Trading University Daily

Tomorrow Jay Norris will be hosting a free webinar at 3:30 PM CST, where he introduces and demonstrates the use of his proprietory Directional Lines to identify and measure trends. He will demonstrate how this simple tactic is used for higher time frame confirmation, how to guage a markets strength and weakness, how to categorize markets based on trend, and how [...]

Daily Forex Report for 4/20/10  Click here to view Jay’s Daily Forex Report for 4/20 where he covers 13 live markets and talks about the importance of tracking and understanding USDJPY.  http://www.forextv.com/Forex/Video/Video.php?bcpid=72130734001&bclid=72066595001&bctid=79090450001 Teresa Bell www.trading-u.com DISCLAIMER: Forex (off-exchange foreign currency futures and options or FX) trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for [...]

Daily Forex Report for 3/25/10  Click here to view Jay’s Daily Forex Report for 3/25 where he covers 13 live markets and talks about doing your homework. http://www.forextv.com/Forex/Video/Video.php?bcpid=72130734001&bclid=72066595001&bctid=73857928001 Teresa Bell www.trading-u.com DISCLAIMER: Forex (off-exchange foreign currency futures and options or FX) trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Risks include [...]

What a difference a month makes. Our Trend-Map which, records the short-term trend on the listed time frames, is showing us a completely different picture then when we came into December 2009. As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words”.   Jay Norris www.trading-u.com DISCLAIMER: Forex (off-exchange foreign currency futures and options or FX) trading involves [...]

Divergence between GBPJPY and the S&P 500 Continues into September We can see on the TrendMap below that the Weekly and Daily trends for GBPJPY remain lower while the same two trends in the S&P’s — bottom line ES 09-09–are pointed higher. The TrendMap is a trading tool so it is sensitive. We might get a more understandable comparison by looking [...]

I’m a big believer that you need to know how to trend trade first and foremost. But by definition of a trend trade you need to know what a counter-trend is also.  A trend trade is a trade taken in the same direction of the next higher time frame, and a counter-trend trade is one taken [...]