The Japan Ministry of Finance just released the trading balance data for the month of January. Exports plunged by more than 45% yoy while Imports dropped about 32% leaving a negative trade balance of ¥ 1 trillion following a trade deficit in each of the...

Last week felt more like a déjà-vue for the market with no investors willing to bet against the downward trend seen the past few weeks . Most major indices broke their support level and are testing uncharted territory. Ok, maybe not uncharted but levels...

The Bank Of Japan (Japanese Central Bank) just released its report from the Policy Meeting that took place on January 21 and 22, 2009. The Minutes do not bring any new information or new set of actions but it gives a good overview of the different actions...

I think it is time for me to make few changes in my portfolio. Unfortunately I had to go thru few profit warnings during the earning season: Toshiba and T&D Holding had terrible performances over the past few months. As much as I expected the two stocks...

For an investor, the goal is to find a “Martingale” (French word for risk free winning strategy) that would make him rich. In the financial markets, it is defined by the discovery of a leader indicator that would give good entry and exit signals and prevent...

Last week was a big disappointment to me. My portfolio’s behaviour entering Friday’s trading was just perfect as I was beating the market by more than a 1% on the week. Friday’s trading day swept away all my hopes of over performing the Nikkei225 on the...

What is going on again with Japan politicians? Once again one of Japan Top Minister resigned from his position. It has been another of many incidents the Japanese government faced over the past two years. Last weekend, at the G7 meeting, Japan Finance...

What a disappointing week once again. World markets fell in the red last week erasing gains from the previous two weeks. The Dow Jones had its lowest weekly close since 2003. On the week the Dow Jones fell almost 5% while the Nikkei225 only lost 3,7%....

Today I am going to take another look at charts of the Dow, the Dow Transport and the Nikkei 225 . It has been almost two months since I last gave you my opinion on the market from Technical Analysis stand point. At the beginning of 2009 (see Technical...

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