Countries of BRICS refuse dollars. What shall investors expect?

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Countries of BRICS refuse dollars. What shall investors expect?

During the last summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the Republic of South Africa) the countries with dynamically developing economies that comprise the fifth announced about their decision to refuse from mutual payments in US dollars. This means that the abovementioned countries will give credits to one another in their national currencies solely. The development banks of these countries have signed an agreement about a further gradual withdrawal from loans in American dollars.


Why have the countries of BRICS initiated such action?

GBPUSD volatility preview for April 28th 2011

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GBPUSD volatility preview for April 28th 2011

Yesterday GBPUSD managed to consolidate above 1.6565 (a significant option barrier) and initiate an upward momentum for it. 1.6750 is currently the closest resistance level.
Yesterday’s economic data on the UK and US didn’t cause any considerable volatility hikes but laid the foundation of trend continuation. The options were growing in value because the price of the underlying asset was growing as well.

Does the European Union really need unity?

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Does the European Union really need unity?

The European Central bank has recently been trying to look very tough and determined. The ECB increased its Official Bank Rate for the first time in 3 years exactly on the same day when Portugal asked for financial aid. However the increase was insignificant, so it probably was of psychological rather economic nature. Obviously that was a step towards toughening the monetary policy. However the step was an indecisive one.

The inflation problem is the key one in the EU right now. It is clear that even an interest rate increase cannot have a significant impact on the inflation dynamics. At the moment there are at least 3 problems that cannot be avoided when developing anti-inflation measures: the continuous debt crisis, the inflation pressure of the global economy and the structure of the ECB itself.

When considering the sovereign debt problem, it should be noted that the ECB’s interest rate grew when Portugal addressed the ECB, so Greece and Spain “missed the train”. It appears that now they lack an opportunity to attract funds.

Prestigious Forex Events: The Haze of Fame or Encouragement of Victory?

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Prestigious Forex Events: The Haze of Fame or Encouragement of Victory?

The modern forex market involves an arms race of dealing centers and broking companies for their niche of services to potential clients rather than foreign currency trading itself, defined by technical and fundamental analysis, different trading signals and indicators:
* a variety of bonuses and discounts during account registration;
* lower spreads;
* latest technological achievements of internet trading and increasingly softer trading terms and conditions together with different contests of simulated accounts;
* international PR campaigns targeting more and more new overseas markets.
All brokers understand that it is the strong that will survive. The rest will pass into oblivion with a bitter taste lingering in the memory of traders who left their money with losing brokers.

The role of a broker's recognition in the world

TRADING SYSTEM OF 'BREAK AND GLOBAL PRIORITY'

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TRADING SYSTEM OF 'BREAK AND GLOBAL PRIORITY'

The Faculty of Flat Break; Automation; Auto-Trading opens a new department - TS of Break and Global Priority. In April the Department starts courses on this trading system. What the Global Priority means is described by the TS author and the Department head, Sergey Mityukov (Siberia2011).

The TS of Break and Global Priority was born within the Flat Break Faculty of the Masterforex-V Academy. The core of the Break TS was taken as a basis - the approach to working with statistics, the morning range, Fibonacci levels.

The system of 'Break and Global Priority' uses its own, very interesting and unique approach to establishing the trend/range based on timeframe data from M15 to D1, i.e. a large section of the market which allows monitoring changes in movement from very small to more senior TFs.
The system is intended to make trading easier and offer answers every trader needs.

Will the IMF change the content of its currency basket?

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Will the IMF change the content of its currency basket?

 

On April 17th in Washington the Vice Governor of the People’s Bank of China met with the representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. They discussed numerous issues, including the content of the IMF’s currency basket, which determines the (Special Drawing Rights (SDR) – a special monetary unit. The Chinese representative spoke in favor of including some other currencies into the basket. Obviously the Chinese side represented the interests of the young and strong but still unstructured international union called BRICS (is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The latest BRICS summit took place in China right before the visit of the Chinese representative to Washington.

At the moment the currency basket is composed of 4 currencies: the US Dollar (USD), the Japanese Yen (JPY), the common Euro currency (EUR) and the British Pound (GBP).

Do the countries emitting these 4 currencies really control the global economy? Is the expansion of the currency basket possible and necessary?

