Asian market open


You can click through here and read my full opening comments on FX Street.

EUR/JPY technicals: Important resistance close by at 104.80


     The 61.8% retracement of the 5-wave down-move from 111.40 to 94.10 comes in at 104.80. The…

The day ahead in the FX market, Wednesday November 21st


Japanese balance of trade data might have more impact now that volatility has returned to the spot…

USD/JPY technicals: Targeting 200-week MA at 85.20, last breached 5 years ago.


     The clean break above technical resistance at 81.50 is yet another bullish indicator and the…

Markets to stay range-bound until Bernanke speaks


Very hard to come to any conclusions about this market at the moment and I'm guessing that we will…

USD/JPY orders: Light trailing stops below 81.10


Comments in today's Japanese newspapers seemed to throw some doubt on whether opposition president…

EUR/USD: Order books looking a bit thin


Dealers say that bids are relatively scarce until we get near 1.2700/10 and offers start at…

Quick overview of Asian markets


EUR/USD opened at 1.2805 but quickly fell to 1.2765 after Moody's announced downgrade of French…

USD/JPY steady after BOJ keeps policy on hold


"Quick dip, quick rally, but back to where we were before" is the market reaction to the BOJ…

Cable: Bearish trading strategy


     The basic idea behind this trade is that cable has posted a double-top at 1.6300 and that the…

USD/CAD orders


There has been plenty of interest in USD/CAD over the last few days and congrats are due to one of…

AUD/USD: Staying well bid despite RBA minutes


The AUD still looks reasonably strong despite the pullback after stops were triggered above 1.0420.…

AUD/USD session outlook: Benefitting from ‘reserve currency’ chatter


More reports overnight regarding the AUD reserve currency status, this time coming from the IMF who…

USD/JPY session outlook: Waiting for the BOJ


The BOJ's two-day policy meeting ends today and we should have a policy announcement in early…

EUR/USD session outlook: Moody’s downgrade of French bonds will affect sentiment


The EUR has unsurprisingly fallen across the board after Moody's downgraded French government bonds…

Asian market open


You can click through here and read my full opening comments on FX Street.

The day ahead in the FX market, Tuesday November 20th


BOJ two-day meeting ends; all 22 economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect 'no change' to policy:…

Very noisy markets; waiting for some sort of signal.


(Apologies for the interruption, servers were down for a brief while). The FX market is remaining…