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As mentioned earlier - the most active time for EUR/USD is usually the US/European overlap session - but there are often great moves during the London session - 1. Asian Session (Tokyo) 7PM-4AM EST USD/JPY, GBP/CHF and GBP/JPY have large ranges during these hours. 2. US Session (New...

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Looking at the daily CAD/JPY we can see a nice upward channel forming - containing the reaction to the longer term downmove. Watching this pair for potential breakouts to the up or downside of the channel - and for a potential cross of the 50 and 200 EMA's indicating either an (upside cross -...

Wednesday's trading session ushered in record oil prices, a gloomy fed forecast and a selloff in stocks, the Dow losing 227 points. Today we have Initial Claims at 8:30 EST. Policymakers expect weak economic growth and increased unemployment in the remainder of 2008. However the specter of...

Euro enjoyed a large rally against the USD Tuesday. Hawkish comments and concern over inflation helped push the EUR higher. USD saw weakness across the board. Record oil prices again this morning as oil prices break $130. Canadian CPI showed inflation accelerated last month, suggesting...

Watching for major levels and EMA cross signals on the daily chart - GBP/USD has formed a triple bottom forming support at 1.9353. Expecting resistance at 1.9754 at the 38% retracement level also coinciding with the down trendline. Several important releases for this pair in the coming week...

Oil prices have approximately doubled since this time last year. The increasing demand and tight supply in China, Brazil and India is playing a part in driving the price of oil higher. Weakness in the US Dollar is also causing investors to buy commodities as a hedge against inflation. Oil has...

The Consumer Confidence Index fell to a 5 year low, amid soaring inflation reflected in rising gasoline and food prices - and fears of a weakening jobs market. Reduced consumer confidence leads naturally to reduced consumer spending. Consumer spending accounts for over two thirds of the US...

Looks like we have an imminent death cross (50 period EMA crossing below the 200 period EMA) occuring on the hourly USD/CHF: However, we are up against some pretty good support off the trendline shown on the daily at around 0.99955: Looking for bearish follow through below the...

I'm watching the ascending triangle form on the daily chart of EUR/USD - the pressure is bottling up - the Eurozone data coming out this week may be sufficient to trigger a breakout one way or the other -

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Tried taking a dip in the EUR/CHF today - curious about this pair as the spread is even tighter than the EUR/USD - not quite as volatile as the EUR/USD but it has a decent average range. This pair may work well for the EMA Cross/RSI system I have been focusing on. Net Result: +16 pips.

Interesting that the move through 1.50 came so late in the session...

Started getting long the EUR a little after 6AM CST off bullish momentum and anticipated EMA cross. Received confirmation from the 5 and 10 period EMA cross and RSI crossing 50. Nice clean upmove for about 40 pips - exited while RSI hit 70 almost going into overbought territory. Tried to...

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The CME Euro FX futures contract will naturally be be highly active during European hours - as will it's spot equivalent, the EUR/USD - You are lucky in that you can trade the European open and also catch the US open in the afternoon your time - the European/US overlap session is one of the...

You're in a good location for trading forex as you can catch both the European and US sessions without having to get up in the middle of the night. I've traded futures and currently trade spot fx. The cautionary advice above is right on I think, but I feel there are alot of advantages to the...

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