I think we should remember that fundamentalists debate greatly amoungst themselves even regarding what type of theory is correct. For those of you who have a incline towards fundamentals, but dislike the inaccuracy of the quantitative side u might ...

How to use Fundamentals to make Money

"Birdt" Thanks for the answer. You say, "any discrepancies between the exchange rate and the expectation of future value will be filled by profit seeking speculators." "a market instrument will often lead a different life to the physical reality of ...

Who sets exchange rates?

LongToBeFree "Realize that in some cases (like JPY) these "buyers & sellers" are actually the country's central bank, artificially propping up the currency." I see, thats most interesting. I know that some central banks do weaken their own ...

Who sets exchange rates?

So your saying that its only the buyers and sellers in the fx market who determine the exchange rate of a currency? Because there is obviously a lot of money outside the fx market changing hands at any point in time. A good example is the amount of ...

Who sets exchange rates?

I see. So the markets often do not react to announcements based on the underlying impacts the news has so much as what they usually would expect others to do after of the announcement. Makes sense given people are trying to to make money. I have ...

Market reaction to Fed rate cuts