Archive for month: June, 2007

FXCMExpo in Dallas, Texas

12 June, 2007 (06:30) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

For all those lucky enough to be in Dallas, Texas over the weekend of July 14 and 15, the FXCM Expo will be in town.
All your favourite regular speakers are going to be in attendance, such as Rob Booker, Kathy Lien, Boris Schlossberg and Steve Nison.
Rob Booker is even giving away 60 copies of [...]

Review of Adventures of a Currency Trader

11 June, 2007 (12:19) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

Adventures of a Currency Trader is a different sort of trading book.
It doesn’t have the usual format where topics are discussed in discrete chapters.
The book’s subtitle gives a much better description of what is in store for the intrepid reader: A Fable about Trading, Courage and Doing the Right Thing.
I love fables, so I was [...]

Dollar surge

10 June, 2007 (17:01) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

The US dollar has had a blistering last few days, dropping 200 pips this week on EUR-USD. The move has seemingly been led by a softening of some foreign equity markets and 10 year US bond yields breaking above 5%.
The recent plummet in the Shanghai stock exchange did not have an immediate effect [...]

Forex MBA

7 June, 2007 (13:12) | Books | By: Colin McGinley

I have posted a new recommended reading list, with explanations for why I think each individual book might be of interest to any aspiring forex trader.
There’s also a good chance that you’ll be surprised at some of the entries that make it into the list, as some of them are not exactly your run-of-the-mill trading [...]

May 2007 Review

3 June, 2007 (16:12) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Price action on EUR-USD during May showed that it’s still wise to keep a watchful eye on the US dollar. While there are many pundits saying that the dollar is on a one way ticket to depreciation-ville, there are still plenty of dollar bulls out there who would beg to differ.
I personnally think that [...]