Agree on your point about being dismissed into packaged camps of thought. Someone on this thread has even dared to hint that I may be a Guardian reader! In all seriousness, though, with the explosion of internet and digital news sources in the past ...

GU, GJ and EU Analysis Thread

Wow... It's like reading a month's worth of Daily Mail editorials in one go. I'm on childcare duties this weekend, thus I will not have a chance to respond to the many thoughts expressed in your post. Good luck.

GU, GJ and EU Analysis Thread

Hi 45Condor, Mr Bean's words were clumsy, definitely, and will undoubtedly offend many. However, I believe there was a definite element of truth, inconvenient perhaps, contained within the thoughts he expressed. I, like many others, have been lucky ...

GU, GJ and EU Analysis Thread

You're welcome Bro!

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

No words needed to introduce these pioneers. And, no, Spekitox, they don't belong under "M". video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Hall and Oates — This one is dedicated to my gambling buddy, Patience, and it's very apt when one considers the ease with which she deals with some of the male residents at this asylum that is known as Forex Factory! video

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

Hi mate, Not your problem, right? It would serve them right for daring to go against you!

USD/JPY Discussion

The news helps one to understand sentiment, the current themes, money flows and stories driving the market. Of course, one could effectively argue that this can be ascertained from purely viewing charts. However, many traders prefer to have some ...

EURUSD

Disagree on the highlighted point, as most clearly do not know the macro picture. The specific question of how did yesterday's news affect me proves nothing, when the issue being debated surely is: "whether news is always reflected in the price?" It ...

EURUSD

So how do shorts calculate their risk, when price, following any intervention, could gap an unknown number of pips above their stops?

USD/JPY Discussion

If the news doesn't help you, then perhaps it's down to your individual lack of understanding of such macro-economic events and the effects on market sentiment, rather than everything already being priced in by the market? That is not a criticism of ...

EURUSD

Price only found firm support after Sentance released strong comments to counter the effects of Posen's dovish speech.

EURUSD

Agreed. Is just the poster said to "calculate", which is impossible to do in such a market, where risk cannot be quantified, meaning one clearly has to take a cautious approach of low (or no) leverage when gambling with this pair. And the term ...

USD/JPY Discussion

How do you calculate the risk management in such an uncertain market, when price could gap 100-200 pips (or more) in seconds, causing huge slippage?

USD/JPY Discussion

Which is something that we speculative currency traders can well understand.

USD/JPY Discussion

Agreed. Voters simply do not understand the unstoppable globalisation of the economic functions. That is why exporters are moaning in public but in private are moving more operations overseas. However, the inconvenient fact remains that goods and ...

USD/JPY Discussion

An interesting point. This is already happening, as more and more Japanese producers move their manufacturing operations overseas, in order to counter the effects of an uncompetitive yen. Exporters will always moan at any appreciation in the ...

USD/JPY Discussion

If the BOJ were attempting to prevent a bearish speculative attack on the value of their currency, then their firepower would obviously be limited, as they sell down their foreign currency reserves on the open market in a bid to stem the ...

USD/JPY Discussion