GBP/USD: weekly volatility preview

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GBP/USD: weekly volatility preview

This trading week is rich in significant news releases: the month is almost over. So this week we are going to see the last significant data on the US housing market and manufacturing indexes as well as the preliminary quarterly GDP data for both the UK and US.

Is the world really under the threat of another global economic crisis?

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Is the world really under the threat of another global economic crisis?

The World Bank, which is famous for its rather cruel and straightforward forecasts, has just made another “revelation”: the world is a few steps away from a global economic disaster.

Previously there were many similar forecasts predicting another global economic crisis. They were made by numerous economists, politicians, bankers and even journalists. In particular we reported about Charles Nenner’s prediction of market collapse and major war. Yet there is still no global crisis. However, we cannot say that it is not going to happen in the future. Probably the steps taken by the governments around the world have eventually had a temporary positive effect, which will definitely end at some point in the future. Masterforex-V Academy analysts say that the positive effect is about to be exhausted and that the world seems to be unprepared for another global depression.

Are there any reasons and preconditions that cannot be ignored?

GBPUSD volatility forecast for April 21st 2011.

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GBPUSD volatility forecast for April 21st 2011.

Yesterday GBPUSD managed to consolidate above a significant option barrier at 1.6327.
Now the closest resistance levels are 1.6449 and 1.6500, a psychological level. As expected, yesterday’s fundamental data didn’t have any impact on the expected volatility of the currency pair. The option strategies were getting more expensive only at the expense of the strong movement of the asset towards one of the strikes. There were plenty of reasons for such a movement. Firstly, during the European trading session investors stopped worrying about the BoE’s quantitative easing. During the American trading session numerous US companies published positive statistics. The US Existing Home Sales turned out to be positive as well.

Investment Management Department

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Investment Management Department

In March the Masterforex-V Academy experienced a truly historical event: the Faculty of Detailed Learning of the Masterforex-V Trading System opened the Investment Management Department in an attempt to bridge the gap between ‘the suffering and the thirsty’ – traders and investors.

The problem of effective capital management has been there as long as goods and money relationships or, simply put, the market. Today, in our context, the problem is that:
- there is a trader – a professional capital manager that has no capital of the size large enough to meet their personal needs;
- there is an investor – a person with free capital who would like this capital to work but has neither time nor professional skills to effectively manage this very capital.
How can these two people be brought together so that their union results in maximum possible satisfaction and prosperity for both? Isn’t this what the new Department has been created for? This is what we’ll ask Head of the Investment Management Department, Sergey (Rich_man).

GBPUSD volatility for April 20th 2011

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GBPUSD volatility for April 20th 2011

The currency pair has overcome a significant option barrier at 1.6327. The closest resistance level is 1.6449 while 1.6500 remains a psychological barrier.
Yesterday’s UK and US macroeconomic data didn’t increase the volatility level. On Monday there was a volatility spike after S&P’s lowered the USA’s credit ratings. But the volatility level came back to normal. Wednesday’s news background can be considered neutral. There are no significant news releases scheduled for today. There is only one news release (US Existing Home Sales) that can have a short-term impact on the market. However, it is unlikely to cause a volatility upsurge as the index is able to have a significant impact on currencies only in long-term or mid-term perspective.

Masterforex-V trading contest for professional traders: who are the 10 ten traders?

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Masterforex-V trading contest for professional traders: who are the 10 ten traders?

The 1st international trading contest for professionals arranged by Masterforex-V Academy and the “Forex-Trend” broking company is over. They say “you must spoil before you spin”. But in this case everything was excellent.
Those who watched the contest could see tough competition between the participants, their professional skills and exclusive trading techniques. The main thing about the contest is that everything was as fair and open as possible. Anyone could see the real-time results. Yet there were some irrelevant issues during the contest but thanks to the professionalism of the independent observers (Including the representatives of Masterforex-V Academy and Forex-Trend), who were on the jury, they were solved in a quick and professional way. No it is time to sum up and announce the winners! But first of all, we should mention a couple of positive things about the contest itself.

