2008 has been a crazy year in the foreign exchange markets and hopefully 2009 will bring more steady times for the global economy as a whole. The tremendous amount of fiscal and monetary stimulus that central banks around the world have doled out should begin to have their effect in the second half of [...]

Posted in 2009 currency forecasts, 2009 eurusd forecasts, 2009 forex forecasts, 2009 gbpusd forecast, Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Currency forecasts, Japanese Yen, New Zealand dollar, Swiss Franc, euro, forex blog 3 Comments »

Forex trading ranges have exploded over the past few months. The daily average trading range has doubled for all of the actively traded currency pairs in 2008, with some currency pairs even seeing a 200% rise in their average daily range.
However the big explosion in volatility has actually happened in the past 9 weeks. [...]

Posted in Day Trading Currency, EURJPY, Forex News, Forex Technicals, New Zealand dollar, USD/CAD, currency trading ranges, eur/gbp, eur/gbp record high, eur/usd, forex blog, forex book, fx trading ranges, usd/jpy 8 Comments »

Fed fund futures are already pricing in a greater chance that the central bank will cut rates by 75bp on December 16th than 50bp. That would bring US interests down to 0.25% and turn the US dollar into the lowest yielding currency in the developed world.
Since Japan’s interest rate is currently 0.3%, [...]

Posted in British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Forex News, New Zealand dollar, Swiss Franc, US Dollar, eur/usd, euro, forex blog, forex book, zero interest rates 5 Comments »

Most currency traders only have their eyes on the “majors” such as EUR/USD, USD/JPY, and the GBP/USD. Admittedly, these are the most liquid currency pairs, but sometimes opportunities could be missed if you are not also looking at the crosses. Trends are usually more powerful in the crosses than the majors and you [...]

Posted in British Pound, Canadian Dollar, EURJPY, Forex News, Forex Technicals, GBPJPY, Japanese Yen, New Zealand dollar, USD/CAD, dollar rally, eur/usd, forex blog, forex signals, usd/jpy 2 Comments »

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut interest rates by 150bp this afternoon to 5 percent. This is the largest interest rate cut for the central bank and brings their total easing since July to 325bp.

Although the degree of the rate cut was not that big of a surprise, the  comments from RBNZ [...]

Posted in Forex News, New Zealand dollar, forex blog, reserve bank of new zealand No Comments »