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Plofkip commented Apr 25, 2013Interesting. If you haven't got time to read the whole article, just read the last sentence.
Tweet Retreat: Did high frequency reading crash the market?
- Plofkip commented Apr 25, 2013
The UK Telegraph is written and read by little-England anti-Europeans. With the possible exception of France's chances of winning the Six Nations rugby championship, anything which the Telegraph says about "the continent" should be ignored. ;-)
Euro may only last five years, says senior German government advisor
- Plofkip replied Apr 25, 2013
I agree that it's appropriate to view EUR/CHF from the CHF side. I think of my long EUR/CHF position as shorting the CHF. It's not that I think the EUR has a glorious future; it's that the CHF is unsustainably over-valued. Plus: the SNB has ...
EUR/CHF
- Plofkip replied Apr 25, 2013
Oanda is not good for longer term trades because, where other brokers offer positive (or zero) rollover, Oanda charges net interest to hold a position open. I suspect that this is an important element of Oanda's revenue model. Below are the current ...
OANDA Discussion
- Plofkip commented Apr 25, 2013
@Squeeze: Interesting. Thx Their marketpsych indices include a "bubbleometer"! url I'm not convinced that sentiment is a leading indicator of price. I'm still of the view that most market participants are sheep, but who am I to say! PK
The Trading Robots Really Are Reading Twitter
- Plofkip commented Apr 24, 2013
LOL They're not just "self aware"; they also got greedy?
The Trading Robots Really Are Reading Twitter
- Plofkip commented Apr 24, 2013
Is he BungaBunga's nephew or his God son? ;-)
Italy's Enrico Letta Received Mandate To Try To Form New Government
- Plofkip replied Apr 24, 2013
Interesting article on the impact of the AP Twitter hack here: url It doesn't explain why it was only the JPY pairs which reacted (and the AUD to a lesser extent), but Tokyo and Sydney were asleep at the time, so that algorithm trading (robots) ...
USD/JPY Discussion
- Plofkip commented Apr 24, 2013
It's an interesting article. I notice that it was all the JPY pairs which reacted (and the AUD to a lesser extent). I suspect that this was because Tokyo and Sydney were asleep at the time, so that algorithm trading (robots) had a free hand. JPY and ...
The Trading Robots Really Are Reading Twitter
- Plofkip replied Apr 24, 2013
Don't worry, nobody's coming after you with a law suit .. we're just exchanging ideas. I'm in this for the long haul. My position has survived being 180 pips under water (after the Italian election "result"). I'm not planning to take any profit ...
EUR/CHF
- Plofkip commented Apr 24, 2013
Check out Forexwhale's post (#33517) here: url I think the timing matches perfectly. Unnaturally prescient.
AP says Twitter account was hacked
- Plofkip replied Apr 24, 2013
Simon73 called it four/five days ago: Nice job. My long at 1,23 just (5min ago) gasped its first air for more than a month. And the sun is shining in Amsterdam. :-) PK
EUR/CHF
- Plofkip commented Apr 23, 2013
LOL Interesting discussion: smells as fishy as rotten sushi.
AP says Twitter account was hacked
- Plofkip commented Apr 23, 2013
Are you serious, or was that a typo?
Market talk that the SNB could raise the EUR/CHF floor - unconfirmed
- Plofkip commented Apr 23, 2013
For those of us with open long positions it is an excellent joke.
Market talk that the SNB could raise the EUR/CHF floor - unconfirmed
- Plofkip replied Apr 23, 2013
: - ))) I don't want to close it yet. I want it back in the black by a couple of hundred pips and then I'll close it. 1,25 would be fine. Any time Switzerland wants to appoint Silvio Berlusconi as premier suits me. PK
EUR/CHF
- Plofkip replied Apr 23, 2013
No idea. I've been looking for news, but I must be looking in the wrong places! I don't see SNB intervening this far away from the 1,20 limit.
EUR/CHF
- Plofkip replied Apr 23, 2013
Oh, yes please! At 1,23 my over-eager long from early February will be finally coming up for air for the first time since mid-March. PK
EUR/CHF