GBPUSD volatility forecast for April 19th 2011

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GBPUSD volatility forecast for April 19th 2011

GBPUSD has just returned into the 1.6327 - 1.6232 range.
Yesterday Standard & Poor's lower the USA’s credit rating from “stable” down to “negative”, which caused a volatility spike. In a couple of seconds the volatility value increased up to the level of the 3-week high. Probably few of us expected such a surprise at the very beginning of the trading week. However, those traders who anticipated the rating decline remained satisfied. Let’s hope the rest of the week will go on like that.

GBP/USD volatility preview for April 18th-22nd.

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GBP/USD volatility preview for April 18th-22nd.

After a tough trading week, the forthcoming week is going to be less rich in significant new events. The end of the trading week is unlikely to be volatile as the entire Christian World will be getting ready to celebrate Easter.

US Dollar is in flat range: why do precious metals keep gaining in value?

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US Dollar is in flat range: why do precious metals keep gaining in value?

FOREX NEWS. The US Dollar has managed to maintain its position against all the other major currencies. However it is still vulnerable as it keeps moving within a price range around the lows. Last week’s US economic data imply that the US economy will probably continue recovering.

The new data on the Euro-zone debt situation only added pressure on the common Euro currency against the other majors, which didn’t allow EURUSD to break above 1.45. USDJPy was the only currency pair where USD showed some strength. Moreover, the weakness of USDJPY reveals the weakness of JPY-cross pairs.

The recurrence of the Euro-zone debt issue will make the financial market uncertain because either restructuring or default will cause losses in the EU’s financial sector, where banks are the main sovereign debt holders. It is too early to speak about some restructuring or default within the next few weeks. However if the future succession of events develops this way, investors will definitely be seriously concerned about that. It also should be noted that this is the pre-Easter week, so numerous market participants will probably take a break, which may lower the liquidity and increase the volatility of the market.

Will EU save Portugal from default?

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Will EU save Portugal from default?

Previously numerous experts form Masterforex-V Academy continuously warned the readers of Market Leader that the global economic crisis was far from being over. The disease hasn’t been 100% cured. Consequently the relapse is inevitable. Market Leader previously published some pessimistic forecasts concerning the “sick economies” of some EU countries. The forecasts start coming true.

Is Portugal really under threat?

Portugal has already become the 3rd EU state (after Greece and Ireland) to ask the EU authorities for financial aid:
· The amount. The Portuguese authorities say they need €75B.
· Numerous experts assume that the EU will eventually have to lend some part of the money to Portugal. Otherwise the collapse of the Portuguese economy may provoke the default in the neighboring Spain, which would be a heavy blow for the entire EU economy.

What really happened to Portugal?

Iraq’s lessons for those who want to see the future of Libya in a couple of years.

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Iraq’s lessons for those who want to see the future of Libya in a couple of years.

The experience of Iraq is going to become some kind of a manual for political scientists and investors. It will be cited again and again. This time it is the so-called Libyan “dictator” Muammar Kaddafi who has become the target of the “Western democracy”. The international coalition keeps bombing Libya and killing people, yet they say it is done to save the people of Libya from dictatorship and to give them democracy. The White House doesn’t conceal any more that the war is being waged to overthrown Kaddafi.

What will Libya really get after this “export of democracy”? Will the intervention end up with the disintegration of the country with many years of chaos and violence? (It is said that wherever the Americans come the population suddenly gets divided into Shiites and Sunnites). It is difficult to avoid drawing such parallels, especially as it has been 8 years since the Allied Forces headed by the US started a war against Iraq.

In order to avoid inconvenient comparisons numerous Western politicians and political scientists are trying to prove that there is nothing in common between the past war in Iraq and the current military campaign against Libya.

Politics: what is the current situation in Iraq?

Gold market: which way will the price go?

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Gold market: which way will the price go?

Yesterday gold slightly declined in value after most major players left the market. We assume that the price won’t make a sharp and continuous decline as the unstable political situation in the world shows the opposite.

April 13th. Gold futures analysis:

GBPUSD: volatility forecast for April 15th 2011

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GBPUSD: volatility forecast for April 15th 2011

GBPUSD has finally managed to overcome the option barrier at 1.6327 and to consolidate above it. The next resistance level is found at 1.6449, which is an option level as well. 1.6500 remains a psychological level.
Starting from 8.00GMT the EU will start releasing the economic data, including CPI and Trade Balance. The US news block is scheduled for 12.30GMT-13.55GMT. It will include CPI, Emire State Manufacturing, Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization and Michigan University Consumer Sentiment Index.
It is good news for volatility buyers.

