I dont necessarily agree with that. Although on a short term basis, day to day there is a lot of noise and fluctuations. Understanding fundamentals will lead you to understand which way the trend will go.

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Ah cool. I agree there will be another drop. Ive nothing to base it on other than the bullish run seems to be sparked through market sentiment and people wanting to cash in on the run. So I imagine there will be people leaving the trade &/or ...

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Whats this based on? ie Technicals/Fundamentals? From a Fundamental perspective I cant see that it will reach a new low now due to an active effort now to boost inflation and also the Nikkei is on its way up. Having said that It still may drop ...

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Sorry my bad. I musnt have seen the forest thru the tree's when I looked

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Does anyone here trade primarily on Fundamentals? As personally thats my goal, and if there is a thread for such trading id love to see it. At the moment im trading this pair and have held the position since December.

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Cheers for all the replies. That actually makes a lot of sense. I was always intrigued why the Aussie dollar weakened when the news from the US was negative. ie the downgrade of their credit rating, and the very volatile few months Aug-October. ...

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Im new to Forex so only ask this out of wanting to understand why. What info is it based on that the $US is weakening? I understand the interest rates are to remain low/same till 2013/4. However fundamentally the US is slowly getting better. The Dow ...

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Im not schooled on this at all, But fundamentally isnt it an absolute must that something is done by the powers to be, to weaken the Yen? Japan has just had their worst trade deficit for decades and if the Yen appreciates further, wont this just ...

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Where did u get those figures from?? With the trading of futures the expectation is :- 84% chance will decrease to 4.00%; & 16% chance there will be no change. Those details are on the asx website and its been pretty accurate. Also RBA meets 6th of ...

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Whats causing this surge thats happening right now?

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Has the USD weakened at all? Any reason for it? with the USDJPY pair its lost value far more than other currencies paired with JPY. Also the AUDUSD has quickly got above 1.04 (Im new to all this too by the way, so please be gentle if im talking like ...

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With the Yen appreciating further today, is there any truth to something I read? That due to Japan announcing they arent going to Intervene that a lot of speculators who were long closed out their trades? Therefore buying back their Yen?

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According to this article on Reuters, there wont be an Intervention anytime soon. Sakakibara also predicted that the dollar would likely remain weak versus the yen <JPY=>, trading between 72 and 79 yen for the next six months to a year, due to ...

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This is my 1st post on this site and im really liking the talk on here That article is really good. So in a sense the USDJPY has come to the bottom level (not saying it wont drop far lower technically). Fundamentally that is, as Japan cant afford ...

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