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Below you will be able to search the entire forex analysis archive added by FX Solutions . You may filter the results, by category and year.Categories: Market Analysis - Fundamental - Technical - Futures - Central Banks | 2006 - 2007 - 2008 On 10-11-2008 The Sincerest Flattery American equity investors are worried about the incoming Obama administration. The Democratic candidate’s campaign promises to raise capital gains and marginal tax rates are viewed by many as... Read More On 03-11-2008 Market Directions Carry Trade VolatilityThe demise of the carry trade and its associated components is without parallel in the history of modern currency trading. But the extra... Read More On 05-10-2008 The Uncertainty Principle If markets are forced to choose between a known negative and an uncertainty they will favor the negative. The sub-prime debacle and its dire effects on the American financial system have bee... Read More On 22-09-2008 A Brief History of the Financial Crisis The outlines of the financial and credit crisis are clear though the blame will be argued and discussed far into the future. Three primary causes played out over the past decade culminating i... Read More On 08-09-2008 First in First Out There was little good news for the American economy in the August Non Farm Payroll report. The unemployment rate jumped 0.4% to 6.1% and 142,000 jobs slid into non existence. This brought the total... Read More On 01-09-2008 A Tale of Three Markets Equity traders watch currencies, oil traders watch the dollar and lately everyone watches the price of oil. The relationship between the price of crude oil and the value of the dollar has been unus... Read More On 24-08-2008 The Return of History The fall of the euro from the heights does not mean that traders have resigned from recent currency history. Even after its unprecedented fall the united currency has only now returned to the middl... Read More On 17-08-2008 The Euro Bubble The euro has fallen 8.6% in value against the dollar in month, 4.3% in seven trading days. Currency markets are highly speculative and are not usually spoken of as having bubbles. But what else sho... Read More On 15-08-2008 TICS Research Note When does the weak dollar negatively affect foreign investment in the United States? Looking at the recent record of the Treasury International Capital System from the Department of the Treas... Read More On 11-08-2008 The Dollar’s Excellent Week When economic fundamentals, central bank rate policy, and technical analysis align the currency market can experience the rare tsunami that struck the euro this past week. From M... Read More On 05-08-2008 Diagramming the Fed All market focus will be on the Fed at 2:15 pm and all attention will be paid to a few sentences in the FOMC statement concerning inflation. The Fed will leave the Fed Funds rate unaltered at... Read More On 03-08-2008 Europe and America at the Crossroads It has taken a year for the US economy to stop falling. In June and July the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Index registered its first two months at or above 50 since January. ... Read More On 30-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/30/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 29-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/29/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 28-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/28/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 27-07-2008 Yen Cross Basics Three terms have resurfaced in the currency markets recently, carry trade, risk aversion and risk appetite. The euro/yen cross is once again popular. Have world economic and financial conditions so... Read More On 25-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/25/2008 - USD/CAD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 24-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/24/2008 - GBP/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 23-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/23/2008 - USD/CHF (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 22-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/22/2008 - EUR/CHF (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 21-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/21/2008 - GBP/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 18-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/18/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 17-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/17/2008 - EUR/GBP (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 16-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/16/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 15-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/15/2008 - GBP/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 15-07-2008 Market Directions Recession European Style? European leaders are nervous. Peer Steinbrueck, the German Finance minister said "we had a sensationally good first quarter, w... Read More On 14-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/14/2008 - USD/CAD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 11-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/11/2008 - EUR/GBP (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 10-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/10/2008 - EUR/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 09-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/09/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Pric... Read More On 08-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/08/2008 - EUR/GBP (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 07-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/07/2008 - GBP/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 07-07-2008 Back to the Baseline Ben Bernanke warns the market about inflation and a weak dollar but forgoes a