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EUR/USD virtually hasn’t gone anywhere in the past three days. The currency pair shows strong swings, but ends at about the same level as the sentiment about Europe and its problems changes from optimistic to pessimistic and than returns to optimism almost every hour, if not a minute. Generally, uncertainty plays more …

EUR/USD climbed today on the speculation that European leaders will boost the European Financial Stability Facility (the rescue fund). It looks like the optimism was short-live, though, as the currency pair retreated from this day’s high and currently shows tendency to fall. The data from the US continues to be moderately positive, …

EUR/USD dropped today for the second day as Moody’s Investor Service added to worries about Europe, saying that France’s top credit rating is threatened by the region’s debt crisis. At the same time, the economy of the US showed sings of improvement, alleviating concerns about a potential economic slowdown.

PPI rose 0.8% in September, …

EUR/USD currency pair was initially boosted by the optimism, caused by the G20 meeting. The leaders of the European Union started to devise a plan for dealing with the debt crisis and euro bulls were happy to hear about readiness of European politicians to resolve the matter. Yet the euro gave away its gains as Steffen Seibert, spokesman …

I don’t know how about you, but I’ve seen quite a few Forex brokers with “Ikon” on their title. Not sure why it’s so popular and if they were connected somehow, but today I’ve added one of these brokers to the list on the site. It’s called Ikon Group…

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EUR/USD jumped today as the leaders of the Group of Twenty started their meeting in Paris today. The G20 chiefs will discuss the European sovereign-debt crisis and the actions needed to be taken in order to resolve the situation that threatens the global economy. The news from the US were good for the most part, except for the preliminary report about …

Every Forex trader wants to know how risky his strategy is and what’s the chance to lose a part of the account or the whole balance. This chance is called risk of ruin. Since usually Forex traders know their win/loss ratio and the average size of winning and losing positions, calculating the risk of ruin …

EUR/USD was falling today, started a strong rally at about 14:15 GMT, but now it looks like the currency pair resumed its decline. Today’s reports weren’t far from forecasts, were near the previous reading and likely had little impact on the performance of the currency pair. Yesterday’ FOMC minutes …

Last week, I’ve posted a general overview of various position sizing rules. Today, I’d like to know, which of those methods are most used among the common Forex traders. It seems to me that the fixed position size method should be more popular with the newbie traders, …