6ЕМ1 and ЕUR/USD may be getting ready for another rally

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6ЕМ1 and ЕUR/USD may be getting ready for another rally

EURUSD has consolidated within a 100-point price range and is probably getting ready for another rally.

 

Despite the fact that the sellers have been more active so far, the overall market sentiment is still positive. The bulls are not concerned about the fact that Сhinа Invеstment Соrp has changed its mind about investing $9B in Spanish banks.

The US news block scheduled for 12.30GMT is expected to have a significant impact on the market.

GBPUSD volatility forecast for April 14th 2011

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GBPUSD volatility forecast for April 14th 2011

The currency pair is still being traded within a narrow price range (1.6327 - 1.6232). Yesterday’s data on the UK and US didn’t cause any momentum to break out of the range. Besides, the volatility at the height of yesterday’s trading session declined down to last week’s lows.

The US market of natural gas: what prices will it show to investors?

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The US market of natural gas: what prices will it show to investors?

At the moment the US market is accumulating natural gas in advance of the summer season of “conditioning” (The consumption of electricity grows during summer as conditioners consume a lot of energy).

 

Czechia: what is the real price the country pays for its image?

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Czechia: what is the real price the country pays for its image?

What is the value of a certain country? On a large scale, it is the country’s image in the eyes of the global community. The positive image of a country is an important indicator for investors and great opportunities for the country itself. When it comes to Czech Republic, our perception of the country is still fragmental and ambiguous.

It is believed to be an eternal satellite of Germany and Austria and an opponent and ill-wisher of Russia. The Czechs prefer not to recollect what price the Soviet Army paid for their freedom (when liberating Czechoslovakia form the Nazis). However, they remember the Soviet intervention in 1968.

Czechia has its own place in Europe and its own “mission”:
· It has no natural resources except for coal, clay, black lead and timber
· Its products make up just 0.3% of the global GDP and 0.5% of the global export.
· However, it comes 24th (between Spain and Portugal) in the rating of the most welfare countries (composed by Legatum together with Oxford Analytica and Gallup World Poll Service).
· It is the 2nd post-communist state (after Slovenia) in terms of living standards.
· The GDP per capita is $25 600.

АО_Zotik – a Worthy Replacement of Bill Williams’ AO in the Forex? (video)

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АО_Zotik – a Worthy Replacement of Bill Williams’ AO in the Forex? (video)

Forex news. According to the forex news feed at Masterforex-V Internet Portal, foreign currency traders have an advanced tool – АО_Zotik, a leading indicator which can become a worthy replacement of Bill Williams’ AO.

 

What are the reasons and needs to look for something to replace AO, an indicator of one of trading classics?

Venezuela: will Hugo Chavez be the next one overthrown after Muammar Kaddafi?

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Venezuela: will Hugo Chavez be the next one overthrown after Muammar Kaddafi?

 

In connection with the military actions in Libya and the chain of revolutions seen in the Arab World, which seems to reach Syria and Jordan, the famous revolutionist and President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has recently become more active. He has already made some big statements, which could have become sensational if they had been made by another high-ranking politician.

Hugo Chavez claims that:

1. The US is planning to intrude into Syria (repeating the Libyan scenario)
2. Washington is after his nation's oil and is going to invade Venezuela and overthrow Hugo Chavez
3. The US authorities are trying to talk Columbia into launching a war against Venezuela.

What can be said about each of these statements?

Silver continues its long-term bullish trend as manufacturing production grows in volume.

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Silver continues its long-term bullish trend as manufacturing production grows in volume.

Silver has recently updated the high at $38.60 and keeps growing in price towards $40, a psychological level. The demand for silver is growing as the inflation pressure and geopolitical instability keep favoring it. However, the main driver of the global market of silver is the high demand for silver shown by manufacturing enterprises.

According to GFMS the demand for silver in 1990 was 273M ounces a year while in 2010 it reached 487M ounces a year. By 2015 the demand is expected to reach 665.9M a year. Tougher ecological requirements for industrial products increase the demand for silver as well.