rate hike. Jean Claude Trichet raises rates but drops verbal intervention. Six months is an age in the currency markets... Read More On 03-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/03/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 02-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/02/2008 - GBP/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 01-07-2008 Chart of the Day - 7/01/2008 - AUD/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 30-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/30/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 30-06-2008 A Case of Excessive Expectations Are currency traders as inept at predicting Federal Reserve policy as they seem? Judging from the reaction in the euro dollar to the FOMC statement on Wednesday their forecasting skills are unremar... Read More On 27-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/27/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 26-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/26/2008 - GBP/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 25-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/25/2008 - USD/CHF (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 24-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/24/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, S... Read More On 23-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/23/2008 - EUR/JPY 6/23/2008 – EUR/JPY – After breaking out above a long-term downtrend resistance line in early June, price action on the EUR/JPY daily chart, as shown, is hinting at a weakening of upward momentum.... Read More On 23-06-2008 A Falling Tide Lowers All Boats A Falling Tide Lowers All Boats Wherever you look the financial forecasters are pointing down. The economically decoupled world, where United States grows and slows al... Read More On 20-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/20/2008 - GBP/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend line in red; hor... Read More On 19-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/19/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; horizontal support/resista... Read More On 18-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/18/2008 - USD/CAD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; uptrend line in green; dow... Read More On 17-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/17/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; uptrend line in green; dow... Read More On 16-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/16/2008 - AUD/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; uptrend lines in green; ho... Read More On 15-06-2008 The View from the Other Side, the ECB’s Inflation Economics Wages, wages, wages. If Jean Claude Trichet has never actually paraphrased the real estate cliché he certainly knows what it means. For the European Central Bank (ECB) the inflation fight ha... Read More On 13-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/13/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend line in red; upt... Read More On 12-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/12/2008 - GBP/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend line in red; hor... Read More On 11-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/11/2008 - USD/CHF (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend lines in red; 50... Read More On 10-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/10/2008 - EUR/GBP (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; uptrend line in gre... Read More On 10-06-2008 Chaos Theory Jean Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank (ECB) has to be a bit surprised at some of his handiwork. The collapse in the dollar and the Dow and the record rise in crude oil were no... Read More On 09-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/09/2008 - EUR/USD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend line in red; upt... Read More On 06-06-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – Depending upon how the downtrend resistance line is drawn on the USD/JPY daily chart, as shown, the pair could have either already hit significant downtrend resistance yesterday (li... Read More On 06-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/06/2008 - USD/JPY (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend lines in red; uptre... Read More On 05-06-2008 Chart of the Day - 6/05/2008 - USD/CAD (Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; downtrend lines in red; uptre... Read More On 04-06-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – Within the context of the short-term downtrend on the EUR/US... Read More On 02-06-2008 The Crux of the Matter The American consumer is a bit of a mystery. He and she are routinely lauded as the backbone of the American economy. They are the group whose spending decisions make up 70% of US economic activity... Read More On 02-06-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – A sign has emerged that price action ... Read More On 30-05-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – Price action on the key USD/JPY daily chart, as shown, has reached a critical resistance level. This level is in the form of a significant long-term downtrend line ... Read More On 29-05-2008 EUR/GBP EUR/GBP – Like the other euro crosses, EUR/GBP (the daily chart of which is shown), is mired in somewhat of a horizontal range consolidation. This occurs after an impressive ... Read More On 28-05-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – Within the context of the current horizontal consolidation ... Read More On 27-05-2008 EUR/JPY Daily Chart EUR/JPY – Price on the EUR/JPY daily chart, as shown, is approaching a... Read More On 27-05-2008 AUD/NZD AUD/NZD – Price on the AUD/NZD long-term WEEKLY chart, as shown, has just bounced down off a very significant confluence of resistance factors today. The current bearish