Forex and others markets: мая 2011

You Successfully Trade in Forex - We Will Give You Money!

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You Successfully Trade in Forex - We Will Give You Money!

To trade forex, one needs not only knowledge and skills, but also capital. In general, broking companies have quite a few offers that allow to start in the forex market literally with one dollar in the pocket. However, if you feel strong enough and have a proven trading system that helps you reach success, but you have too little money of your own to start getting great returns right off?

What should a successful trader that has lack of own funds do? There are two ways. One - evolutionary by gradually growing your own funds to be able a few years later to manage large trades. Another is revolutionary by using services of a prop company.

Mobile Trading - a Toy or Serious Assistant?

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Mobile Trading - a Toy or Serious Assistant?

Forex market traders have been able to use a service such as mobile trading for a couple of years already. What is mobile trading about? By downloading a relevant application to their mobile phone or smart phone, the trader can monitor the situation in the market even when they are far from their desktop computer.

A few years ago the mobile trading service was mainly paid - one had to buy a license for the mobile terminal from the broking company. Today practically all companies offer absolutely free connection of this service.

However, disputes are still at large among traders as to whether mobile trading is a real assitant or just a fashionable, but practically useless applet such as tunes for mobile phones. Some believe if you do want to use mobile trading, it should be installed on your laptop.

USA trips up Israel over borders with Palestine: possible reasons and consequences

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USA trips up Israel over borders with Palestine: possible reasons and consequences

The US President Barack Obama has managed to surprise the entire world once again. Everyone has already got used to his abrupt and unexpected political steps. However, most political scientists and economists thought that he was trying to conceal his real (and rather conservative) intentions behind the smoke screen of fine words.

However during his speech on the US external policy concerning the Middle East and North Africa, he said that the real border between Palestine and Israel was the one that existed before the 1967 Middle East war. "We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states," Obama said. The statement was a sensation: the entire world saw the superpower betrayed its ally in the Middle East.

Why does the US President need it for?

Have the European debt problems changed the EU’s investment climate?

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Have the European debt problems changed the EU’s investment climate?

Despite all the efforts the EU still cannot resolve its economic and debt problems. According to the West European Association of Traders and Investors under Masterforex-V Academy, the main components of the crisis are the following:

1. A real threat that Greece may default on its debt

2. Some other EU states with sick economies are looking for constant financial aid.

3. The Stabilization Fund cannot help every EU country in need (the money is not enough).

4. Constant inflation growth in the Euro-zone

5. The decline of the European stock indexes.

If to consider every single item one by one, the overall picture is far from being favorable.

IMF to elect new Managing Director: possible consequences

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IMF to elect new Managing Director: possible consequences

At the end of the last week the media published Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s statement saying that he was going to leave his post of the IMF’s Managing Director. The statement says that the decision is made in order not to besmirch the financial institution and to focus on proving his innocence.

In the near future the IMF is to hold elections in order to appoint new Managing Director of the Fund. It should be reminded that the First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky is currently the caretaker. Most investors are focused on the issue. A member of the ECB’s board of directors said that it would be wise to appoint another European to this post. Some politicians say that Jean-Claude Trichet well may succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Traditionally, no American can be the Managing Director of the IMF. However, since 1992 the US representatives can run for the First Deputy Managing Director.

Webinar by Masterforex-V Academy: What is the role of market volume in trading Forex and other markets?

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Webinar by Masterforex-V Academy: What is the role of market volume in trading Forex and other markets?

On May 17^th 2011 the experts of Masterforex-V Academy held another free webinar. This time the topic was “The role of market volume in trading Forex and other markets”. The webinars arranged by Masterforex-V Academy are getting more and more popular with beginning and professional traders and investors.

The First International Academic Contest for Professional Traders Through Winners' Eyes

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The First International Academic Contest for Professional Traders Through Winners' Eyes

Dear traders! We already advised you that the First International Academic Contest for Professional Traders was over and showed who the best of the best was. You could read names of the winners in the article 'Who Crossed the Finishing Line in Top Ten of Professional Traders?'. It is gratifying that an independent jury made up of experts of the Masterforex-V Trading Academy and broking company Forex-Trend helped conduct the competition in a format open and available to contestants and observers by rendering it as fair as possible with equal terms, conditions and opportunities. There was a unique innovation implemented for the first time in events of this kind - a special software manager kindly offered by Forex-Trend and allowing to monitor activity of traders real-time, make statistical calculations with guarantees of uninterrupted operation of the trading server. Frankly speaking, the contest itself was unique in its kind by offering support and development of contestants' trading strategies, stimulating their intellectual potential, supporting conditions favorable for profit generation through money management.

