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A day of inflation reports could cause fluctuations in the value of GBP, EUR and CAD

On Wednesday July 17th several countries’ statistics agencies will publish their latest data on CPI (consumer price inflation). These data releases are usually considered to be high impact calendar events due to their ability to move the markets in the respective countries’ currencies, particularly if the figures beat or miss the news agencies’ forecasts. FX […]

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Swiss franc and Japanese yen rise in safe haven play, sterling slumps as Brexit fears stalk FX markets

The two currencies considered to be safe havens for investors and FX traders alike rose during the early trading sessions on Tuesday, as both the Swiss franc and Japanese yen registered gains versus the majority of their peers. The globe’s reserve currency, USD, also rose against its currency peers. At 8:45am U.K. time the dollar

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U.S. equity markets struggle for a reason to break higher, USD makes gains but trades in narrow ranges versus its main peers

Investors and traders of USA equities struggled to discover renewed justification to push the leading indices above the recent highs during Monday’s New York session, at 19:00pm U.K. time the SPX traded down -0.10% as the NASDAQ tech-index traded up 0.04% posting a new record intraday high of 8,264. Although the main U.S. markets are

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Don’t ignore the evidence, part-time forex traders are the most successful

Ambition should always be tempered with reality. When curious and pro-active investors first discover retail forex trading as an initial hobby, it’s inevitable they dream of reaching for the stars. That ambition and vision shouldn’t be discouraged as without it you’d have very little motivation to trade. You enter this industry to become financially independent,

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China’s GDP falls to a twenty-seven year record low, as USD continues to fall in correlation with rising USA equity markets

China’s year on year GDP growth came in as forecast by Reuters at 6.4%, the quarterly figure of Q2 did beat the 1.5% forecast by coming in at 1.6%, ahead of the Q1 reading of 1.4%. Analysed in isolation the Q2 figure was the lowest in 27 years, since 1992. The improvement between the Q1

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Will U.S. equity indices continue to reach record highs at the expense of the U.S. dollar?

The U.S. equity markets maintained their gravity defying rises last week as the DJIA, SPX and NASDAQ indices all continued to take out record highs. It’s worth noting that the DJIA finally broke through the 20,000 level in January 2017 and here we are, thirty months later and 27,000 has been breached representing a thirty-five

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What a Poker beating algorithm can teach FX traders

Over the past 24 hours the media has reported that an A.I. robot named “Pluribus” has managed to beat multiple players at Poker. The research was jointly undertaken by Facebook and the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pluribus has been built on the technique originally used to create Libratus, a poker playing A.I. that

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U.S. dollar slips versus its peers, Bitcoin survives Trump’s first major criticism

Since the June FOMC meeting minutes were released, during Jerome Powell’s delivery of his testimony on Capitol Hill in front of a finance panel, USD has fallen versus its peers as investors and traders have increased their bets that the interest rate will be cut by up to 0.5%, at the culmination of the July

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DJIA breaches record 27,000 as U.S. deficit misses forecasts

The dislocation between the record rises in U.S. equity indices and various aspects of what could be termed “the real economy” in America continues. Many analysts have cited that outflows from the wider markets, such as from hedge funds, are at levels not seen since the depths of the Great Recession. However, many funds and

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Don’t buy into the claim that FX traders can be fooled by randomness

Forex traders on trading forums often engage in debate regarding the supposed randomness of FX markets. Many experienced traders will refute the notion that FX markets are random as it would imply they’re chaotic and impossible to trade. Other experienced traders would suggest the markets are unpredictable, but they’ll also cite this issue doesn’t necessarily

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