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Online Currency Trading - let "Forex Trading Ideas" show you how

Welcome on Forex-Trading-Ideas

As I was learning Forex online trading, I had a lot of problems finding solid information that would help me to learn the ropes.
With multiple years of background of online trading equities and futures, quite a lot looked familiar.
Yet on the other hand, the differences where big enough that, in retrospect, I probably didn't really know what I was doing.
Apparently currency trading on the spot market is not quite the same as trading futures....
Because of this, I decided to set up this web resource, to help other traders find their way around online currency trading.
Check out how the information on this website can help you trade the currency markets:

Forex / Currency Trading News

Euro Down Slightly After Weekend On Spain Worry

Yesterday the euro was down slightly compared to the U.S. dollar, 1.321 to 1.325 dollars compared to last Friday, particularly affected by the disturbing news growing on Spain. The Spanish economy has again contracted by 0.3% in real terms in the first quarter 2012 compared to the last of 2011, according to the National Statistics Institu Read more ...

Euro Stability Still A Concern On Forex Markets

Parity between the euro / dollar is now almost perfectly balanced on the currency market: at around 13:00 hours, the euro was trading at 1.3156 (- 0.01%). Slightly increased towards the yen to 106.9. Nothing to report in the forex market on the state of the euro / Swiss franc, which is stable at 1.2021. ‘We expect fu Read more ...

Euro Mixed Against All Other Majors

The single currency was losing again today, dropping below $1.31 (EUR/USD) on Wednesday afternoon, amid persistent doubts about the sovereign status of Europe. At this time, the euro yield is 0.42% against the greenback at 1.3073 dollars per euro. The IMF reviewed yesterday, downgrading its growth forecast for Spain in 2012, which shows a Read more ...

Fed Keeps Rates Low – Euro Seems Without Trend

The single European currency remained without a major trend against the U.S. dollar in the wake of a highly anticipated meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Fed, whose tone lately has been quite positive for the Dollar. The Euro dropped yesterday afternoon from 0.04% to 0 Read more ...

Bernanke comments causes sell off

Market sentiment received a bit of a boost yesterday when the results of the ECB?s long-awaited second long-term liquidity operation (LTRO) showed strong demand for the cash from European banks. The ECB lent 800 banks ?529.5 billion, somewhat above the ?450 billion that the market had been anticipating and the ?489 billion lent to 523 fi Read more ...

Euro firm however downside risks remain

Today the euro remains firm versus the dollar and sterling, trading in relatively tight ranges despite the announcement from ratings agency Standard & Poor?s that it is cutting Greece?s long term credit trading to selective default. Such a move was already expected and indeed factored in, though yesterday?s comments from EU Commission Read more ...



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