In addition to looking at fundamentals and sentiment, there is another force at work in the markets, and that is the central banks. They have significant power to move markets, at least temporarily. They most often “jawbone”, or talk about what they want, or what is right, or what they might do. Less often, because [...]

After 50 years of domination by the LDP, the minority DPJ party finally gains control in Japan. The party claims big changes to Japan, and the market reacted by punishing stocks and rewarding Japanese Yen. USD/JPY has weakened to the 93 figure as of this writing. Among the bigger promises are reduced spending and a [...]

                 At the Gestalt Shift, we look for imbalances and then signs that a shift is occurring so that we can catch the bigger, liquid moves in the currency market. A couple points of wisdom that form the core of our profitable trading methodology are the following: 1) The FX market is a zero-sum game, [...]