The USD/JPY is sinking lower, making its long anticipated move outside of the March trading range. The Dollar is depreciating across the board after the Fed announced a shocking $300 Billion quantitative easing plan.

However, the Yen is experiencing the least strength as compared to other major Dollar crosses since the Japanese economy is the weakest in the world right now and the BOJ has been initiating quantitative easing of its own.

Nevertheless, investors are favoring the Yen over the Dollar due to the sheer mass of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing balance sheet. Now that the USD/JPY has finally made a directional decision, it's safe to say the downtrend is back in full-force and the possible retest of 100 becomes a distant memory.

The Pound followed the pack of currencies appreciating against the Dollar in an accelerated fashion after the Federal Reserve opted to use quantitative easing to stabilize the U. S. economy.

Although the Cable has made a large movement to the upside over the last 24 hours, its rise has not been as extreme as the EUR/USD since Britain is participating in quantitative easing of its own. Furthermore, we can't forget the Britain released a staggering CCC number earlier this week.

Hence, the Cable faces many more obstacles to the upside than the EUR/USD including February highs and the highly psychological 1.50 level.

The EUR/USD rocketed higher with the Dollar weakening significantly against all major pairs in reaction to the Federal Reserve deciding to inject $300 Billion into quantitative easing.

The quantitative easing plan requires massive money printing, increasing the U. S. money supply considerably. The Fed intended to make U. S. exports attractive, and the Fed clearly accomplished its intention.

The EUR/USD has catapulted into a clear uptrend after the currency pair was still contemplating whether to duck back into its downtrend. Since the ECB has kept its benchmark rate at a reasonable level while avoiding quantitative easing of its own, the Euro is thriving after the Fed's decision.

The S&P jumped yesterday but backed away from the highly psychological 800 level after the Fed announced a surprise injection of $300 Billion into a quantitative easing program.

The actual announcement of quantitative easing was not entirely unexpected since Bernanke has left the window open as an avenue of last resort since December. It was the amount of money being injected which caught investors off-guard.

The FX markets certainly took notice as the Dollar plunged against both the Euro and the Pound by extraordinary amounts. Additionally, we saw Gold fly, and naturally the U. S. Treasury futures experienced a huge pop. Sifting past all the headline data, we must ask ourselves what the Fed intended to achieve with such a decision.

Crude futures are logging fundamentally significant gains, ignoring the higher than expected inventory report. Crude futures have cleared the psychological $50/bbl mark as the Dollar depreciates across the board. Since OPEC values Crude in Dollars, a weakening Dollar makes Crude much more attractive to buyers.

Additionally, investors are hoping the quantitative easing initiated by the Fed will help boost manufacturing and production and consequentially consumption of Crude.

Gold is surging after the Fed's announcement of proceeding with a $300 Billion quantitative easing plan. Quantitative easing is weakening the Dollar extraordinarily, providing incredible upward momentum for gold.

Once drifting back into its downtrend, gold has done a 360 overnight. The uptrend is back in full force and the precious metal is currently fighting to get back above the psychological $950/oz level. If gold should accomplish this feat, we expect to see the continuation of violent movements to the upside for the near-term.

A retest of $1000/oz is no longer out of the question, and has suddenly become a reality. Such incredible directional movements have ripple effects so we expect the high volatility to continue for some time.