Slow Trading: Indicators & Forex

• February gold tips back into bull phase, but without conviction.

Changes: EUR/USD, USD/JPY tracking replaced by the Powershares DB U.S. Dollar Index exchange-traded fund, which tracks the U.S. dollar against a basket of currencies. The EUR/USD and USD/JPY currency pairs will continue to be covered in my daily Forex postings.

Indicators and Forex from the monthly charts.

My holdings are marked with an asterisk (*). Signal dates are the first day of week in which the signal appeared. Slow trade holdings are listed separately, at the ending of this posting.



Indicators

Stocks and Rates

	phase		pfe	pps	trend
SPY
QQQQ
VIX
TLT
JNK

Tangibles

	phase		pfe	pps	trend
USO
GLD

Global

	phase		pfe	pps	trend
UUP
EEM

Forex

	phase		pfe	pps	trend
EUR/USD
AUD/USD
USD/CAD
USD/JPY
GBP/CHF
GBP/USD
EUR/JPY
AUD/JPY
USD/CHF
NZD/USD
USD/MXN

Table Abbreviations:

• pfe - Location of the polarized fractal efficiency line.
• pps - Person's Proprietary Signal mode.
• trend - Trend of the polarized fractal efficiency line.

Key to the PPS/PFE tables

column	color	meaning
phase		bull phase
		bear phase
pfe		+100 and above
		+50 to below 100
		0 to below +50
		below 0 to above -50
		-50 to above -100
		below -100
pps		bull confirmation
		bear confirmation
trend		uptrend
		no trend
		downtrend

More on the PFE/PPS analysis

Read a detailed explanation of the analytical tools and how they’re used, including trading rules.

Disclaimer

Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the analysis and trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.


No trader is ever 100 percent successful in his or her trades. Trading in the stock and option markets is risky and uncertain. Each trader must make trading decision decisions for his or her own account, and take responsibility for the consequences.