Swing Trades DAX/DOW/NQ/GOLD

MNQ short again 25.745 3 lot
T1 +12p 2 lot
1 left/SL BE
Last lot closed +10p again

Target 700 and 680 DS2

MNQ Long 25.737 4 lot
T1 +24/25p 3 lot. 1 left
Closed +22p last lot.

Target 775/780

Down to 680<>650 is still on the table

MNQ long 25.756 last lot
T1 +14p/15p 3 lot.
1 left/SL BE

Target 800>>>835

1. Greenland and Denmark’s foreign ministers are set to hold talks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.
2. The high-stakes meeting comes amid President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to seize control of Greenland.

U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his aggressive rhetoric shortly before the high-stakes meeting.

In a social media post on Wednesday, the U.S. president said anything less than Greenland becoming a part of the United States would be “unacceptable.”

“The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building. NATO should be leading the way for us to get it,” Trump said on Truth Social.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BCU6sEV11/

MNQ Long last 2 lot
T1 +15<>17p 3 lot
2 left
T2 +69/70p 1 lot
1 left for 600>>>640>>650
Closed BE
450>>400 -2.0% still an option today

NQ long 1 lot
Closed +22p

NQ MINI Long again 25.510
Closed +56p at WS1

NQ likely gone make a higher low (450<>400) from Jan 05 low 300 zone

Shake out of all the buyers. SL hunt.

Time will tell

MNQ Swing long 25..463 last 4 lot
T1 +22/25p 2 lot
T2 +33/36p 3 lot. 1 left
Closed BE

ES Long 6931
Closed +4.25p

A megalomanic US President is terrified of losing control, and appears to be laying the groundwork for an “emergency” scenario - domestic, international, or both - that he could use to justify postponement or cancellation of the midterm.

That would be unconstitutional. That would be illegal. But since when has that ever bothered him? He proclaims the only limit to his power is his [lack of] morality and continues to prove it!

Now we approach the midterms - or at least we are supposed to. Trump has nothing to gain and EVERYTHING to lose. Impeachment. Prosecution for numerous crimes, domestic and international. Prison awaits. He is therefore the proverbial cornered animal - seriously, dangerous!

What he wants is ownership. Territory. Resources.

And in pursuit of that fantasy, he is willing to abandon NATO, discard long-standing friends, and destabilise the very order that preserved peace for generations. This is malignant narcissism without restraint, surrounded, not by sober counsel, but by hopelessly unqualified sycophants and opportunists. There are no sensible adults in the room that dare to challenge him; you have seen it - his cabinet meetings are toe-curlingly farcical.

Hovering over it all is trump’s NATO Greenland warning, a mob style message that the alliance is expendable if it gets in the way of his latest conquest fantasy.

For Vladimir Putin, watching the U.S. flirt with blowing up NATO over an Arctic land grab is the dream scenario, because an American exit from the alliance is exactly the strategic jackpot the Kremlin has chased for years and one more reason trump looks less like a check on Putin and more like he is doing the work for him while his own vice president tells Europe to “take Donald trump seriously on Greenland.”

Donald Trump has funded ICE at the level most nations spend on their entire military, purchased $700 million worth of weapons of war.

He’s purposefully sending them into states & cities run by Democrats, ordering them to create chaos, and labeling anyone who opposes their cruelty and lawlessness a “domestic terrorist.”

This is a strategy orchestrated by Stephen Miller. They want to create division, they want to tear the nation apart, they want authoritarian rule.

So Trump says he’d be “very unhappy” if China retakes Taiwan. Very unhappy. That’s the big red line. Suddenly he’s the global moral referee, clutching his pearls, talking about sovereignty and freedom like he just discovered international law on the back of a napkin.

If you’re so upset about China and Taiwan, where the fuck are you on Ukraine?