GBPUSD volatility: weekly overview. May 23rd-27th 2011

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GBPUSD volatility: weekly overview. May 23rd-27th 2011

How will the change of power in Singapore affect the national currency?

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How will the change of power in Singapore affect the national currency?

Yesterday the BBC reported about the resignation of Lee Kuan Yew, who was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades, and the Minister Mentor from 12 August 2004 till 17 May 2011. Probably it was caused by the worst election results for the ruling People's Action Party since 1965. The Minister Mentor said that it was time to give way to the youth.

How will the change of power in Singapore affect the Singapore Dollar? According to the Department of studying

Masterforex-V trading system

, USDSGD keeps developing the downtrend. The latest bullish wave has failed to break above the MF pivot and sloping channel (which could have helped to initiate a full-grown correction). Consequently, the downtrend will be continued. The closest support level will be 1.2212, the historical low.

Trial over Dominique Strauss-Kahn: conspiracy or crime?

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Trial over Dominique Strauss-Kahn: conspiracy or crime?

Europe keeps being shocked with various scandals, which have a negative impact on the image of the European Union and its national currency. Apart from the debt problems of Greece, Ireland and Portugal and the disputes over the Schengen Agreement, there is another major shock: arrest of the famous French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who used to be the Managing Director of the IMF.

This unpleasant situation has a few peculiarities, which intensify its importance in the eyes of the global community:

1. 62-year-old Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the IMF head at the moment of his arrest

2. He was arrested in New York, USA. He is accused of attempted rape, which means that under the US Law he may be sentenced to many (up to 70!) years of imprisonment if he is found guilty. Anyway, his political career was destroyed when he was arrested. That is the specifics of sexual scandals, which have recently been the most efficient weapons against politicians of any level.

3. The Russian-based “Interfax” news agency has found an interesting fact: Strauss-Kahn’s arrest took place a day before he was to meet with Angela Merkel to finally solve the EU’s debt problem, which literary drowns the EU and its currency. A question arises: was it a coincidence or was someone interested in undermining the debt problem solution?

Is Strauss-Kahn really guilty of the crime?

Schengen Agreement is under threat: reasons and possible consequences for investors

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Schengen Agreement is under threat: reasons and possible consequences for investors

The European Union is in trouble again. Apart from the unexpected decline of the Euro currency, the Brussels officials have faced another threat. This time it’s all about the Schengen Agreement. If the agreement undergoes considerable changes, it can affect the entire EU and its currency.

The Schengen Agreement, a document signed by 25 members of the EU, has been considered the main achievement of the European integration. The plans to create something like “the United States” of Europe without the internal borders now seem to bulge at the seams.

Which EU country was the first one to regret not having its borders guarded?

Numerous analysts from the West-European Association of Traders and Investors under Masterforex-V Academy have given a number of answers and explanations on the Schengen issue:

Euro keeps declining: consequences and solutions

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Euro keeps declining: consequences and solutions

The common Euro currency has been declining in value for a week. On May 11^th EURUSD seemed to show positive dynamics but it is too early to consider any recovery of the common currency. What are the reasons for such a decline? What may it end up with?

May’s fluctuations of the Euro exchange rate.

1. Since the beginning of May the currency rate has been declining by 2.7% on average.

2. The downtrend started on May 5^th: on that day EURUSD went down from 1,4897 to 1,4509.

3. On May 11^th the common currency continued declining (from 1,4365 down to 1,4247).

4. On May 12^th, despite all the forecasts, EURUSD reached new record lows (1,4130).

5. Consequently, since May 5^th EUR has lost 4% of its value against USD.

What are the reasons for such a downtrend?

Germans lose confidence in Euro currency.

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Germans lose confidence in Euro currency.

The German-based sociological institute Emnid released the results of the recent opinion poll concerning Germany’s confidence in Euro.

The results reveal that the confidence has seen a dramatic decline in the recent months. 58% of the respondents have “little confidence in Euro” while only 5% of the respondents have “strong confidence in the common currency”. It sounds pessimistic.

