^^ This article states that about 4.7 million Americans give up searching for work.
http://freep.gannettonline.com/careerbuilder/career_resources/newarticles/articles/quitlooking.html
That's true.
No.
The household survey is a sample survey of 60,000 households. A person must be 16 years and older.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm
People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid
employees during the reference week; worked in their own...
I use Metatraders charts which can be downloaded from lots of brokers. I use InterbankFX.
Edit - InterbankFX daily charts close at 6PM CST. I'm not sure what time in GMT that is.