As the Senate winds down with their plan to further destroy our economy with healthcare reform, they have thrown away any semblance of transparency or desire to actually reform healthcare. The pressure is turned up for every day that we get closer to Christmas. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid desires to pass any bill, whatever [...]

Today was the release of US Core Retail Sales. I decided to test trading both the mini-S&P and also the Japanese Yen Futures. We set up an autoclick program to buy or sell depending on the deviation. Core Retail Sales was expected at 0.5% but came in at 1.2% causing the YEN futures contract to [...]

President Barack Obama and Democratic Congressional leaders have hypocritically promised since taken office in January that are going to be “deficit hawks”. We have not even reached the one-year anniversary of the Inauguration and the same Democratic leaders are raising the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion. The national debt is already nearing $12.1 trillion and [...]

Today was the release of Non-Farm Employment Change and Unemployment Rate. We set up an autoclick program to buy or sell depending on the deviations of both numbers. Employment Change was expected at -119K but came in at -11K causing the E-Mini S&P futures contract to shoot up. Since I was STILL a bit gun [...]

Today was the release of Canadian Employment Change and Unemployment Rate. We set up an autoclick program to buy or sell depending on the deviations of both numbers. Employment Change was expected at 15.3K but came in at 79.1K causing the CAD futures contract to shoot up. Since I was a bit gun shy today, [...]