Should we be looking at the ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)?

The feds have completely failed. The figures we reported last week showed that the recovery efforts had totally washed up. Each job created by quantitative easing, for example, cost more than $800,000.

Will the broader market return to strength this week?

The continuing weak economic data coming out of the US is actually supportive of higher equity prices, and the S&P 500 futures have made quite significant progress since the close of North American trading last Friday.

This week we look at what seems to be European leaders taking random walks through the minefield at the very heart of the European Experiment.

Like almost every action in life where chance plays a role, trading is subject to luck, but traders should never let a string of bad luck trades affect overall strategy.

Allowed to persist, novelty becomes familiarity.  Pretty soon, people begin to think that the extraordinary is normal.

When all else is equal, the US dollar will fall. This is a direct fundamental link to current risk appetite trends where balanced markets encourage investors to seek out assets with higher return.

The euro staged a key technical breakout against the US dollar, rallying despite continued fears over Greek fiscal solvency and threats to the euro zone.

The yen fought back against the U.S. dollar this week, gaining a shade over 1.00 percent, as the currency fell below the 81.00 exchange rate once again.