Recent content by Raul641

Well, that's what he claims to have done in his books, and his funds showed an externally audited average 30%+ annual trading record while he was running them.... is all that a big lie, did he pay off hundreds of people at the auditors just so he could rake in management fees?

Maybe one or the other of you lost money. Maybe you made money. Doesn't matter, since we are all on a freaking Internet forum and there's no way to verify either way. So, can we get back to talking about the EURUSD itself rather than pointless trolling about whether someone is or is not full...

Thanks for the interesting replies. People are saying, generally, don't worry about finding fundamental explanations for the market. If you read e.g. "The Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros, he says things like, "I thought the pound was overvalued because of X, Y, and Z, so I shorted it and...

Thank you, this is the kind of information I was looking for. Makes sense.

This goes to the heart of the matter... let's assume for the sake of discussion that my fundamental analysis is absolutely 100% correct, and the Euro "should" be trading at 1.20. How on earth would knowing this do me any good? As everyone loves to repeat, "The market can stay irrational...

Yep, it would be highly ridiculous in any case to see the current strengthening in the face of almost universally negative fundamentals. We're not standing around a roulette table looking at random numbers. There are semi-understandable factors driving currency movements. Granted, I'm...

Well, yes, it does matter... I'm far from perfect... maybe there is some big news element that I missed, in which case I would trade differently.

- Portugal announces last year's budget deficit was much larger than they thought. - They are expected to request a bailout at any time. - Ireland says they will need another €24 billion to stabilize their banks - Their debt insurance and yields are up - "Late Wednesday, a plan...

Very interesting, thanks. We'll see..

Laissez, could you elaborate a little on that?

Re: USD is worse off -- while I don't think USD is in great shape, at least it's not in imminent danger of political collapse, nor does anyone seriously suggest that any US state is close to bankruptcy (California notwithstanding.) Plus, it's not like EUR is being sold off hard against...

Anti-Euro events this week: - The govt of Portugal collapsed after austerity measures were rejected - downgraded to BBB - French and German relations, already strained, getting worse over Libya (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,752992,00.html) Pro-Euro events: - EU...

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