November, 2011 | Forex Trading Blog - Forex News, Articles and Market Analysis

Are We Being Fooled By The Randomness Of Forex Markets When Chaos Theory Exists?

As forex traders we're self conditioned to make trading decisions and ultimately take our forex trades based on two key principles, fundamental and technical analysis. The first principle, fundamental analysis, is (on the face of it) straightforward. FA requires very little depth of thought after a brief period of experience; if the news gets any […]

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What Happens In The Post Apocalyptic Financial Nuclear Winter If The Euro Currency Collapses?

Market Commentaries

Will the Euro collapse, or will the global investment community switch its attention to the plight of the USA? Will there be warnings versus the dollar and the impending $15.5 trillion of US debt? Will the Euro be allowed to collapse given the monumental effort that’s been undertaken by the E.U. to create such a

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Print or Perish

Between the lines

Let’s shift the current focus and concentrate on the UK’s financial ills, as opposed to the E.U.’s or the USA’s. The UK’s mainstream media have adopted a rather ‘Olde Englishe’ smug and arrogant attitude towards the travails of the E.U. over recent weeks. The spin, that the lowest common denominator U.K. press outlets put on

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Can A Two Speed Europe Be The Route Forward, Or Will The Divisions Render It Unworkable?

Market Commentaries

UK Prime Minister David Cameron will be warned today that he risks creating an unstoppable momentum behind a “two-speed Europe”, which would be dominated by France and Germany, if Britain seeks to gain political advantage by making demands for too many concessions during the eurozone crisis. In a series of meetings in Berlin and Brussels,

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Land Of The Free, The Brave, And The Ignored Living In Abject Poverty

Between the lines

There are times when you read some stats. contained in an article or press release and it leaves you dumbstruck as to how broken and dislocated the financial system appears to be, particularly in the USA. Before we concentrate on the latest USA child poverty figures it’s worth noting another series of stats. The number

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The Rocky Trail Of Trailing Stops Can Help To Lock In Your Forex Profits

Forex Trading Articles

Love them or hate them, if used effectively and correctly trailing stops can be a very valuable trade management tool, particularly for swing or position traders, intraday forex traders can also enjoy many of the benefits. Perhaps the biggest ‘mistake’ new users to the phenomena of trailing stops make is putting their trailing stops too

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Déjà Vu, The Uncanny Sense That We've Been Here Before

Market Commentaries

At times it’s worth taking a step back from chaotic situations in order to evaluate the damage. This also provides the opportunity to establish what measures have been taken to move away from chaos into effective crisis management. A clearer picture can then emerge as to how the damage is being contained, repaired and what

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Power To The People, But Not To Certain Greek Ministries

Between the lines

It’s impossible not to admire the bravado, the implied statement and indeed the ironic humour of the union who killed the power to a Greek ministry building on Wednesday. The Greek public electricity workers’ union flipped the switch on the country’s health ministry building in Athens in order to protest over the massive unpaid state

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Forex Trading Is Chess Boxing

Forex Trading Articles

An old friend of mine used to teach scuba diving, he often remarked that many of his new divers had already been on the basic learner PADI course, PADI = Professional Association of Diving Instructors, he joked that he offered a different course, the STFUADI course. The last three letters of the acronym were “and,

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Just Above Zero Is The New Norm

Market Commentaries

The current vogue in market analyst circles, when commentating on data produced by various government bodies or respected publishers, is to micro-analyse each minuscule movement and produce reams of discussion on each small variance. Whereas previously a movement of circa 0.5% would be regarded as irrelevant ‘noise’ given it could be a statistical blip or

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November 2011