack down, other Central Banks will see that it can be done, and they could start doing the same thing. What traders forget is that somebody made a ton of money on ...

"Dynamic layering" or "Spoofing" happens all the time. The only rule against it is the trader must have access to the size of the trade he puts on, otherwise, he can put on huge size to move the market, & take it off, without restriction. This is ...

This is really confusing because at first reading it appeared that the New York regulator wanted to eliminate an investigation of possible rigging of rates through computer programs. In fact, what the regulator meant is that because it will take ...

Lol, funny. The way I see it is that Big Ben could not take the heat & bailed without taking any responsibility for any economic dislocations (bubbles) that his QE mania is producing. Certainly, it drove money to the top & into the banks' reserves, ...

Your posts, NA, are always interesting & stimulating. Much appreciated! From the top down, a change in reserve currency would hurt countries with large dollar reserves now that the dollar has come up in value. After a correction I think it will ...

Could be. Hard to know what is going on behind the curtain, The power elite might be trying to "help" Greece by stripping their country of it's assets to stop their borrowing & excessive social programs. "It is difficult to get a man to understand ...

My solution is pretty simple. Just give everyone in the EU/IMF one of the diplomas received by the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, you know, the character that sang, "If I only had a brain!"

"...Money aside, the fight between the new Greek government and the eurozone is about what structural reforms Athens is willing to pass to make its economy more robust...." ----------------------------------------------------- Oh, yeah! Those ...

"...In theory, these measures raise the productive capacity of the economy, at a time when Europe desperately needs more growth and jobs...." ------------------------------------------------- Yes, economists love theories, & politicians love ...

"...structural reforms....are laws that open up regulated professions to competition. Or make it easier to hire and fire workers, while reducing the influence of labor unions in wage setting...." -------------------------------------------------- ...

"...the European Commission and central bankers urge national governments to pass structural reforms..." ----------------------------------------------- Of course, they do. Their answers never involve any "pain" on their part. Politicians & ...

"...The list of proposed reforms Athens has presented to the Brussels Group includes revenues of 1.5 billion euros from privatisations this year, including the long-term lease of 14 regional airports and the sale of its largest port Piraeus...." ...

Obviously, the market was disappointed that it came in slightly lower than expected. The strong response is most likely from hedge funds & other big players, who were expecting a surprise to the upside. There is no way to know for sure, but a ...

Good luck on that! If Greece repaid their debt, they'd be the only country in the Western world to do it! ;^) China could do it. They could be debt-free. There is no way that the U.S. can, or even intends to, pay off its debt. Countries around the ...

Business Insider is always sensationalizing whatever it covers. It's just a step above ZeroHedge. ;^) The PBoC is not an independent Central Bank, in fact, the Roman Catholic Church or the Tibetan Buddhists are not even independent in China, the ...