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FX Madness
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Blog describes short term forex trades, with focus on currency pairs outside of the US dollar.
Recent Posts
Happy Thanksgiving!
Currencies had a surge of activity today. Both Asian and European sessions were relatively robust, with decent size moves during both and direction change after London open for most currency pairs. With one notable exception- US Dollar continued its ...
Revised recovery.
About a month ago the Commerce Department announced that the economy had a 3.5% growth rate for the July-September period, or third quarter. A lot of people claimed that the number was strong enough to call it an official end of recession, or ...
Before Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving week is typically different than other times when it comes to trading. Even though Thanksgiving is an American Holiday, it effects financial markets world wide. It comes on Thursday, with many people taking it easy on both Wednesday a...
Setting targets for currency trades.
When talking about trading financial markets, including currencies, “system” is almost always taking central stage. By “system” I mean set of rules that dictate when trader gets into the market, irrespective whether it is sho...
End of stimulus?
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet announced during a speech at the European Banking Congress in Frankfurt that it is time to withdraw some of the policy measures which supported financial system through the credit crunch. He said...
Premature exits.
Last post, Samurai Bonds, covered a long trade in EUR-CAD. After following it most of the week, I really didn’t think there would be much to add today. Earlier in the week Euro-Loonie had another productive buy. None of these trades was gre...

