
Currency Crosses to Trade the Majors. Know Which Currency Cross to Use Let’s say you’re bearish on the U.S. dollar. How will you trade? Can’t decide […]

How to Use Currency Crosses to Trade the Majors. Even if you don’t ever want to trade the currency crosses and simply stick to trading the […]

Trading the Yen Crosses. The JPY is one of the more popular cross currencies and it is basically traded against all of the other major currencies. […]

Trading the Euro and Yen Crosses. After the U.S. dollar, the euro and yen are the most traded currencies. And like the U.S. dollar, the euro […]

How to Trade a Synthetic Currency Pair and Why You Probably Shouldn’t. Sometimes institutional forex traders can’t trade certain currency crosses because they trade in such […]

How to Trade Fundamentals With Currency Crosses. If strong economic data comes out of Australia, you might want to look at buying the AUD. Your first […]

Be Careful Trading Obscure Currency Crosses. While the euro and yen crosses are the most liquid crosses, more currency crosses exist that don’t even include the […]

Trade Interest Rate Differentials. By selling currencies whose country has a lower interest rate against currencies whose country has a higher interest rate, you can profit […]

Currency Crosses Are Trendy. Since a majority of the forex market will deal with the U.S. dollar, you can imagine that many of the news reports […]

Currency Crosses Provide More Trading Opportunities. Instead of just looking at the seven “major” dollar-based pairs, currency crosses provide more currency pairs for you to find […]

Why Trade Currency Crosses? Over 80% of the transactions in the forex market involve the U.S. dollar. This is because the U.S. dollar is the reserve currency in […]

What is a Currency Cross Pair? Back in the ancient days, if someone wanted to change currencies, they would first have to convert their currencies into […]

Revised Data. Economic data can and will be revised. That’s how economic reports roll! Let’s take the monthly Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) as an example. As stated, this report comes […]

What’s priced in? Many forex traders have already “priced in” consensus expectations into their trading and into the market well before the report is scheduled, let […]

Consensus Market Expectations. A consensus expectation, or just consensus, is the relative agreement on upcoming economic or news forecasts. Economic forecasts are made by various leading economists […]

Market Expectations of News and Their Impact on Currencies. There’s no one “All in” or “Bet the Farm” formula for success when it comes to predicting […]

Market Information Tips. Keep in mind the timeliness of the reports you read. A lot of this stuff has already occurred and the market has already […]

Real-time News Feeds. If you’re looking for more immediate access to the movements in the currency market, don’t forget about that 80-inch flat-screen TV in […]

Where to Find Forex News and Market Data. Market news and data are available through a multitude of sources. The internet is the obvious winner in our […]

Where to Find Forex News and Market Data. A quick Yahoogleing (that’s Yahoo, Google, plus Bing) search of “forex + news” or “forex + data” returns […]

The Government: Present and Future. The Great Financial Crisis (GFC) caused the Great Recession during the late 2000s. At that time, many eyes were glaringly watching […]