Good Morning,

First off, thanks to all who made the webinar full of great content. As I said, the more you participate with questions, the better it gets as we can cover more ancillary topics. If I didn't get to your question, feel free to get in touch with via email or on the IBFX Connect Site at "thelocalstake"...

Good Morning,

Fundamentally, there haven't been a lot of fireworks (news) which is keeping equities bid given the central bank agreement to strengthen equities. The news also keeps overall volatility low (see last week's post on the VIX). We do have speakers and data ahead, but as I have mentioned many times, the Fed is taking the excitement out of these releases.

Good Morning,

You may be asking what "IT" is. "IT" is a few things.

One "it" would be volatility. The longer that governments stay involved in the markets, the longer volatility will stay at the lower end. There may be spikes here and ther, but overall, if equities stay bullish to neutral, there is no way the VIX can rise and there is no way that there will be intraday opportunities like there would be in normal trading markets without government interference....

Good Morning,

The Fed came out with their "new" transparency statement. I am not sure how much more transparency we need then them saying "through the end of 2014". OK, so the definition of transparency is telling us far in advance what they intend to do. So they can't go back on their word regarding interest rate changes through 2014. That means we just received 3 whole years of transparency relating to LOW interest rates, subdued growth, unemployment and a "muddling" economy...

Good Morning,

I was updating the IBFX social site and my "thelocalstake" posting and stressed how inter-market relationships can get you into trades early.

Before I get to it, fundamentally, we have a slew of data, including the FOMC. Remember, there "new" transparency operating stance. By the way, they said they wanted to be more transparent back in 2000-2003. Are they now going to tell us that they get data well before us and that is why they make the decisions that they do?