if things are going too well, idiots / gamblers go crazy without thinking before opening their mouth ...

EU's Juncker says EUR exchange rate is dangerously high

@DragonFire: you mean, in general and in the past? or you mean very recently?

Japan EconMin Amari: Excessive Weak Yen Has Negative Effects On Livelihoods

@Mong00se: My feeling is that the SNB did a pretty good job defending the floor. However, they could have done better on the offensive end - sometimes they sold EUR/USD (i.e. diversified) when it was killing the tiny bits of Euro positive sentiment ...

Japan EconMin Amari: Excessive Weak Yen Has Negative Effects On Livelihoods

@DragonFire: are you sure that SNB has been recently increasing their EUR/CHF long position? I would not be surprised if they actually did the opposite (like take quite some profit and nicely re-arm ... in order to be able re-attack seriously)

Japan EconMin Amari: Excessive Weak Yen Has Negative Effects On Livelihoods

I still like the idea of a 'contest-thread' with jaygee, slurp, jonahky7, loadedgun, ... with all of you posting your trades in real time ;-) May have some surprising (to some) outcomes ...

How to Trade the Euro's Rise

Go on Mario - push the Euro higher :-) I particularly like the EUR/CHF move (maybe partially from the ZKB negative rate posting)

ECB Monetary policy decision

@piptastic: actually, that is not really 'correct' - last time EUR/USD did not tank on the rate, it actually tanked on the comments that there had been discussions about rate cut / negative rates ... So, actually, Draghi press conference will be ...

ECB Monetary policy decision

Slurp proposed to Jaygee to open a thread in which they do a contest and Slurp offered to Jaygee to choose the time the contest should run. I commented that I think it is a great idea and that I would love to see you, Loadedgun, and Jonahky7 and ...

GBP/USD just broke through the 1.60 level to the downside and hit its lowest level since...

Strange: my post has gone with the wind as well :-( Don't really see what should have been bad ... with it though !!!

Euro To Fall To 1.27 By Feb Before Rallying To 1.48 By Aug - Zwermann Financial

@gaaikema: with which broker was that?

Euro-Area Manufacturing Contracts More Than Estimated

Reuters currently says 84.32 ;-)

Yen’s Fate Linked to Japan Elections, BOJ Policy

url should work ...

Fed set to expand its monetary stimulus

@loadedgun: ben's press conference is actually an hour later 19h15 GMT

Fed set to expand its monetary stimulus

@Loadedgun: check the calendar tab - it says 17h30 GMT ... + 18h15 discussion with Ben ...

Fed set to expand its monetary stimulus

great one, but it looks as if I change my broker as they do not offer feta cheese trading ;-(

Rumors that Greece will meet the 30 billion Euro debt target

forexlive is giving more details ...

UBS confirms will introduce depo fees on CHF balances from 21 Dec

and then there are the times when you think 'why have I taken profit prematurely' ;-)

EUR/USD – 1.3138 and 1.3170, Oct. and Sept. Highs are Next

Fully agree = with the 'peg' in place it is a nice and safe trading + but, you may have to show patience and margins are quite high ...

EUR/USD – 1.3138 and 1.3170, Oct. and Sept. Highs are Next

I rather go with what forexlive wrote: 'the more likely reason is a sell order of over 7,500 contracts (100 ounce a piece) hitting the market as the Comex opened'

Commodities Tanking: Gold And Silver Getting Crushed, Oil Diving

Ooops = 1.30 passed ;-)

Greek Haircut puts German Political Capital at Stake