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didn't bother to post it yesterday but Reuters has a Great package of charts related to the EU Debt problem really get a sense of just how bad the financials are throughout the EU and surprised for instance that the UK's exposure to Eire is nearly $140B...

rmorse said it all one black swan event was 911, the destruction of the NY Twin Towers on Sep 11/01 the spot eurusd continued to trade but currency futures were closed for a week along with other markets, a gap down on the $ re-open but not a lot and new trends began in the opposite...

for some time it required several thousands of dollars to open a trading account with futures brokers. when fx brokers came on the scene they had a different business model that included much lower account minimums, 'mini lots', free chart/order entry programs with free realtime data, and...

it's half time so I'll write something Oanda is one of the few brokers with whom a trading account can be opened with any amount - $1 up. Oanda now have 2 charting-order entry programs, OANDA fxTrade their proprietary program which would be used for 'any amount' accounts, and MetaTrader 4...

snatched a glance at the pbs newhour last night where in Iraq ? Afghanistan ? solar cell units - 4 5 6 ? panels in a unit are being used to replace generators and units were spread around the compound. info's probably still on the pbs site

more than any of the other indexes, does the NASDAQ illustrate the true state of the US economy, and how much worse it's going to get, a free-fall through the 2002 low ?

'Exclusive: Banks discuss new Greek rollover plan: source' "(Reuters) - European banks and insurers moved closer on Friday to a voluntary rollover of their Greek government debt holdings, hoping to get around rating agencies' reservations and avoid a Greek default. National finance...

'a fool and their money are soon parted' thanks EMG for posting the LA Times article link, I found it interesting since I've not read such articles elsewhere, but also thought it biased and unbalanced this idea of the over-the-counter trading, who cares who gets the loser's money, I...

that old adage that 90 or 95% of traders lose must be another chestnut from brokers — 'give Us your money, WE won't lose it, but You will' the attached is a report compiled I presume by Forex Magnate's Michael Greenberg...

yes, Adobe's a massive piece of bloatware, then there's the 'auto updating' which I got rid of before eventually switching to the Foxit reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/reader/

bstay's observations are very accurate and he's in a great location to trade from I'm on the west coast and the only benefit I have is trading an extra day - the markets open for me on Sunday afternoons I'm in the process of changing to a 'normal' start time, wake up at 7am PST since I...

I'm changing to a daytime schedule, wake up at 7am - 4am would kill me and I'm not about to do it again, tho the exception might be the NFP and ECB announcements - I trade the 6E - eurusd don't use sugar including Coke etc there's 2 trading methods that aren't so time dependent, one is...

good one

as simple as it gets - fibos and channels

usually higher volume trades aren't related to anything in particular, but last night was a bit different while the price was in a rising trend, at the end of the first quarter of the minute the drop started - 50 pips in 35 seconds, 5,000+ contracts, 11:30pm PST opened Oanda's FXTrade...

taking a break

I recently placed an mt LRChannel on the Daily and found Monday's low hit the ml the problem with the lrc is that it's fixed - no user inputs so it's either going to work for you or not - can't place a second lrc and reduce it by 50% looking at the 4H and the 2 time target methods, the price...

another up session ? Thursday May 19 session: 2:45pm down to 1.4185 again ? 1.4201 ? then a rally first target 1.4330 then 1.44+

high volume trade example from last night - about 10am UK time 3 groups of contracts totaling 1,169 traded during 3 , 5sec bars, range about 23 pips

got it from historian Niall Ferguson's 'Ascent of Money', maybe I misheard exactly what he was saying, maybe he was twisting the truth - timeline 14thC Florence