Forex rebates on every trade - win or lose!

mg .... not nearly as smart as you may imagine ..... our company always has surplus $ income which we have to convert on a monthly basis to ....... with that in mind, it is much less fraught than trying to read micro-movements and similar ...... from memory, the position we took with our February money was not as advantageous as had we just traded on the day we needed the ..... can't remember what we have done about March ...... April I know we sold forward at 1.9450

Forgiven :-)

err, it was kidding :(
US figs spoiling the fun

[17:06 US TECHS: Dollar Index Staging a Short-term Recovery] Boston, March 23.
Yesterday saw the Dollar Index form a bullish engulfing candlestick pattern and
today's price action is confirming that signal as it pushes through the daily
swing point at 83.04. A close above that reference today would be a good
indication that the index is ready to retrace some of the recent decline. The
initial retracement level of the most recent decline is just ahead at 83.31 and
failure to get through there over the next session or two will imply that the
market is still more biased to slip lower.

Economic Data Release Calendar updated for next week with surprisingly little drama this time :)

Afternoon all - back from a wonderful week or so of walking and touring Scotland. Nearly got snowed in too in Braemar, just round the corner from Lizzie's B&B at Balmoral. Wonderful stuff and can't wait to get back there again.

Missed a load on Cable by the looks of things - seem to make a habit of going away at crucial times.

Good to be back though too :-))

Treasury Committee Opening Statement

Cable 1.9800 by the end of the week, month and quarter...any takers..

Some say when the majors range the minors trend....has that been happenning?

Happy Easter FX'ers. Tempted to short cable now and just leave it open for a week or so as I shalln't be around.

The forecast is for snow where I'm going tomorrow - it needs some now!

Despite my post 2 above here...and looking at longer bars to get a clue as to direction I am now...

short Cable
Long USD / Yen

200 pips off each should do.. lol

Have a great time Hils.

Should be back into Fx in 2-3 weeks myself, away next week then lots happening workwise after that.

Well, can you believe that?

Crazy!

While Hil is off up an Alp, the FX Fairy has stepped into her shoes and brought you a shiny new Economic Data Release Calendar to aid and abet your trading efforts.

Cheers MM

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=1878853

There we go John, explains the sudden rise!

Can't actually see anything on that link Pete.

That's because MoneyAM don't store some of the links for more than 24 hours, Harlosh. Ian told me this last year.


Dollar Slumped as US Applies New Import Duties on China

The dollar fell sharply across the board after US government said it will levy new duties on imports of coated paper from China. A Commerce Department official said this move reversed an old policy of not applying duties to subsidized goods from non-market economies. The euro tested 1.34 and the sterling broke 1.97 versus the dollar, while the yen bounced from 118 to 117.22 against the dollar.

This knee-jerk reaction seems somewhat overdone since it happened just before London market close and it is Friday when traders tried to get out of their long dollar positions. The dollar steadied later, with euro and sterling bouncing off session highs.

Earlier in Friday US session, the dollar gained only slightly after a run of US economic data came in better than expected. Core PCE rose 0.4% in February, showing core inflation risks remain high. Personal income and consumption both increased 0.6%, better than expectation. Chicago PMI surprisingly climbed from 47.9 to 61.7, far above the forecast of 49.2. Later, a weak number University of Michigan consumer sentiment fell from 91.3 to 88.3 in March, the lowest in six months.

Thanks for that Choccy.

Hi choccy..did I read once that you use "Net Dania" rather than power charts.?

They seem to be the best a coping with fast markets...
If thats right...how are you managing to save charts?
I currently have both...Power for the "fancy lines"...and
net dania to keep up with fast markets...

What are others using?

I do prefer Netdania, foale.
There have been times when it's been a little unreliable on some of the hourlies.
Can't comment on Powercharts as I only use them for back up, along with Saxobank, which is limited.

Sounds a bit laborious, I know, but I haven't minded redrawing, it's part of the wake-up ritual every morning :) and it's given me a discipline of not falling into any kind of complacency. To this end I've always kept screenshots. I've started saving them in the Chartstation bit now, but it's making me lazy ;)

I mentioned this a long while back, but I used to use a German futures software package, which was vastly more versatile, with up to 2 years of historical data, as I recall, and many more instruments apart from currency pairs.