2020

[Video] Silver heading to $19?

After its vicious falls during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, silver’s recovery has been remarkable. Demand concerns were initially replaced by supply worries, causing prices to bounce back, before the rally took hold on easing of lockdown measures alleviating some of these concerns. Giving silver an additional boost has been the actions of governments […]

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Will gold hold THIS pivotal level?

Gold has been stuck in an ugly range for several weeks now. But more recently, the pressure has been growing for a downside breakdown as stocks surged on lockdown easing hopes and amid central bank support. Today, the metal was testing a key support level, and traders were wondering whether support will hold given the

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S&P at potential resistance after last week’s inverted hammer

Last week all the major indices created inverted hammer candles like this on the S&P 500: If you look at Nasdaq, DAX, Russell you will see similar setups. So, IF those were the bearish reversal candles and after this week’s bounce back into resistance range, then we should be looking for bearish setups. The SPX

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[Video] S&P 500 arrives at KEY technical area after strong recovery

Thanks to the actions of governments and central banks in response to coronavirus outbreak, investors have been piling into equities over the past several weeks despite the global economy being in a standstill. The rebound has been remarkable. The big question is what’s going to happen next: a continuation higher (to a new all-time high?)

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Crude oil likely bottomed amid OPEC+ historic deal

Crude oil prices jumped 5% at the Asian open then fell around 2-3% in the immediate reaction to the OPEC+’s historic decision to cut oil output by 9.7 million barrels a day, just shy of the initial proposal of 10 million bpd. Though the reaction hasn’t been great, I think crude prices will likely climb

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Risk ON

Things have settled down with global stock indices extending their advance following Monday’s big upsurge and risk-sensitive currencies are also pushing higher. Investors are betting that the coronavirus outbreak may have peaked and are ignoring the economic slump that we are in. They are hoping that with the death rate falling in parts of the

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Discretionary trades before/after March 2020

Here are the before and after charts of the trade signals for March 2020 in the Discretionary trade signals group on Telegram. USD/CAD Long Issued: 2nd March Closed USD/CAD long essentially at break-even (a few pips profit) after the Fed’s unexpected rate cut. In hindsight, this trade would have worked beautifully if we kept it

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