You are right. It's due to the fact that there has been little or no deviation to the forecast numbers. I just can't remember the last time this situation has gone on for so long. Not much joy trading the news lately.

Let's Trade The News V 0.4 !

Why do you worry about it? Are you afraid to make money? Just keep the pips. You traded so you didnt steal it. Brokers use enough tactics to get it back from you anyway. The worst thing you could do is open up a line of enquiry with your broker ...

What Happens on a Big spike ?

Two months in a row now the NFP has produced no more than a ripple in the pond. Only caught a few pips out of that move.

NFP March 9

Well done, mate, even though news trading has not been rewarding for the last few weeks. Also good to know that you can withdraw funds from NF without any problem.

North Finance

I am happy to use a brainless strategy as long as it makes me money

Strategy for news trading

Thats a massive drop and points to a flight of customers. Probably oanda would have been better off not raising the spreads in the first place.

FXCM's CFTC Financial Data

I agree with you 100 per cent. TA sucks for me too. I reckon TA trading is like playing poker and showing all your cards to the broker/bank. They know that TA traders will enter/exit at support/resistance or other trendline breaks and that gives ...

No Estimates for NZD data?

Are you risking your pips made in news trading to trade other strategies? If so, it would not be a good idea. And to be honest I also had quite a few losses in a row at the start of this month. News trading has been tough this month but the CAD ...

No Estimates for NZD data?

Retail sales 0.7 % as expected. Almost every single piece of news for february came out with little or no deviation. Not good for us.

No Estimates for NZD data?

February has so far been a slow month for news trading. Small profit so far for the month. Retail sales mostly in line with expectations, another disappointing announcement as far as we are concerned

U.S Retail sales

I second this, well said !!!! News trading, when you know what you are doing, is very profitable. We all know it's risky, but the returns are commensurate with the risks taken. To each his own strategy and method of trading. The $$$ that adds up ...

Comparison of AutoClick Services

I notice quite a few posters keep talking down some strategies used at news time pointing out that these will no longer work or be tolerated by brokers. I think they have made their point already and the repeat posts about this are getting ...

Comparison of AutoClick Services

What about January NFP and also the surprise rate hike by the BOE in the same month? These 2 announcements alone produced lots of pips for news traders in January. I agree with you that it's been sluggish since end January/start of february so far. ...

Slow Year

sshhh..... ...........FXCM is hitting the straddlers hard. !!!!!

United Kingdom TRADE BALANCE

You must be using a broker that doesnt widen the spread since NZD/USD jumped 20 pips on news and you captured 12 pips before it retraced?

NZD Unemployment

Your first post and within 3 weeks of opening your account, you have already WITHDRAWN money !!!!!!!!!!!! :surprised

PFG FX Review

Last friday's NFP did not have the usual reaction that we get at NFP news. It was affected by the yearly revision which showed that thousand more jobs were created during 2006 than was first reported. Hence the dollar fell on the headline number ...

NFP Feb 2

Well if you add the upward revision of 39k to the headline number of 111k it equals more or less what was expected, hence the lack of a big price move I think.

NFP Feb 2