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Bank of Japan's Kuroda Goes to Washington
By Ralph Shell | 10:59 AM Apr 18 2013 | 713 Views | 0 Comments | 
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How has the rookie Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda been received at his first G20 meeting in Washington this week? Kuroda was appointed by PM Abe in March at which time he claimed his goal was to end deflation. Rather, an inflation rate of 2% was to be achieved in two years, a sha...
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The Euro Takes a Dive
By Ralph Shell | 10:26 AM Apr 17 2013 | 991 Views | 0 Comments | 
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After chasing out euro shorts yesterday, running the EURUSD well above the recent recovery to a new high slightly above 1.32, the pair has reversed today. The euro's behavior had been baffling, considering the weak economy, the arrogant ending to the Cyprus crisis, and the increasing European ...
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Trading in Turbulent Times
By Ralph Shell | 10:08 AM Apr 16 2013 | 863 Views | 0 Comments | 
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After witnessing on my screen the market's wild fluctuations, then viewing on TV the tragic events in Boston, the word turbulent came to mind. The Reference.com definition is as follows: being in a state of agitation or tumult: disturbed; characterized by, or showing disturbance, disorder; give...
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CFTC COT Report-Speculators Reduce USD Long April 9 2013
By Ralph Shell | 11:38 AM Apr 14 2013 | 848 Views | 0 Comments |
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When all the numbers are tallied, the spec, in the major currencies covered, reduced his USD long position by some 22K contracts. Considering the total amount of trade in the currency market, this is a minor reduction in the USD long. The biggest reduct...
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Forex Demo Account Trading Contest Poll - Drawdown Limitations?
By Cash Back Forex | 8:14 AM Apr 14 2013 | 1000 Views | 0 Comments | 
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What do YOU think?
Should the Forex Razor-hosted Excel Markets demo account trading contest for
April 2013 have drawdown limitations?
Should we disqualify
contestants if they exceed a certain drawdown level?
Poll: http://bit.ly/ForexRazorForum14April2013
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Is the Japanese Wealth Heading to Australia?
By Ralph Shell | 10:03 AM Apr 12 2013 | 795 Views | 1 Comments |
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By now, Japanese savers have been fairly warned that their savings - the portion not invested in Japanese stocks - had best be parked elsewhere. The Japanese have trillions of dollars of savings, so where is the accumulated wealth to be allocated while PM Abe and friends flood the markets with...
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How Important are Your Friday Trades?
By Ralph Shell | 9:39 AM Apr 11 2013 | 863 Views | 2 Comments | 
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Are trades you make on one day of the week more important than another day? Why should there be any difference you might ask, when the trading is done online, and the day should not really matter? The market opens early Monday in the Asian market, which equates to 22h00 or 23h00 Sunday D...
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Which Way for the Loonie?
By Ralph Shell | 10:27 AM Apr 09 2013 | 1101 Views | 0 Comments | 
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Whether the Canadians like it or not, their economy and that of the US are bound together, though not with a single currency. The under-performing countries in Europe are locked into a single currency, unable to recovery from a competitive disvantage with a weaker exchange rate. Consider...
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Forex Demo Account Trading Contest for $10,000 CASH
By Cash Back Forex | 8:08 AM Apr 09 2013 | 933 Views | 0 Comments |
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Excel Markets Forex Demo Trading Contest - $10,000 in Cash Prizes - 10 Winners
The Excel Markets trading contest offers $10,000 USD in CASH prizes and
utilizes demo accounts so it is risk free.
Forex Razor will be hosting it's second trading competition beginning April 15, the same day the ...
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CFTC COT Report: Specs Buy More Dollars - April 2 2013
By Ralph Shell | 6:23 AM Apr 08 2013 | 755 Views | 2 Comments |
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Speculators increased their aggregate net position in the USD to 338,399 contracts, up from 322,132 in the previous week. Almost all of the increase was caused by additional short selling in the euro, as well as a very minor amount of poun...
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US Economic Data Continues to Disappoint- Both USD and Equities Hurt
By Ralph Shell | 10:21 AM Apr 05 2013 | 1076 Views | 0 Comments |
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Today's NFP Report continued a string of US reports that fell short of expectations. According to this report, only 88K jobs were created in March, far less than the 190K estimated. They did upwardly adjust the February numbers from 236 to 268, and the Jan number went up from 119K to 148...
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Markets Busy on Central Banker's Day
By Ralph Shell | 10:22 AM Apr 04 2013 | 1004 Views | 0 Comments |
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Today, Thursday, was an especially busy day for the Central Bankers. At 6.30 a.m., London time, the new BOJ Governor Kuroda gave the first Central Bankers Day report. Recently there had been skeptics, fearful the Bank of Japan might revert to the previous timid policies. This, acco...
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A Forex Trade For End Of Week
By Ralph Shell | 10:33 AM Apr 03 2013 | 949 Views | 0 Comments | 
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Recent economic numbers from the US suggests the recovery may not be as rosy as desired. This string of disappointments began with the US durable goods report, and goes from there to numerous US economic reports that fall short of expectations. Today we had the USD ADP Employment Change ...
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Does the USD Deserve It's Recent Surge of Popularity?
By Ralph Shell | 11:10 AM Mar 28 2013 | 1095 Views | 1 Comments |
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Late Friday afternoon the CFTC releases their most recent report of the Commitment of Traders. This report, as most of you know, summarizes by futures contract, and the increases or decreases of futures positions held by commercials, and large and small speculators. We review the futures...
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Japan Yen Making Commences Next Week
By Ralph Shell | 11:15 AM Mar 27 2013 | 1242 Views | 0 Comments | 
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's main man in the deflation fight, Haruhiko Kuroda, takes his position as the new central bank governor for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) next week. If we are to believe the action of the yen in the currency markets, the Abe-Kuroda team is headed for the monetary hall of fa...
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8 New EA Performance Tests Added to the Razor Test Lab!
By Cash Back Forex | 8:42 PM Mar 26 2013 | 2253 Views | 0 Comments |
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Periodically we will let you know of new EAs/Signal Services for which we have initiated testing on real and/or demo accounts and are now
tracking within the Test Lab.
We have just added 8 new EAs to the Forex Razor Test Lab:
FX Capitalist (Real Account)
InvestBot (Real Account...
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Some End of Quarter Forex Ideas
By Ralph Shell | 10:28 AM Mar 26 2013 | 922 Views | 1 Comments |
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Trade in the euro has calmed today after yesterday's volatility. The aftermath of the latest Cyprus solution, has waned. The calm does not belie the disagreement that exists, and the frustration on both sides. Der Spiegel described the split quite well:
"While many in the north ...
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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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