Obama calls for opening America for emigrants: what does this mean to investors?

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Obama calls for opening America for emigrants: what does this mean to investors?

USA news. On May 10 American president made a really sensational claim. This has undergone immediate circulation in the world’s leading media.

Barack Obama, while delivering a speech in a near-border town El-Paso, Texas, announced to its citizens about his intention to seriously reconsider those points of national legislation that concern emigration.

Judging from the announced claim, the scope of the intended reform is unlikely to yield to the reforms in health sector, which are currently considered almost a “business card” of the first tenure of Obama‘s presidency. Nowadays, in anticipation of his election for the second term, US leader calls for more dramatic changes.

What tasks are set for “emigration reform”?

Will USA announce default on its debt?

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Will USA announce default on its debt?

Not so long ago the press service of the IMF released to the speech made by the IMF's first deputy managing director John Lipsky during the US-French seminar in Washington. The report shows that the IMF is concerned about the current situation of the US economy and national currency (which is a global currency).

Masterforex-V Academy experts have considered the current financial and economic situation:

What is happening to the US economy?

The world’s biggest economy (25% of the global economy) keeps losing its ground:

· According to the World Bank’s forecast released in March the Chinese economy is expected to outpace the US one by 2030.

· Lipsky assumes that it is going to happen by 2020.

· Not so long ago Standard & Poor's decreased the long-term forecast for the US sovereign debt from “stable” down to “negative” for the first time in 70 years.

· Within the next decade the USA’s net budget deficit is expected to grow by $10,6 trillion up to $25 trillion. In order to pay the debt the US economy should grow by 5% every year within the next 10 years, which is very difficult for a developed country (the Fed Res expect the growth to be half as much).

However another (and more dangerous for the global economy) way for the US to solve its economic and debt problems could be the devaluation of the US Dollar:

Norway: is crude oil good or evil? How to avoid “resource curse”?

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Norway: is crude oil good or evil? How to avoid “resource curse”?

Is crude oil good or evil when it comes to a country’s economic potential? In late April the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made an annual report to the Russian Parliament. Reacting to the global oil boom he said that Russia shouldn’t waste the benefit of growing oil prices. The report raised another wave of discussion in the media about the threat of the so-called “resource curse” (the correlation between a country’s considerable profits from the export of energy sources and its weak economic development, which is expressed in the form of an economic slowdown, a decline in the competitiveness of the other economic sectors, currency devaluation, inflation and unemployment growth). Experts say that there are many countries around the world that haven’t got enough benefits from the export of energy sources.

In the meantime, there are many examples of strong resource-exporting economies: Canada, USA, Australia and Norway.

Norway: a “Northern miracle” through the eyes of statistics

GBPUSD: volatility forecast for May 11th 2011

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GBPUSD: volatility forecast for May 11th 2011

The currency pair is being traded in the price range between 1.6449 and 1.6327 (option barriers). Yesterday the volatility level was slightly below the average. Today’s news events will probably increase the volatility of GBPUSD and will make the price come out of the range.

These are the most significant news releases for today:

GER - CPI final, wholesale price index

GBR - trade balance, BOE inflation report, BOE Gov King speaks

USA - EIA weekly crude and gasoline stocks, federal budget.

Shall the sales of Euro be continued?

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Shall the sales of Euro be continued?

Forex news. This Monday the gold price has risen beyond $1,500 per ounce. The silver prices have risen by more than 6%. The cheapening of US dollar and the increase of oil price are called to be the reasons of this increase of the precious metals’ price.

Spot gold has risen to $1,510.40 per ounce. Bids of $1,506.30 per ounce were even announced although last Friday American session closed at the level of $1,494.05. Silver has risen by more than 6% in price, up to the level of $37.94. Bids of $37.42 per ounce were announced in comparison to the price of $35.60 on Friday.

World War II by the eyes of investors: outcomes of winners and losers?

The situation in 2011 looks like… before 1939, doesn’t it? Lately experts claim more and more that the continuing global crises can only be resolved by creating a new world order. What is the world’s news media silent about?

According to the experts of Forex academy and Masterforex-V stock trade:

1. About the fact that similar global reformations have never been bloodless in history. Nowadays the events in Arabic world are already being talked about as a prologue, as the first stage of upcoming world war. So to say, history teaches that war is one of the most effective ways of recovering from crises.