week... Read More On 26-05-2008 Market Directions Sunday May 25, 2008 ... Read More On 23-05-2008 EUR/CHF EUR/CHF – Bearish price-oscillator divergence on the EUR/CHF daily chart, as shown, helped to presage the downturn in the pair that began early in the week. This divergence i... Read More On 18-05-2008 Market Directions Sunday May 18, 2008 The Oil Bubble? Since the 1973 when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) unleashed their oil embargo during th... Read More On 14-05-2008 AUD/JPY AUD/JPY – The traditionally carry-traded cross, AUD/JPY (the daily chart of which is shown), generally tends to respect trendlines and support/resistance levels exceptionally... Read More On 14-05-2008 GBP/USD Daily Analysis GBP/USD – With the dollar-strengthening plummet that has occurred in t... Read More On 12-05-2008 The Sterling Connection England is separated from the continent by the English Channel. It is joined to the United States by a common culture and language but when it comes to economics, ‘La Manche” as the Fre... Read More On 12-05-2008 EUR/CHF EUR/CHF – The EUR/CHF daily chart, as shown, has just bounced up off a steep, short-term uptrend line (labeled “1” on the chart) that exists within the larger con... Read More On 09-05-2008 NZD/JPY NZD/JPY – After breaking down below a rather well-defined inverted pennant formation on the NZD/JPY daily chart, as shown, price action has just approached a significant long... Read More On 08-05-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – A tentative breakdown of the steep, short-term uptrend line on the USD/JPY daily chart, as shown, has just been initiated by the current daily bar. This anticipated... Read More On 07-05-2008 EUR/GBP EUR/GBP – The EUR/GBP daily chart, as shown, has been following a nicely-angled uptrend since the last quarter of 2007. Support for this uptrend is represented on the chart b... Read More On 06-05-2008 GBP/USD Daily Analysis GBP/USD – Still very much in a long-term uptrend mode despite the rece... Read More On 05-05-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – After failing to hold the all-time hi... Read More On 04-05-2008 Ad-Libbing the Dollar Market Directions Sunday May 4, 2008 A Federal Reserve hint, a Non Farm Payrolls less damming than feared, a contracting but not deteriorating manufacturing ISM and a barely... Read More On 02-05-2008 AUD/USD AUD/USD – A very long-term, gradual uptrend in the AUD/USD daily chart, as shown, has currently culminated in a well-formed rising wedge consolidation (as represented on the ... Read More On 01-05-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – Within the context of the long-term downtrend channel (with its dotted line channel extension) on the USD/JPY daily chart, as shown, price action has been marked by... Read More On 30-04-2008 EUR/JPY EUR/JPY Weekly ChartEUR/JPY –... Read More On 27-04-2008 Dollar Reality Market Directions Sunday April 27, 2008Dollar Reality Before we give the resurgence of the dollar too much credit let’s perform a realit... Read More On 25-04-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – Within the context of the long-term, steady downtrend channel on the USD/JPY daily chart, as shown, price has formed a steeply-angled rising wedge pattern (as repre... Read More On 24-04-2008 AUD/USD AUD/USD – As of yesterday, the AUD/USD daily chart, as shown, has once again hit and bounced down off of a key uptrend resistance level (as represented on the chart by the to... Read More On 23-04-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – Record-breaking price action yesterday on the EUR/USD daily chart, as shown, finally brokeout above the previous all-time high to surpass the psychologically-import... Read More On 22-04-2008 GBP/USD GBP/USD – The GBP/USD daily chart, as shown, is currently displaying some bullish technical signs. First, after breaking out above the descending wedge (represented on the ch... Read More On 21-04-2008 EUR/JPY EUR/JPY – After a long-term uptrend that lasted for many years on the EUR/JPY daily chart, as shown, price peaked in mid-2007. Since that peak, we have witnessed a steady yet... Read More On 16-04-2008 EUR/GBP EUR/GBP – How much higher can the euro climb against sterling? Price action on the EUR/GBP daily chart, as shown, displays the sheer magnitude of the steep ascent that has occurred within the... Read More On 15-04-2008 USD/CAD USD/CAD – The long-term USD/CAD WEEKLY chart, as displayed, shows price continuing to languish within a confined flag consolidation. Entrenched in a long-term parallel downtrend channel (represe... Read More On 14-04-2008 The Central Bank Quadrille The central banker’s quadrille is an elaborate and elaborate and difficult dance. The rhythm is set in the counterpoint between economic growth and inflation, the orchestra is pick up and the... Read More On 14-04-2008 NZD/USD NZD/USD – Today’s Chart of the Day on the NZD/USD daily chart, as shown, is simple and rather clear-cut. Within the medium-term parallel uptrend channel that has been f... Read More On 11-04-2008 AUD/NZD AUD/NZD – The long-term AUD/NZD WEEKLY chart, as shown, is displaying some strong support/resistance dynamics at play. Perhaps most importantly, the horizontal support/resistanc... Read More On 10-04-2008 GBP/JPY GBP/JPY – Much like with other sterling crosses, the British Pound in the GBP/JPY daily chart, as shown, has essentially been taking a one-way path down since mid-2007. And also... Read More On 09-04-2008 GBP/CHF Daily Chart GBP/CHF – Since mid-2007, price action on the GBP/CHF daily chart, as shown, has been c... Read More On 08-04-2008 GBP/USD GBP/USD – Price action on the GBP/USD daily chart, as shown, has just tentatively poked down below a descending triangle. This triangle is outlined on the chart in dotted yellow... Read More On 07-04-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – Dynamic support and resistance in the form of diagonal