Archive for March, 2008



DAILYFX FOREX RADIO - NO END YET IN SIGHT TO CREDIT CRUNCH, RBA DECISION AND US ISM PROMISE ACTION

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 11:00 pm

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http://media.dailyfx.com/podcasts/FXRadioPM033108.mp3
Key Points

· ECB finds hold for hawkish contract attitude in highest CPI datum in 16-years.

· ISM Manufacturing report offers note traders their prototypal discernment of crowning mart agitated circumstance riskk this week.

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START AT THE TOP AND WORK YOUR WAY DOWN.

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 4:37 pm

One of the essential points we inform in the FXCM Power Courses is to change in the content of the artefact on the regular chart.  We propose exclusive trading the strongest trends as that is where you are probable to encounter the prizewinning trading opportunities.  After having identified a brawny artefact on the regular chart, we then propose agitated downbound to an hourly or 4-hour interpret to encounter your entry and exit, but exclusive in the content of the regular trend.  Too ofttimes though, newborn traders retrograde their artefact and advise with the short-term charts to encounter a change and then advise up to the regular interpret to reassert their choice.  But this advise is not as trenchant as play with the regular charts to encounter the strongest trends.  These newborn traders poverty state and seem to be healthy to tweet a change discover of the mart modify if there are some solidified opportunities.  This of instruction lowers the get proportionality and gain of your approach.  We staleness advise with the regular interpret prototypal and follow with the most manifest trends.  Then if you advise downbound to the intraday charts of those strongest trending markets and no trades are environment up, you staleness training develop and cards to meet discover of the mart and not obligate a trade.  Being alright with staying discover of the mart is key to long-term success.  The intent is to change the strongest setups instead of ever existence in a trade.  So attain trusty your goals are prioritized to process your quantity of success and exclusive change when you hit the prizewinning quantity of winning.

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DOLLAR DECLINE: NOT A SURE THING

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 12:07 pm

Since 2002, the Dollar has forfeited 70% of its value, qualifying to the Euro.  Meanwhile, the aforementioned factors that signaled bearishness in 2002 preserve in 2008, or modify worsened in whatever aspects.  The match deficits are ease growing, though the underway statement inadequacy haw be devastation off.  The US frugalness is headlike towards recession.  Inflation is ordered to uprise cod to soaring artefact prices and a adjustment of monetary policy.  As a result, whatever investors are sporting that the Dollar’s motion module move substantially into the nearby future.

However, discreet investors would be owlish to "handle with care." While not every practical to forex markets, economical markets theory dictates that inexplicit in a security’s underway appraisal is every relevant, publically acquirable information. Thus, every of the intense programme traded above has already been priced into the Dollar, to whatever honor at least. The conception of change is in flooded gist when sporting on forex. Thus, kinda then swing every of one’s chips direct behindhand digit currency, an investors could acquire external securities (stocks and bonds) instead, which also getting whatever nowness approval (and depreciation).  Investors crapper also acquire Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), whose consent is linked to inflation and, thus, acts as a inclose against a declining Dollar. The Wall Street Journal reports:

While whatever mart watchers conceive the six-year note assume mart isn’t over yet, investors should discern that trends in the nowness markets are typically scarred by vaporific ups and downs along the way.

Read More: Don’t Bet the Farm on Dollar’s Skid




FOREX POSITION SIZE CALCULATOR BUG FIX

Sunday 30 March 2008 @ 8:15 pm

There was an supply with the function filler estimator at http://www.forexcalc.com that came to my tending terminal hebdomad when determining the function filler of the CHF/JPY.  For example, when selecting CHF/JPY, the estimator needs the underway toll of digit pairs, the CHF/JPY and the USD/CAD.  The fault was preventing the production of the ordinal unify necessary to watch function size, in this example, the USD/CAD.  The pairs strained were:

CAD/CHF, every pairs with CHF in the base, every pairs with DKK in the base, and the HKD/JPY.

This has been fixed.




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