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excerpted commentary from dailyfx website -August 8th, 2008 will be known for two events: the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the massive, bullish breakout for the US dollar. The currency made its move across the board, taking out significant technical (and psychological) levels...

via dailyfx website ( from a graphic they took from bloomberg ) ( sorry I was too lazy to cut and paste ) major pairs since June 25 FOMC meeting in order of worse perf to best Aussie minus 3.06% canada minus 2.62 % suisse minus 1.24 % cable minus 0.59% Euro minus...

nice to see you recently bought some cookies from the girl scouts :)

this past weekend I went to a ballgame ( old timers day ) on the way out I saw someone who was looking for a donation ( s ) to help him buy a new arm , hand , fingers ( the works ) took me too long to give him most of what I had in my wallet but did get me thinking how life can be unfair...

the purpose of this thread is to let other ET members list something they did during the week that gave back to the outside world around them :)

lucky week for me found $60 in the street got 50 cent silver ( clad ) coins from the bank worth 3-4 times what I paid for them won a instant lottery tix for $200 made about 7 % in my acct ( half of this was dumb luck ) :p

here you go ... good luck find your market "edge" find the hours you make money in that market find the size that is right for you to be comfortable with and try to limit any prior past errors ( i.e. too much trading trading too much size , taking too much risk in any given day - add...

do I ever hate this time of the year * this week Q rolls to Z * argghhhh ... :(

another week another paycheck for me ^ 5% ^ :cool:

also watch out for the ( hidden ) stops ( i.e. todays overnight lows ) actually the slippage was not "terrible" ( $1-$3 ) compared to some fat finger nonsense over the yrs :eek:

there are various dealers who specialize in precious metals and if you have quality to sell ( i.e. Johnson Matthey , Engelhard ) will quote you a fair price based on the days spot price

you can also make some easy money doing arb sometimes in the mini's YG + YI ( oops ... let the cat out of the bag ) :p

Q-U was close to that the week before

did not see any threads mentioning FINVIZ it might be worth a look at for some of you ( heck ... I might even use it from time to time ) :)

the market always tells us what matters both in the short term and long term :cool:

not that T.A. works all the time but on a weekly chart of spot crude I am getting a fibo retracement of $110 perhaps some of this was related to the expiry of august crude however if oil cannot rally more than $1.00 in the next 24 hours you might say the shorts are still calling the...

up 4 % this week so far still one never knows until freaky friday is done with how one will end the week :p

just noticed this ... am trying to figure out why as they do say when and what - On July 11, 2008, Barclays Global Investors International, Inc., the sponsor of the registrant, issued a press release announcing a ten-for-one stock split of the shares of the registrant with...

thats it ... I am moving to Sydney ! tired of seeing my hard earned washingtons get smaller and smaller while the aussie put another shrimp "on the barbie" and toast their good fortune. or maybe I will just eat and drink less and buy more "junk silver coins" on the dips and stuff them...

look ... they are not going to be as easy to beat as IRAQ was I read this tonight on a site called DEBKA -In the past few weeks, Hizballah at the behest of Iran and Syria has commandeered the 7,800-foot Mt. Sannine, a strategic asset capable of determining the outcome of the next war-...