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A look into the market volatility reveals forex movements are about half as volatile as the stock market. Therefore, choose to trade a pair that meets your volatility appetite. The crash in stock prices we have seen in the past 2 weeks has created a significant increase in volatility. For the past 3 trading days, [...]
USD/JPY has been getting “the jitters” lately as traders aggressively push the pair lower. However, these traders are having a “nail biting” experience right now because USD/JPY is now in the “intervention zone” (the area that the Bank of Japan started intervening in the currency market last time). It’s caused a lot of craziness in [...]
Meanwhile, we are no further along in the debt ceiling talks here in the US, which adds additional uncertainty to the mix and makes for a risk-averse investing environment. As we would expect in a risk-averse environment, gold is reaching new nominal all-time highs, trading over $1600, as the additional threat of QE3 has the [...]
Just yesterday, I was talking to my kids about reputations. I told my sons it takes a long time to build up a reputation but it only takes one act of stupidity to destroy it. Unfortunately, in life, most things are like that. The good things worth having always take longer to achieve. Well, financial [...]
In Canada, there are too many poor people. The country that often likes to congratulate itself can’t take comfort from an inescapable fact: We’re becoming a more unequal society. Legislative committees and think tanks sometimes work on poverty, but, for the general public, income inequalities are consigned to the dead-letter box in this apparently conservative [...]
News in the US today has the Republicans largely going through the political motions of introducing a bill on the debt ceiling debate that will be vetoed by the President if it passes the House, but rumors of a “secret meeting” taking place have raised hopes that a compromise can be reached. The global markets [...]
One of the leading causes for the failure of many businesses is their lack of planning. I think most successful people would agree that if you want to be successful in life and business you need to have a plan for how to obtain that success, set goals to meet along the way, and then [...]
Investors and traders around the world are looking to the Forex market as a new speculation opportunity. But, how are transactions conducted in the Forex market? Or, what are the basics of Forex Trading? Before adventuring in the Forex market we need to make sure we understand the basics, otherwise we will find ourselves lost [...]
A forex secrets can easily make the difference between you being a profitable trader. The advantages of having a detailed trading system to follow are endless. To be successful trading forex with forex secrets all you need to do is find a simple method that works and keep following it. The thing is profitable trading [...]
ATM VOLATILITIES Pair Spot 1w 1m 3m 6m 1y EURUSD 1.4298 (-0.90%) 12.85 (+0.85) 12.68 (+0.18) 13.1 (+0.2) 13.5 (+0.3) 13.9 (+0.2) USDJPY 81.09 (0.71%) 10.3 (+1.4) 10 (+0.1) 10.55 (+0.1) 11.5 (+0.1) 12.65 (+0.1) GBPUSD 1.6463 (-0.90%) 9.12 (+0.62) 9.05 (+0.05) 9.65 (+0) 10.25 (+0.1) 11.05 (+0.1) AUDUSD 1.0704 (-1.20%) 11.5 (+0) 12.1 (-0.15) [...]