I watched a segment at CBNC earlier and some economists debated that FED should increase the inflation comfort zone from 1.0~2.5% to 1.5~3% The inflation level of <1.5% has never existed for many decades - last time was in the 50s. It is thus not ...

FX News Trading For The Week Of July 15-And Beyond

I have almost 90% of my money in USD. Hell I am almost broke on local PHP currency and have to sell USD monthly... (I converted my savings into USD to trade forex...)

Hypothetical China crash

With too big a population, more of your funds would be diverted to providing health care/human needs instead of infrustracture. Compare India and China. China is investing more and more on infrustracture while India is dumping money into "human ...

Hypothetical China crash

FED is complicated. They are tasked to manage inflation and economy; BoE is only tasked to manage inflation, so is RBNZ...

On which indicators are CBs focusing on?

Bullshit Protector? Where do you get them? I need 2 pairs (in case 1 isnt enough)..

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

Jul 18, 2007 *JUN CONSUMER PRICE INDEX: 0.2% V 0.1%E; CPI EX FOOD & ENERGY: 0.2% V 0.2%E; CPI NSA: 208.35 V 208.163E - No Revisions

Historic Charts: US CPI

Jul 18, 2007 *(CA) JUN CORE CPI MOM: 0.0% V 0.1%E, YOY: 2.5% V 2.6%E - No Revisions *(CA) JUN CPI MOM: -0.2% V 0.1%E, YOY: 2.2% V 2.5%E - No Revisions

Historic Charts: CAD CPI

Get a spreadsheet: YoY for Jul 2007 = SUM(MoM from Aug 2006 to Jul 2007)!

CAD CPI-Core y/y Calendar

USD is just plain WEAK! No one wants it.

What is wrong with this CHF?

Seems to me that US investors cannot afford to invest overseas (FTSE or DAX, etc...) due to weakening of the USD and dumped their USD in US companies...

USDCAD trend reversal?

The swap free broker (marketiva) I traded back in January is a scam. They only wanted me to hold swap positive positions (long USDJPY) and threaten to close my account for holding swap negative positions (short GBPJPY).

USDCAD trend reversal?

I have some investors from China visiting the last few months back and fort. They are into mining and this group is some sort of "advance" surveyors. (TIP: If you are a stock investor, invest in Mining! My stocks are now 50% profit!) As we were ...

Hypothetical China crash

GBPUSD @ 3.0000 EURUSD @ 2.0000 USDCAD @ 0.7500 NZDUSD @ 1.2500 AUDUSD @ 1.5000 OIL @ $150 a barrel USD Index @ 25 the future is bleak... ps. USD is getting so weak, reward money for the head of Osama is now USD50M. they should simply just change ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

interesting insight about that august.. but if they liquidate longs, market will dip. you re-enter only when it dips considerably and not immediately after liquidation - surely these japanese housewives are intelligent to be so successful to do just ...

Why is NZD so strong??

I finally got the time to work on extracting info from MT4's hst files. as I was converting them to jpg files, I realized that my converter is not optimized enough to be stored in small files... any programmers out there who knows perl/php and ...

Historic Charts of Economic Releases

seriously, you must be the laziest person... you dont even see it infront of you? sorry for being rude, but i get lots of this kind of message

CAD CPI-Core y/y Calendar

Jul 17, 2007 *JUN PRODUCER PRICE INDEX: -0.2% V 0.2%E; PPI EX FOOD & ENERGY: 0.3% V 0.2%E - no revisions conflicting data

Historic Charts: US PPI

It could actually crash. There are too much "borrowers" funding the China economy; should export industry starts to slow down, these borrowers will loose money and eventually cascade into a nationwide crash should it crash, everyone will suffer. US ...

Hypothetical China crash

I once had a looser and I hedged it to prevent further losses. Nice, ingenious! Clever! I was sooo comfy thinking I wont loose anymore. After a day of thinking, I realized that, WTF so now I have a set of positions that is holding me by the balls ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

i missed buying on dips - NO DIPS! oh well.

Cable Update (GBPUSD)