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Exto Capital ? Another Swiss Broker
2008-05-16 13:20:00
While NFA makes its requirements more strict for the Forex brokers operating in U.S. and the senate tries to enforce the regulation with CFTC, more and more brokers choose Switzerland as their primary location. Swiss regulation is reliable and authoritative, but now it remains more liberal than in U.S. Exto Capital is a Forex broker based in Switzerland (operated by Exto Financials). They offer downloadable ...

Dollar Steady During a Wave of Macroeconomical Releases
2008-05-15 16:09:00
USD recovered from its daily minimums against euro after the important fundamental reports were released today in U.S. EUR/USD has been trading with 70 pip gain today, but currently it’s trading near its open rate. Only net foreign purchases and Philadelphia Fed index showed some positive developments for the U.S. economy, while other releases were of a very little help ...

April CPI Disappoints Dollar Bulls
2008-05-14 17:11:00
While the April CPI report was expected by many Forex traders to improve the dollar positions and helped greenback gain before the actual release, disappointing CPI reading pushed EUR/USD up from its daily lows and it’s now trading almost without any loss (1.5459 currently with an open rate at 1.5465). CPI (all items) was at 0.2% in April — that’s below the March value (0.3%) and the ...
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EUR/USD is Entering Sideways Market
2008-05-13 17:19:00
Today EUR/USD fell down on Forex after a day of growth yesterday and on the daily chart the currency pair’s trend is slowly transforming into a flat pattern rather than bullish or bearish trend. April retail sales in U.S. decreased as expected — they dropped 0.2%, after gaining 0.2% in March. Export and import prices rose in April. Import prices increased 1.8% after 2.9% rise in March — the growth was largely ...

Forex Technical Analysis for 05/12?05/16 Week
2008-05-12 09:18:00
EUR/USD trend: hold. GBP/USD trend: sell. USD/JPY trend: hold. EUR/JPY trend: hold. Floor Pivot Points Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res EUR/USD 1.5001 1.5142 1.5311 1.5452 1.5621 1.5762 1.5931 GBP/USD 1.9078 1.9268 1.9403 1.9593 1.9728 1.9918 2.0053 USD/JPY 98.74 100.68 101.74 103.68 104.74 106.68 107.74 EUR/JPY 153.02 155.81 157.49 160.28 161.96 164.75 166.43 Woodie’s Pivot Points Pair 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res EUR/USD 1.5149 1.5324 1.5459 1.5634 1.5769 GBP/USD 1.9268 1.9403 1.9593 1.9728 1.9918 USD/JPY 100.68 101.74 103.68 104.74 106.68 EUR/JPY 155.81 157.49 160.28 161.96 164.75 Camarilla Pivot Points Pair 4th Sup 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res 4th Res EUR/USD 1.5309 1.5394 1.5422 1.5451 1.5507 1.5536 1.5564 1.5650 GBP/USD 1.9358 1.9448 1.9477 1.9507 1.9567 1.9597 1.9626 1.9716 USD/JPY 101.16 101.99 102.26 102.54 103.09 103.36 103.64 104.46 EUR/JPY 156.71 157.94 158.35 158....
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One Financial ? New CFD/Forex Broker
2008-05-08 12:02:00
One Financial is quite a new Forex broker, that is actually specializing on CFD and other futures trading, but offers Forex trading services too. They offer Muslim -friendly accounts (with no interest or swap) and Arabic support — so, it’s quite clear that they are aimed on the traders from Middle East. Their trading conditions are quite common — 3 pips spreads on EUR/USD, $1000 minimum positions, wire and credit ...
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EUR/USD Falls Today as Fundamentals Improve, Less Rate Cuts Expected
2008-05-07 16:32:00
EUR/USD fell today significantly, recovering from its two-day fall that was observed this week. It went down by more than 0.8% today — from 1.5532 to 1.5380. Good fundamental indicators from U.S. helped dollar to strengthen on Forex. Productivity in business sector grew up in first quarter of 2008 according to a preliminary report that was released today. Annual rate of the seasonally adjusted productivity growth was 1.9% in Q1 — above 1.5% ...
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TradeView Forex ? Another Broker from RCG
2008-05-07 13:16:00
Today I’ve added a new Forex broker to the list on the site — Trade View Forex — another broker that is operated by the financial company Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC (first broker from this company, which hit my list, was RCG fxtrader). TradeView Forex offers Meta Trader 4 platform without CFD trading, limited demo accounts (30-day limit) and rather tight spreads (from 2 pips). For me, it doesn’t look like ...
