Loading/unloading's been going on for days. It's so hard to trade the market when it's like this..

EUR/GBP technical rally in the downtrend ready to give another chance to sell

There comes a point when retailers need to take a step back. We reached this point in the past two weeks. It's up to you whether you bet on short or bet on long. I'm not betting anything NZDCAD, GBPNZD, GBPJPY and many other pairs have good ...

US Builder Confidence Drops Two Points in March

I agree. Only thing to do is stay away from EUR and USD pairs. Significantly limits the market you can trade, but better to have a few potential trades and no major surprises than to gamble away your money on these pairs

US Builder Confidence Drops Two Points in March

I think they're getting ready to unload their buys. The more hype the more people getting burned. This is so annoying, same thing happened during the 2009 hype... "Euro's going to be 1.70 by the end of 2010, buy all the dips!" How can people be so ...

US Builder Confidence Drops Two Points in March

As someone told me on another news story - "Bad news for the USA is good news for the USD"

US Builder Confidence Drops Two Points in March

Thanks for the insight

UK high streets running out of time as more shops close than new ones open

You're making a good point. The only issue with your rhetoric is that you assume equal knowledge. When everyone is telling you your economy is awesome and everything's going great,, including banks, media, politicians, and friends, if you don't know ...

Inflation doesn’t justify Fed move this year, Sufi says

No one who has ever made a deal with Russia has gotten anything out of it Better the EU than Russia.

German majority against Greece in the Euro

I think all of those things should be done. But it's not that simple. The crisis was caused by out-of-control debt, but the inability of households to pay for their debt wasn't the *CAUSE* of the crisis. It was a symptom. I'm guessing you're aware ...

Inflation doesn’t justify Fed move this year, Sufi says

While the Balkans remain balkanised they will remain weak. You have the right logic, but there's no point in aiming it outward imho

German majority against Greece in the Euro

dancingphil, I've travelled on business to Taiwan and have friends working full-time with Mainland China. What you're saying is true, but frx_trader is also right. Everyone there only accepts $ when making deals with Westerners. Even Euro isn't an ...

Will China Break the Currency Truce?

"argued that the financial crisis was caused by overly indebted households." Goes directly into my repertoire of dinner-time jokes

Inflation doesn’t justify Fed move this year, Sufi says

The money wasn't given to you 5 years ago. It was given to you 15 years ago with the first injection from World Bank at the beginning of the 21st century. Are you not aware of this? Are you not aware that a bit after that your government cooked the ...

German majority against Greece in the Euro

Just don't do anything on euro. Let the big boys load/unload and trade, don't gamble!

EURUSD < 1.05

That's just wrong Same data for EU (and any other currency respectively) would send the EURUSD down 100 pips. So much blind emotional trading is happening on US pairs that it's crazy

Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Declined in March to Four-Month Low

This dollar craze will burn a lot of accounts at some point

US Producer Price Indexes - February 2015

Sure. Not touching USD pairs

US Producer Price Indexes - February 2015

Because it was convenient for Greek governments to avoid bankruptcy and putting the 40% of the population working government jobs with above-market salaries on the street. Leaving the euro means a decrease in GDP down to normal levels. No one in ...

German majority against Greece in the Euro