S&P 500 futures up 0.3%
The relative „calm“ is helping to see risk assets recover on the session now ahead of North American trading with the dollar also falling to the lows of the day.

Bundesbank comments in its monthly report
Nothing that we don’t already know but keep an eye out on the daily virus numbers out of Germany for a sense of how things may progress next and at what pace. In particular, be mindful of the 7-day incidence rate – which has climbed to 107.3 .

AUD/USD trades to the highs of the day at 0.7735 after having opened the day with a gap lower at 0.7709
AUD/USD fell to a low of 0.7691 in the opening hour but has since recovered and is trading back to being little changed now at 0.7735.

Despite some pro-golfers follies last weekend, my golf game is far from being pro-like…
Nevertheless, the snippets got me thinking about trading like a pro.  More specifically, what simple things can retail traders do to trade more like a pro?  

Forex news for NY trading on March 19 2021
In other markets:
– Spot gold is trading up $6.87 or +0.39% at $1743.20
– Spot silver is up $0.12 or 0.46% $26.20

Forex news for NY trading on March 19, 2021.
In other markets:
– Spot gold is trading up $6.87 or +0.39% at $1743.20
– Spot silver is up $0.12 or 0.46% $26.20

Stimulus checks and momentum
I about weekend effects in the price of bitcoin.
wrote last weekend
Reader Michael Goodwell was kind enough to break down recent returns by the day of the week.

Nasdaq higher. S&P and Dow lower.
The rotation out of the Nasdaq and into the S&P and Dow was reversed today. The Nasdaq is the big winner. The Dow is the big loser and the S&P is in between those two indices. 

Forex news from the European morning session – 19 March 2021
Headlines:
Markets:
– JPY leads, EUR lags on the day
– European equities lower; S&P 500 futures up 0.2%

The target set by BofA is for the year-end
This just adds to the slew of higher forecasts for bond yields since the turn of the year as the reflation focus stands out as being the major theme in the market so far.