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Posts Tagged ‘Macro

Bit quiet on my trading front lately, busy with real work mostly and the few times I’ve looked at a trade it hasn’t been quite right.
I just read an interesting interview with an analyst called Stephanie Pomboy talking about the USD with Barrons though I read it courtesy of 1440 Wall Street.
A key quote for [...]

19 Nov, 2008

Cultural Differences Japan vs. The West

Posted by: Milton In: Macro

You’ll have to excuse the fact that this post is not really at first glance much about FOREX, more about corporate cultural differences between Japan and western countries in general… which in a way is related to FOREX.
I read an interesting story about corporate culture at Toyota, even in tough times they don’t lay off [...]

13 Nov, 2008

Jim Rogers: Sell Dollars, Buy Silver

Posted by: Milton In: Directional| Macro

I’m a big fan of Jim Rogers, it seems all general world ideas I have are rather similar with his outlook on the world. There is one major difference (OK maybe more than one when you consider the differences in net worth etc. ), he knows about a LOT more asset classes than I [...]

05 Nov, 2008

New President, not much change on the FOREX markets?

Posted by: Milton In: Macro

I was pleased to see that America elected Barak Obama to be their next president (and in such emphatic style), however I was surprised that the FOREX markets have barely reacted.
I can’t help wondering that perhaps the markets already had factored in his election.
Thinking very long term I’m guessing that his world citizen approach should [...]


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Forex Howto is a site that I setup some years ago, I neglected it for a couple of years and now it's back online.

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