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Has the Euro Already Priced the Pending Greek Expulsion?
By Ralph Shell | 1:09 PM Sep 12 2011 | 1820 Views | 0 Comments | 
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The tough love fix for the Greek economy, as recommended by the IMF, and administered by the ECB has, as many had warned, harmed their economy. Slower growth, reduced tax receipts, and failure to reduce the cost of the bloated public sector, have all contributed to current debt spiral. G...
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Euro Crashes as No One Seems to be in Charge
By Ralph Shell | 12:52 PM Sep 09 2011 | 1725 Views | 0 Comments | 
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For months we have mused about the bond purchase program of the European Central Bank. What type of paper are they buying, and what is their decision for the purchase of those loans? Are they trying to provide liquidity for specific troubled banks? How have they decided which sover...
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What is With the Pound?
By Ralph Shell | 1:42 PM Sep 08 2011 | 1861 Views | 0 Comments | 
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The pound, like the euro, has taken a dive to the down side. From a spike high of 1.6617 on 08 19 2011, the GBPUSD has sold to a low today of 1.5912. When the market made its high, the total futures open interest was rounded to 105K. The market started down and by 08, 20, when the ...
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Are We Ready for a Rally in the Euro?
By Ralph Shell | 2:55 PM Sep 07 2011 | 2173 Views | 0 Comments |
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Global markets got a boost today when the Constitutional Court in Germany sided with those who wanted to participate in rescue plans with emergency loans to the Eurozones needy. This is only a partial victory for the europhiles however.
As reported in the Telegraph this morning:
"This wa...
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Which Way For the Yen?
By Ralph Shell | 11:14 AM Sep 07 2011 | 1513 Views | 0 Comments |
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Somewhere in Japan there is probably chatter between CEO's of the large exporters, and their political operatives. Admiration over the initial success of the Swiss Bank intervention probably has the export trade executives pressing for a BOJ intervention. From current levels, a 9% depreciation...
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Intervention Jolts Currency Markets-Euro Weakness Continues
By Ralph Shell | 12:07 PM Sep 06 2011 | 1987 Views | 0 Comments |
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The Swiss National Bank had enough, dealing with a vastly overvalued currency, and decided it was time to take the offensive against the currency specs. A target of 1.20 versus the euro was the goal. Achieving that goal, initially, is not hard. With vast resources, the SNB then buy...
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Are We Close to another Swiss Franc Rally?
By Ralph Shell | 1:24 PM Sep 01 2011 | 3160 Views | 0 Comments |
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When analyzing markets, it is always a challenge to estimate what the final price a particular move might be. Bold forecasts, suggesting there is a specific price target, make headlines, attract readers, but once achieved, is this attributable luck or shrewd predictive skills?
There are oth...
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What if the August Equity Rally is a Head Fake?
By Ralph Shell | 12:42 PM Aug 31 2011 | 2137 Views | 0 Comments |
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What if the warm fuzzies which has spread to many markets, is merely a head fake, the result of end of the month games and some short covering? We begin September, a month often cruel to investors, with numerous economic reports on both side of the Atlantic pending. Culminating the week ...
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Oil and the Canadian Dollar
By Ralph Shell | 1:11 PM Aug 30 2011 | 1669 Views | 0 Comments |
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The Canadian Dollar is a commodity currency as some of the experts tell us, with gold, oil, lumber and wheat exports helping the value of the loonie. Canada has also become the biggest supplier of crude oil to the US, as development of the Athabasca tar sands continues. The heavy oil, ex...
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Pound Value Now Beginning to Reflect Real Worth
By Ralph Shell | 1:28 PM Aug 25 2011 | 2039 Views | 1 Comments |
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Earlier this month there was some support for the pound because it was not the euro, or the USD. The pound proponents even suggested the pound could be considered a haven, removed from the messy debt problems since they had refused to join the single currency. Granted, the United Kingdom...
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Are Banker Pink Slips Another Sign Business is Slowing?
By Ralph Shell | 1:03 PM Aug 24 2011 | 2069 Views | 0 Comments |
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When bankers are laid off, is this a leading or a lagging business indicator? Banks seem to operate in unison. They made bad loans, often the same kind, for real estate, weather in Dubai, Ireland, Spain or South Florida. As the real estate bubbles grow, propelled by the injection o...
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IBFX Australia - ADDED TO REBATE BROKERS
By Terry | 11:06 AM Aug 24 2011 | 2181 Views | 0 Comments |
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We are pleased to announce the addition of IBFX Australia to our service. The rebate rate we are offering is .5 pips per round turn lot traded.
Please see the IBFX Australia page for more details: http://www.cashbackforex.com/vw/tabid/242/ID/335/IBFX-Australia-Rebates.aspx
Thank you f...
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Is Next Yen Intervention Coming After Bernanke's Speech?
By Ralph Shell | 12:56 PM Aug 23 2011 | 2087 Views | 0 Comments |
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Currency traders in the USD, the euro and the yen all seem to be deferring judgment, waiting for the world's most prolific liquidity creator, to eloquently share with us, his musings. That would be Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who according to some pundits, set numerous markets moving last year....
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Are August Doldrums Finally Arriving
By Ralph Shell | 12:45 PM Aug 22 2011 | 2187 Views | 0 Comments |
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Markets in August have been anything but dull, but as we approach the last summer holiday this may be changing. Markets, responding to a wall of worries, have sent some of the buy and holders to the sidelines. The old guy who said "sell in May and go away," once again was a winner.
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Author Bios
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Ralph Shell: Ralph did his graduate studies in economics and history at Duke University. He has ten years experience trading cash commodities in domestic and export markets and is a former commodity analyst with Merrill Lynch in Chicago. He was a member of and floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade for 18 years.
Forex Captain: The Forex Captain has been a strategy developer and forex trader since 1998. From 2002 till 2009 he ran a successful managed account based on his tradestation coded strategies at FXCM. In 2007 his managed fund was ranked in BarclayHedge Rankings as one of the Top 10 Currency Traders managing less than $10M & more than $1M. Since 2009 he has been developing Expert Advisors in MQL4 for private trading, and from June 2010 he has joined the Project Triumph team as a currency analyst and project manager.
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