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Bloomberg: "Exports, oil rebound no panacea for Canada" url - Canada's five biggest banks say Canada's 2015 troubles will continue for most of 2016 - Canada's GDP expected to grow about 1.5% in 2016 - "This country does not have the industrial ...

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2 factors to watch when trading the Comdolls: (AUD, NZD and CAD) url Middle East geopolitical tension: - Escalating tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which is dragging in several other countries, is creating risk aversion which is generally ...

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BK Forex's 2016 forex outlook: url Some of their predictions: - The first few months of the year should be good for the dollar, as long as fed officials don't backtrack on their hawkish views - Monetary policy gaps will expand in the first half ...

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Hi Jay While I'm reasonably happy with my results the last couple of years I've never really been happy with my FA organization/routine, It's generally been an oddly timed jumble of hand-written notes, excel files and ideas. I consider myself pretty ...

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Hi Nikki. It always amuses me to see people analyzing the lower TF charts and then arguing that price is "random" ... even when that pair is in the middle of a 2,000 pip move! Some people just can't see the forest for the trees ..... Welcome to the ...

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People have asked me how to learn the fundamentals, which books to read etc.. I don't really know how to answer that ... I don't think you can just read a book from start to finish and "learn" it, because "it" is always changing. Best approach is ...

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There always seems to be a debate going somewhere in FF about whether price is random or non-random, usually argued by people looking at lower timeframes. These are just a few of the major fundamental trend drivers of the past few years: - In ...

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Hey Nik nice to see you still around, good luck

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CAD, Jan 4 - GDP growth has pulled back in the last 2 years from 3% to 1.2% - Unemployment climbing, currently 7.1% - Inflation is 1.4%, near the bottom of BOC's target range of 1 - 3% - Canada's economy is particularly sensitive to changes in oil ...

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NZD, Jan 4 - GDP growth strong, but pulled back in 2015 from 3.5% to 2.3% - Unemployment rose in second half of 2015 from 5.4% to 6% - Inflation is 0.4%, below target range of 1 - 3% - NZ economy is particularly sensitive to changes in commodity ...

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AUD, Jan 4 - GDP growth rising to 2.5% - Unemployment has been trending upwards, recently pulled back to 5.8% - Inflation is 1.5%, below target range of 2 - 3% - AU economy is particularly sensitive to changes in the chinese economy affecting ...

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Sorry for the rudimentary 'spot' analyses - these are just a starting point, as the thread evolves I'll be adding more detail, looking more closely at leading economic indicators and other macro factors. Bloomberg's currency strength forecast for ...

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JPY, Jan 4 - GDP Growth ticking higher to 1.6% - Unemployment low - 3.3% - but wage growth consistently below 1% - Inflation far below target and not improving image "December restructuring of QQE will allow us to sustain or expand stimulus more ...

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EU, Jan 4 - GDP growth slowly increasing toward 2% - Unemployment trending lower but still very high at 10.7% - Headline inflation starting to tick higher but still far below target image "These latest measures should be enough to see inflation ...

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UK, Jan 4 - GDP Growth pulled back from 3% to 2.1% in the second half of 2015, but is still stronger than most - Unemployment has trended down for four years, from 8.5% to 5.2% - Inflation remains far below target image "BOE highlighted a ...

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USD, Jan 4 - GDP Growth has pulled back from 2.9 to 2.1, but is still strong - Unemployment has trended down for 6 years, from 10% to 5% - Inflation has hit the fed's 2% target, with growth and unemployment threatening to push it higher image ...

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This place always reminds me of a spinal injuries ward in a hospital, where every patient has been told there is a 99% chance he will never walk again .... every patient decides that he will be that 1% who succeeds, even if he has no rational reason ...

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