Where’s all this chest-thumping when Vladimir Putin rolled tanks into a sovereign country, levelled cities, murdered civilians, kidnapped children, and turned half of Ukraine into rubble? Where’s the outrage then? Where’s the “very unhappy” talk? Where’s the threats? Where’s the big tough guy routine?

Suddenly it’s “maybe Ukraine should make a deal”.

Funny how that works.
You’ll threaten China.
You’ll threaten Iran.
You’ll talk about using military force if protesters get killed in Tehran.
You keep suporting and supling Isarel with money and weapons and say they do a good job.
But when it comes to Putin, you go quiet. You go soft. You go limp.
Why is that?

You pick the fight that makes you look tough and avoid the one that scares you. You shout at China because you think it’s safe. You stay quiet on Russia because you don’t want to upset your mate.

You don’t get to act like the defender of democracy when your moral compass spins depending on which strongman you’re dealing with.

And the rest of the world can see it.

MGC Micro short 4613 last lot
Closed +233p last lot

GC Mini short 1 lot and closed +165p

Gold short again from 4620.8

MGC last lot/SL BE

GC closed + 105p 1 lot

Monday MLK day. Half day trading/Bank Holiday

The United States Senate is now having to write legislation that basically says, “Hey, just to be clear, you’re not allowed to use the military to occupy or annex NATO countries.”

Read that again slowly.

“We need to physically block funding so this lunatic can’t wake up one morning and decide Greenland looks like a timeshare he wants to flip. No money for invading allies. We’re cutting you off at the source.”

That’s not normal checks and balances. That’s a containment strategy.

It’s because he keeps floating the idea of grabbing territory like a bored real estate developer, Greenland, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela.

And here’s the punchline. The strongest military on Earth is being told, in writing, that it cannot be used to kidnap, occupy, or annex allies. Not enemies. Allies.

That’s how far trust has collapsed.

If you’re wondering what a constitutional crisis looks like in real life, it looks like lawmakers racing to lock doors before the guy with the keys decides to light a match.

This Trump bloke thought tariffs were some genius alpha move. Like he was going to stroll up, slap a tax on China, puff his chest out, and suddenly Beijing would come crawling back begging for mercy. That was the plan.

Instead, China just calmly stepped sideways and made more money elsewhere.

China then reroutes trade, deepens ties with Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, expands manufacturing chains, locks in long-term contracts, and walks out of the room with a record trade surplus. Meanwhile America is standing there holding its dick in its limp hand the like, “Wait… why are my groceries more expensive?”

Because tariffs don’t punish China, you absolute weapon of mass moron particles. They punish Americans.
U.S. consumers pay more.
U.S. manufacturers pay more.
U.S. farmers get squeezed.

And China? China adapts. Because unlike Trump, they plan further ahead than the next press conference.

Here’s the brutal truth Trump cannot process. China figured him out back in 2016. They looked at him and said, “This guys not strategic, he’s the guy who thinks bleach cures Covid with a wrecking ball attached.” So they did what adults do. They planned around him.

China posting a massive trade surplus while Trump is out there claiming victory as the American economy starts wobbling.
And the most embarrassing part? He’s still bragging.

Trump tanked his own economy, strained alliances, pissed off trading partners, and handed China (and Russia) exactly what it wanted, time and space to decouple and dominate other markets.

He still thinks he’s winning while the MAGA muppets keep clapping along like a monkey chained to Trump's organ grinder.
Pathetic.

A real man with integrity would have refused to take it, such a self entitled, self absorbed fragile human!
Literally taking an award from a woman who truly deserved it.

If this alone doesn’t prove that the clown some call a president is self serving, then I don’t know what will.

The man has no honour, no decency whatsoever!

Just like Venezuela, he now considers the peace prize to be in his possession as well. Unfortunately there will now be no end to his self-congratulatory delusions of wars and conflicts he has so courageously stopped.

MGC short 5 lot
T1 +105<>110p 4 lot
1 left/SL BE
Last lot closed +55p

GC short 1 lot
Closed +95p