Monday, October 18, 2010

Oanda Has Highest Profitability Rate



Posted: 18 Oct 2010 04:11 AM PDT
The new CFTC rules come into effect now, and US forex brokers release the profitability rates, as required. Oanda stands out with a positive profitability rate, while others lag behind. How is your broker doing? Michael Greenberg collected the profitability reports from the US brokers. In addition to the profitability percent, the brokers also released [...]
Posted: 18 Oct 2010 12:47 AM PDT
EUR/USD began the week with a big drop. We have a few interesting releases from the US. Are the tables turning on the Euro? Here's a quick update on technicals, fundamentals and community trends. EUR/USD dropping below 1.39. Click to enlarge. EUR/USD Technicals Asian session:  Active session sent the pair down from just under 1.40 [...]
Posted: 17 Oct 2010 03:00 PM PDT
US TIC Long-Term Purchases, and New Zealand CPI are the highlights of today’s outlook. Let’s see what awaits us today. In the US, Treasury International Capital (TIC) Long-Term Purchases, The difference in value between foreign long-term securities purchased by US citizens and by foreigners during the reported period will remain 61.2B, like on the previous [...]
Posted: 17 Oct 2010 12:00 PM PDT
A busy week expects loonie traders, with a rate decision, retail sales and inflation numbers among others. Here’s an outlook for the Canadian events, and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD. USD/CAD  daily chart with support and resistance lines marked. Click to enlarge: USD/CAD was reached in the past week, but yet again, it didn’t [...]
Posted: 17 Oct 2010 07:00 AM PDT
The Japanese calendar is quite light this week. So, the yen will mostly move on technicals and words from senior officials regarding interventions. Here’s an outlook for the Japanese events and an updated technical analysis for USD/JPY. USD/JPY  daily chart with support and resistance lines marked. Click to enlarge: USD/JPY reached new lows in the [...]

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

How To Get Ready For The New CFTC Rules



Posted: 17 Oct 2010 04:10 AM PDT
The new CFTC rules regarding forex trading in the US will come into effect soon. Apart from the infamous leverage limit, they include also include interesting things. Here are important things to look out for. On October 18th, the new CFTC rules will come into effect, being a major change for the industry. The CFTC [...]
Posted: 17 Oct 2010 01:25 AM PDT
Two major German surveys are the highlights of this week’s European events. Here’s an outlook for these events, and an updated technical analysis for the strengthening Euro. EUR/USD  daily chart with support and resistance lines marked. Click to enlarge: EUR/USD managed to overcome the loss of uptrend support, and continued moving forward. Will it make [...]
Posted: 16 Oct 2010 10:00 PM PDT
There are plenty of fresh news events that provide opportunities for forex binary options trading. Here are potential setups for forex this week. Binary options can be used in the world of forex as a mechanism for false breakouts, as an alternative to a stop loss order and more. With growing limits on regular forex, options [...]
Posted: 16 Oct 2010 08:00 PM PDT
CPI is the key event in the kiwi’s week. Here’s an outlook for the events in New Zealand, and an updated technical analysis for NZD/USD. NZD/USD  daily chart with support and resistance lines marked. Click to enlarge: NZD/USD climbed to fresh highs but found strong resistance. Will it make a break now? Let’s start: CPI: [...]
Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:20 PM PDT
Another busy week expects cable traders, with retail sales, meeting minutes and speeches. Here’s an outlook for the British events, and an updated technical analysis for GBP/USD. GBP/USD  daily chart with support and resistance lines marked. Click to enlarge: Inflation is still above the government target, at 3.1%, and we also saw another rise in [...]
Posted: 16 Oct 2010 06:00 AM PDT
Minutes from the recent and surprising rate decision are the highlight of this week’s events. Here’s an outlook for the Australian events, and and updated technical analysis for AUD/USD, that briefly touched parity in the past week. AUD/USD  daily chart with support and resistance lines marked. Click to enlarge: The Aussie moved one step closer [...]


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