Archive for February, 2008

Fed Report Points to Further Rate Cuts, Dollar Accelerates Its Record Breaking Declines

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

via DailyFX • Fed Report Points to Further Rate Cuts, Dollar Accelerates Its Record Breaking Declines • Euro, Backed By Strong Data, Blows Through 1.50 Against The Dollar • Australian Dollar Joins Its New Zealand Counterpart At Multi-Decade Highs Fed Report Points to Further Rate Cuts, Dollar Accelerates Its Record Breaking Declines Since the dollar marked its unfavorable ...

Momentum for Yen Carry Trades

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

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EUR/USD comes closer to key resistance

Monday, February 25th, 2008

by KBC Market Research Desk EUR/USD showed some intraday swings on Friday, but in retrospect the pair basically traded sideways. EUR/USD started European trading in the 1.48 area, but was propelled higher as the European PMI data came out on the stronger side of expectations. The combination of poor US data ...

The 6 Advantages Forex Trading Has Over Other Investments

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

by David Morrison In this article, David describes the advantages of forex trading compared to other forms of trading. Certainly having no brokerage costs adds to the profitability of trading any product, and hence is one of the attractions of currency trading. Here's the article: There are many different ...

How To Lose Everything - The Worst Forex Trading Strategy Ever That You Might Be Using

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

by David Jenyns An interesting title? Here David talks about what not to do, and it is a trading strategy that many people still do, usually for no apparent reason apart from being something they heard other people did, but don't understand how it may not be suitable ...

Euro extends rebound

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

by KBC Market Research Desk On Tuesday, the euro extended its rise against the dollar. The trend was already in place since early last week and in the absence of key economic data the move was extended. The ECB (Noyer) still being rather optimist on the European economy ...

Canadian Dollar Lower on Weaker Economic Data

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

by Bob Kozak Canadian Dollar (CDH8): The CD opened higher at .9932 against a weaker DX, as higher metals/energy prices increased export revenue potential. Prices hit a morning Hi of .9948, before a decline in Dec.Wholesale Sales and lower core inflation set the tone for at least a 50bp rate cut at ...

3 Reasons Why Forex Trading Is Great

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Source: The Forex Trader As a Forex trader you will always be attempting to make more profits than losses from the fluctuations of exchange rates between currencies in the forex market; in short, this is what is called forex trading. The good news is that nobody is going ...

FOREX-Yen gains on fears of global economic slowdown

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Source: Reuters By Toni Vorobyova LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The yen gained against the dollar and euro on Wednesday as worries about the health of the global economy and a sharp sell off in Asian equity markets made investors less willing to take on risk. In such an environment, ...

FOREX New York Session Video February 7, 2008

Friday, February 8th, 2008

The EUR/USD broke support at the 1.4600 psychological level, and the European Central Bank announced its decision to keep rates on hold, during the hour prior to the start of today's New York session. Traders who took the short trade entry at the re-test of the figure were in excellent ...