AUD/USD IFR market talk! IFR: AUD/USD back above key 1.0500 handle, eye 5-week lows of 1.0478. Eye Parity soon - as investors and funds who are still long, could, though still likely to see Asian, South E Asian, North Asian, Russian, M.E., East ...

Whats really moving the market today?

AUD/USD In bullets! Chinese manufacturing came out @ 10month low Key support @ 1.0500 taken out paving the way for lower prices Stops reported below 1.0460 Real money buying slowing descent Exporters on the bid @ 1.0480 Sellers expected 1.0530-75 ...

Whats really moving the market today?

url Found this one while I was looking for a breakdown of GDP, imports, and exports by country.

Economics/politics resources

I just came here to say your CHF/JPY trade idea absolutely pwns.

Reminiscences of A Forex Speculator

Good idea, I'll shoot them an email. I never thought to do that. They are a really great team.

Whats really moving the market today?

Does anyone have any experience deciphering market fix rumors? I know the role of a fix in the market, but it seems half the time that information comes out about a fix happening it turns out it was misinformation. It leads me to wonder if it is ...

Whats really moving the market today?

Really appreciating the AUD write ups cindy, thanks.

Whats really moving the market today?

Markets are NOT efficient. Almost every trade has a damn good reason for entering the market. There is no true value, but there is a collection of perceived value.

What do you absolutely know about the Market?

I know your asking paul, but the drop in the euro was NOT caused by oil(imo). In a nutshell it was a combination of sovereign debt events coming to a head AND trichet not coming out hawkish when he needed to be. While we were rallying on future ...

Whats really moving the market today?

AUD/USD IFR Market Talk IFR: Leveraged funds have been large sellers of the AUD/USD and threw a lot of wood at the AUD/USD trying to get it below 1.0500. Real money funds and Aus exporters have absorbed much of the selling and there is now talk of ...

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Great point cindy. Overall I don't think the minutes gave us anything to work with. We had the move down but then we reversed. IFR reported real money buying in the 1.0540 area. This leaves me to wonder if the real money buying might have thrown us ...

Whats really moving the market today?

I love this thread already. Very nice analysis bug and cindy. I've been watching the AUD personally. The important thing for AUD right now is commodities. We are never going to get back up to 1.1 if commodities don't come with us. The problem is, I ...

Whats really moving the market today?

This is type of analysis we're talking about. How market participants will act based upon unfolding events. When we got stale unemployment numbers earlier this week for australia I believe the 80pt drop was due to traders liquidating long positions ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Different time frames call for different analysis. Remember it's a mindeset, not a strategy. The point is to get us thinking about what's going to generate orderflow. If you're looking to position trade the fundamentals become more relevant. If ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Thanks, good point.

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

Hunters look to move price when it's cheap to move price in their favor, correct?

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

I'd call it Trichet pissing all over market expectations. Nice trade.

Smexy Trades

I'm not suggesting anything and I don't have answers to your questions. I wouldn't place a trade anywhere on that chart. It's not about the chart and why some random S/R level failed or held. It's about finding situations where orders will be ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

In the half baked situation I described that would be a legitimate argument for needing the order book. You'd need to see that accidental order take place and only people watching it at the time could react. The beauty of it is that there are all ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset

I figured I'd get involved with the discussion. I'm a relative noob at this but I've been following, reading, and trying to understand this for the past year like many of you. You're not afraid to express your frustration with this. I can definitely ...

Order Flow - Achieving the mindset