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DAY 26 - PRICE ACTION AFTER FOMC

Price action remain choppy on majority of pairs as traders awaiting for FOMC Statement and Interest Rate Decision tomorrow.
While analysts expect no change in interest rate and dovish tone from FOMC mainly due to stagnant global growth and its to early to gauge effect of Brexit and how it would effect future growth in UK and other countries in Europe.
In times of risk aversion, US Dollar & Japanese Yen is mostly in demand, as such I would be looking to buy these currencies in near future.
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DAY 12 - FOMC NEWS EVENT

All eyes are on next week's FOMC interest date decision, as there is high possibility that Fed's are going to increase interest rate for the first time in quite a while and as a result traders are eagerly waiting for a volatile week ahead.
The question now is will the market react as usual and USD going to appreciate against other majors or smart money will play their tricks and take out weak hands by pushing USD down, only time will tell.
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DAY 20 - EURUSD REACTION TO FOMC MINUTES

After last night FOMC minutes we have seen lot of buying interest on EURUSD, as market participants are somewhat convinced that a rate hike in September is unlikely.
Moreover, today's sell off in global equities market indicates slowdown in overall global demand and the lack of any inflation pressures in US would make the Fed hold off on normalizing policy for now. The FOMC minutes revealed that, “The Committee concluded that, although it had seen further progress, the economic conditions warran…
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DAY 8 - FOMC MEETING MINUTES REVIEW

We have seen some sell-off on USDJPY after release of FOMC Meeting Minutes and rightly so, as the general tone of the FOMC minutes were considerably more dovish than any one had reason to expect. It was simply not the case of raising interest rates any time soon, rather the discussion was more about headwinds to growth and weak impulses from the world, especially Europe that could hamper US growth in coming months.
USDJPY is currently hovering around 108.00 level and about 200 pips low from high…
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I missed the rally. I had hints to against the USD. I made my money going with it. And closed my orders in the right time. I was going to reverse all my orders thereafter. But just thought enough for the day. When I looked at the Computer screen after 1 hour. OMG !!!!! I really felt what I had missed. Douuble the profit that I had made in the whole day was available just in 2 hrs.

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alifari 9 Out

I think you did the right thing by taking profit because these central bank news events could change overall  sentiment very quickly and as such I always prefer to close trades before these events. It could have very easily gone the other way and wiped out all your profit. As Jesse Livermore quotes "Nobody can catch all the fluctuations".

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DAY 20 - What To Expect From FOMC Minutes?

What To Expect From FOMC Minutes? - Views From 10 Banks
Just couple of hours remaining for release of FOMC Meeting Minutes and traders all around the world are eagerly waiting for this news event to better understand future course of action by Fed's as to when they are planning to end QE and raise interest rates.

The following are the expectations for today's FOMC minutes from the July meeting as provided by the economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, and …
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DAY 19 - AGGRESIVE BUYING OF USD BEFORE FOMC MINUTES

We have seen lot of buying interest on USD today mainly due to strong housing market numbers in US and weaker Eurozone and U.K. data, as a result EUR & GBP dropped to fresh multi-month lows. The outlook for the U.S. economy leaves a lot to be desired but at the end of the day, dimmer prospects abroad is making the dollar and U.S. assets more attractive to foreign investors.
Consumer price growth rose less than expected but housing starts and building permits rebounded strongly in the month of Ju…
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DAY 9 - EURUSD TRADE REVIEW

EUR/USD was showing little movement on Wednesday during Asia & Europeon session, as the pair hovering above the 1.3600 level. However, we have seen some buying interest on this pair at the start of US session, which I was expecting before FOMC Meeting Minutes and as such I had placed a pending order at 1.3598 demand zone and price missed my order by few pips and hit my desired take profit level.
It would be interesting to see USD correlated pairs price movement in next couple of days, as it was …
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Top 10 Takeaways from June FOMC Statement


  1. Monthly bond purchases cut by $10B to $35B
  2. Fed sees slightly higher Fed Funds rate in 2015 (1.2% vs. 1.125% in March)
  3. Majority expect first rate hike in 2015
  4. Nearly all of the changes in the FOMC statement was in the first paragraph description of economy
  5. No Dissents – All new members vote in line with majority
  6. Policy remains accommodative, Fed repeats low rates likely
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EURUSD Post FOMC Analysis

EURUSD remained flat and into consolidation mode on Friday and Monday Asian session after almost 175 pips drop post FOMC news event. We have seen some sellers stepping in London session taking EURUSD down towards 1.3760 level but fail to break last week lows of 1.3749. There was not much activity on this pair at start of New York session and then we have seen a massive 90 pips bullish move which was caused by some news coming out on the wires that "G7 energy ministers said to discuss sanctions o…
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Maria_r 24 Mar

well done

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FOMC Meeting - Another 10 Billion Taper Possibility

Upcoming week is considered another important week on USD pairs based on the fact that Fed is expected to taper another 10b in next FOMC Meeting as it is quite evident form their previous statements that Fed wants out of the asset purchase business on the belief that tapering is not tightening and even if it was tightening, they could compensate via forward guidance.
Despite recent data from US which strongly support another tapering EURUSD continues to go up and there are no signs yet of a sel…
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