Archive of Forex blog posts for July, 2008

Dollar Slides on Disappointing GDP Data

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

EUR/USD soared up today immediately after the report on advance GDP figures for the second quarter of 2008 came out in U.S. It disappointed the investors and is currently pressing on the greenback. Employment data also came out much worse than the majority of the traders expected today. EUR/USD…

Dollar Continues to Beat Euro on Forex

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

EUR/USD continued to fall today after a very sharp decline yesterday. Many traders got surprised by the ADP employment report, which helped to strengthen the dollar, but the greenback gained even before the report release. This is the second day this week when EUR/USD falls.…

Trend vs. No Trend by Brian Dolan

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I uploaded a new ebook to the Advanced Trading Books part of the site today. It’s actually a rather small article than a real book — Trend vs. No Trend by Brian Dolan. It was originally published in TRADERS’ Magazine in 2005. It describes the advanced methods of the trend detection that would work…

Forex Technical Analysis for 07/28—08/01 Week

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

EUR/USD trend: sell.
GBP/USD trend: buy.
USD/JPY trend: buy.
EUR/JPY trend: buy.

Floor Pivot Points
Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res

Dollar Gains on Better Orders, Housing, Consumer Confidence

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The  U. S. dollar rose against the euro after the important statistics came out in U.S. today. Although the daily gain is almost absent, EUR/USD went significantly down from its daily maximum at 1.5753 after the news releases and is now trading near 1.5683 level.

Durable goods

Trade Assistant — Multi-Timeframe Forex Indicator

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Trade Assistant is the second multi-timeframe indicator after TRO MultiPar, which I’ve posted in April. I’ve found this indicator on the forex-tsd.com forums; it was originally created and posted there by Tom Balfe. As with other multi-timeframe indicators it looks very nice and…

EUR/USD Gains after Decline in Jobs, Home Sales

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

EUR/USD gained a little today, correcting from the previous daily drawdowns, after the jobless claims and existing home sales statistics was released today in the United States. Dollar was standing at a strong upward position on the Forex market for the last today, but today…

Reversing Forex Strategies and Expert Advisors

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Many traders encountered strategies and expert advisors that produce highly stable loss as the result of their trading. The majority of those traders at least once considered a possibility of reversing the strategy/EA by switching the buy and sell orders, hoping to reverse the strategy’s results. In almost every case…

Forex Technical Analysis for 07/21—07/25 Week

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

EUR/USD trend: sell.
GBP/USD trend: sell.
USD/JPY trend: buy.
EUR/JPY trend: buy.

Floor Pivot Points
Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res

Housing Sector Revival Causes Further Strengthening of USD

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Dollar continued to grow today against its European counterpart as the housing construction data from U.S. appeared to be much better than expected. And although initial jobless claims and Philadelphia Fed index disappointed dollar bulls, EUR/USD went down from its daily high at 1.5893 to 1.5816 today.…



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