Indicators that most influence the dollars value: 1. Employment Report Importance: Highest.Published by: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.Frequency: Monthly.Release Time: First Friday of the month at 8:30 ET Market Reaction: Event Fixed Income Equities Dollar Payroll Employment Up Bond Market Down Stock Market Up Dollar Up Unemployment Rate Up Bond Market Up
PART I: TRACKING MARKET PARTICIPANTS By Martha Stokes, C.M.T. © copyright 2007 all rights reserved. Most traders have a one dimensional view of the market. They are simply searching for stocks to buy or sell using the latest strategy or indicator that they have learned. Excitement is high about the latest trend and they are
Methods of regulating the foreign exchange market – such as fixing currency values to a commodity such as gold, or setting maximum exchange rate fluctuations had proven to too rigid. After the regulatory mechanisms- such as the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Accord and the Smithsonian Agreement – were no longer in place, the currency
Also referred to as the golden mean, golden section, golden number or divine proportion, the golden ratio is a number, approximately 1.618, that possesses many unusual mathematical properties. Over two thousand years ago phi was identified by Euclid because of it’s crucial role in the construction of the pentagram. Since then the ratio has been
By Peter Pontikis ‘Foreign exchange,’ ‘Forex’ or ‘FX’ is the home of the inter-bank and wholesale market for exchanging one currency for another and thrives in what is an enormous sea of money. It trades across the globe in over 100 currency pairs in the largest of the world’s financial markets! Institutional FX Basically, Institutional