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- EventTrader replied Nov 29, 2012
Market bought yesterday data from new home sales. They were worse than expected, new low was made and it was bought with high volume ( SP500 ). Today we have GDP from US and market seems to be positioned and ready for new high. I will try to open an ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 27, 2012
It was already priced in in my opinion. This all stuff exhausted portfolio managers so most of them just thought: "Finally, let it be and let's focus on more important aspects of economy". It should be a good argument for more risk ON if not the ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 26, 2012
Monday is calm as usually. I do not see any important information that could surprise the market for today. This week attention should be paid to GDP data from US. Market predicitons are that it will be revised from 2% to 2.8%. This change would be ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 23, 2012
German GDP didn't surprise. Germany is a very accurate nation and usually do not make mistakes in their forecasts. When event was published and the actual value was equal to forecast value I didn't open any position. One hour ago we had German Ifo ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 22, 2012
Today we have Bank Holiday for USD. I thought about leaving this session but I knew that I didn't put any order on the market for a pretty long time - I couldn't decide what sentiment we have on the market so I preffered not to play. Recently France ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 16, 2012
When I told you about market phase which gives the best opportunity to trade I didn't mention what to do in cases when trend started before publication or what to do when we are near new high or low but both are very important for event driven ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 12, 2012
Thank you for your post. It's my pleasure to write as I see that people are interested in what I write. I agree with most of what you have written but not with everything. "After event" effect ( it is a few minutes after event annoucement ) is ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 12, 2012
Market was pushed in a downtrend few days ago and if it is in a downtrend a lot of proffesionals put their orders above recent consolidation ( in this case sell orders - They see it as a good opportunity to Sell - the most important is general ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 7, 2012
Nice one. You have interpreted current sentiment correctly. Look at the price action at the moment. Sentiment must be followed by price action - it mean that after every important data publication market should react with data results or against it. ...
- EventTrader replied Nov 6, 2012
This type of information is speculative because you don't know if QE3 will be announced before it is published. It is important information , you can see its longterm impact but you have to have a set of another rules to play it - single information ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 26, 2012
What currency investors prefer during Risk Off Mode ? USD Beside this GDP is very important for economy itself not Risk as it give a summary from different branches in a one simple number and in a one fast glance we can decide if it is good or bad. ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 26, 2012
Concerning FOMC, nothing new and important was presented inside this statement. Personally, I didn't expect anything new so I was out of the market that time. Yesterday we had a lot of bad data from US stock ( apple ) and market seems to turned to ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 24, 2012
This one was very important because we live now in environment that prefers different types of monetary stimulus and moving away from this pattern may be a little bit suprising. I also look at their expectations about inflation which they believe ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 23, 2012
Woah, it was a nice piece of fundamentals a few minutes ago. Let me explain it to you: We had core retail sales from Canada. Higher sales means higher inflation expectations means higher interest rates what means stronger currency ( of course if ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 23, 2012
Yes I look at the Calendar but do not play it (it is too slow, I mean the latency, I prefer to use other softwares ) I have also bloggers, twitters that I follow and I try to read all market gossips. They are very important as sentiment is very ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 22, 2012
Risk Off is a mode when people are worried about the future and prefer to keep the money ( Bonds - because their profit is ensured by some institution, Gold - because it doesnt inflate in a longterm, or USD because everyone keep usd as a reserves ) ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 22, 2012
Eurotrash - thank you very much for your contribution to the topic. With precious metals and commodities it is not that easy. Fundamentals are very important and they are much more speculative than currencies. For example: - minimum margin can be ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 19, 2012
Single currency cannot be related to both: RISK ON and OFF. Correlation, moneyflow is one of the most underestimated and neglected aspects in trading. People usually try to invest in the same time in GBP, AUD, EUR, NZD they pick even some exotics as ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 18, 2012
Topic can ba moved some day as it was at the beginning. Don't worry, people will decide where should it be. I have to tell you that your assumption is wrong. First of all try to imagine the situation when the market is increasing its volatility ...
- EventTrader replied Oct 18, 2012
When you are investing during news publication you have to act very fast - there is no time for thinking about direction, about lot size, about Sl, Tp- simply speaking you have to be prepared as no emotions are desirable - and the M1 chart that I ...