EUROPE Ashraf Laidi on yesterday's action on fiber: The single currency had a slightly better day yesterday, more as a result of some pretty poor US economic data, and despite an admission from Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Junckers that soft ...

Whats really moving the market today?

I think it's good you missed it as we seem not to be talking about the same things here and would end up going around in circles anyway (however, I still maintain my position that it doesn't have to be all supply and demand that's doing the push and ...

Whats really moving the market today?

What are you talking about? Silver witnessed a massive 5 standard deviation event. Margin requirements are intended to cover 95% of potential losses and an increase in volatility triggered the margin hike. I promised to be civilised, but I'm sorry, ...

Whats really moving the market today?

WASHINGTON (AP) - Construction of new homes plummeted in April, dragged down by a major drop in apartment building. Builders broke ground on 10.6 percent fewer new homes last month. The seasonally adjusted rate fell to 523,000 homes per year, the ...

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I promise to behave on my part. I will also promise to agree to disagree. Yeah, I saw that part too. I'm sure that Exxon's CEO has a lot more information than we do, but the market as a whole still has more information than any one person, ...

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I'm afraid I don't. The problem here is that a lot of universities have their own publishing bodies and most of the professors also author the books that they use in class. This means that there are probably thousand to choose from. What you could ...

Whats really moving the market today?

Bingo! This is the story of the 'oil crisis' of the 1970s. Although people like to call it an oil crisis it was really only a dollar crisis. I don't really care what we call it as long as people know what really propelled OPEC countries to ...

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There seems to be a lot of confusion around the issue of commodities in general, but recent volatile movements in the oil market in particular. Let me just address those issues. Your statement about supply and demand is incorrect and it seems to me ...

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Yeah I've seen it, didn't think much of it. I like to do things my own way.

Rear-View Mirror Chart Thread

FOREXLIVE - M&A speculation fuelling EUR/JPY, CHF/JPY buying As I mentioned earlier, real money funds were busy buying EUR/JPY, CHF/JPY and CAD/JPY overnight. There is speculation in the market that two big separate M&A deals involving Toshiba and ...

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Actually the stop loss comment was meant for rookies lurking around (I know you're in here browsing the thread). I'm not at all worried about you, but it's good to know you're using protection.

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Today has been a hell of a day in terms of news flow and I'm pretty sure I didn't put everything important on the charts. I've also had problems with pinpointing some of the news as I don't have a Bloomberg terminal and can't perform search on my ...

Rear-View Mirror Chart Thread

ForexLive European Wrap: Sluggish start to the week ForexLive US wrap: nasty squeeze but euro ends well below highs

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You could be in for a long wait. According to latest news the US has already hit its debt ceiling and to avoid default, the Treasury is tapping into pension funds. By withholding investments into the pension funds they could potentially hold out ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

WASHINGTON (AP) - China cuts holdings of US Treasurys for 5th month The Treasury Department said Monday that China cut its holdings by $9.2 billion to $1.14 trillion. Japan, the second-largest foreign holder, boosted its holdings by $17.6 billion to ...

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---Week 20, May 16th UPDATE--- In the future I will be putting up links to forexlive's market wraps but they're having some major issues with their websites so no links for today JAPAN BBC - Japan consumer confidence index slides further in April ...

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So, now we have Europe, United States, Japan and Australia covered. I wouldn't worry about the accuracy and about covering everything. Banks and media have whole teams of people to figure this out so we can't put too much pressure on ourselves ...

Whats really moving the market today?

You're all covered as far as Europe, Japan and the United States are concerned, but for other countries (Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland) you'll have to find someone else. Right now I'm working on bringing in more ...

Whats really moving the market today?

For better or for worse, I have some additional information that I would like to add to the weekly preview, but since forums don't usually send out subscription notices when a post is updated, I will have to make another post for the sake of the ...

Whats really moving the market today?

It seems to me that a robot that looks for volatility or any other information is for junkies who can't keep themselves away from trading so they use robots to generate ideas. It would be much easier to concentrate on a couple of markets and get to ...

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