EURUSD

I told you guys that the markets would fluctuate a lot because of the holiday in Euthanasia.

How is everybody doing anyways? I just threw up a little in my mouth as I was having coffee. You know when you have a one night stand, another notch in your belt, and you hope never to see that broad again but she won't leave?

Oh well.

Some people have been waiting a long time for this. Now, finally and exclusively to members of FF, I present to you Jay's Forex Method.

My book finally got published and for members of this site, you can get it absolutely free.

To have sneak peek, check out Jay's Forex Method.

PM me for details.

Remember our talks early

K. Jay Rolling!

tried to buy it but couldn't. can u send me a copy to Bora-Bora Island 3rd hut on the right?

thanks

The creme de la creme of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner.

Bora-Bora Island is one crappy Forex method.

Try one of the methods in my book. Satisfaction guaranteed...not that people succeeding call back to complain

Still on those trades. I ain't moving.

K. J. Rolling, huh?

Does that mean you wrote Hairy Pooter too.

It never fails. Every time I post something like this, I inevitably end up getting some Personal Messages from people inquiring about "my book".

Attention to details folks. If you suck at life so bad, maybe you should consider the Final Exit.

No. But I did write Harry Pothead and the Magical Mushrooms as well as Harry Pothead and the Philosopher's Bong.

Heard of a cartoon, can't seem to google it, where a guys jumps off Empire State Bldg is dialing on a cell phone to suicide hotline to tell them he changed his mind. Yeaooooow, opps.

That's deep, man.

It was Ben Bernanke. He went by the 40th floor and said "so far so good!"

H4

Very cool Jay

Cool recap...from everbank.com


In This Issue..

* Currencies rally
* German unemployment drops...
* RBNZ hikes rates 25 BPS...
* CBO & the inconvenient debt...

And Now... Today's Pfennig!


Eurozone Confidence Rises...


Good day... And a Tub Thumpin' Thursday to you! They figured it out! Finally! And in time I might add, given we hook our camper up to my vehicle on Sunday! In the end... The guy at the auto shop said, "if we would have only listened to what you were telling us"... I said, "yes, eventually, everyone realizes that!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

OK... Front and Center this morning, I have to tell you that we've had a HUGE currency rally overnight, and the rally still has legs through the European session, for, I've seen the euro inch higher as I booted up my computer! What's got the currencies, led by the Big Dog, euro, so wound up this morning? Ahhh grasshopper... Come, sit, and let me tell you the story of an ancient warrior, no wait, let me tell you about the rally!

First things first... Well... We've got a huge shift going on right here in front of our eyes, folks... The momentum has shifted toward selling dollars, based on the fears that the U.S. nascent recovery is failing... Of course, You, being a well informed Pfennig reader, already knew that... And when I told you a couple of months ago, that the euro's bottom would be around 1.20 (it was actually 1.1877 on June 6th), you were all over that like a cheap suit, and now that everyone else is joining our bandwagon, you are smiling like a Cheshire Cat!

Then there were two pieces of data in the Eurozone that really got things going for the Big Dog, euro... First report was that Eurozone Confidence in the economic outlook rose to the highest level in more than two years this month... And the second report showed that German unemployment fell to its lowest level since November of 2008. (remember November 2008? It appeared the sky was about to fall, with credit default swaps imploding, and Lehman Bros. no more, etc., etc.)

So... Drum roll please... The euro is trading around 1.3085 this morning... But it's not just a euro story... We have the other "little dogs" joining the Big Dog in getting off the porch and chasing the dollar down the street. For instance, the Aussie dollar (A$) recovered from the blow of a soft CPI print, and went right back over 90-cents. And the Canadian dollar /loonie is back above 97-cents this morning... So... The rot on the U.S. economy's vine is being exposed for what it is, and suddenly Europe's problems don't look so bad any longer...

And Gold? Well, even with the recent trading theme of selling Gold when the euro rallies, is on hold this morning, with Gold rising a bit...

Yesterday, I talked to you about how Gold had gotten whacked by over $20 on Tuesday... Yesterday, I did some additional research and saw this piece on Ed Steer's newsletter on Gold and Silver... Here's Ed...

"Yesterday was options expiry in the over-the-counter market... and today is options expiry in the Comex futures market. So what are the odds that yesterday's take-down was engineered for the benefit of the bullion banks so that another big whack of call options would expire out-of-the-money? No odds at all dear reader, as what you saw yesterday was pure collusion on the part of the bullion banks... with the CFTC and your gold and silver companies looking the other way."

Now... I've told you for quite a few years that I believed that Gold and Silver prices were manipulated by the Big Boys... The list of people that believe that is growing by large numbers every day, but yet the CFTC (regulatory body) drags their feet... It disgusts me to no end...

While I'm disgusted, I might as well talk about our deficit... In our monthly newsletter to clients called: The Review & Focus, I call our deficit: An Inconvenient Debt...

Well, there's no lack of people screaming from the rooftops about our debt these days, I doubt there are more than a handful that have been screaming as long as I have... But yesterday it was the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) with this little ditty...

