Why exactly should I give a crap if some cave dweller in Afganistan earns a couple extra million rubles blowing up a bus in India?

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If it's so easy for all these clandestine organizations to manipulate the world, and your smart enough to see through their lies and deceit, why are you telling us about it? Why don't you get a couple friends together and take over the world for ...

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Because nobody gives a crap about retail sales numbers when a major geopolitical event is occuring.

How do you trade news?

My edge is that I can find and exploit riskless trading opportunities...

What's your edge?

Every time one of these events occurs the SEC examines the trading records and communication logs relating to all participants that derived large profits as a result. If they believe there is even the slightest chance that you knew in advance of ...

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1) ~85%. I haven't lost a news trade since April. 2) PPI, CPI, Existing/New home sales, PCE deflator, GDP, Tertiary Index (jpy)and any one-off geopolitical event.

How do you trade news?

I would make an attempt, but you need to rephrase the questions. I don't understand what your asking...

Central Banks Watch

I was being facetious...

newbie question

Let me know how that works out for you going forward.

newbie question

Top quality post brother! As a habitual news trader I'm not even contemplating trading this announcement. Consensus is all over the map and then we have a post announcement news conference. Trade this one and you're near guaranteed to be a loser. ...

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You still have a long way to go, but i see a very bright future ahead of you. Keep working this line of thought.

Uncle Uncle!!

1) Interest rates are only one component of an exchange rate. Many other factors can and will contribute to a price move. It is also highly dependant on what the expectation for a rate change is. If the majority of players are expecting a 50bp move ...

Central Banks Watch

The statistics monkeys over at ADP were on CNBC last month prior to the number being released. It turns out their magic indicator only has a marginally better predictive quality then the economist expectations numbers do. They still AVERAGE being ...

Some NFP forecasts talk about 200-360k ?? you believe ?

yes

Broker Account Exposure to currency fluctuations

The revised estimates are for 200k (the FF calendar still says 175k) so a number will need to be above 225k for a long dollar / below 175k for a short dollar. Inside that range, leave it alone. You'll get more bang for your buck on the short side ...

Non-farm Payroll

It's like anything else, it takes time. Make it a part of your life and you will grow to understand it. As a simple suggestion, keep a notebook and pen handy when your watching and write down anything they say that doesn't make sense. Then google it ...

close to quitting...

If your consistently losing, it isn’t because you’re a bad trader, it’s because you’re taking bad trades. You only have 2 posts, so I can’t too deeply analyze what you’re doing, but my guess is that you’re doing everything that everyone says you ...

close to quitting...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195144708/002-9782348-8533650?v=glance&n=283155 It's a good place to start.

technics used by market makers ?

Because they are too stupid to figure out that market price movement isn't the result of a probability distribution.

lagging indicators

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