The most powerful force in the universe is bored, self-righteous Washington Wives ..... keep assuring yourselves the show will always go on but if our self-appointed moral guardians decide to free us from the evils of retail forex, I'll be very ...

Will forex ever end for retail traders like us

I don't think anyone can help you, without knowing how or why you trade. Think about your trading style ..... do you seek to profit from longer term trends, or volatility, or short term price patterns etc..? Then add instruments which you think will ...

Instruments for 2016

RIP video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

I have no idea which parts of that post were written by you quoting me, replying to me or replying to dkrock quoting me, quoting dkrock replying to me, replying to dkrock quoting me to you or written by dkrock quoting me and requoted by you. This ...

What are your favourite indicators?

My favorite indicators: GDP Unemployment Rate & Wage Growth Core Inflation, CPI & PPI PMI/Business Confidence, Small Business Confidence & Capacity Utilization Consumer confidence & Retail Sales Building Permits & Housing Starts ZEW ...

What are your favourite indicators?

Trading isn't like driving a car - designing and trading a profitable system is more like, building a car yourself and then driving it across the country. Yeah, you kind of do need to know how the engine works. And to design and trade a profitable ...

What really is divergence?

The Fed doesn't just change monetary policy as it pleases, it's policy is always a reaction to economic/business cycles ...... in a recession it eases policy to stimulate economic activity, during high growth it needs to tighten to control ...

The Federal Reserve's mandate leads or lags?

It's already quoted after everything else, except the yen.... url It won't follow the yen, JPY's low value means it will always be the quote currency, or problems will arise with decimal places etc..

Where would the chinese yuan fall in the currency hierarchy?

Between the franc and the yen ...

Where would the chinese yuan fall in the currency hierarchy?

You are right, I must have been half asleep when I posted that - I wasn't trying to disagree with you about the tax rates, I was trying to make the point that if you want to trade in Australia, you need to be willing to pay the same tax as everyone ...

Australian tax implications of FOREX gains/losses

You don't "take money out" of the company, you pay yourself a wage which is taxed, then the company profit is taxed. The total tax you pay on your annual earnings is about 30%, which isn't insane at all - it's what everyone else pays, why shouldn't ...

Australian tax implications of FOREX gains/losses

RIP Scott Weiland ... video video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Funny how hindsight makes experts of us all .... FWIW, having no idea what was about to happen, I was short E/U going into this with no TP in place, but with a S/L behind the last swing high at 1.0645 ... and although I lost, I would happily take ...

EUR/USD... Why such a huge move?

Some fundamentals are, but usually not the fundamental forces being discussed in this thread. When an economic indicator is printed, it is usually included in the price immediately, if not beforehand - but the impact it has on other indicators, yet ...

Do you know the relationship among the economic events?

Cutting interest rates during a recession, and cutting them during a recovery, are two very different things. One is sound monetary policy, the other gets you fired.

Dollar vs Disinflation