Articles for: Japan

I’m not a computer programmer by any stretch of the imagination. I have no plans to become a computer programmer either!

Last week I examined the performance of the Japanese market over the past 20 years and claimed that although the major indices have declined by around 69% in that time, the experience for long term investors would be substantially better provided even the most basic of principles were applied.

They say that one should always avoid speaking of politics and religion in polite conversation.

I’m writing this article on Wednesday and the Dow Jones has fallen 381 points overnight. In these days 381 points doesn’t sound like much, but with the DOW trading around the 8000 level it did represent a 4.5% drop.

Have you ever “fiddled” with a trade and then looked back later and wished that you hadn’t? So often we can get impatient with the market, expecting our move to happen today!

Trading around Christmas time generally gives you one of two scenarios.

If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a trading cliché, I could probably bail out the US Financial System myself!

In my article last week I looked at a potential setup for a short trade on the US Dollar/Japanese Yen currency pair (FXUSJY in ProfitSource).

The US Dollar has shown some strength over the past month, making strong gains against all the major currency pairs.

Double Tops and Double Bottoms are one of the most commonly recognized patterns in technical analysis.