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Ashraf's Book: Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis

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How to Profit from the Shifting Currents in Global Markets

Wiley Trading Series - 2008

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Chapter 1 Gold and the Dollar

  • End of Bretton Woods System Marks Gold's Takeoff Fed Tightening and FX Interventions Rein in Gold Rally
  • Central Banks Gold Sale Agreements
  • Gold-USD Inverse Relation
  • Recent Exceptions to the Inverse Rule
  • Using Gold to Identify Currency Leaders and Laggards
  • Golds Secular Performance
  • Valuing Currencies via Gold
  • Golden Correlations
  • Dont Forget Falling Gold Production
  • Gold and Equities: Hard versus Monetary Assets
  • Gold-to-Equity Ratios
  • The Role of the Speculators
  • Gold Is Part of a Larger Story

Chapter 2 Oil Fundamentals in the Currency Market

  • From a Gold Standard to an Oil Standard (1970s-1980s)
  • Oil Glut and Price Collapse (1981-1986)
  • The Super Dollar of (1980-1984) The Worlds Third Oil Shock
  • World Intervenes against Strong Dollar (1985-1987)
  • Iraqs Invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War (1990-1991)
  • The Asian Crisis and OPECs Miscalculation (1997-1998)
  • Oil Thrives on World Growth, Dot-Com Boom (1999-2000)
  • Iraq War Fuels Oil Rally, Dollar Flounders, China Takes Over (2002 to Present)

Chapter 3 When the Dollar was King (1999-2001)

  • The Major Theories
  • Annual Performance Analysis of Individual Currencies

Chapter 4 The Dollar Bear Rises (2002-2007)

  • 2002: The Beginning of the Dollar Bear Market
  • 2003: Dollar Extends Damage, Commodity Currencies Soar
  • 2004: Global Recovery Boosts Currencies against U.S. Dollar
  • 2005: Commodities Soar alongside Dollar, Carry Trades Emerge
  • 2006: Dollar Vulnerable as Fed Ends Two-Year Tightening
  • 2007: Record Oil Boosts Loonie, Helpless Fed Hits Greenback
  • Lessons Learned

Chapter 5 Risk Appetite in the Markets

  • Carry Trades in Foreign Exchange
  • Using Risk Appetite to Gauge FX Flows
  • The VIX
  • Futures Flows
  • Corporate Bond Spreads
  • Tying It All Altogether: 1999-2007

Chapter 6 Reading the Fed via Yield Curves, Equities, and Commodities

  • Yield Curves and the Economy
  • Types of Yield Curves
  • Rationale of Inverted Yield Curve Implications
  • Effectiveness of Yield Curve Signals Implications
  • Greenspans Conundrum Proved Bernankes Problem
  • Implications for Growth, Stocks, and Currencies
  • Tying Interest Rates to the Gold-Oil Ratio

Chapter 7 U.S. Imbalances, FX Reserve Diversification, and the U.S. Dollar

  • The U.S. Twin Deficits
  • U.S. Current Account Deficit: Old Problem, New Challenges
  • Adding the Budget Balance to the Mix
  • Financing the Deficits: The Path to Unsustainability?
  • Dissecting U.S.-Bound Foreign Capital Flows
  • U.S. Stocks and Bonds Vie for Foreign Money
  • Capital Flows Shift Identities
  • Foreign Direct Investment and M&As
  • How Long Will Foreign Capital Be Available on the Cheap?
  • Dont Ignore U.S. Investors Flows Abroad
  • Currency Reserve Diversification: OPEC and the Middle East
  • Further Currency Diversification Is Inevitable
  • The View Ahead

Chapter 8 Commodities Super Cycles and Currencies

  • The Current Commodity Cycle versus Previous Cycles
  • Dissecting Commodity Classes
  • Commodities and their Currencies
  • Developing World to Maintain Ripe Outlook for Food and Grains
  • Energy Efficiency Not Enough to Halt High Oil
  • Copper and Gold to Shine on Long Term Fundamentals
  • Commanding Heights or Common Bubbles?

Chapter 9 Selected Topics in Foreign Exchange

  • Revisiting Yield Curves
  • Is Dollar Stability a Necessity?
  • How Far Will Commodities Outstrip Equities?
  • U.S. Politics and the U.S. Dollar

 
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London, UK

May 16, 2012 10:52 ET
Speaking at next Thursday's Active Trader event in London

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Ashraf
saint germain, France

May 14, 2012 15:55 ET
Member since Nov 2010
ashraf

for the summer seasons how do u foresee the muni market with the curve of the ten with yield rising and the probable krach that eveyone talked about . ScAry movie.
do u think midwest will be more affected than east coast and y which states.
saint germain, France

May 14, 2012 15:41 ET
Member since Nov 2010
so JPM, the prelude of the pre war corporate and federal county municipal bonds.

interesting the head of abarclays global corporate and m&a
London, UK

May 10, 2012 13:21 ET
My videos from the March London Expo on my favourite commodity currency and why

http://www.moneyshow.com/video/video.asp?wid=8317&t=3&scode=027664

On that Trifecta USD vs Socks

http://www.moneyshow.com/video/video.asp?wid=8316&t=3&scode=027664

Ashraf
London, UK

April 30, 2012 02:54 ET
My CNBC Interview earlier today on Spain's Bad Bank Proposal & what do markets really care about

http://youtu.be/LiPyvYzKzY8

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London, UK

April 23, 2012 06:43 ET
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London, UK

April 18, 2012 09:29 ET
My take on FT's Video with John Authers

http://video.ft.com/v/1568274853001/Another-cruel-April-

Ashraf
N.Cornwall, UK

February 27, 2012 06:20 ET
Member since Jan 2010
I agree Olivier and such sales garbage posted in this forum is an insult to our intelligence :-)
London, UK

February 27, 2012 04:16 ET
Member since May 2011
Hey Jemsy,
If your robot is soooooo good (very low drawdown and excellent returns) then why are you going through all the hassle of finding affiliates and selling it?
If I had a robot that was sooooooo good this is what I would do:
1) I would keep it for myself and I would keep quiet about it.
2) I would trade it myself with ever increasing lot size and I would make an easy fortune just like that.
You know it's much easier to go 'click-buy' then later go 'click-sell' and make money that way rather than going through all the hassle of finding resellers for your product.

Unless of course your robot is not THAT good lol
And for anyone not familiar with Metatrader, it is very very very easy to make live/demo statements say whatever you want and make any robot/indicator look like it is the holly grail.

You've been warned.
China

February 9, 2012 21:25 ET
Member since Jan 2010
Dave
thanks. What a pity I don't have the chance

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