Weaker Currency Means More Valuable Cryptocurrency If there wasn’t enough to drive the price of Bitcoin higher another catalysts for rising prices is emerging; easy money policy. Central banks around the world are gearing up to issue economic stimulus in an attempt to stave off the growth-slowing effects of the U.S./China trade war. Over the […]
The S&P 500 Is On The Brink Of Major Collapse The S&P 500 is going to move much, much lower. The broad market index has been pushed to it’s breaking point and frankly, I think the cracks are already showing. The underlying fundamental conditions remain positive, it’s not like we’re in a recession, but the […]
The Dollar Is Set To Move Lower, FOMC Outlook Dovish The Dollar Index is set to move lower. Last week the daily chart candles broke through support at the top of a previous trading range. This week the index is already confirming resistance at that level and the indications are bearish. Driving the move is […]
Bitcoin, It’s About To Have A Major Rally Cryptocurrency market has been languishing over the last two months. The rally driven by Litecoin’s halvening petered out in mid-June and just never got is impetus back. That is, for most cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin. While Litecoin, Ethereum, and Ripple have been testing for support and bobbing along […]
The Trade War Escalates Over the course of the last week the dollar has shot to a new high, hit resistance, and fallen back to support. The move was driven by data, shifting FOMC policy outlook, the FOMC statement, and now, escalating trade war conditions. What we have for certain is a dollar with increasing […]
The Bitcoin Bull – It’s Ba-aaaack… The Bitcoin bull market of 2019 has been sleeping. The mighty beast set a high earlier this year and the effort wore it out. The high is just shy of $14,000, the move more than six months in the making, so it is no wonder the market needed to […]
The FOMC Is Set To Cut Rates The FOMC is set to cut rates this week but traders should not expect the dollar to fall. While rate cuts are typically a currency-weakening event this cut is compounded by misplaced expectations and offset by dovishness from other central banks. The risk for traders is two-fold. First, […]
Bitcoin Bottoming Action Points To Big Gains Ahead The cryptocurrency market correction is a month old now and beginning to look like upward pressure is coming back. The correction wiped 25% off the value of BTC/USD which isn’t much, not in relation to past corrections. The good news is that bottoming is becoming evident within […]
The FOMC Is On Tap The FOMC is going to be a mega-market mover next week when it decides to cut rates, or not. The market has a lot of expectations built into the meeting and one of them is aggressive rate cuts, as many as three by the end of the year. In my […]
Ethereum Upgrade May Not Be Forthcoming The entire cryptocurrency market entered a correction in tandem with Washington’s probe of Facebook’s Libra plans. While Libra is not that important in the grand scheme of things it is a catalyst for selling the market has acted on. No where is this correction more evident than with Ethereum, […]