This looks very interesting indeed. Quite dangerous as it could help you to blow your account in minutes rather than hours... What I particularly like is this business of monitoring futures markets at the same time as the spot ones - help with the ...

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OANDA's explanation for the screwup — url

NFP Feb 2

Sh...te, just took a closer look at this video, the spread on cable jumped to 200 pips for about 15 seconds. Scary.

NFP Feb 2

On the OANDA platform, EURUSD spread widened to 10 pips when Personal Spending/PCE was announced at 8.30pm this morning, as I would expect. However, it remained widened like this for over 5 minutes, which was unusually long, especially given the ...

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Merlin, that's great. Thanks very much.

US Durable Goods Jan 26

Although this only applies to OANDA customers, you can look at Open Positions and Open Orders summaries in the FXLabs section of their site.

Price movement as a function of Supply and Demand

So therefore, traders' gains are their losses. Taking money from liquidity providers is therefore a tall order. Do the banks have to use their money and place trades themselves to change the price in the direction they want, or can they just change ...

My trade cockup - UK retail sales

Hi Pipstar, I am puzzled as to how the banks and brokers could possibly 'invent' market behaviour in this way. I understand that the initial spike is the banks' automated reaction to the released data, but for a subsequent international conspiracy ...

My trade cockup - UK retail sales

It's brilliant. Saving me hours of screentime. The charts aren't that great, but then again, I'm now focussing on the numbers more and just using the charts as a general indication of the reaction, which is where I feel my focus should be. Being ...

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I have attached figures for the last year (source: News Trader Pro) A difference of 0.5% or over is worth a trade in my opinion.

Historic Charts of Economic Releases

The problem with straddling is that you place yourself at the mercy of the market and the figures. Sure, the numbers might be a surprise, in which case you should do well (assuming the market takes notice and reacts to the figures), but if the ...

Tell me about different methods and issues of news trading

1. work out your triggers, e.g if the nonfarm consensus is 50K, your research might indicate that you should go long if the figure comes out at 80K or more, or go short if the figure comes out at 20K or less 2. Look at the previous month's figures ...

Tell me about different methods and issues of news trading

The spike on the PPI/retail sales announcement today on the OANDA platform occurred between 8.30.00 and 8.30.05. I don't see how you could receive, digest and trade the news figures within that time and hence beat the spike.

Why trying to get in before the spike will never work

Does anyone use Oanda's news service? It's free and pretty quick, as far as I can see. Don't know how it compares with Bloomberg though...

News Service Discussion Who is the fastest?

Fantastic thread. Many thanks for this. Maybe we could take this further and create lists of data for each release over the last 12 months with links to charts? I have 12 months chart data for quit alot of these releases. Would be a lot of work, but ...

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