Thursday, April 9th, 2009 at
9:03 AM
These days, when I look at my charts and the state of the Forex market, I sometimes laugh at myself. It’s funny because, at some point, I genuinely believed that there was a legitimate argument to be made about fundamental or technical analysis. When I was learning about Forex Trading, I was under the impression [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at
9:25 PM
What’s with the Finance Industry CEOs anyway? I mean things are looking up in general right now. It’s not over yet. I think everyone knows that. However, the numbers we have been getting recently are not nearly as bad as they could be. It seems like the US Administration finally have a fairly good idea [...]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009 at
8:30 PM
Today, stocks took a pounding for most of the day. Risk aversion is back to the markets in a major way. There’s all kinds of bad news about the performance of – or lack thereof – financial firms. We also have to remember that there were those job numbers at the end of last week. [...]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at
12:24 PM
Check out this video that talks about what’s going on with the dollar. The ride might be over…
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at
12:22 PM
We are now back to asking, yet again, whether the dollar will finally stop gaining on the others. I never expected much from the G20 – more like G18, if you really want to get technical about it; but I’m an easy going type of guy – after their planned meeting this week. It was [...]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at
3:21 PM
The Central Banks of the world are among the biggest players in the Forex markets. They buy and sell their country’s own currency to influence it’s value for the country’s benefit. All of them do this in some way or form. It doesn’t always have the intended effect, and it can also piss off others [...]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at
5:48 PM
If you are to be successful in arriving at any particular destination, it is not enough to know where the final destination is; you also need to know exactly how to get there. Hence, if you need to get to Mario’s Chip Shop, a map might be handy. That’s not all that there is to [...]
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Friday, March 27th, 2009 at
9:44 AM
Check out this clip below. This is pretty harsh. Does The British Prime Minister deserve it? I don’t know, but it’s funny as hell
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Friday, March 27th, 2009 at
9:42 AM
Europe is in a world of pain right now. The UK GDP contracted even more than was forecasted by analysts. Today, the German Finance minister made comments about preventing member states from straying away of the Euro Budget rules on spending. He claimed that if member states engaged in excessive spending, it would affect the [...]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at
8:05 PM
Timothy Geithner (he’s really becoming a big celebrity these days) was on the telly again. It’s a mark of the amount of confidence he seems to have built up since that fateful day in February when he spoke and the markets crashed. Well…not crashed; but made a big drop all the same. This time Tim [...]
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