Aye, what Merlin said. you'll find that the Yen doesn't react as much as the other currencies to reports from their homelands. Beware any news from China when trading the yen and political comments as they seem to have big effects on Yen value. I'd ...

JPY news trading

I broadly concur. Though I must admit I've been expecting a weak dollar for the last two weeks and it's shown surprising resistance to spate of indicators pointing to low inflation.

$ Trade for the week of 9/17

Hi Guys, Well sold my yen today. Got greedy and took the short term profit. I'll wait until the G7 meeting is over and start building my position slowly. Looks like it'll go over the 150 mark so I'll start somewhere there. The bad news is Im ...

Fundamentals Rule!

11:15 am eastern time. In 15 minutes approx. I think Fox are doing a live feed.

Consumer Price Index - Can you predict the direction?

BurgerKing, If Im matching up the time right the first one is correct.

Consumer Price Index - Can you predict the direction?

Lol I'd go mental if my broker started doing that to me. Irregardless of the reason. Once is ok, genuine mistake/accident but twice/three whatever? Where's my lawyer?!!! The next hour is gonna be one helluva ride. Bwahahahahaha

Consumer Price Index - Can you predict the direction?

Im not a technical trader but I suspect that a 10 pip stop loss is too little. This is a volatile market at the mo at we could see it range 20-30 pips quiet easily.

Consumer Price Index - Can you predict the direction?

Everything in line with expectations. Next half hour is gonna be fun. Bulls or bears anyone??

Consumer Price Index - Can you predict the direction?

Um yah, more or less right. If the CPI is rising it means cost of goods to consumers is rising which means inflation is rising. This means higher interest rates to try bring down inflation, which means the currency is stronger. Trying the formula of ...

Explanations of economic indicators

Major Indicators The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - The sum of all goods and services produced either by domestic or foreign companies. GDP indicates the pace at which a country's economy is growing (or shrinking) and is considered the broadest ...

Explanations of economic indicators

Sorry buddy but GBP is in reactionary mode today to the battle between Eur/Usd. Everyone is expecting American CPI data release at 1.30 pm (GMT+1) So after that you will get mad volatility. Sit tight and if you don't know whats going to happen then ...

Why is nothing moving?

Just a non event. Unless it was outrageously outside expectations we were always going to be left waiting for it. At last some excitement after a dreary dreary week!! Any ideas Yourself where we heading?

Fundamentals Rule!

bernanke as God or the guy giving the speeches??!

Fundamental analysis

If the American CPI is also a non event I might just join you...

EURUSD

Well everything as expected with the Euro CPI.

Consumer Price Index - Can you predict the direction?

Still of view Euro CPI up, American CPI static or down.

Fundamentals Rule!

You bet it is! (I think!!)

Market Makers & ECN’s, Is the grass greener?

non event. The only thing to note from it is that the index is showing signs of improvement over the last couple of months.

Japan News???

Not necessarily, It could be people closing their positions which causes the temporary spike. Or you could be right and maybe people are anticipating the price and hence opening positions.

Japan News???