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  • The Big US Dollar Short Is Turning Into a Pain Trade for Investors

    From finance.yahoo.com

    Betting against the dollar has been the dominant trade this year in the $9.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, but the wager is starting to stumble. The world’s primary reserve currency is around a two-month high even as the US government shutdown drags on, and traders in Asia and Europe say hedge funds are adding options bets that the rebound versus most major peers will extend into year-end. Overseas developments have been a key driver, with the euro and the yen falling abruptly this month. At the same time, comments from Federal Reserve officials urging caution around further interest-rate cuts have ... (full story)

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NotAtrader
Oct 10, 2025 2:23am
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After all having a lot of money and investing heavily in the FOREX market, doesn't necessarily mean that you are a good trader. You just have enough money to avoid margin call when the trend is against you.
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Twocans
Oct 10, 2025 7:12am
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Quoting NotAtrader
After all having a lot of money and investing heavily in the FOREX market, doesn't necessarily mean that you are a good trader. You just have enough money to avoid margin call when the trend is against you.
This post is why 99% of traders fail. Take your 'f'ing eyes off the profits and focus on losing as small as possible and never let a loser go unchecked. It only take ONE wrong trade to destroy EVERYTHING. That's not preaching, if you are new, its coming to you from the trenches. If you aren't and still do it you are the 99%.
NotAtrader
Oct 10, 2025 9:57am
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Quoting Polimini
Not sure "investors" is the word i would use for someone engaging in buying and selling currencies just for speculative gains.
Exactly! Which puts traders and investors in different categories. You are a trader if you invest in the FOREX market, but you are not necessarily investor if you trade. You do not need to be educated and knowledgeable investor with decades of experience. You just need enough money to fight the market.
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Polimini
Oct 10, 2025 8:05am
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Not sure "investors" is the word i would use for someone engaging in buying and selling currencies just for speculative gains.
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martoh354
Oct 10, 2025 5:01am
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Quoting NotAtrader
After all having a lot of money and investing heavily in the FOREX market, doesn't necessarily mean that you are a good trader. You just have enough money to avoid margin call when the trend is against you.
True.
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Eurorally
Oct 10, 2025 9:07am
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What else is new? When the economics is replaced by a political bias, the nine months of positive economic data be damned, then this happens.

Magazine The Economist out of UK: "American economy has left all the economies of the advanced countries in the dust" and "American productivity remains the highest in the world."

Yet, our own people, for example Mr. Zandi (of Iranian extraction), the chief economist at Moody's, published a "study" three days ago that concludes that 22 US states are already in a recession.

Such "economics" is a farce !
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Schultz
Oct 10, 2025 8:28am
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Quoting Polimini
Not sure "investors" is the word i would use for someone engaging in buying and selling currencies just for speculative gains.
One reason why the "profound" statement made in post #1, taken as a whole, is so obviously incorrect. Yet how many people think that it is correct?

Things that make my head hurt.
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wizzytech100
Oct 10, 2025 4:58am
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I smell state money moving the markets
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Twocans
Oct 10, 2025 7:36am
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Here is your Gift Card' for a Black Friday Special. USD/CAD BUY FEAR SELL GREED
Twocans
Oct 10, 2025 10:38am
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Quoting Twocans
Here is your Gift Card' for a Black Friday Special. USD/CAD BUY FEAR SELL GREED
Your card will expire soon.
fxchasing
Oct 10, 2025 4:04am
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USD
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janvidesai
Oct 10, 2025 6:12am
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yes
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janvidesai
Oct 10, 2025 6:12am
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ok
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Jeremygordon
Oct 10, 2025 9:10am
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gold traders play with him
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WilsonEloi
Oct 10, 2025 9:13am
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BUY USD
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Trader#A306
Oct 10, 2025 5:45am
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Many investors diversify from sinking dollar.
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Trader#74BD
Oct 10, 2025 6:27am
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i am future billinior
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Trader#1FA9
Oct 10, 2025 7:46am
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Finally gold will crash aswell
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Trader#A306
Oct 10, 2025 7:48am
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Dollar will be TACO's Nobel Prize.
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Trader#4011
Oct 10, 2025 8:11am
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uptrend for gold
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Trader#0DBB
Oct 10, 2025 5:09pm
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BILLION IOR?
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