Just a quick note to let those who might be interested know that Dustin Pass and myself will be doing a webinar this evening in which we will be talking about Forex Training.  He is the registration info for any of you who wish to join us. 

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/149794221

One of the most basic things about trading is support and resistance.  Yet many do not fully understand how to find what is a “good” or “true” support or resist level.  I will attempt to clear this up once and for all.  The chart above is a current daily chart of the Eur/USD on it you can see a red line that i drew to indicate where the strongest level of support is.  So how was able to find that?  Simply by finding what the last most significant resistance level is.  And that is the “secret”  Real support was formally a resistance level and real resistance was formally a support level.  This works in all markets and timeframes but is most relevant on the Daily time frame.  The only exception is if it is making an all time new high or low.  So if you want to find support look for resistance and if you want to find resistance look for support.  Feel free to email me directly at derekf@forextradersdaily.com if you have questions.   

What can i say about Trichet other than it is breath of fresh air to have at least one central banker in the world who is both not afraid to speak his mind and does it very clearly too boot!  Trichet has told us exactly what he intends to do in the near future which is NOTHING!  So he is telling us that he is done moving rates in any direction in the near term.  What a wise man!  This will effectively put a bottom in on the EURO for the near term.  In my recent posts I mentioned that we are looking for the Dollar to begin weakening again and this is the Fundamental catalyst that will facilitate this next wave down in the Dollar.  This will not be a one way street of course, it never is, but overall we expect that the Euro will hold above the 1.25 level.  We continue to buy major dips in most of the majors against the Dollar.  Even though the US has rates at zero we can still go lower!  How you ask?  The same way we got here in the first place…simply by printing more money!  While rate will not actually go below zero the effective rate can and as it does we will see the Euro continue to appreciate against the Dollar.   

Hello again everyone.  I just wanted to do a quick post and alert you to the fact that my models are indicating a high probability that the Dollar strength we have seen post NFP is waning already and could turn lower again this week.  We are exiting any remaining long Dollars, with the exception being the USD/JPY pair, and beginning to look at short Dollar trades against the majors.  Lots of reports still to come out this week so lots of data for the markets to digest.  

Well all i can say about 2008 is thank goodness it is over.  2009 should shape up as another wild one.  We expect to see a lot of volatility on the back of this weeks NFP report and that volatility will likely carry through the inauguration of Obama.  Then he has his 100 days and we will see how the markets react to all of “fixes”.  Republicans will try and pretend that they are fiscally responsible which is just a ridiculous joke but it is the hand they intend to play so we are likely to see them tying to stone wall any rescue packages and Obama may end up being lucky to get 10 days let alone the traditional 100.  The Battle has just begun so strap yourself in and get ready for some fireworks!