I dont agree it was Profit Taking that caused the GBPUSD to drop from 8920s to 8870s. I was that freakin JPY that brought it down. I was monitoring this the whole day. Last Friday, JPY had a series of bad numbers it weakened JPY considerably. A lot ...

$ For The week of 10/30-With Trade Ideas

Seems like a very hot data to ignore. How often does this data occur? After every GDP? I'd like to do some historic chart for this one.

core PCE for 10/30

Nov 3, 2006 Previous: 51K Estimate: 120K~145K Actual: Many estimates show that there was plenty of employments created during the month of October. Expect USD to start moving very early perhaps even a day earlier! BK's Research at history with ...

Historic Charts: US NFP

How to trade the ISM — ISM produces a move (almost very slowly) in the general direction of the Estimate vs Actual result: Result < Estimate = SELL USD Result > Estimate = BUY USD MARKET ORDER ISM charts show retrace in the 2nd minute before ...

Historic Charts: US ISM

Oct 2, 2006 Previous: 54.5 Estimate: 54.5 Actual: 52.9 Actual < Estimate = Short USD. NOTE: There was rumor that ISM fell below 50 and an hour before the news, USD weakened on all crosses by as much as 140 pips on GBPUSD and 100 pips on EURUSD.

Historic Charts: US ISM

Sep 1, 2006 Previous: 53.8 Consensus: 54.5 Actual: 54.5 Actual = Consensus: ??? Anecdote: NFP was also released on this day. NFP was USD Positive and many went Long USD. Perhaps, this ISM was a counter trend against NFP, or traders simply took ...

Historic Charts: US ISM

Aug 1, 2006 Previous: 53.8 Consensus: 53.8 Actual: 54.7

Historic Charts: US ISM

Jul 3, 2006 Previous: 54.4 Consensus: 55 Actual: 53.8 Actual < Concensus: Short USD

Historic Charts: US ISM

Jun 1, 2006 Previous: 57.3 Consensus: 56 Actual: 54.4 Actual < Consensus: Short USD

Historic Charts: US ISM

May 1, 2006 Previous: Consensus: 55 Actual: 57.3 Actual > Consensus: Buy USD

Historic Charts: US ISM

April 3, 2006 Previous: 56.7 Consensus: 57.5 Actual: 55.2

Historic Charts: US ISM

Mar 1, 2006 Previous: 54.8 Consensus: 56 Actual: 56.7 Actual > Consensus: Buy USD

Historic Charts: US ISM

Feb 1, 2006 Previous: 54.2 Consensus: 55.5 Actual: 54.8 Actual < Consensus: Short USD

Historic Charts: US ISM

You are referring to the spreads right? South Africa has same timezone as that of London so I wont be surprise that the pip spread during london session is narrowest. But my broker that offers ZAR has fix 200 pips spread.

ZAR trading

THAT suck! But how fast are you filled if you do market orders? How is slippage when you do market orders? IF the result is not better than straddling at those distance, its better not straddle with FXSol in that case...

Lets Trade The News V 0.2 !

Last friday I shorted USDZAR 1 hour before GDP, and closed it 1 hour after GDP... I ended up with $104.37 profit (demo of course)... If I bought and close GBPUSD at the same times, I would end up with 83 pips. If I sold and close USDJPY at the same ...

ZAR trading

We are still to hear out the UK Rate Hike this november. THAT will surely send GBPUSD up by 50 pips.. However, the coming week is full of USD Positive news that will support dollar against GBP and EUR...

GBPUSD

fixme1too should have a dedicated forum of his own "Eliot Wave" just like "Mouteki" having its own forum. Anyone agree?

Elliot Wave Trading

The Daily Trend was clearly UP Trend that is why. The down trend you saw was merely a result of US Hawkishness coming into FOMC wednesday - the hawkishness failed and GBPUSD went up again.

Learning From Unsuccessful Mouteki Trades - The Search for Filters...