{"id":20313,"date":"2022-11-03T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=20313"},"modified":"2022-11-03T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:30:12","slug":"currency-war-is-changing-the-way-we-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/currency-war-is-changing-the-way-we-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Currency War Is Changing the Way We Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I attended the MoneyShow in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The MoneyShow is a popular investment conference packed with some of the industry&rsquo;s biggest names.<\/p>\n<p>Among the speakers were Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar, and Steve Forbes the chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media.<\/p>\n<p>Money managers, retail investors, and traders will all come to the MoneyShow to find out what the world&rsquo;s leading experts think is going to happen with the economy and the markets.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the keynote speakers, the MoneyShow has several different presentations all going on at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&rsquo;t the presentations themselves that I was interested in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it wasn&rsquo;t even the keynote speakers that drew me to the MoneyShow in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The real reason I wanted to go was to sit back and observe&hellip; and see if there were any clear trends in terms of what the attendees wanted to hear more about.<\/p>\n<p>I assumed that folks would flock to talks about the economy and the Fed.<\/p>\n<p>And while there was a bit of interest there, most of the attention seemed to be on trading presentations.<\/p>\n<p>There were several speakers that focused on income-generating trading strategies. Many of their rooms were almost full.<\/p>\n<p>But one presentation was completely full.<\/p>\n<p>All the seats were taken&hellip; and even more people were lining up to try and get in.<\/p>\n<p>I was shocked when I found out the presentation was about forex.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been trading forex for a very long time and the truth is that it&rsquo;s never been as popular as trading stocks.<\/p>\n<p>But it looks like that&rsquo;s about to change&hellip;<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; margin-bottom:20px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 15px;padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 15px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px; line-height:24px;\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Free Trading Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px\">Have you checked out Jeff&#8217;s free trading resources on his website? It contains a selection of special reports, training videos, and a full trading glossary to help kickstart your trading career \u2013 at zero cost to you. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to check it out.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Fed has brought about the biggest shift in monetary policy we&rsquo;ve seen in over 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>A new war is here, and most people don&rsquo;t even know it.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of drones, cyberattacks and missiles, the battleground is money.<\/p>\n<p>Countries around the world are desperately trying to protect their own currencies against a surging dollar.<\/p>\n<p>What happens over the next several years will change money as we know it today.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if that means cryptocurrencies are going to be at the front of a new money regime, or if the dollar will maintain its status as the reserve currency of the world&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>But what I do know is that there isn&rsquo;t a better time to start getting familiar with forex&hellip; Especially with how the bond and stock markets continue to be turbulent.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest advantage trading forex will give you is that it&rsquo;ll protect you against a lot of the volatility that&rsquo;s rocking other markets right now.<\/p>\n<p>In trading terms, I like to say that forex is uncorrelated relative to the broader market.<\/p>\n<p>Whether a currency is going up or down, it&rsquo;s just as easy to be long or short.<\/p>\n<p>So, even if the stock market makes a tremendous recovery, there&rsquo;ll still be forex trades to take advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>And when the market is crashing, successful forex trading can help offset some of the losses in an investment portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Happy trading,<\/p>\n<p>Imre Gams<br \/>Analyst, <em>Market Minute<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- MAILBAG BEGIN --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Reader Mailbag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>How do you think the value of the U.S. dollar will compare to other currencies in the coming years?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts &ndash; and any questions you have &ndash; at <a href=\"mailto:feedback@jeffclarktrader.com\">feedback@jeffclarktrader.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- MAILBAG END --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens over the next several years will change money as we know it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[76],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-20313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-imre-gams"],"acf":[],"ai_tts_audio_outdated":false,"ai_tts_legacy_post":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=20313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}