I've had a lot of stuff on lately and not been able to commit myself to the markets as much as I would have liked. However, I did have some time today and was able to take a simple bounce off the Daily Pivot on the Euro (EURUSD) currency pair. My target was yesterdays high at 13117 and I actually got out at 13115. A simple trade which got me 20 pips!
The markets had fallen hard the last couple of days and I thought that they would have fallen a lot more but yesterday, the markets found some support. This pattern was seen across the DOW, FTSE and other currency pairs. I knew that a lot of people were expecting the markets to tank completely but having a whole day where it consolidated presented an opportunity in my opinion. The markets would either rally or drop like a stone and I expected whatever happened the market would have moved str
When looking back from future decades, 2011 may well prove to be the year that saw a fundamental shift in the global economy. The Eurozone crisis, an ever present on our front pages that is not yet resolved at the time of writing has shaken the world financial system to its core. At the same time, US politicians have engineered astonishing crises out of nothing which has seen their country's debt downgraded for the first time in history. It has not been an easy year for foreign investment. St
