I have received a number of requests for my Currency Checklist excel spreadsheet which I fill out every morning before I trade (admittedly some of them are linked to real time feeds and are automatically filled out) but here it is!

This is the same Currency Pair Checklist shown in Chapter 8 of Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market

What Does Mechanical Investing Mean? By Investopedia

Last week's rally has drawn markets back into the middle of their trading ranges, but there is an opportunity for the S&P and Nasdaq 100 to finish next week with a MACD trigger 'Buy'.

In the S&P, until 1,129 breaks it's hard to see the post-April trading range going anywhere and volume will need to pick up. Stochastics are in no-mans-land, the recent decline failed to push either short or long term stochastics into oversold territory - has this rally come a little early?

Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns Now and Abnormal Returns Classic for the week ended Friday, September 3rd.  Where applicable the description is as it reads in the relevant linkfest.

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Yesterday’s ISM Manufacturing data took many market participants by surprise.  In today’s screencast we note that maybe this should not have been that big of surprise.  Signs that the US manufacturing economy is continuing to expand strikes many as odd given the overall gloom about the US economy.  Todd Sullivan at ValuePlays has been consistent in noting the many signs that US economy is