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:

As markets continue to wait the outcome of the Greek debt restructuring talks, attention yesterday turned to the US FOMC meeting. The euro had lost a little ground in yesterday morning?s trading as concerns that the ECB would have to take losses on its Greek bond holdings outweighed a stronger than expected German Ifo index. However, the dolla Read more ...

After a failed attempt to break through the $1.28 level yesterday, the euro drifted lower in late afternoon trade before regaining some ground overnight. The euro found some support in a better than expected German ZEW index for January, with the survey results coming in well ahead of expectations. This has helped to ease fears about a sharp slo Read more ...

The euro rose versus the dollar and the yen in early morning trade with stronger-than-expected GDP figures from China triggering some covering of short positions. China’s GDP growth slowed slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, rising by 8.9% as compared with the same period in 2010. While this was slower than the previous quarter? Read more ...

Late on Friday International ratings agency, Standard& Poor’s, lowered its ratings on nine eurozone countries including triple-A rated France and Austria, citing insufficient policy initiatives by European leaders to address ongoing systemic stresses in the eurozone. Germany retained its triple-A rating, but Italy, Spain, Portugal and Read more ...

Spurred on by successful bond auctions in Spain and Italy, which led to a fall in euro zone periphery bond yields, the euro broke through key resistance at $1.2820 versus the dollar yesterday as traders moved to cover some short positions. It saw further gains overnight, rising as high as $1.2878 in early morning trade. There was also a positive Read more ...

Euro/dollar has kept to a very tight range over the past 24 hours, regaining some stability and recovering ground from its lows of $1.2668 seen in Asian trade on Sunday night. Sentiment, however, remains fragile ahead of this week?s Italian and Spanish debt auctions, as well as key meetings on the ongoing euro zone debt crisis. German Chancell Read more ...