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What is forex trading?

Foreign exchange market or forex is market or trading exchange where exchange of currencies of different countries does take place. Forex trading is that when you are trading the currency pairs of two countries in the forex market. This is quite a popular investment policy amongst most of the investors because forex offers various kinds of advantages. Full article…

The swissy has bounce considerably higher and into resistance that I have been waiting on. A good friend of mine and I instant message from time to time through Gmail and he’s just getting back into trading from a work-related hiatus. He’s getting his chops back quickly too. He bought into the rally on the pair and was well ahead of his entry and in trade management mode; trailing his stops he was still leery of where prices could abruptly stall and potentially reverse…and like all of us, no one like to give pips back. So initially his hesitation came as prices stalled around 0.9150.

USD/CHF 30-minute chart with the GRaB plug-in for MT4

I preferred the 15 or 30-minute because it offered the pair more wiggle as compared to the five-minute chart. I also added that the rally was heading into resistance between the 20 period SMA and 34 period EMA low on the daily chart and this was a swing short entry. Full article…

The sterling is lower in currency trading on the FX market today as concerns about Britain’s economy are brought into focus. Indeed, the latest retail sales data is emphasizing the slow rate of the economic recovery — and possibly even indicating that it is not there.

On top of that, Moody’s is cautioning that a downgrade may be coming for Britain. Economic issues are pressing on the country, and sovereign debt is a bit of a concern. This warning is also weighing on the U.K. pound in forex trading against the euro and the dollar.

The Bank of England remains between a rock and a hard place for now. Governors are still taking a wait and see approach to the interest rate. They are afraid to raise it — even though inflation is becoming a problem — because they don’t want to halt the little economic activity there is.

Markets seems to have cut out for the weekend early. German IFO data saw no sustained impact in FX markets despite decent numbers across the board. Traders seem to be struggling (myself included) with overall fatigue from the last three weeks and liquidity looks to be way down given the ease which USDJPY pushed up to 81.38. EUR has held up surprising well considering the recent news from Portugal. To compliment yesterday’s rating downgrade by Fitch, S&P followed with a sovereign credit rating cut to BBB from A-. The downgrade followed Portugals government failing to pass an austerity package wednesday. Despite the ratings cut and still fluid political situation in Portugal, risk appetite remained stable. Regional equity markets were higher with the much battered Nikkei up 1.07% and Shanghai climbing to a respectable 1.06%. The gain in regional stock markets were also assisted by a strong Wall Street session that saw a slew of companies releasing better than expected earnings results. From Japan, encouraging news regarding a decrease in radiation and nuclear power plants that are moving closer to being stable, had non domestic investors returning to net buyers of Japanese stocks. Full article…

Commodity markets have bounced back strongly after the carnage caused by risk adversity in the wake of the Japanese earthquake.

The big losers of last week have turned into big winners this week with attention now firmly on potential supply disruptions from continued geopolitical uncertainty. Military strikes in Libya have intensified and unrest elsewhere in the region continues to attract buyers of oil. The radiation risk in Japan combined with continued aftershocks is still causing major problems and hindering the reconstruction process, which is estimated to cost Y25,000 billion ($309 billion) compared with Y10,000 billion after Kobe.

In Europe the sovereign debt crisis returned to the front pages with the Portuguese government stepping down after failing to pass a deficit reducing budget. It is now very likely that Portugal will request an international bailout in the coming days. The immediate risk is one of contagion with Moody’s cutting the rating of 30 Spanish banks.

The DJ-UBS index, which tracks 19 commodities with 1/3 exposure to each of the three major sectors energy, metals and agricultural, has risen 3% over the last week.

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Here’s where the cable gets interesting. The cable has continues to turn over as the pound sterling is topping out against the dollar. The double top on the daily GBP/USD along 1.6343 and 1.6299 – albeit soft – has contained the uptrend and caused the market trend transition out of the uptrend.

The daily GBP/USD with my 34EMA Wave and GRaB plug-in for MT4

Fast forward to what I’m seeing today. The GBP/USD has traded lower today as the U.S. Dollar rallied slightly higher, but is still in a downtrend. The managed to reach the and trade slightly above 77.00 to a 77.13 high before losing footing above the major psychological level.

The daily GBP/USD with my 34EMA Wave and GRaB plug-in for MT4

The bear flag breakdown is again approaching the support area near 1.5978 as prices battle around the “6000″ level.

This level is where the bearish sentiment and momentum is most likely to accelerate if broken.

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