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Archive of Forex blog posts for January, 2011

Killer Patterns Forex Strategy E-Book

January 21st, 2011

Another free e-book was added to EarnForex.com today — Killer Patterns by Philip Birchley. It’s very short — just 22 pages, including title, disclaimer and other “service pages”. The e-book talks about the strategy based on the MACD indicator and the chart trend lines. It’s very simple and easy to implement. Unfortunately, …

MT5 Build 381 Messes with Standard .Type() Methods

January 20th, 2011

Build 381 that was released by MetaQuotes for MetaTrader 5 yesterday had many useful changes, but it also messed up with the standard libraries, rendering some of the working expert advisors useless. The problem still remains as of build 384 and probably won’t be fixed in the next builds.

The change …

Skyrocketing Real Estate Sales Drop EUR/USD

January 20th, 2011

The euro have failed to stand against the US dollar today when some important macroeconomic data was released. The first bearish wave was launched by the weekly employment data, but it was recovered in a correction, the second wave was launched by the housing data and it was more successful. EUR/USD is …

British Broker with Rather Strong Disadvantage — Spread Co

January 19th, 2011

Spread Co was added to the list of brokers at EarnForex.com today. It’s based in United Kingdom and is regulated by their FSA. Overall, it’s quite an interesting broker — they offer not only the standard spot Forex trading, but also CFDs, commodities, equities, ETFs, ADRs and spread betting. It’s …

EUR/USD Rallies on Better US Fundamentals and New from EZ

January 18th, 2011

The US dollar dropped against the euro today. It was falling during the early trading session but it declined even farther when the macroeconomic reports were released in the United States. The euro also benefited from the good news from Eurozone suggesting that the financial authorities will strengthen their …

Investing in Personal Money Management in Forex? Poll.

January 17th, 2011

Not everyone can trade Forex successfully — some simply don’t have enough time to trade or to learn, others can’t reach a desired level of profitability; and not every Forex trader has enough money to live from his trading. That’s where PAMM (Percentage Allocation Management Module) accounts come …

Forex Technical Analysis for Week 01/17—01/21

January 15th, 2011

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

Floor Pivot Points
Pair 3rd Sup 2nd Sup 1st Sup Pivot 1st Res 2nd Res 3rd Res
EUR/USD 1.2437 1.2655 1.3019 1.3238 1.3602 1.3820 1.4184

US Inflation Data Helps Euro, Not Dollar

January 14th, 2011

The EUR/USD behaved rather jumpy this trading session with an early morning monthly peak, a correction after it and then a new wave up until now. The latter was caused by the series of the macroeconomic releases that came out in US today. EUR/USD is currently trading near 1.3370 after rising …

US Jobless Claims Increases, EUR/USD Advances

January 13th, 2011

EUR/USD continued its rally today on optimism about the auctions of the European debt. It looks like demand for bonds of the indebted nations of the European Union increased after China and Japan announced their plans to help Europe. US economic data was positive for the most part today, but labor market continues …

EUR/USD Jumps on Good Outlook for Portugal’s Debt Auction

January 12th, 2011

EUR/USD surged today after it struggled at the beginning of the trading session as investors looked favorably on the auction of Portuguese debt. The euro also strengthened on speculations that China and Japan will buy European debt and that Germany will agree to increase the size of the European rescue fund. Data from the US was neutral …

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