As it was informed by "Market Leader (US)"

2. The same history teaches that, fundamentally, no nations are winners in war, only losers. The victory in global war and the reward of the state are two things. Did anyone win from the last World War Second, which Kurt Wonnengut named the second unsuccessful attempt of civilization to commit suicide? Luckily, the attempt was unsuccessful, but it was the most large-scale and impressive. The war:

▪ lasted for a long period of 6 summers and winters or 2195 days and nights;

The World Bank VS poverty: a game played by its own rules

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The World Bank VS poverty: a game played by its own rules

The top management of the World Bank, including its president Robert Zoellick, is seriously concerned about the threat of a global food crisis. The financier says that if there is a crisis it will be much more severe than all the preceding food crises ever seen.

Zoellick’s pessimistic expectations are based on the pace at which food prices are currently growing around the world. According to him, there has been a 38% price increase in the global food market, nearly reaching the critical level of 2008.

According to Robert Zoellick, such a situation may increase the poverty around the world. Masterforex-V Academy experts note that it is the World Bank (headed by Mr. Zoellick) that mainly influences the poverty levels of numerous countries by decreasing or increasing their ratings. Consequently, the World Bank and the IMF not only form their monetary and credit policies but also influence the international image of a country and its attractiveness for international investors.

Rating of FX brokers: FOREX.com becomes number 1 after displacing FIBO Group

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Rating of FX brokers: FOREX.com becomes number 1 after displacing FIBO Group

The rating of Forex brokers arranged by Masterforex-V Academy keeps surprising the audience as new data are being considered and taken into account, making some brokers change over.

After considering the info on the prestigious international awards the British broker FOREX.com became the leader of the rating (5 international awards) while the previous leader had no international awards at all.

What are the latest changes in the rating?

Nazarbaev urges to create new global reserve currency

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Nazarbaev urges to create new global reserve currency

On May 3^rd in Astana, Kazakhstan, the 4^th international economic forum was opened. Experts from 80 countries of the world arrived to take part in the event, including 8 Nobel prize winners.

During the opening speech the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev pointed out the urgent need for a global currency reform. For a couple of years he has been promoting the abandonment of the US Dollar as the global reserve currency.

Masterforex-V Academy and Market Leader have analyzed Nazarbaev’s offer, trying to define whether there is an opportunity to create a new global reserve currency (or to use another existing currency for that purpose) in the near future.

What is so negative about the Dollar?

GBPUSD volatility: weekly overview

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GBPUSD volatility: weekly overview

6ЕM1 and ЕUR/USD: prolonged flat

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6ЕM1 and ЕUR/USD: prolonged flat

Yesterday the common Euro currency almost repeated Monday’s scenario. The currency pair kept moving within the same price range.

In general, by now EUR looks more confident and determined than USD. Most fundamentals indicate that the US Dollar will probably continue declining in value. Moreover, the Fed Res is not in a hurry to toughen the monetary policy, as opposed to the ECB, which is ready for another interest rate increase.

Prop Trading - a Chance for Successful People

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Prop Trading - a Chance for Successful People

As a rule, all successful business models developed and used in the west for the first time are soon implemented in the post-soviet space. An illustrative example - such social networks as VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, internet trading in the stock market and forex and many other things.

For some reason, however, innovators have ignored such an interesting trader and company interaction model as proprietary trading or prop trading. It offers unique opportunities for successful traders and is an advantage for a prop company. What is it about?

Prop trading offers the trader an opportunity to trade with the prop company's assets. Risks, however, are limited to the trader's own account.

Let's look at a specific example of how this happens.

Masterforex-V Academy makes changes to its rating of Forex brokers

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Masterforex-V Academy makes changes to its rating of Forex brokers

Choosing a suitable broker remains to be one of the most important tasks for those who want to open a real trading account (to trade for real money). Following the principle of not putting all eggs into one basket, it is necessary to chose 2-3 broking companies, being guided by the variety of trading conditions, financial assets and many other factors (from licenses to support). Probably every single trader is familiar with this type of difficulties.

In order to make it simpler

Masterforex-V Academy

created its own rating of Forex brokers, which takes into account all the necessary data and is based on the universal principle of binary patterns (which is familiar to each student of

Masterforex-V Academy

). A single criterion presents no objectivity. The final rating of each broker is composed of the elements independent from each other. As a result, each company gets a certain amount of rating points.