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by Ashraf Laidi
Posted: Feb 22, 2010 5:00
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Posted: Feb 22, 2010 5:00
Comments: 8936
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Gold, Oil & Indices (Equity & Bond Indices)
Discuss Gold, Oil & Indices (Equity & Bond Indices)
no clue on fundi, china sound like in hot money problem again, and contract import not good either. but this should be good for jap/korean/taiwan/...
Shanghai embroiled in dead pig mysteryhttp://on.ft.com/XCLWwy
LOL
I have only read the introduction foreword by Michael Woolfolk. It is the trading "challenge" of FX he puts into perfect perspective. I have not yet read the content by the authors so you slightly misquote me :-) I want to better understand fundamental and CB influences upon currencies but Woolfolk warns that such are seldom helpful for shorter term FX trading. I am commenting prematurely until I have read the full content.
It doesn't put fx market in perfect perspective.
When you chart stock price, you display price versus sequence ( not "time"!) and assume price is independent of sequence, sequence is a true independent variable.
But when you chart an fx pair, you actually chart the mutual dependency of the members of the pair. The currencies are not independent of each other. Whenever such is the case
you actually need a complex plane.
Thats the simple maths fact.
You could start a paper trade experiment. Just pick pairs at random at randomly chosen level and wait. You will see in most cases that paper losses start to pile up. When you wait long enough with a probability higher than chance losses turn into profits one by one. Such is fx. This holds only if CB interventions are excluded. ( closed system).
should at first have some impact on WTI, down.