For decades, big-time traders and institutions enjoyed unique access to a market that was off limits to everyday Americans like you and me. Even European investors could play this market racking up big gains while their American counterparts were stuck on the sidelines.
But that all changed in 2007, when a ...read more
A New Look at Currency Correlations
May 4th, 2012 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
As you know, I’m a big believer in studying intermarket correlations — how the prices of two different things interact with each other.
If you can find patterns, you can make predictions.
And with predictions, you can make winning trades...
The trick, however, is to understand that correlations can change. This is one ...read more
Three Ways to Score Big Using Sentiment Analysis
Mar 29th, 2012 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Earlier this week I showed you how I use sentiment analysis to track the emotion of the market each week.
Today I want to share with you the three strategies I use when choosing my currency plays every Monday morning for my premium readers.
All three of these strategies revolve around the ...read more
This Powerful Tool Trumps Traditional Analysis
Mar 27th, 2012 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
If you’ve been trading awhile, you probably know there are two main forms of investment analysis — fundamental and technical.
Fundamental analysis digs into a company’s balance sheet, looking for clues to how much a stock is worth... and how much it could be worth.
What comes out is an alphabet soup ...read more
Currency In Focus: Trading Opportunities on the Horizon
Dec 16th, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Most of my weekly binary recommendations to my elite Strategic Currency Trader revolve around how the latest news will affect currencies, stock indexes or commodities. But it’s important to remember that there are other important intermarket relationships — ones that operate on longer-term scales and are easy to overlook...
For instance, ...read more
Collect Weekly Profits From Market Chaos…
Dec 1st, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Today I want to review one of the primary strategies I use week-in and week-out in my hunt for profits with binary options. It’s been fairly successful, delivering gains of 41%, 70% and 94% over the past few months alone to my Strategic Currency Trader readers...
But first, it’s important to ...read more
Word Clouds of the Gathering Debt Storm
Oct 25th, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Europe’s ongoing debt problems are once again proving that traditional market analysis alone isn’t able to deal with new market realities.
As you know, last Monday morning saw cautious optimism pushing Germany’s DAX index higher. Then Tuesday, it reversed direction when German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the upcoming European summit ...read more
Measure and Invest in Market Fear With a Smile
Oct 17th, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Last week I covered one of the important tools I use, parabolic patterns. Today, I would like to cover volatility and how you can use it for binary profits.
Surge-and-sell market turbulence can be translated into a quantifiable property known as volatility. Once we “map” volatility, we can trade it more ...read more
Currency In Focus: Analyzing and Trading Fear
Oct 11th, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Currency, Featured, Investing Strategies
Did you see the cover of The Economist last week?
Inside a picture of a black hole is printed, “Until politicians actually do something about the world economy... BE AFRAID.”
Wow! When a theme makes it to a magazine cover, it can be considered a strong sentiment event. Fear has become so ...read more
Currency in Focus: The Biggest Movers in the Currency World
Sep 19th, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Currency, Featured, Investing Strategies
Last week I reviewed the fact that big moves in markets are a “new normal” for investors to consider. As my research proved, one-week moves happen frequently, making weekly binaries perfect instruments to play them.
The first installment covered some big commodities and indexes. Today I’ll apply that lens to currencies, ...read more

