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"It would make it a worthwhile career to be a journalist." Yeah, a well-timed email to the right person could also be worthwhile. ha! s

Cutten: You know, this move in bonds//EUR/USD doesn't just mean the news was "leaked." As Cutten indicates, stop loss triggers could have been hit as well as limit orders (short) as well as purely speculative money just BOMBING the markets prior to the actual news. This WAS a highly...

Kicking: I also account the MS of no account. However, last time it moved EUR/USD 150 points upon the figures announcement. gsr

rjlund: Are you are SURE about this?? Can you pls post your screen capture? I always though AP news was the fastest most up to date news source. Isn't there an actual .gov site that released the figures even earlier than the news/masses got it? This just happened on the ECB site...

So this announcement on Reuters WAS on a subscription news feed, and NOT available to the masses at Reuter's release time??

From a writer's view/exposure to the industry, the structure qazwsxedc mentions is a probability to be used this way. gsr

Boomer: 8:30AM ET

I'm just reading about this now and will continue reading through the posts, was effected in the currency cash market as well - i.e. our move in EUR/USD came before 8:30 too. I will say this in reply to Etftrader's comment, "No reporter could have analyzed and written that much information...

That's probably a good trade (long) - I may take it Sunday/UK session and do something similar... And I won't set the stop loss because I feel certain EUR/USD will crash through 1.2000, pick off your (recommended) stop @ 1.1965 then either head the other direction or float between 1.1900 and...

"a rare forex call" eh? LMAO, Sam

Cable: Heh, yeah, successfully trading moves like today separate the men from the boys. A better friend than stop losses is positioning yourself on the right side of the trade. Cheers! Sam

"What's the catch? Why aren't more traders involved in currencies?" ___ AT, perhaps part of the reason is that equities/bonds/futures/mutual funds have been around for decades, whereas forex is a relatively new instrument to trade for retail small cap traders. There are indications that...

I need to add here on behalf of Gary the owner and his staff, I had a live acct with GFT and had an "issue" arise with them wherein over 11% of my port was involved. The issue was resolved to my satisfaction. Had this same thing happened at another brokerage I may not have had such a...

We won't forget you, Scott, you'll always be one of us. Moment of silence, pls. Sam

Here's the Fallujah solution.... We go to their Sheik Fawkzi Numenutz cleric and say, "Look, Pastor Priest Phuckhead, either you get together with your... brethren... and turn the guys over to us within 24 hours who killed and mutilated the Americans or we are going to drop 12 daisy...

By the way, USD/JPY just SPIKED up to 104.80. Sam

did you see that EUR/USD move? 170 point spike down in 5 seconds! good thing I was short - hehe. all positions closed / 192 points clean profit this trading session / all wins no losses - flat for the weekend. later girls/guys. Sam

hey I am actually still able to POST on ET?? amazing! the admins must still be asleep. how many replies do I get to post on this thread? I'd buy and use a joystick to do trades with instead of my mouse. I'd pick off pips by firing on them like playing Space Raiders. //shrug// ...

and it's 104.25 right now and climbing. so, according to you, what do you do? just wait to get 35 points bagged? rezco_s, you couldn't trade your way out of a barf bag. stop subjecting this forum to your losing Refco management account trading, glamour boy, rambling, psychotic...

I would run an ad on the WWW, have it translated into all languages, make it a nice website, with related banner ads on the main pages of all big sites. The ad would be to meet the ultimate girl in the world (read hottest, prettiest, best body, etc.) to have a *ahem* LTR with. Yes, she'd...