"Further increases in federal debt relative to the nation's output (gross domestic product, or GDP) almost certainly lie ahead if current policies remain in place. The aging of the population and rising costs for health care will push federal spending, measured as a percentage of GDP, well above the levels experienced in recent decades.
Unless policymakers restrain the growth of spending, increase revenues significantly as a share of GDP, or adopt some combination of those two approaches, growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels."

And to add to that... Bill Gross of PIMCO fame, has this to say about the deficit, "deficit spending by governments that seek to maintain artificial levels of consumption can be compared to flushing money down an economic toilet."

OK... Enough of that! Let's go back to the euro for a minute... You know what? The last time the euro was above 1.3050, was the morning that we found out that there would be a 1 Trillion euro Eurozone bailout... The date? May 10th...

The euphoria of that morning didn't last long, and soon the euro was losing ground again, every time a ratings agency announced a downgrade, or there was insurrection in the Eurozone streets... Shoot Rudy, just 2 weeks ago, the euro was 1.2585... As I said a week or so ago, the rise has been quite quick, and strong... That scares me a bit, as the markets always seem to get ahead of themselves too quickly, but... With the momentum shift in focus going to the U.S. these days, maybe the rise is warranted.

I'm one that believes that a euro above 1.30 doesn't do the Eurozone economy much good at this time... When the economy is roaring, sure a stronger euro helps fight inflation, but when the Eurozone economy needs exports to feed its economy, a stronger than 1.30 euro doesn't help...

I told quite a few people in Vancouver last week that I truly believed that until fundamentals creep back into the markets, I saw the euro range trading... Above 1.30, is outside the "range"... So... Watch for that, today...

Let's talk about something else... How about the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)? The RBNZ did, as we expected, raise rates 25 BPS last night, and they also did what I expected them to do, which was to talk dovish in their statement, thus watering down the affect the rate hike would have on kiwi. Without the RBNZ turning yellow belly, I suspect kiwi would be trading above 73-cents... So, thanks RBNZ... NOT!

And remember yesterday, and plenty of times in the past, when I told you that the RBNZ doesn't do kiwi any favors, attempting to talk down the currency every change they get... Well, here's the RBNZ Gov. Bollard who said, "The New Zealand dollar has appreciated in recent weeks. This appreciation is inconsistent with the softening in New Zealand's economic outlook and moderation in our export commodity prices."

Shame on you Mr. Bollard... If you don't like your currency, it will come back to haunt you one day, when you'll be begging for foreigners to buy the currency... And I hope they shove that statement and the others that you've made about kiwi in your face!

OK... Tomorrow, besides being a Friday, the Friday before my summer vacation begins, and a payday Friday, will also be a big day for economics here in the U.S. as the first print of 2nd QTR GDP will probably show that the U.S. economy grew at a pace that's not going to help the unemployment problem for sure... The forecast is for a 2.5% growth rate... My suspicion is that it would be between 2 and 2.5%, so, a little weaker than forecast. You can attribute that to me not wearing a rose colored moniker!

But, before we go there tomorrow, we have to deal with the usual fare on a Tub Thumpin' Thursday, and that is the Weekly Initial Jobless Claims, which continue to add over 400,000 newly unemployed each week... Last week it was 464,000, and this week is expected to be 460,000... OUCH! And the Continuing Claims, something that I keep an eye one but don't always talk about, is a very awful looking 4,500,000... UGH!

Then there was this... The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is billing an "investor round table" on mark-to-market accounting rules as a chance for investors and regulators to share their views. As it turns out, the only investors allowed to participate make up a small group invited by the government. Others won't even be allowed to listen in, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Yeah... Chuck here... I bet you can figure out who that "small group" is, right? Let's see... Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JP Morgan, (remember Goldman became a "bank" during the stimulus handouts)... Like these guys have any idea what it's like to be a "community bank" or even a small "regional bank"...

That's like lawmakers creating financial regulation. They aren't in the trenches, and anything they write won't take long before those that are in the trenches find loopholes. That would be just a plain, outright silly thing for lawmakers to do, right? Oh Wait! They already did that!

To recap... The currencies are in the middle of a strong rally led by the Big Dog Euro, who saw Eurozone Confidence rise, and unemployment in Germany fall this month. There seems to be a huge shift in what investors are focusing on, shifting from Europe to the U.S. and that's not good for dollars. The RBNZ did raise rates 25 BPS, and also talked down the currency, and Aussie dollars bounced back above 90-cents after falling to 8910-cents the day before due to a soft print of inflation

That fib 38.2 from all the move looks like a clean break today. There are still lots of numbers coming this week and there is still a slight chance to broke that line down again. I don't have any setups with current information but I do agree that 1.3230 look unavoidable (in my case 1.3248...+/- the same).

We'll see.

sisse

i bet on a nice 3 o'clock fade with a short from .3185 sl 3205 tp 3145

Another Pfenning reader I see

Chuck Butler is awesome.

it looks like it would going back to 1.3130 (there is the broken trendline from 07/16)

good trades