Forex Opinion & Analysis

For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the EUR rose 0.17% against the USD and closed at 1.3280, following upbeat macroeconomic data from Germany. The Markit manufacturing PMI in the country registered a...

USD/JPY (daily chart shown below) rose to a high of 103.95 on Thursday, establishing more than a four-month high for the currency pair.Prior to this advance, USD/JPY had been entrenched in a prolonged...

Talking Points:EUR/GBP Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 0.7973, 0.7954, 0.7935 Resistance:0.8007, 0.8031, 0.8050 The euro launched upward against the British pound as expected after prices produced...

Talking Points:USD/CHF Technical Strategy: Long at 0.9068 Support:0.9089-0.9114, 0.9031, 0.8994 Resistance: 0.9175, 0.9223, 0.9272 The US dollar pushed higher against the Swiss franc as expected after...

Talking Points:NZD/USD Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 0.8350, 0.8300, 0.8249 Resistance:0.8401-13, 0.8462, 0.8533 The New Zealand dollar may be readying to correct higher against its US counterpart...

Talking Points:EUR/JPY Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 137.62, 136.89, 136.22 Resistance:138.57-80, 139.75, 140.70 The euro advanced against the Japanese yen as expected after positive RSI...

Talking Points:USD/JPY Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 103.53, 103.05, 102.75 Resistance: 104.00-12, 104.30, 104.54 The US dollar is hovering near the highest levels in five months against the...

The Australian 200 Index has finally been able to surge higher to a new six year high around 5650 a couple of days ago before easing off in the last 24 hours and consolidating just below this...

In today's session I put on one new order to go short USDSGD -- but based on the price action, I'm not sure if I'll get the pullback needed to fill the order. Should I have used a market order? In...

Apart from the Aussie, there were no particular surprises. In fact, the rest developed exactly, or close to, expectations. As the day starts, we may have seen some temporary Dollar bullish extremes. I...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management Dollar Performance Table: Is Jackson Hole Really THAT Big of a Deal? Why EURO Rallied on Weak PMIs Sterling Hits 4 Month Lows...

The Canadian dollar took advantage of solid US numbers on Thursday, as the pair trades in the mid-1.09 range in the North American session. On the release front, US data was solid. Unemployment...

Question Hi Anna – I can understand maybe how market makers can manipulate prices in equities, but I can’t quite get my head round how insiders can manipulate the price in Forex. I know...

  Source: Short Side of Long Quite a lot of interesting movements in the markets. As we can clearly see in Chart 1, the traded-weighted US Dollar Index has been pushing higher in recent...