I enjoy watching most sport but I’ve never quite got American Football. However, I do watch the Superbowl from time to time and whilst penning and refining various FXCC articles, mail outs and reports in the early hours of Monday morning I had it on. To be honest the game was fascinating and the three […]
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Is there any difference between having a normal stop loss order, or trading with a ‘margin call’ stop? After all your position gets liquidated when you want it to be.. Is there any such thing as trading without a stop loss order? They can be hard physical stops or mental, but they’re always there, because
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“The Euro Will Outlast Us All” – Jean-Claude Juncker Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the Euro group of finance ministers, when interviewed on German radio stated that “the euro would outlast us all”, he’s confident that Greece will remain in the single currency. He’s also adamant that Europe’s costs would escalate if Greece were to quit
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris on Monday as Greece’s interim prime minister, Lucas Papademos, prepared to negotiate with the troika of international lenders in Athens. However, the gathering of Greek political leaders was delayed until Tuesday as they struggled to create a united message. Greece appears to be intent
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Have you, No? Me neither, so why do so many traders still insist on trading without stop losses? To be frank I shouldn’t get involved in discussions over stop losses as you eventually reach that polarised and prejudiced viewpoint of no return. You think that you’re right, someone else will swear black is white. Now
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As the impact of the 2008-2209 crash subsided the ‘mainstream media commentary collective’ created new buzz words and phrases to be contained in the revised popular lexicon. This list has seen the addition of anachronisms such as “TARP” and the writing into popular culture of “credit crunch” and “quantitative easing”. A “jobless recovery” duly took
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Many of the capital increasing proposals put forward by as many as thirty European banks may be rejected as not sufficiently credible. Banks were instructed to devise plans to increase their capital cushions (reserves) in December after the European Banking Authority discovered in December 2001 they collectively need to raise circa €115bn in order to
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Focus may have switch back to Europe’s banking and debt crisis this week affecting the optimism many investors have experienced and created with regards to the global economic prospects that followed a remarkable (and some commentators suggest a highly suspicious) U.S. January employment report. Global investors could be in for a reversion, technical or fundamental,
There can’t be many of us who haven’t experienced that “too much month at the end of the money” dilemma and I suppose the cliche; “it’s all relative” fits were Greece is concerned. Particularly if you spent heavily at Xmas that next Jan. pay cheque can’t come quickly enough. If Greece are only ten percent
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Pandora’s box is an artefact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora’s creation in Hesiod’s Works and Days. The “box” was actually a large jar given to Pandora which contained all the evils of the world. When Pandora opened the jar, all its contents except for one item were released into the world.
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