Who here trades strictly fundamentals?

I'm interested particularly in those that pay close attention to EURUSD.

The thinking is that a fundamentals expert may make a very nice compliment to my own technical analysis trading style.

For me technical trading is actual immediate reaction to fundamentals.
When fundamental news get to public, it is usually too late and primary fundamentals are starting taking profits. Plus fundamental stuff very controversial and messy. There was time when I studied it and concluded that I might be eternal learner and the more knowledge the more mess.

I'm guessing you're asking about overall fundamental strength and weakness, as opposed to news announcements. I've thought about it, too, but I don't know how it could be done effectively without at least looking at a chart to enter on pullbacks - even if you're tracking pullbacks on paper using percent changes, it's still some type of technical charting. And it would be foolish to continue buying EUR strength against USD if that pair was around 1.6 - you'd have to somehow be aware of that significance.

I know where you're coming from, but what I concluded is that: 1) the price will already be trending in the direction of fundamental strength; and 2) if my interpretation of fundamental strength is different from those who have enough money to actually move the market, my interpretation won't matter. :-)

Hey Tom.
I am strictly a tech / momentum / trend trader. Trying to listen to the talking heads just aggravates the hell out of me, just too much news and WAY to open for interpretation.

I think you are better off not muddying the waters with funnymentals.

Well, fundamentals are the whole point of ForexFactory... Fundamentals always trump technicals, because this is the way the big players trade. Fundamental Analysis is a good way to get a directional bias before you look at the charts. In fundamental Analysis as a retail trader, you don't look at a specific pair. You look for a weak and a strong Currency and this is your pair, because when you identified such two, you have two sides helping your trade. If you can catch a technical pullback - perfect!

Agree with you. Fundamentals always help the traders to see a bigger picture and also charts make more sense after fundamentals are clear.

The euro is a little different fundamentally to all other currencies in that you have the high level euro area data but to get a real understanding you need to poke around at individual major economies within. The question really is if you asking for a compliment to your strategy, what exactly is the person who is giving you hours worth of research going to gain?

I trade fundamentals. Have been doing well out of the Euro pairs today

My 'sentiment' was short these days.
My argument is the US strong macro data ...and still is. NFP good.
FOMC has strong reasons to be hawkish.

But a fundamental catch came out this Friday. The US Hourly Average Earnings mean wages. Wages affect inflation. And inflation affects the hike opportunity.
Since we have two strong inflation indicators next week, the PPI and CPI ahead the FOMC, the hike probability is affected accordingly!
fundamentals are always messy, but these days are crazy...
I mean the US strong economy, the question about US inflation indicators, the ECB hawkish on the improving economy, 'tapering', rising rates ahead ending the QE programme, the France polls, the Brexit negociations, the Scottish referendum, the Duch elections, ...Trump!

... you know what? I think we should stick to the technicals, they are much more honest

Therefore, the unpredictibility for the E/U increases, more risk until March15th ...means choppy market, spikes... I just can't trade this mess
Good luck all!