Personally I remain very skeptical of the hedge funds. If the Swiss are really serious about the floor under the euro then they might spook away non-leveraged funds big time. If European depositors who've been fleeing their own banks suddenly find ...

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Even more stuff for the economic calendar: September Roadmap for the Euro Crisis

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---JAPAN--- The headlines have been confusing on the yen and G7. It seems to me that nothing has changed. The only thing that is clear is that the G7 will not help Japan intervene. This, however, does leave open the option of unilateral ...

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With no earth-shattering news from the G7 to 'stabilise' markets I would expect the trends from this week to carry over to the next one. The situation in Greece will once again be in focus, especially with Troika in town once again. I would expect ...

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That's one hell of a bet. Thanks for the information, Tact1cal. Personally I don't trade CHF pairs at all due to the intervention, but I would love to hear your (or anyone else's) plans regarding CHF.

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Nice trades guys! One of you still holding on to those shorts?

Smexy Trades

Crossing my desk yesterday: Japan Quashes Speculation of Yen Ceiling TOKYO—Japanese finance ministry officials Wednesday quashed any ideas that Japan would follow the Swiss central bank in trying to place a ceiling on the value of its currency, ...

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Black is the new black.

Who's Got the Best Chart Colour Scheme

I agree. As far as 'escaping from deflation' is concerned, QE2 was a success. However, from the employment point of view is was utter failure. Of course, most of the commentators out there pretend like having a dual mandate is possible when in ...

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Tact1cal and xXTrizzleXx, thank you. I've been posting so many links recently that I just had to ask, I'm not looking for praise or anything like that. I don't want to turn into a spammer so I was just checkin' whether people here actually read the ...

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Abinadi, I hope you're still subscribed to this thread, because I have a suggestion for you. I am currently researching volatility myself and I was thinking maybe you could do well to try out the classic Donchian channel indicator in another form. ...

Seeking Volatility Indicator

Well, so far I haven't noticed anything strange and I expect these 'extremely small' differences to be rather rare. In any case, I only use MAD to time my entries, not the direction of entries. If I'm looking to go long I want the momentum behind me ...

Simple Indicator Request (MACD)

Hey hayseed, the indicator fits my description 100%. Thank you! What small differences should I be aware of? I did some visual testing and I discovered no flaws myself.

Simple Indicator Request (MACD)

I've completed the first stage of my research, but there's still a lot of work to be done which means that I will continue posting articles I have found interesting/useful without providing my own view of things (maybe just a short comment here and ...

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I've been keeping my eye on this thread for some time and I too have a few posts and articles I would like to share. Here's the first one.

Great Posts By Great Traders

That's exactly the reason why I've started focusing on liquidity and trying to catch swings instead of large trends. EURUSD, for example, has tended to move in a box with no liquidity on either side. So it just jumps from low to high and high to ...

Predatory and Parasitic Trading

Thank you, nubcake! Here's the modified indicator if someone else is interested. I didn't bother changing the name since it was such a small fix.

Vertical Lines Indicator Needs a Small Fix

Don't beat yourself up too much. FIFTEEN percent is great. You should instead be congratulating yourself for not losing. Why so? Well, liquidity is very low during news announcements like this (ever trade FOMC?) and traders both long and short get ...

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