Thanks, thats what I thought

OK, so I have a question about something that has been puzzling me. I know I'm not part of this discussion but I'd be much obliged if someone could answer anyways. How do market movers trade? I recognize that price movement is about liquidity ...

aha. as for that, i have no idea. maybe japanese insurance companies were heavy into swiss assets? or maybe it was a risk move. sorry for the stupid answer

JPY soared because of insurance repatriation, as was already mentioned, but the CHF soared on risk aversion. CHF is a traditional "safe haven" currency. When there is turmoil perceived in the markets it will rise as investors abandon assets that are ...

JPY rose post-quake because of repatriation. All of a sudden there were a lot of insurance companies on the hook for a lot of policies. These insurance companies had funds held in foreign (dollar) denominate assets that needed to be rapidly ...

interest rate

Has anyone thought about orderflow concepts in relation to news time? I haven't read through this entire thread, so if this has been addressed forgive me, but as far as I understand things traders often take positions before a news release. It seems ...

Sorry to go back to the beginning of this thread, but a while ago there was a discussion about order vacuums. There is a small reversal pattern that I trade now and then, but sometimes it is incomplete. I have my settings at 1 pt slippage, and every ...

but the gap didn't close all the way

So I am new to this, but have been reading this thread. I was wondering if anyone could help me with trying to figure out what was happening around 8am GMT in the EUR/USD yesterday. What I have so far is this: the run up to 3950 was some kind of ...