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Therefore your stance is that there has been no usd/yen carry trade the last couple years??

Your assumption is incorrect, the eur has also been a carry trade play and its interest rates didn't even go up as high as the usd's. The others would be nzd,aud,gbp and a couple of emerging markets but since EM risk is very high i think most may have gone to aud,nzd and usd. I am already...

Since Bernanke has given the green light on the dollar appreciation, seeing it as a good thing and more rate cuts to come, those who are still playing the carry trade, how are you holding up? I expected to see more unwinding as we did in Feb, 07 but euro seems to gaining up against the dollar...

LOL.......lol.........lol......rolling over with laughter! I guess i dont need to involve my self with this debate anymore....this level of debate actually does not belong on ET....or well...cheers!

Post your facts......thats all i ask!

Using South Africa as a case study, would you like me to paint a factual picture of what the white government did economical to sabatage the new government before handing over and how the economic effects of apartheid posed problems for a black government which the white government did not face...

Wow........I guess the whites that left South Africa are still fighting from the outside trying to bash the country by using the media. The article skews the facts, this is not journalism but someone with an agender. Since 1994 the whites have been bashing this country with the rand...

lol.....you really are new to this.

Its about the % loss/gain!! not the nominal amount gained or lossed.

Yes to both questions. Olsen will give you the cleanest tick data at oanda.com. I have seen the replay (simulation)software somewhere, but i am not 100% sure it can do exactly what you want but there is always a way. I have no idea as to why you would want this. It is usually used to train...

The Pie-Splitting Problem Imagine that N=3 friends gather to make an apple pie. They buy the ingredients, they follow the recipe, they bake it, and finally they have a yummy apple pie. The pie looks delicious, and the three friends can’t wait to eat it up. However, they now have a...

Why have an account at all, when you can just deposit a fraction of your equity with one broker and hold the rest in an intrest bearing business bank account. At the beginning of each year, i put in 40% of my capital with the broker, and withdraw profits quarterly and sometimes half yearly.

The funny thing is, i was evaluating this metatrader platform and it was during a fed realease, i saw price drop over 25 points extra on the mt platform, so i quickly tunred to my other qoute feed and seen that it never went near there, then checked my brokerage account and my trade was still...

Fortune has a great article short piece on an investment firm conquering Africa. Seems like there is a lot of of Alpha to be earned in African countries. http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/13/magazines/fortune/gunther_africa.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008021809

My reason for disagreement on land grabs in South Africa is based on their economic policies since a black government took over in 1994. 1. GEAR (growth, employment and redistribution of wealth). This policy has been successfull on all fronts. Unemployent was sitting at 50% in 2002, it has...

ever seen pursuit of happiness?

If i had to make a trade based on whether you are racist, i would go long. Regarding the issue of African countries being safer when under colonisation is true, due to the supression of African freedom by force. Secondly many of the issues of war after colonisation were created by...

getting whipsawed!!

FX market is 24hrs...........if u are looking at gbpchf, i would recommend looking at minimum 8yrs of data before you make that assumption.........the last two years have been good on this pair, especially last year but that is due to chf being usd as a funding currency and gbp being a high...

Ahhh.......i guess you always have to tread softly when dealing with the retail fx market. I have acutually taken a look at the data quality issues on metatrader and you are right very bad, just last week i was looking at their 1min data and it jumped from around Dec28 to Jan 7. Looking at...