Sam Seiden
Independent Analyst
Summary
Sam began his career on the institution side of the business, facilitating order flow from banks, money managers, hedge funds, and more. Today, Sam is responsible for Online Trading Academy's patented market timing strategy that is the key to High Frequency Trading. It's no secret that banks and financial Institutions are very profitable in the world of short term trading. On the other side, retail short term traders produce either minimal profits or lose. Conventional High Frequency Trading is the use of computer algorithms to rapidly trade financial instruments. Institutions use High Frequency Trading almost exclusively for market-making and arbitrage trading. While this type of trading has been dominated by major banks and institutions, proper High Frequency Trading offers retail traders opportunity for short term income as well. The key to successful High Frequency Trading is having a simple rule based strategy that allows you to objectively determine market turning points and market moves in advance with a very high degree of accuracy. During this session, Sam will share the logic and High Frequency Trading rules to help you understand and properly execute.Latest Live Videos
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EUR/USD treads water just above 1.0400 post-US data
Another sign of the good health of the US economy came in response to firm flash US Manufacturing and Services PMIs, which in turn reinforced further the already strong performance of the US Dollar, relegating EUR/USD to the 1.0400 neighbourhood on Friday.
GBP/USD remains depressed near 1.2520 on stronger Dollar
Poor results from the UK docket kept the British pound on the back foot on Thursday, hovering around the low-1.2500s in a context of generalized weakness in the risk-linked galaxy vs. another outstanding day in the Greenback.
Gold keeps the bid bias unchanged near $2,700
Persistent safe haven demand continues to prop up the march north in Gold prices so far on Friday, hitting new two-week tops past the key $2,700 mark per troy ounce despite extra strength in the Greenback and mixed US yields.
Geopolitics back on the radar
Rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine caused renewed unease in the markets this week. Putin signed an amendment to Russian nuclear doctrine, which allows Russia to use nuclear weapons for retaliating against strikes carried out with conventional weapons.
Eurozone PMI sounds the alarm about growth once more
The composite PMI dropped from 50 to 48.1, once more stressing growth concerns for the eurozone. Hard data has actually come in better than expected recently – so ahead of the December meeting, the ECB has to figure out whether this is the PMI crying wolf or whether it should take this signal seriously. We think it’s the latter.
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