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Are you about to give up on your trading method? Perhaps you shouldn’t be too hasty…

Between the lines

The ‘three Ms’ of trading have been referenced many times in our trading blog; our mindset, money management and method are the three critical constituent parts that underpin our overall approach to trading, these three critical success factors are then imprinted in our trading plan which (as we’ve mentioned on numerous occasions) is never violated, […]

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Consumer confidence takes a big hit in the USA, whilst the main USA indices reach record highs…

Morning Roll Call

If ever an illustration was needed, to reveal just how the markets and the USA economy have entered a new normal ‘twilight zone’, then perhaps Tuesday provided it. The afternoon trading session allowed us to witness the complete dislocation between policy decisions, news events, the real state of the USA  economy and the inexorable bullish

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Japanese data improves markedly as investors ponder if the BOJ’s monetary stimulus package is now working

Mind The Gap

Japan’s government authorities published several reports in the overnight/early morning session. All came in positive and ahead of economists’ expectations. Retail sales improved by 3.1% year on year, household spending increased by 3.7% and unemployment fell to 4%. All things considered it’s an excellent series of results adding belief that the unprecedented monetary stimulus Japan

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Picking an FX broker; what separates the best from the rest?

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We’ve touched on the subject many times of how traders go through a form of ‘trader metamorphosis’ when they first discover trading. Once they’ve discovered the industry they’ll experiment with many different strategies, whilst also experimenting with many different securities to trade. They’ll win some lose some and generally be down, in terms of their

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Pending home sales in the USA fall 5.6% month on month to reach a three year low. Is it a sign of a deeper malaise?

Morning Roll Call

Once again we’ve received disappointing data from the USA as yet another ‘bell-weather’ indicator has missed economists’ expectations and by some distance. Pending home sales in the USA have fallen by 5.6%. The previous month had seen a surprise fall of 1.5% and the expectation was for a return to growth of 0.5% positive, therefore

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Sterling rises to a four week high as UK house prices rise for the ninth month in succession

Mind The Gap

Hot on the heels of the UK chancellor’s decision to provide 15% deposits for home buyers, to buy any property up to the value of £600K, last week the UK saw asking prices rise 10% in a single month, way beyond the house price hysteria experienced in the UK in 2006/2007. Not to be left

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UK preliminary GDP figures for third quarter show 0.8% growth. Annual growth at 1.5%

Mind The Gap

The UK’s latest GDP figure came in as predicted by many of the economists polled, but growth at 1.5% annual is still lower than the 1.6% Q2 2010 figure the coalition government. in the UK inherited from the previous government. Despite the 0.8% rise in activity in the last quarter, Britain’s economy is still 2.5%

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Forex Market Commentaries - UK Unemployment Figures

More Americans than forecast filed for unemployment benefit whilst USA manufacturing flash PMI missed expectation printing a twelve month low…

Morning Roll Call

The department in the USA govt. apparatus responsible for the weekly unemployment claims number, appears to have got ahead of the curve regarding the missing prints from Nevada and California. Thursday’s weekly unemployment claims print came in at 350,000 down 12,000 from the revised figure of 362,000 the previous week. The 4-week moving average was

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