Thanks! Interesting information.

sentiment of traders at Oanda and FXCM

Thanks for your answer. So that could mean that OANDA-traders mainly sell EURUSD and FXCM mainly buy them. Assuming that a lot of OANDA-traders follow the trend of they fellow-traders.

sentiment of traders at Oanda and FXCM

There is a home bias in equities, larger than is rational. But currencies, I don't know?

Home Currency Bias?

Other people say that you should start with a small amount, and when you see that the currency or stock is behaving like you expected, you can add more money to your position.

What i learned today

The futures (not the future) are heavy long in gold. When you look at the last COT-reports the large traders are 176 long and 42 short. So I keep my gold-shares.

Gold Discussion

So if I understand it correctly, they say roughly something like: if EURUSD is around 1.29 sell until it reached 1.25. if EURUSD is around 1.21 buy until it reached 1.25.. BTW: the COT-reports are only available friday? You suggest that you can see ...

Theory about USD and Commodities

I don't understand. If they are dollar-bearish, shouldn't they have a price target of 1.30, at least highr than 1.28, the present price?

Theory about USD and Commodities

I did last week some calculations on the values from the COT-report. Because of an article in www.investopedia.com about the COT-reports. In that article they showed a currencypair and teh values of its COT-reports. It showed that the COT-reports ...

Alright US interest rate 4.75%>>>5.00%? Should be strong for US dollar now?

I wish I was. The EURUSD just went through my stoploss, so for me it is officially a reversal. I was wrong. But serious, your system cannot predict what the tradebalance was. If those numbers had been bad, the USD would have dropped further, I ...

EURUSD

I am also an academical mathematician, so I understand your attitude. And I work as a programmer, who knows that one mistake in a program often causes a big crash of that program. But most traders here will say that 100% full proof systems don't ...

EURUSD

I don't understand that. If it is a good system, it will pay out eventually. Your confidence will grow in time. However when you lose this trade, psychologically you lose a lot of confidence about your system because of the money, although it is ...

EURUSD

I wish you good luck, however I am long, so I want it to go up. But I wonder if it is wise to test a system with so much money.

EURUSD

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EURUSD

I didn't know this was possible, I always thought computerprograms did the work for brokers, so it was nearly impossible to do this kind of things. But not on a client by client basis. If it is true, I would support some legal action, not only for ...

Stop Hunting

I don't see a reversal.

EURUSD

The report moved it down, but now it bounces back.

EURUSD

Within an hour a report about the US tradebalance becomes public. Couldn't that be a trigger to go up or down?

EURUSD

You can also read news on: http://www.spot-forex.com/news.php BTW: does somebody know other sources of this kind of information? Free if possible but payed could also be an option.

Major Market Makers

Isn't it simply: whole numbers are strong supports/resistances?

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