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Carnival of Forex Trading ? May 5, 2008
2008-05-05 09:42:00
Welcome to the May 5, 2008  edition of Carnival of Forex Trading . Amy S Quinn presents Top 25 Most Influential People in Forex posted at Currency Trading.net. Heather Johnson presents 5 Unusual Things That Adversely Affect the U.S. Dollar posted at Forex Blog | FX-BAR daily forex trading blog. Jed Norwood presents Successful Forex Currency Trader posted at Forex Strategy, saying, “How ...
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MasterForex ? MetaTrader 4 Forex Broker
2008-05-04 16:06:00
MasterForex existed on-line since 2006, but being very similar to other MT4 Forex brokers it has never received such traders’ community attention as their competitors (e.g. LiteForex or FXOpen). As its rivals MasterForex accepts WebMoney , e-gold and wire transfer for deposit/withdraw operations, trading from $1, MT4 platform, CFD trading and a flexible leverage. Unfortunately, like many other Meta Trader brokers it’s not registered with NFA, ...
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Forex Technical Analysis for 05/05?05/09 Week
2008-05-03 10:26:00
EUR/USD trend: sell. GBP/USD trend: hold. USD/JPY trend: buy. EUR/JPY trend: buy. Floor Pivot Points Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res EUR/USD 1.4957 1.5159 1.5290 1.5492 1.5623 1.5825 1.5956 GBP/USD 1.9229 1.9426 1.9571 1.9768 1.9913 2.0110 2.0255 USD/JPY 101.35 102.29 103.83 104.77 106.31 107.25 108.79 EUR/JPY 157.52 159.06 160.79 162.33 164.06 165.60 167.33 Woodie’s Pivot Points Pair 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res EUR/USD 1.5141 1.5256 1.5474 1.5589 1.5807 GBP/USD 1.9426 1.9571 1.9768 1.9913 2.0110 USD/JPY 102.29 103.83 104.77 106.31 107.25 EUR/JPY 159.06 160.79 162.33 164.06 165.60 Camarilla Pivot Points Pair 4th Sup 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res 4th Res EUR/USD 1.5239 1.5330 1.5361 1.5391 1.5453 1.5483 1.5514 1.5605 GBP/USD 1.9528 1.9622 1.9653 1.9685 1.9747 1.9779 1.9810 1.9904 USD/JPY 104.02 104.70 104.93 105.15 105.61 105.83 106.06 106.74 EUR/JPY 160.72 161.62 161.92 162.2...
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EUR/USD at Monthly Low on Nonfarm Payrolls
2008-05-02 16:02:00
EUR/USD broke down through 1.5400 mark today and reached the minimum level since the 24th of March as the employment fundamentals showed some improvement compared to the March results. Dollar managed to strengthen also against pound and yen even with objectively bad macroeconomic results. Nonfarm payrolls — one of the main indicators of the U.S. economy’s health decreased 20k in April. That’s a lot better than the 80k ...

NorthFinance and WestCapFX Endorse FxPro
2008-05-02 15:53:00
NorthFinance and West CapFX recently stopped accepting new Forex trader registrations and are now officially redirecting new members to a very new but employing an aggressive marketing strategy Forex broker — FxPro. It looks like the company behind NorthFinance and WestCapFX decided that it would be better to consolidate their business and offer one «universally good» broker rather than two different decisions for two ...
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Jobs and Income Fall in United States
2008-05-01 16:08:00
May Day resulted in some unexpectedly bad fundamental data releases from the United States . Labor market, income, spendings, construction and manufacturing were covered in today’s reports and none of them showed something optimistic for the dollar bulls; nevertheless EUR/USD was down today and the dollar managed to show some unfounded strength on the Forex market. Initial jobless claims rose up from 345k (also ...
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EUR/USD Mostly Unchanged by Other Macroeconomic Releases before Fed Rate De
2008-04-30 16:47:00
EUR/USD remains mostly unchanged today as the markets await the Federal Reserve decision on the interest rate. Even some important indicators that were released in U.S. today failed to move the currency pair significantly on Forex. Advance data for the first quarter GDP in U.S. were releasd today, showing 0.6% growth (the same as in Q4 2007), above the estimate of 0.5%. Chicago PMI index in April rose ...
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Risk Management in Gambling and Forex
2008-04-29 13:12:00
There are many similarities between the money management strategies in the gambling and the Forex trading. In fact there are too little differences between money management in any risk-based money making. Of course, that fact doesn’t mean that Forex market is a casino and traders are gamblers, there are many other properties that define Forex from the gambling industry but that’s another story. ...