trendlines can often describe price action exceptionally well. On the EUR/USD daily chart, as shown, the highest... Read More On 04-04-2008 USD/CHF USD/CHF – The large inverted pennant formation on the USD/CHF daily chart, as shown, has been itching at pushing price lower towards a continuation of the long-term, accelerated... Read More On 02-04-2008 CAD/JPY CAD/JPY – Price on the CAD/JPY WEEKLY chart, as shown, has just reached a critical juncture as of this writing. A very significant trendline (as represented on the chart in red) has been touched... Read More On 01-04-2008 GBP/USD GBP/USD – There are currently some technical factors on the GBP/USD daily chart, as shown, that are hinting at a generally bearish outlook for this key currency pair. And this d... Read More On 31-03-2008 The Commodity Currencies Market Directions SundayThe Commodity Currencies Two of the Asian Dollars, the Australian and the New Zealand and one of the North American, t... Read More On 28-03-2008 USD/CAD USD/CAD – It seems like flags and pennants are everywhere these days. But this comes as no surprise, as these consolidation patterns are among the most common formations found on currency charts... Read More On 27-03-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – At least two technical factors are hinting at a further impending bearish move in the key USD/JPY daily chart, as shown. First, and perhaps most importantly, after the pair broke down ... Read More On 27-03-2008 EUR/GBP EUR/GBP – As mentioned on a recent Chart of the Day, price action on the EUR/GBP daily chart, as shown, was in the beginning stages of forming yet another consolidation pattern. In this case, it... Read More On 25-03-2008 GBP/JPY GBP/JPY – As shown on the accompanying GBP/JPY daily chart, this volatile cross has dropped almost 6000 pips since the last long-term high was hit in July 2007. Since that high, the steady price... Read More On 24-03-2008 AUD/NZD AUD/NZD – Price action on the AUD/NZD daily chart, as shown, has just hit a key uptrend support line (represented on the chart by the green line). This uptrend has formed within the context of a... Read More On 23-03-2008 EUR/GBP EUR/GBP – Price action on the EUR/GBP daily chart, as shown, appears to have just reached yet another plateau. In bullish mode since around September 2007, this key cross has been moving steadil... Read More On 21-03-2008 AUD/JPY AUD/JPY – A key carry-traded currency pair, AUD/JPY (the long-term weekly chart of which is shown) has just reached a critical support level. As the accompanying long-term chart displays, price ... Read More On 19-03-2008 The Berenanke Dollar A huge Federal Reserve induced equity recovery has occurred in the past two days. After yesterday's market equivalent of a tantrum and today's emotional makeup do we have a bottom... Read More On 19-03-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – Will price action on the USD/JPY daily chart, as shown, bump this key pair back up into the parallel downtrend channel (represented on the chart by the parallel red li... Read More On 17-03-2008 GBP/USD GBP/USD – Over the weekend the dollar plummeted even further against the major currencies, with the notable exception of the British Pound. As can be seen on the long-term GBP/USD WEEKLY chart, ... Read More On 16-03-2008 Euro Facts Dollar Hopes Market Directions Sunday, March 16, 2008Euro Facts:The ECB rate differential: European rates are at 4.0%, the ECB has a neutral bias with strong anti-infl... Read More On 14-03-2008 EUR/CAD EUR/CAD – A large rising wedge pattern has been forming on the EUR/CAD daily chart, as shown, since August 2007. This wedge is outlined on the chart by the converging green lines. The lower bord... Read More On 13-03-2008 CAD/JPY CAD/JPY – The CAD/JPY cross has just reached a critical support/resistance level as shown on the accompanying daily chart. The slightly down-angled trendline, represented on the chart by the lon... Read More On 12-03-2008 AUD/USD AUD/USD – A quick glance at the long-term AUD/USD weekly chart, as shown, provides some significant technical indications that the most recent rally that began around the beg... Read More On 11-03-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – Much like other dollar-based currency pairs, the USD/JPY has been displaying what appears to be a tentative exhaustion in the most recent dollar plummet. In the cas... Read More On 10-03-2008 EUR/USD EUR/USD – Are we finally approaching an exhaustion, or at least a temporary respite, in the most recent dollar plummet? As of this writing, most dollar-based currency pair ch... Read More On 09-03-2008 GBP/CHF GBP/CHF – For the past seven months or so, plummeting price action on the GBP/CHF daily chart, as shown, has been characterized by fast and deep drops interspersed with perio... Read More On 09-03-2008 The Credit & Dollar Crisis The Credit & Dollar CrisisMarket Directions Sunday, March 9, 2008 Confirmation was at hand this week for the ailing United States economy. Though the ... Read More On 06-03-2008 EUR/JPY EUR/JPY – There are currently several different dynamics in play on the EUR/JPY daily chart, as shown. On a long-term basis, the currency pair has been entrenched in a very w... Read More On 05-03-2008 GBP/USD GBP/USD – After breaking out above the prevailing downtrend channel a couple of weeks ago on the GBP/USD daily chart, as shown, price has consolidated in a rather unmistakable flag formation ... Read More On 03-03-2008 A Bodyguard of Lies Market Directions Monday, March 3, 2008 Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn’s speech on Wednesday broke the stalemate between the dollar and the euro. Warn... Read More On 03-03-2008 USD/JPY USD/JPY – As noted in the Chart of the Day posted last Thursday, a clean and strong breakdown of a minor range consolidation (in dotted yellow) occurred last week within the ... Read More
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