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2014-11-13 13:30 GMT (or 14:30 MQ MT5 time) | [USD - Unemployment Claims] past data is 278K forecast data is 280K actual data is 290K according to the latest press release if actual > forecast (or actual data) = good for currency (for USD in our case...
Trade Mindfully: Achieve Your Optimum Trading Performance with Mindfulness and "Cutting Edge" Psychology by Gary Dayton Overcome psychological obstacles to increase trading success Successful traders need to be well-versed and skilled in a wide range of business and economic areas...
The first time Rajibuddin Mandal, a family doctor in Birmingham,England, tried his hand at trading currencies online, he lost 2,000 British pounds. From that experience, he concluded that the foreign-exchange market was too big, too complex and too hazardous for amateur investors like himself...
Dollar again tonic against the yen, which repositions the lowest level since seven years on the greenback already scored in the week, on the prospect that the Prime Minister Abe decides to take early elections. The dollar rose to 115.76 yen from 115.47 closing; EUR / USD 1.2445 from 1...
USD/JPY has powered to higher in leaving Hanging Man formation to fall flat. With bearish signals lacking - the pair may be primed for further gains. Clearance of the nearby 115.90 hurdle could pave the way for an ascent on the October 07 high near 117.90 price. A daily close below 114...
When it comes to the markets, academics, professionals and novice investors have one thing in common: They all operate on assumptions that fail to hold up in the harsh light of reality. The following are a sampling of observations about how markets really work: The market is not always right...
Is your MT4 slow or does it hang alot? This is why.. MT4 and MT5 tend to store temporary data on the RAM and uses the computer chips for computation.. This is what you can do to alievate the problem temporarily 1. Reduce the number of bars stored on the chart and in history...
China's biggest e-commerce company claims more than USD1 billion worth of goods were sold over its sites within the first 20 minutes. Alibaba says it hit USD1 billion in gross merchandise volume at 12:17 A.M. this morning...
In another black eye for the financial industry, US, British and Swiss regulators on Wednesday fined JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup, Bank of America and three other global banks a total of about $US4.3 billion to settle investigations into attempted manipulation of foreign exchange rates...
EUR/GBP: Possible new short position at higher level. The EUR/GBP is having a strong pull back and may even have bottomed in the short term. New short position is in place to be opened in case price goes higher. Profit target for this new position will be 1/4 Weekly ATR. The pair is now in the 4H...
High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake. Computers and clever maths enable traders to buy and sell in the blink of an eye. But does high-frequency trading make matters worse when things go wrong? Major exchanges seek to dismiss high-frequency trading lawsuit. "Major U.S...
So the account is up 65% at this point (Click on the MQL5 links here) which is satisfying however on my recently created test it only makes me the no 2 trader. Oh well! There are a number of things on my radar. The Swiss Franc, Gold, Oil and the Ruble, oh and the FTSE too...
The Pension Wars: Finite assets. Infinite managers. The battle is on. (CIO) Buffett Said He Paid a Lot. $15 Billion Later, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Is a Cash Machine...
The major risk for the Bank of England (BoE) Inflation Report was always going to be how hard Governor Carney would decide to punch the pound. Although he managed to hold himself back from a complete knock-out, he did achieve a 90 pip body blow to the GBPUSD. The Cable fell as low as 1...
US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Prices may be gearing up for a turn lower after prices produced a bearish Dark Cloud Cover candlestick pattern. Near-term support is at 11246, the 14.6% Fibonacci retracement, with a break below that on a daily closing basis exposing the 23.6% level at 11211...
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street – A Documentary about algorythmic trading - 50 minutes documentary movie Quant Value Investing: Alternatives To Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula...
On Wednesday, HSBC Holdings, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase agreed to pay a total of about $3.3 billion to U.S., British and Swiss regulators to resolve allegations that they tried to manipulate the vast foreign-exchange market...
The euro held the gains against the dollar made in recent sessions, with a view to exchange 1.25 share, an improvement of about a figure and a half from the lows reached two years ago last Friday...
2014-11-11 20:00 GMT (or 21:00 MQ MT5 time) | [NZD - RBNZ Financial Stability Report] past data is n/a forecast data is n/a actual data is n/a according to the latest press release More hawkish than expected = Good for currency...
