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US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - Prices advanced as expected after prices put in a bullish Morning Star candlestick pattern. Near-term resistance is at 11937, the 50% Fibonacci expansion, with a break above that on a daily closing basis exposing the 61.8% level at 11985...

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Cycles are a unique kind of trading analytics, being one of the few types of market data that can be accurately measured. But understanding what the cycles mean and which trades to make based on them is an extremely complex process...

Non-farm Payrolls is the assessment of the total number of employees recorded in payrolls. This is a very strong indicator that shows the change in employment in the country. The growth of this indicator characterizes the increase in employment and leads to the growth of the dollar...

US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - Prices moved higher as expected after producing a bullish Morning Star candlestick pattern. A daily close above the 38.2% Fibonacci expansion at 11888 exposes the 50% level at 11937...

FOMC: "Markets will pay close attention to the tone of the FOMC statement on Wednesday and watch for hints on the timing of the first rate hike...

US Dollar - "Looking at the docket over the coming week for cues and milestones, we have plenty of big ticket items. The problem is that they may not hit the correct pitch...

Daily price is on primary bullish with the secondary correction which just started on D1 bar on Friday. The price is located above Ichimoku cloud/kumo, and Chinkou Span line is crossing the price from above to below for good possible breakdown...

According to Bloomberg: Economists forecast that the economy added 226,000 jobs in May, down from 223,000 in April, and unemployment rate is expected to stay unchanged at 5.4...

1. Financial freedom Being a successful trader not only means that you can make a lot of money, but much more importantly, it means you have freedom. You have freedom to essentially do what you want when you want, and you really can’t put a price on that. 2...

2015-05-27 15:00 GMT (or 17:00 MQ MT5 time) | [CAD - Overnight Rate] past data is 0.75% forecast data is 0.75% actual data is 0.75% according to the latest press release if actual > forecast (or previous data) = good for currency (for CAD in our case...

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US Dollar - "In the week ahead, there are plenty of indicators and Fed speeches on the docket. Yet, few of them really hit the high-profile level that we would expect to single-handedly benchmark the timing for the first rate hike...

Inside bars are easily identified pricing patterns that can be found on virtually any chart. The pattern itself requires some simple technical analysis, which includes identifying a series of highs and lows on a daily chart...

Developed by George C. Lane in the late 1950s, the Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum indicator that shows the location of the current close relative to the high/low range over a certain number of periods...