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COT chart for EURUSD

Very significant positioning of Commercials versus Funds... we tend to take this as a long term buy signal as we see such extremes.
Should we see such follow through negated, we would rverse the signal to be bearish for EURO.

GBPUSD ANALYSIS

This posted chart may have been my first mention of the possible “head and shoulder” for the weekly GBPUSD chart . It was a COT related chart (take a look) <>This was a chart dated 8-18-2011 <>

Has been a while

Here is a look at what a three Month chart(3 month candles) looks like for the AUDJPY pair. I produced it in MT4 with a period converter. I think this might be an additional tool for analysis. It sort of clears the view for certain things. Interesting view onto “fractals”.

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DOW Topping?

This chart has been looked over and created by me this morning as Bernanke has blown some air into the fire and then let it cool again.

I am watching this like a halk, and watching many other things e.g. Europe

EURUSD extremes

Commodity Futures <> EURUSD COT and Price Charts <> http://ow.ly/i/aXEK

Federal Budget

The Only Two Charts That Matter For The US, And A Q&A On The Fiscal “Debate” From Goldman Sachs

http://bit.ly/ebrUBc

PBS documents the evolution of our financial crisis over the past 20 years
In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1302794657

YIELDS

Just took this up to date snapshot of my “Yields” chart (EMU/UST) <> something in the bushes? Feels like it !!! This chart was done in MT4 and looks extremely heavy ahead of US central bank decision.

“Inside Job” - The Wall Street Horror Movie, For Free

“Inside Job” - The Wall Street Horror Movie, For Free

Hopefully watching or buying this film won’t be a pointless act, even though it can rightly feel that way. As Charles Ferguson reminded us during his Oscar acceptance speech, we are three years beyond the Wall Street crisis and taxpayers (you) got fleeced for billions. But still not one Wall Street exec is facing criminal charges. Welcome to your plutocracy…

http://bit.ly/hjWvq9

Brazil sees capital flows

Brazil sees capital flows as threat to stability

Brazil’s central bank defended efforts to erect barriers to foreign money, arguing a deluge of capital was pressuring inflation and threatening the stability of financial markets.

http://reut.rs/hndHee

US DOLLAR FLOWS TO WHERE IS VALUE

Dollar Flows into EEM <> STRONG !! Took this shot just now early Sunday here.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/unintended-consequences-2/

G7 Interventions to save the up markets <>

This slide (overlay chart) shows what Dollar flows did in the hours after the brutal central bank interventions by G7 nations. I was fascinated <>

http://bit.ly/ht2XEF <> Nuclear meltdown Japan <> Cooling failed

Effects of Japan earthquakes on economy (Kobe)

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets. -Peter Lynch

Kobe Earthquake’s Impact on the Nikkei and $/Yen

SPXA200R <> Great Indicator

Worth while to not forget about this chart. It will measure stocks above/below 200 MA. We are seeing momentum to the downside. Look at MACD and where the curve sits with the 50MA

Crude Oil Craze <> Fear over supply/ MENA

Here is a nice COT chart for WTI _CRUDE OIL. you can see that the longs are managed money and not hedgers. It looks like a bubble type situation.

China is quite large a country

Which countries match the GDP, population and exports of Chinese provinces?

http://www.economist.com/node/18233380

CANADIAN DOLLAR COT SIGNALS

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

Oil and The Dollar

The US Dollar has fallen across-the-board. While Ben Bernanke has insisted that the impact of higher energy prices on the US economy will be minimal, the markets are either taking the opposite view or are punishing the Dollar for the Fed’s dovishness. In other words, if Bernanke isn’t concerned about oil, he probably won’t cap QE2, and certainly won’t steer any interest rate hikes in the near-term.

CANADIAN DOLLAR VIEWED

Noting the COT index chart for the Canadian Dollar(bearish extremes) <>Ashraf was recommending EURCAD as a pair to trade <> http://ow.ly/i/8QFy