Yes, I'm aware of that. I actually had a whole paragraph in my post on the margin hike but I decided to scrap it before posting as I deemed it a bit off-topic and I really didn't want to start beating the horse with the GATA crowd. What I meant by ...

Rear-View Mirror Chart Thread

I agree with the first part of what you said but I disagree with the latter part. News can only be priced in if the exact date, content and magnitude of the event can be predicted with a certain margin for error before the event takes place. News ...

Rear-View Mirror Chart Thread

---Week 20, May 2011--- Carry-over themes from last week: European sovereign debt worries Commodities hanging in the balance, could go either way, though weaker growth from China would suggest a continuation of the correction, for more detail I ...

Whats really moving the market today?

This is good news, count me in. I was thinking of starting a similar thread myself but it seems I won't have to. It's getting a bit late here and I've a few things to add to my personal 'week ahead' file so I'm going to see tomorrow when I'm all ...

Whats really moving the market today?

Danske Research: Greek debt restructuring difficult to avoid (pdf) FT Alphaville: UBS on the commods crash – and getting ready for the next one WSJ's The Source blog: Beating the Investment Bubble Snippet from the WSJ story: “When the market keeps ...

Cornholio's Reading Suggestions

Confirmed. This comes from an economics professor in Athensid you hear the latest? Greece’s economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2011. This is, surely, good news. Except that, in fact, the Greek economy shrank by 4.6% in the first quarter ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Yes, that's exactly how the market operates. :nerd:I knew something like this would happen because I noticed the GDP releases of several big countries were scheduled only a short time before the aggregate Eurostat release. Any significant deviations ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Now this is news that I know how to trade - there's no second guessing here. Truth be told I didn't actually trade this news release, but the German, French and Italian GDP releases as they came and hour or two before the aggregate release. Good ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

You have to remember to add herding into the equation. The markets are still moving in bubble-mode, they've been that way since way before the crisis. If you've ever had microeconomics you know that supply and demand are constantly trying to find an ...

Fundamentally speaking

It's actually much, much worse than that, but I'm not going to turn this into a PIGS thread. It's not only Greece, though, there are similarities between Greece and Portugal that make you puke. For example, Portugal and Greece have 14 pension ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

You can be sure of that. The thing that disgusts me is that they're still so callous about it all. Last year a guy in my uni class told me he'd spoken to a couple of Greeks studying in Estonia and they told me that even though their country is ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

That's what did me in. I trade a 5 minute chart using technicals. When economic news are about to hit the wire then I give them more weight as a general rule but looking to enter/exit at important levels. When a news piece such as a bailout or any ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

XX, how are you holding up? During the morning hours we had talk about a ANOTHER bailout for Greece, then a denial. This made trading practically impossible. I've handed out two days worth of profits and if this thing doesn't stop soon I'm afraid ...

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

This looks very interesting, thank you for posting. I couldn't help but notice it was authored by De Nederlandsche Bank (central bank of The Netherlands). This suggest there could be all kinds of interesting papers lying around the websites of 17 ...

What Will Happen to Forex Trading if the Euro Falls?

1) ECB codewords to look out for during/after press conferences 2) The meaning of credit ratings

Economics/politics resources

A short read on the Spiegel story: On the true agenda behind Der Spiegel’s story that Greece is thinking of exiting the euro And a past article from the same blog about debt default and European banks: It’s the (German) banks, stupid!

What Will Happen to Forex Trading if the Euro Falls?

Leon, I've got some links of my own. There's a lot of them so toss aside what you don't need and keep what is valuable. Audio www.financialsense.com Audio & Articles, a lot of what I know about finance has been due to Jim Puplava's show. Jim is ...

Economics/politics resources

Leon, yes of course, go ahead. Anything that eases access to, indexes and categorizes educational material is good. There's a lot of good info spread all over the factory and it makes sense to index it especially with the number of threads and pdfs ...

The PDF useful sources thread

What's going on in Europe is NOT an economic crisis so there's no point in looking at classic economic recessions. The economy is doing fine on its own. There is a a crisis in the financial sector that started in 2007 in the US with the subprime ...

What Will Happen to Forex Trading if the Euro Falls?