Here at Day Trading Academy (DTA), we provide a weekly review of markets and geopolitical events. Below you will find our most recent updates.
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The United States outwardly seems to have recovered from the financial and banking crisis of 2008. Investors are once again finding the country a better alternative, than most other places in the world. The United States dollar is at a five year high and the stock market is continuing to hit all time record advances. The American economy supposedly grew by 3.5% in the third quarter and employment increased by 321,000, in the month of November. The official unemployment rate is now […]
So that just happened. No it wasn’t that China just surpassed the United States as the largest economy in the world. No, the best day of December just graced us with its presence. The reason the volatility spiked is because of the overnight session where everything was crashing it seemed. Surely that brought selling pressure over to the US markets causing a micro retracement on the daily chart and a huge run to the downside in the overnight session. One of the […]
International investors so far have seemed to have taken the news in stride. Sometime during this year an event occurred that some Americans feared would eventually happen for the last decade or more. The Chinese economy became the largest in the world. For the first time since 1872, the United States no longer possesses the number one position in the global economy. It was in the 19th century that the United States passed the United Kingdom as the world’s largest economy. As […]
Investors in gold saw prices plunge below the cost of production in November. For producers in the United States this averages $1200 USD (United States Dollar) per ounce from extraction, to the metal sold at the exchanges. Prices are now back above this benchmark. This was the result from a series of news events, as well as the market forces that will increasingly come into play beginning in 2015. The charade of paper gold is nearing the end of its viability. Consumers […]
The day in the life of a trader brings us from Cartagena, Colombia, all the way to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one thing to be able to travel around the world on your own. It is something completely different when you are able to travel with your friends and family. The Day Trading Academy family. Click here to watch the video on YouTube. This was a very special trip for me, because I was able to travel with a few […]
It is my pleasure to present the managed accounts team at The Day Trading Academy. Over the course of the last year we have been creating and developing our day trading centers around the world. For those of you that are new to the site you may not know about our new Colombian Trading Center. We recently hosted our first MTU, Military Training University, where we were trading live alongside many of our student traders. Luckily we were trading during one of […]
Investors looking for a new frontier of opportunity might want to consider Kazakhstan. The country has the largest and most productive economy in Central Asia. Gaining independence in 1991, the nation of Kazakhstan is strategically located between Asian and European business centers. The Kazakhs have the additional advantage, of having a close geographic proximity to 3 out of 4 of the BRIC countries. Russia, India and China are all in the neighborhood, for purposes of trade and the marketing of goods. This […]
The markets so far this year have been quite volatile. With so much uncertainty in the global markets movement and chaos around the world we have been seeing excellent movement. The recent Swiss vote on gold also spiked the markets as well and sent Gold, Silver, and many other commodities collapsing. They may recover during trading tomorrow but wanted to share these open live positions since our managed accounts team is up over $20,000 so far today. It’s Sunday 12.30am EST. The markets […]
The investors and economies of the European Union are in the doldrums. Of the major economic powers, France teeters on the brink of recession and Italy already has entered one. Germany’s economy, the normal engine for growth in Europe has now stalled. Spain is sputtering and the United Kingdom although growing, is heading into headwinds that will make growth difficult in 2015. The ECB (European Central Bank) has taken interest rates to as low as they can go. At 0.05%, there is […]
Investors will now see the Chinese stock market recover some momentum, as the central government decided to reduce interest rates effective November 22nd. It is an attempt to encourage the domestic economy to pick up some strength, as world growth rates continue to decline elsewhere. This is the first time since 2012, that China has reduced borrowing rates. The hope is to prevent 2014, from being the slowest economy since the 2009 banking crisis. The benchmark one year rate will be reduced […]
