Noellej Thanks forbthe contribution. This is exactly as I mean. I wouldn't have traded against the Dollar as it is already strong fundamentally and we have NFP which although forecast to be worst. I would trade against the JPY. But jumping out of ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Hello, apologies for the lack of posts over the last couple of days. I've been busy doing research and analysis as we've had a busy week and I'd like to showcase some trades. Monday 5 January 2015 On Monday we had some very important UK news due ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Good luck mate! I'm 19 myself, and only been in forex for about a year and a half but I too trade differently to how most people do. Looking forward to this thread and your journey. Good luck mate!

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Monday 5 January 2015 Afternoon all, we have had a fantastic setup today based on the negative UK news, Construction PMI data. This was forecast to come in worse than previous and we have seen it come in even worse than forecast. That's negative UK ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

We have some weak Germany inflation data coming too, down we go after Asian session, that's where my money is. And hold for the EU CPI later in the week...

EURUSD

Infsey Totally agree. And we have some weak CPI data coming this week for both Germany and the Eurozone. Should be a simple sell of on the Euro against stronger counterparts, namely the US Dollar.

EURUSD

Hi, NZD/USD could be a great setup this coming week. image We have hit a strong level of support, and we have some negative US news forecast on Tuesday, even after the USD's recent rally, this could be what provides a little bit of a retracement. ...

NZD/USD

Bobart This is the other example of a risky trade but one for just a few pips at London open. image If we actually look at the fundamentals for that week, we have some huge events. We have first some Dollar weakness as the CPI figure (huge for ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Bobart Yes, it is difficult to make it work in real time with what we forecast to happen with the currency. That's why I'm looking at taking a longer view of each release. The biggest thing for importance which I keep saying on this thread is what ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Bobart, welcome. That's something which Copernicus has mentioned before about using strength indicators to determine strong currencies. I think the main idea behind this thread was actually carrying out fundamental analysis. This is something which ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Dnkhoward2, welcome to the thread. Fundamentals are definitely very important in the markets, to me it's like investing in a company. You wouldn't just buy shares in a company based on technicals, you want to know the ins and outs of the company, ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Good evening everyone, thought I'd post some analysis today as I have had a quiet day... We have a fairly busy week coming up this coming week, and with the recent plummet of Cable and EUR/USD, I'm feeling more cautious. But there are a couple of ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Good evening everyone, I bring, again, a new past analysis of forex pairs for the week. I am doing this to help give people more examples of what is going on in the markets and how we can take advantage of them. Whether people believe me saying this ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Friday 2 January 2015 Good morning FF, I feel obliged to comment on this mornings actions with the GBP/USD and EUR/USD activity, namely a nice drop. If we simply looked at our FF calendar for today, we would have seen expected positive news for the ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Thanks for your interest and welcome to the thread, always great to hear of people interested in the fundamental side.... I have looked at those indicators before but not used them as of yet. I'll get one installed and give it a try, suppose it ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Evening all, I would like to add an update to this thread looking at the markets on a weekly basis but still using the same way of trading. Again, I have picked a week at random to use. I know that to backtest a pair we can't just go round picking ...

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Thanks, great to have you here!

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

Hi, welcome to FF. Yes, it is a news trading strategy, the part where I mentioned breakouts at the beginning was just for a little information on myself..

Fundamental Trading with a Directional Bias

This is extremely interesting. I'll be following closely.

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