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The  U. S. managed to fall to another record low value today at 1.5238 per euro but recovered from a daily loss and even gained somewhat against the European currency. Personal income statistics was a little better than expected today and Michigan consumer confidence index was also …

GDP release today in U.S. pushed dollar down after yesterday’s macroeconomic statistics and allowed EUR/USD to reach a new record at 1.5179. Meanwhile GBP/USD decelerated its pace a little and turned to a less bullish trend today.

The preliminary GDP data for the third quarter showed 0.6% growth — …

It started eleven days ago on the ForexFactory forum, but I’ve read it first about a week ago on a TalkGold forum’s thread titled “Mt4 Brokers Are All Scam Brokers By Definition”. Of course, I’ve got interested in this topic because I’ve been trading on MetaTrader brokers’ accounts for almost …

Today EUR/USD reached its new historical maximum at 1.5105 as the dollar continued to weaken both on the rates cut expectations and later — bad macroeconomic data releases in U.S.

Durable goods orders — a very important indicator of the business’s health — decreased 5.0% in January, more than the expected drop of 0.4%.

New home …

Today dollar continued its bearish trend against euro and pound, sliding down significantly after the consumer confidence release. Both EUR/USD and GBP/USD were going for correction after the better than expected PPI report, but started to return to their earlier positions in shortly …

EUR/USD trend: hold.
GBP/USD trend: hold.
USD/JPY trend: hold.
EUR/JPY trend: hold.

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Citigroup introduced a new retail Forex broker this year — CitiFX. I uploaded the information related to this broker on my site today. CitiFX uses the trading platform made by Saxo Bank. There are no mini Forex accounts available and the minimum deposit is also very high — $10,000. …

EUR/USD gained more than 100 pips today on the bad macroeconomic data coming out in U.S. This currency pair went up from 1.4714 at the opening of the Asian trading session to 1.4816 at the end of the New York session. GBP/USD also grew very fast today — from 1.9420 to 1.9622. The major …

CPI release for January along with some moderate data on housing lifted traders’ expectations and spurred some good growth of the U.S. dollar with both EUR/USD and GBP/USD losing about a half percent for the day. It may be a good sign for the dollar bulls …

This my first interview with a major Forex broker. Jaclyn, Public Relations Coordinator of the FXCM broker. Decided to answer some of the questions I’ve sent them via e-mail. The questions touch various topics and should be interesting not only to the current customers of the FXCM, but also to any trader who is interested in a current …