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by Ashraf Laidi
Posted: Feb 20, 2010 5:00
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EUR

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macrosam
United States
Posts: 190
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 14:37
I agree on GBP/EUR and GBP/USD. I suspect you are also correct on EUR/USD but I have to stay in this trade until the trendline is proven to be broken.
catnip
Frankfurt, Germany
Posted Anonymously
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 14:36
I expect GBP to drop vs EUR and USD along with EURUSD up. If 10 year note yield crosses 4% up
I would go long EUR/USD
sydneyjames
Sydney, Australia
Posts: 348
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 14:08
I agree that the 1.35 trend line will be broken , looking to short at above 1.35 price, currently sidelining. Also getting ready to short gold at the current price or higher.

any comment?
macrosam
United States
Posts: 190
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 13:39
If that occurs, then I will cover very quickly and may switch to a long. I am establishing a plan at this moment should the trendline fail.
catnip
Frankfurt, Germany
Posted Anonymously
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 13:31
EURUSD will break above 1.35 and may even exceed 1.36 but watch US 10 y note yield.
macrosam
United States
Posts: 190
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 13:25
I agree, Ashraf. All I've really been doing is mining the down trendline with sell orders waiting to be lifted.
Ashraf Laidi
London, UK
Posts: 0
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 13:12
That EURUSD weekly channel we referred to time and again since February, remains intact. Connect the trendline from the Dec high thru the Jan high and 1.35 not yet broken.

Ashraf
catnip
Frankfurt, Germany
Posted Anonymously
15 years ago
Apr 11, 2010 12:59
It is generally overlooked that the debt of Eastern European economies are EUR denominated.
What would happen if EUR strengthens after a Gr bailout by whatever workaround of EURO treaties?
Then we have more than a pair of shoes to drop. First Portugal and Spain next all of those Eastern Europe economies whose lifeline is borrowing from IMF and EU at politically unsustainable terms.
Thus any recovery of the EUR is a step towards its end.
speculator
Posted Anonymously
15 years ago
Apr 10, 2010 21:48
in my opinion, dollar will at worst not depreciate much from here against Eur/GBP like it did during 2009 because:

dollar is not currently thought to be replaced as a reserve currency as it was 2009. euro was the contender within the few that have a chance.
fed has warned it may hike rates at any time (immediate term)
no signs of hike for ECB/BoE
inflation is very low in the US. Higher real interest rate for US bond holders.
euro has failed as a credible monetary system due to smaller/weaker members
political uncertainty in uk
high uk debts:GDP
risk of euro breaking up in future
peaking in equity markets/gold
dollar in a mutli year bull (debatable, ashraf)
catnip
Frankfurt, Germany
Posted Anonymously
15 years ago
Apr 10, 2010 20:51
This is politics but could have influence on EUR. Please note the excerpt below appeared in an April 7
2010 article in the Kremlin-controlled RIA Novosti. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and central bank Governor Slawomir Skrzypek were killed today along with several key members of the countrys political elite when their plane crashed in western Russia.

Here is the excerpt from RIA Novosti April 7. :

"Regrettably, new myths are cropping up in today's Poland. The biggest myth has to do with "the threat from the East." The Kaczynski brothers - the president and former prime minister - have spoken freely about this danger, and until recently, Poland was under their sway.

One of the brothers, Lech, is still the president. In the last few weeks, he openly expressed his jealousy of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who was invited by Putin to visit Katyn. Until this year, memorial ceremonies at the graves of the Polish officers at Katyn were a strictly Polish affair. Polish presidents and ministers visited the site but unofficially. These were almost family events with the officers' relatives in attendance.

This is the first ceremony attended by Russian leaders but not the Polish president. Kaczynski's stated intention to visit Katyn three days later with the relatives of the dead and a propaganda landing party is a political gesture motivated more by discontent and envy than respect for the memory of the victims.

Kaczynski got the hint, and he will have to bear responsibility for his speech at a square in Tbilisi next to the war criminal Mikheil Saakashvili several days after the attack on Tskhinval - a speech filled with irresponsible anti-Russian rhetoric. Kaczynski may only be judged by history for his actions, but one thing is certain: he will not be remembered as a political leader ..."