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Forex Technical Analysis for 04/28?05/02 Week
2008-04-26 09:43:00
EUR/USD trend: sell. GBP/USD trend: hold. USD/JPY trend: buy. EUR/JPY trend: sell. Floor Pivot Points Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res EUR/USD 1.4986 1.5271 1.5450 1.5735 1.5914 1.6199 1.6378 GBP/USD 1.9331 1.9504 1.9679 1.9852 2.0027 2.0200 2.0375 USD/JPY 101.00 101.84 103.13 103.97 105.26 106.10 107.39 EUR/JPY 159.93 161.30 162.23 163.60 164.53 165.90 166.83 Woodie’s Pivot Points Pair 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res EUR/USD 1.5245 1.5398 1.5709 1.5862 1.6173 GBP/USD 1.9504 1.9679 1.9852 2.0027 2.0200 USD/JPY 101.84 103.13 103.97 105.26 106.10 EUR/JPY 161.30 162.23 163.60 164.53 165.90 Camarilla Pivot Points Pair 4th Sup 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res 4th Res EUR/USD 1.5375 1.5502 1.5545 1.5587 1.5673 1.5715 1.5758 1.5885 GBP/USD 1.9663 1.9758 1.9790 1.9822 1.9886 1.9918 1.9950 2.0045 USD/JPY 103.25 103.83 104.03 104.22 104.62 104.81 105.01 105.59 EUR/JPY 161.90 162.54 162.75 162....
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Broker Rating System Upgrade
2008-04-25 20:17:00
I’ve upgraded the Forex broker rating system to make it more cheat-proof and to make it show more relevant rating score for each broker. With previous system I had to deal with hundreds of fraudulent votes (both in favor of some brokers and to lower some brokers’ rating). Current system should be much better than the old one and I hope the rating will be more accurate now. Unfortunately, ...
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EUR/USD Falls Lowest since April 14
2008-04-24 16:20:00
EUR/USD slid to its minimum value since April 14 today on Forex — 1.5675, as the investors started to consider the U.S. currency to be oversold and the further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve — unlikely. Fundamental data that was released today in U.S. was mostly disappointing, but that didn’t help the euro to grow against the dollar. Initial jobless claims dropped 33k last week — from 375k ...
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Forex-Metal ? Broker with MT4 and PayPal Support
2008-04-22 19:26:00
I’ve added a very new Forex broker to the site today — Forex-Metal . Its website is still very raw and there is not very much information about this broker on the internet. But I thought that it should be listed because it has one rare feature — it supports both MetaTrader 4 platform for trading and PayPal payment system for deposits and withdrawals. It also supports WebMoney and wire transfers ...
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Forex Technical Analysis for 04/21?04/25 Week
2008-04-19 10:52:00
EUR/USD trend: buy. GBP/USD trend: sell. USD/JPY trend: buy. EUR/JPY trend: buy. Floor Pivot Points Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res EUR/USD 1.5352 1.5510 1.5664 1.5822 1.5976 1.6134 1.6288 GBP/USD 1.9325 1.9464 1.9721 1.9860 2.0117 2.0256 2.0513 USD/JPY 96.75 98.53 101.09 102.87 105.43 107.21 109.77 EUR/JPY 153.50 155.88 159.91 162.29 166.32 168.70 172.73 Woodie’s Pivot Points Pair 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res EUR/USD 1.5509 1.5661 1.5821 1.5973 1.6133 GBP/USD 1.9464 1.9721 1.9860 2.0117 2.0256 USD/JPY 98.53 101.09 102.87 105.43 107.21 EUR/JPY 155.88 159.91 162.29 166.32 168.70 Camarilla Pivot Points Pair 4th Sup 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res 4th Res EUR/USD 1.5645 1.5731 1.5760 1.5788 1.5846 1.5874 1.5903 1.5989 GBP/USD 1.9761 1.9870 1.9906 1.9943 2.0015 2.0052 2.0088 2.0197 USD/JPY 101.27 102.47 102.86 103.26 104.06 104.46 104.85 106.05 EUR/JPY 160.42 162.19 162.77 163.36 16...
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Bearish U.S. Fundamentals Help Euro Bulls
2008-04-16 17:27:00
U.S. fundamental statistics, that were released today in abundance, appeared to be worse than the market analysts expected. It helped the EUR/USD currency pair to reach its new absolute maximum value at 1.5968 and kept dollar bearish also against the other major currencies. CPI (Consumer Price Index) rose 0.3% in March — at the same pace as expected. In February this indicator was at 0%. Housing starts and building permits ...
