Light years ago, in a galaxy far, far away…. financial institutions, banks and international monetary funds were the only participants in the trading of foreign exchange instruments. Thats a fancy way of saying forex! Forex brokers at the retail level did not exist because these institutions monopolized the foreign exchange due to their abilities to [...]
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Choosing a Good Forex Broker
Forex broker is an intermediary between a trader and a currency market. Retail trading isn’t possible with Forex brokerage. Finding the right Forex broker among hundreds of the online firms isn’t an easy task. That’s why you need to inform yourself on the specific broker that you will want to work with and collect important [...]
American Clients are Moving Forex Account to Offshore Forex Brokers
The online forex trading industry is one of the most dynamic online industries. Most online forex traders are US citizens so the recent events regarding the top poker rooms active on US market also affected the forex market. The events on the Black Friday were totally unexpected and no one saw it coming. This unprecedented [...]
Stemming the Malaysian Exodus
Stemming the Malaysian Exodus Recently, YB Teresa Kok asked me “Why are Malaysians so keen to leave this country? Life overseas is not necessarily easier!” I agree that life overseas is not necessarily. In fact my cousins living in Hong Kong, Singapore and London tell me regularly that they miss the food and that things [...]
Hedge Funds for the Average Investor
Aside from the standard meat-and-potatoes equity and fixed-income investments that should make up the portfolios of most people, several alternative asset classes are available to individual investors. Alternative assets are a good diversification tool because they’re generally not correlated to the stock market. This means when the market goes down, alternative assets may go up [...]
US Dollar on the Brink of a Trend Defining Plunge Ahead of 2Q GDP
It was a tenuous week; but the dollar was able to ultimately hold its own through the close. However, just because momentum behind the earnings-driven rally in risk appetite has stalled does not mean that the world’s most liquid currency has avoided a collapse all together. Fundamental Outlook for US Dollar: Bearish - Fundamentals support a [...]
The Real News From Omaha: Buffett's New Managers Are No Buffetts
Hedge fund manager Jeff Matthews, who wrote “A Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha,” actually made the pilgrimage last weekend, along with 35,000 other Berkshire Hathaway investors. In Matthews’ opinion, the most disconcerting news from the weekend was that the external managers Buffett has hired to manage Berkshire’s money are doing a lousy job. Specifically, Matthews [...]
Forget About Inflation… It's Deflation You Should Worry About
A consensus has formed that the government’s massive money printing and debt-powered spending binge will soon destroy the destroy the dollar, crippling the remaining savings of anyone dumb enough not to buy “real” assets–like gold. John Mauldin, president of Millennium Wave Advisors, thinks that’s ridiculous. He’s also author of the popular e-letter. The Fed is [...]
Forex Trading Outlook – April 20st 2009
Forex Trading Outlook April 20th, 2009. Forecast for Dollar, Yen, British Pound and Swiss Franc. Also include a brief outlook of US Stock Markets in regards to Bank of America and IBM. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgecQlrIGE]
Honda of Mizuho Sees Dollar `Bounce' in Next Six Months
Hidetoshi Honda, a currency strategist at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., talks with Bloomberg’s John Dawson and Naga Munchetty in London about the outlook for the U.S. dollar, Japan’s economy and his strategy for the rand and yen. The dollar has fallen 7.6 percent against the euro this year, heading for its sixth straight quarterly loss [...]
