February 11
2008

Rand — Worst Performer so Far

The strongest African economy may soon lose its position — at least so tells us its currency. South African rand appears to be one of the worst performing currency of 2008. Rand, being an indicator of the national economy’s health, was the top loser against the U.S. dollar this January with a loss exceeding 4.4%. Although gold and platinum (South African export commodities) were appreciating fast last month, traders were concerned with electricity […]

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February 11
2008

Position Size Calculator and Pip Value Calculator

I’ve added a new calculator to the Forex tools section of the site — it’s a Position Size Calculator. It’s largely inspired by the Forex Position Size Calculator created by Rich Paredes from ForexProject.com. I’ve tried to improve it with own vision of the position size calculation and now you can check it out. It calculates position size in units and lots, it also returns the amount of risked money or the risk ratio for your position. Account currency and leverage are stored in the cookies. Pip […]

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February 9
2008

Joaquin Almunia: Euro Above Equilibrium

Today before the G7 meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Joaquin Almunia, who is currently European Commissioner for Economic & Financial Affairs, told the reports that the European currency is still above its fair value. Despite the euro has already stopped its fast appreciation against the U.S. dollar, started a possibly strong decline against the Japanese yen and now is growing only against […]

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February 9
2008

Forex Technical Analysis for 02/11—02/15 Week

EUR/USD trend: sell. GBP/USD trend: sell. USD/JPY trend: sell. EUR/JPY trend: sell. Floor Pivot Points: Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res EUR/USD 1.3939 1.4189 1.4348 1.4598 1.4757 1.5007 1.5166 GBP/USD 1.8900 1.9144 1.9300 1.9544 1.9700 1.9944 2.0100 USD/JPY 104.32 105.12 106.22 107.02 108.12 108.92 110.02 EUR/JPY 148.97 […]

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February 8
2008

Pound Recovers against Euro, Dollar, Yen

Today the Great Britain pound started to recover from the week-long losses against the other major currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, euro and the Japanese yen. That’s quite a surprise for the Forex traders, because yesterday BoE reduced the official Bank Rate by 0.25% and the pound was falling down strongly, especially against dollar. The only currency which reversed […]

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February 8
2008

Traders Dynamic Index — MetaTrader Indicator

I published a new complex MetaTrader indicator on the site today — it’s called Traders Dynamic Index. It has almost everything the Forex trader needs: trend direction indicator, trend strength indicator and the market volatility measurement tool. But despite these cool features it is very simple to use. This indicator was sent to me by one of the site’s visitors, but it most probably originates from www.compassfx.com. Here’s a quick guide to using this indicator (I recommend reading the full […]

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February 7
2008

BoE Lowers Rates, ECB Holds Them

Today two important interest rates decision were highly anticipated by the markets â€” the monetary policy decisions by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE). Before both of the banks released their monetary policy statements, the majority of the economic analysts were predicting the results. It was expected that BoE will lower the rates, while ECB will abstain from reducing or increasing the interest rates. Both predictions became real â€” the Bank […]

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February 7
2008

USD Rallies Up as BoE Cuts Interest Rate

Dollar (and, actually, Japanese yen too) showed a major triumph on Forex market today after the Bank of England decided to go down from 5.50% to 5.25% on the main interest rate. And despite, while BoE lowered the rate, ECB held the rate at the same 4.00% value, dollar bulls pushed EUR/USD down as well as the GBP/USD currency pair. And that’s on the disappointing fundamental data coming out in U.S. U.S. initial jobless claims […]

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February 7
2008

South African Reserves Gold Value Increases

Last month South African Reserve Bank bought less foreign currency reserves than in December 2007, as one of the ways to help the rand avoid further weakening. Spurred by the exports of now expensive commodities South African national reserves continued to grow in January, as the government tried to improve the national currency’s position. Record high reserves in foreign currency and gold also help stabilizing the whole […]

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February 6
2008

Yen at Two-Week High against Pound, Euro

Yesterday’s triumph of the currencies against the Japanese yen didn’t last too long. Today yen soared up to the two-week high against the euro and the Great Britain pound on the bearish stock market trading session. Yen also rose against U.S., Australian and New Zealand dollars, but didn’t exit the medium-term bullish trend on the latter two. USD/JPY is going sideways on Forex for almost 3 weeks now. The Japanese yen also posted significant gains against the emerging markets’ […]

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