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Minor Fixing in MT4 Indicators
2008-04-16 09:29:00
Due to some new code processing rules in the fresh versions of the MetaTrader 4 platform (I don’t know exactly from which build they’ve changed it) some of the indicators on my site stopped working right or just started to show errors in the platform’s log. Thanks to some conscious visitor, who notices the error and contacted me about it, I’ve corrected this issue with all three indicators that had such problem: Aroon Up & ...
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Dollar Grows Somewhat on Improved Manufacturing Outlook
2008-04-15 15:19:00
The EUR/USD currency pair post some small drop today on Forex as the fundamental situation in U.S. economy looked better in April for the manufacturing sector. All of the reports that were released today in U.S. showed a positive dynamics for the dollar, helping it to go up against euro, pound and yen. EUR/USD is currently trading at 1.5784. Producer Price Index in March grew at an unexpected pace — 1.1% compared ...
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Dollar Gets a Blow after Good Start
2008-04-14 16:04:00
After a weird 100 pips gap at today’s Forex trading opening on EUR/USD pair, the U.S. dollar went sharply down. It’s now forcing to stay at as little as 50 pips below the absolute maximum as the Forex traders fail to conclude a definite opinion on how to react on the fundamental statistics that came out today in U.S. Advance retail sales in March rose 0.2% compared to 0.1% forecast and 0.6% fall in February. Business inventories in February ...
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EUR/USD Trade Idea for the Next Week
2008-04-13 18:55:00
The current situation on the EUR/USD daily chart seems like a good preparation for the long position. If you look at the picture below you’ll see three highs almost at the same level — 1.5902 on March 17, 1.5896 on March 31 and 1.5913 on April 10. The corresponding lows of these highs conclude an uptrend. Altogether they form an ascending triangle, which is the known continuation pattern: Somewhere next week I expect the upper horizontal line ...
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Bugfix and New Currency Pairs in Pip Value and Position Size Calculators
2008-04-12 14:54:00
I’ve fixed some javascript related bugs in both pip value and position size calculators. Those bugs prevented newer versions of non-IE browser from actually calculating any results. I’ve also added new currencies and currency pairs to those calculators. Now they can handle 65 currency pairs. Here is the list of the currency pairs that were added today: AUD/DKK (Australian Dollar — Danish Krone) AUD/PLN (Australian Dollar — ...
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Forex Technical Analysis for 04/14?04/18 Week
2008-04-12 09:19:00
EUR/USD trend: buy. GBP/USD trend: sell. USD/JPY trend: sell. EUR/JPY trend: hold. Floor Pivot Points Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res EUR/USD 1.5368 1.5498 1.5652 1.5782 1.5936 1.6066 1.6220 GBP/USD 1.9274 1.9462 1.9575 1.9763 1.9876 2.0064 2.0177 USD/JPY 96.91 98.46 99.74 101.29 102.57 104.12 105.40 EUR/JPY 155.48 157.14 158.40 160.06 161.32 162.98 164.24 Woodie’s Pivot Points Pair 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res EUR/USD 1.5504 1.5665 1.5788 1.5949 1.6072 GBP/USD 1.9462 1.9575 1.9763 1.9876 2.0064 USD/JPY 98.46 99.74 101.29 102.57 104.12 EUR/JPY 157.14 158.40 160.06 161.32 162.98 Camarilla Pivot Points Pair 4th Sup 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res 4th Res EUR/USD 1.5651 1.5729 1.5755 1.5781 1.5833 1.5859 1.5885 1.5963 GBP/USD 1.9523 1.9606 1.9634 1.9661 1.9717 1.9744 1.9772 1.9855 USD/JPY 99.45 100.23 100.49 100.75 101.27 101.53 101.79 102.57 EUR/JPY 158.05 158.86 159.12 159.39 159...
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MetaTrader Indicators Update
2008-04-11 20:31:00
Two new MetaTrader indicators are now available for download from my site. Both indicators come from forex-tsd.com forums. They are very different, but they both looked quite interesting and useful to me. Murrey Math Line X — indicates a set of support and resistance lines that can be used similarly to the common pivot points. It consists of 8 different lines, each representing a certain pivot level. ...
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USD Rises on Better Fundamentals
2008-04-10 20:40:00
EUR/USD reached a new record high level at 1.5913 today, but after some positive fundamental data was released in U.S. the currency pair went down, as the dollar started to regain strength on the Forex market. ECB’s decision to hold the interest rates at 4% also improved dollar’s positions on the market. Initial jobless claims unexpectedly fell by 53k the last week — from the revised 410k value to 357k. A fall to 383k ...