According to the Department of studying Masterforex-V trading system :

Will the global community repeat the Libyan scenario in Côte d'Ivoire

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Will the global community repeat the Libyan scenario in Côte d'Ivoire.

Against the background of the military crisis in Libya, the environmental disaster in Japan and the continuous mass unrest in the Middle East the world community doesn’t notice how Côte d'Ivoire, a small country in the West of Africa, is gradually falling in to the abyss of civil war. The country has been suffering from violence for a couple of months. However, neither the UN, nor the “fair” US and France are in a hurry to stop the bloody chaos in Côte d'Ivoire, even though the situation in the country resembles the one in Libya.

 

The bloody events in Côte d'Ivoire: What did it all started from?

Why did Masterforex-V Academy start its own rating of Forex brokers?

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Why did Masterforex-V Academy start its own rating of Forex brokers?

Masterforex-V Academy (Europe’s best Forex-training project) stared its own rating of Forex brokers. Why does the Academy need it for? The project has always been unbiased, especially when it comes to evaluating various Forex brokers. So, how objective can the rating be in terms of reflecting the real situation in the market of broking services?

Let’s try to evaluate a Forex broker in the language of numbers in order to be more objective. For some reason until now nobody has managed to objectively evaluate a broker, the founder of Masterforex-V Internet Academy explained. The best they can to do is to arrange some internet voting and to base the rating on the voting results. You don’t want to trust these figures as the anonymous users’ sympathies are not enough to make an objective image. Moreover, the results can be changed by the site administration.

The Burning of the Koran in the US and Massacre in Afghanistan: Who Can Benefit From This?

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The Burning of the Koran in the US and Massacre in Afghanistan: Who Can Benefit From This?

Shocking news spread over the world on 1 April 2011: in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, an enraged crowd broke into a UN Mission building and organized a real pogrom there. It resulted in at least 11 deaths among the UN foreign staff, 12 were seriously wounded. Two of them were beheaded. The killed include citizens of Norway, Romania and Sweden, men and women alike. Four of the killed were Gurkha security officers (probably, ex-servicemen of UK Armed Forces). The wounded include one Russian national.

 

What was this attack caused by?

 

As experts of the Masterforex-V Academy, Mazar-i-Sharif events have their cause and reason like any mass disorder. The reason is profound and represents an entire set of annoying factors that have been accumulating in the consciousness of locals:
1. The main thing is hate of foreigners. They killed everyone regardless of age, sex, color and religion.
2. Disregard of the mission that the foreigner performs in Afghanistan. UN staff are not the military and their activities are primarily humanitarian (medicine, education, charity etc).
3. Utter disregard, amounting to disdain, of the Afghan police and other special services intended to provide security. The crowd swept away thin police cordons like a tsunami. The attackers chanted: ‘Death to Hamid Karzai’ (President of Afghanistan).

 

Germany sees nuclear protests

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Germany sees nuclear protests

The BBC reports that tens of thousands of people have protested in Germany against the government's plans to extend the life of its nuclear reactors.

Demonstrators in Stuttgart formed a human chain reaching 45km (27 miles) for the protest, planned before the current nuclear crisis in Japan. Organizers said events in Japan had proved atomic power was an uncontrollable and risky technology. Nuclear policy is a key issue in German regional elections this year.

A Second Chance – Start from Scratch but Learn your Lessons

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A Second Chance – Start from Scratch but Learn your Lessons

“You can be a free person. You can live and work in any place in the world. You can be free from routine and be accountable to nobody.
This is the life a successful player leads.
Many strive for this but only a few reach their goals. A beginner watches the monitor with market data and sees millions of dollars moving in front of them. They join the gain in the hope of a profit and... suffer a loss. They join it again and… lose even more. Players lose because the game itself is rather difficult and also because of ignorance or lack of discipline”.

A. Elder

Market Leader continues a series of articles on unique offers from broking companies. This one will deal with one of the most important problems – the bitter experience of a lost capital and an opportunity to have losses compensated.

Markets give profits to a very small percentage of actors. The rest loses. The system implemented in financial markets has not been created to allow just any person to make money. On the contrary, it is intended to fleece most traders for the organizers’ benefit. This is the simple truth a beginner should learn first of all.

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