Posted by Jim Makos on December 5, 2011 ·
Technical analysis in currency trading shows signals for downtrend at the EUR/USD chart. Interactive Brokers forex trading platform can draw daily bars at the EUR/USD chart back to 2 years and that is sufficient to point out the upwards trend line that was broken in September. Since the EUR/USD uptrend ended in summer 2011 and sellers took control of euro, trading currency with forex trading tools [...]
Posted by Tristan Goldthorpe on November 10, 2011 ·
Even after today’s announcement of Silvio Berlusconi’s resignation, Euro markets moved considerable lower. This indicates that the market is still highly cautious of Europe’s precarious position and risk aversion still exists on a large scale. The higher yielding currencies made a considerable move lower and those positively correlated to the EUR/USD such as the AUD/USD took the majority of [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on October 31, 2011 ·
EUR/USD is trading below 1.4250 today. Euro has met resistance during the recent uptrend at 1.4250, a major support and resistance level which has been a reference level for the most popular currency pair in the last 5 years. About 8 times EUR/USD has either found support or resistance at that specific level over that period, making it a very significant level to watch out for during forex trading. [...]
Posted by Tristan Goldthorpe on October 19, 2011 ·
Price, like people, never wants to be stuck in the middle of a channel. It prefers to reach the shore despite the fact that is never allowed to touch dry land. Channels in forex are like the impenetrable coastlines of two right-wing nations, they force price to limbo between them until desperation compels a breakthrough of the resistance. Aptly, the Australian dollar is currently providing an excellent [...]
Posted by David Becker on October 18, 2011 ·
The dollar was able to regain some of its recent losses after German officials dampened expectations for a solution to the eurozone crisis at this weekend’s EU summit. G20 Finance Ministers commented that they believe this weekend’s EU summit to deliver a comprehensive plan to deal with European fiscal measure and the ESFS. Many investors are focused on the details of a European bank recapitalization [...]
Posted by Tristan Goldthorpe on October 14, 2011 ·
The heavy selling of the euro over the past few weeks seemed to have found a level of support today as traders sought to gain from the discounted rate versus the dollar and instil a degree of confidence in the European Commissions road map to Eurozone stability. The bounce, however intermediate, looks set to be with the heavily-beaten currency for at least the remainder of the week according to some [...]
Posted by Tristan Goldthorpe on October 4, 2011 ·
As expected, the commodity currencies continued to fall today as the Greek default became a reality and markets became nervous as to who was going to be left holding the baby. The question of how to absorb the Greek debt has become a tussle between bondholders and European governments, neither of which wants to be left with the lions share. Despite this, the euro which has been heavily sold over the [...]
Posted by Tristan Goldthorpe on September 28, 2011 ·
The Australian dollars love affair with gold is about as public as they get. Over the past two years they have experienced the most extraordinary rise, hand-in-hand as the hysterical demand for gold pushed it to $1900 levels. Australian mineral wealth has always been central to the country’s economic expansion but the unprecedented boom that both the gold rush from crisis-battered investors in the [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on July 28, 2011 ·
EUR/USD trending channel allows forex traders for safer trading nowadays. Or maybe not? A trending channel helps defining stop losses and profit targets while trading popular currency pairs such as Euro, Yen or Pound against the US dollar. On the other hand, if trading a forex pair inside a channel is such an easy task, why everyone doesn’t do it profitably? One reason is that most traders aren’t [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on June 16, 2011 ·
MACD divergence in addition to S1 Pivot Point provided an excellent support level for EUR/USD in the hourly forex chart. Technical analysis in forex trading pointed out a great entry point for forex traders to bet on the retracement of the currency pair after a 7-days decline. Any trader buying Euros at 1.4075 has already made about 100 pips profit or $1,000 for each traded lot, but Euro might retrace [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on April 8, 2011 ·
Posting the triangle breakout of EUR/USD 15-minute chart at my Facebook fan page yesterday hopefully helped some traders to gain almost 100 pips in overnight forex trading. The currency pair climbed to 1.44 during the night (European time) and is now trading around the R2 pivot point, after bouncing off the middle pivot point of the day at 1.43. EUR/USD is trending upwards the last months and the triangle [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on January 5, 2011 ·
I posted earlier about my profitable EUR/USD trade but that didn’t stop me from continuing trading the forex market. Once again I opted to short sell the same currency pair at a major resistance level, only this time I traded 2 lots instead of 3 in comparison with my previous trade. I should remind that I haven’t yet traded out the remaining 50K I had sold at 1.32850, which have already made more [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on January 5, 2011 ·
This morning I traded the forex market making $350 in 20 minutes, while I am still short half a lot, in case EUR/USD currency pair breaks below the daily S1 pivot point. This trade is a fine example why we need to pay attention to important support and resistance levels and how scaling out our position is an effective way to exit. Trading EUR/USD in the 1-minute forex graph while pinpointing crucial [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on October 19, 2010 ·
The forex market plays a major role in the life of investors looking to make a fortune from the swings in the currency market. A forex market undergoes change every second of the day based on a plethora of conditions and situations. Based on the intricacies of various contributors, the forex market value for a certain currency is determined. It is a tough task to predict the mood swings in the market [...]
Posted by Jim Makos on October 11, 2010 ·
EUR/USD has hit a resistance level nowadays and I decided to short it in the 2-min chart an hour ago, when the currency pair price hit the upper Bollinger Band. Keeping an eye on the hourly chart where daily pivot points are visible, I am targeting a bigger profit than the currently 40+ pips. I am looking at take profit exit point at around 1.38500 and having moved my stop loss at 1.39100, I have secured [...]