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The Greenback Declines Against 15 Major Currencies

August 10, 2010 at 7:37 am

After trading with mixed results for the past few days, the US dollar fell against most of the currencies on the August 9 forex trading day. The decline is due to the weak NFP data, which came out worse at -131k vs. -65k. This only confirmed that the US economy is far from full recovery. As a result, the stock markets also declined, with NASDAQ and Dow Jones tumbling by -0.2%. As for the commodities market, crude oil closed at $80.82 per barrel after sliding by 1.6%, while gold ended up at $1205.1 per ounce, after reaching the $1200 mark. Despite the poor economic data, the Unemployment Rate dropped to 9.5% against the 9.6% forecast.

The euro and British pound posted gains against the dollar. The EUR/USD pair traded between 1.3156 and 1.3333, marking a new high level since May. As a result of the poor jobs report in the US, the British pound posted a 6-month high against the dollar. The GBP/USD reached a high of 1.5995 and a low of 1.5838.

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Greenback Posts Mixed Results against Other Forex Majors

July 30, 2010 at 3:11 am

The greenback posted some mixed results against other forex majors. This is after the US data on durable goods orders came out worse than the 0.6% forecast and tumbled down to -0.6%. With these figures, many investors are left uncertain about the real market conditions. On July 29 trading day, the stock market also weakened, with Dow Jones falling at 0.38% and NASDAQ declining at 1.04%. As for the commodities market, crude oil also fell by 0.7% to close at $77 per barrel, while gold posted gains by 0.2% and closed at $1,1160.4 per ounce.

For second straight day, the euro traded versus the dollar with small difference between the high and low points, as the EUR/USD forex pair traded between 1.2966 and 1.3042. The British pound also remained nearly unchanged against the dollar. The GBP/USD pair posted a high of 1.5638 and a low of 1.5544. Following the drop in orders for US durable goods and the anticipated slow economic growth according to Federal Reserve, the Yen posted gains against the dollar. The USD/JPY forex pair closed at a high of 88.11 and a low of 87.25.

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A look on charts and patterns- the two popular Forex trading tools

September 11, 2009 at 9:54 am

Forex market is highly volatile and sensitive. Trading here can be really risky and even a small fluctuation can force you to pack your bags and say good bye to the Forex market forever. But there are several tools available in the market that can make your trade effective and profitable. Forex trading tools actually ease on your pressure of trading and give you good help so that you can take trading decisions by following them. Such tools help you to predict the change of the movement of the Forex market and how you can take advantage of this change to make your trading profitable.

The first most important tool is the best Forex trading platform for you. The market is flooded with several trading platforms and robots. Such a tool is quite effective as they make your trading easy. Also a trading platform may combine several trading tool in itself and hence making your job easy to look for different trading tools from different sources. A trading platform can be used not only for placing your trade orders but also to watch over the market situation. Some platform integrates the most widely used trading tool i.e. the charts and patterns. If one can understand the charts and the patterns then they can made their Forex trading very easy.

The formation of the patterns traces back to 18th centaury. They were developed by the Japanese rice traders to predict the price change. It was a line graph used to show the price of the commodity. This pattern was named as the candlestick pattern.  Following the same line, the next tool that was created was the bar charts. They were clearer and gave a wide scope of information. Bar charts were able to represent open, close, high and low of the price patterns for a long time frame.

The other tool that was developed by the Americans was the candlestick chart. It was introduced back in the 20th centaury in the American stock exchange by Mr. Charles Dow. This tool can represent the price of the currency pairs nicely. It has some box pattern which represents the opening and the closing price of the currencies. Different boxes are colored with different colors to represent the whole price change effectively. Such a tool is of great help even today. Most of the Forex brokers and Forex advisors are sending these charts to their clients to help them take decision to trade the currencies. These charts are very simple to understand and can predict the current scenario of the whole Forex market. The color pattern of the candlestick charts can help you to understand the moving direction of the market.

Forex trading tools are many but you must use the one which you can easily understand and find yourself comfortable using it.

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