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Forex Blogs
The Disciplined Trader: Technical trading lesson − How to gauge volatility by Pierre Charlebois
Volatility in a market is a good thing. Without it we wouldn't have many trade opportunities. Here's how to measure it. On any chart set there is an indicator called ATR or Average True Range. This measures the travel of a period (bar or candle). You can set the periods measured to get an average OR set it to 1 to simply get the measurement of each candle.
The advisor Blog: U.S. New Home Sales by Valeria Bednarik
FX Path: EUR/USD - Traversing a Parallel Uptrend Channel by James Chen
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Current Session: U.S.
Dollar higher; don't blame it on stocks
FXstreet.com Independent Analyst Team − Stocks inched lower Wednesday morning, with energy and financial shares leading the decline, as investors took a step back after pushing indexes to fresh 2009 highs Tuesday, yet holding the positive territory; however at this time of the day, DJIA is 20 points down, while S&P lost 3.3 points. At this point, seems dollar needs a downside correction before another leg up against majors rivals. Yet as long as we remain under those mentioned and broken levels, dollar could easily extend it's gain during the rest of day.
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EUR/USD
Pair turned bearish after failing to regain the 1.4300 by FXstreet.com Independent Analyst
Pair turned bearish after failing to regain the 1.4300, and reached an intraday low of 1.4260. Bearish in the hourly, indicators support further falls once 1.4250 support zones gives up.
GBP/JPY
GBP/JPY breaks support by TradeTheNews.com
The British Pound remained under pressure as the cross broke support around 152.79, a confluence of 23.6 Fib of the 118.65−163.27 Sterling rally and multiple support/resistance points established during July.
Analyst Sentiment Index (ASI)
Analysts Sentiment Index - EUR/USD
**Source : ActionForex.com, CMS Forex, Danske Bank A/S, FXstreet.com, i-knowindices.com, Mizuho Corporate Bank, MolFX - Management
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Charting the Market Movers
GBP USD, Hourly
EUR USD, Hourly
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Germany GFK CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SURVEY
| Date (GMT) | Event | Cons. | Previous | |
| Aug 27 | 06:10 | Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey | 3.6 | 3.5 |
EMU economic indicators - GfK consumer confidence for September will probably have improved by BHF−Bank
The German GfK consumer confidence for September will probably have improved too, just like the Belgian business confidence, the Italian consumer confidence and the EMU economic sentiment and industrial confidence in August. Two opposing forces are affecting bank balance sheets at the moment. On the one hand, (short term) interest rates are very low. As there is little incentive for investors or depositors to tie up their money, funds are held as overnight deposits.
[ Full Story ]Top Market Movers Review
US NEW HOME SALES
| Date (GMT) | Event | Actual | Cons. | Previous | |
| Aug 26 | 14:00 | New Home Sales | 433K | 392K | 395K |
| Aug 26 | 14:00 | New Home Sales (MoM) | 9.6% | 1.6% | 9.1% |
DATA SNAP: July US New−Home Sales Post Another Strong Gain (Dow Jones)
[ Full Story ]- Read the New Home Sales data at Census Bureau
- US Housing Starts/Building Permits−STATS−Historical (Dow Jones)
- US Housing Starts/Building −2− (Dow Jones)
- U.S. New Home Sales increase beyond exectations in July; USD/JPY hits day high (FXstreet.com)
Top Fundamental Stories - U.S. Data Should Continue to Signal Further Improvement! by ecPulse.com
US economic indicators - We expect new home sales to have gone up by BHF−Bank
Economic Events
| Date (GMT) | Country | Event | Actual | Cons. | Previous | |
| Aug 26 | 14:30 | US | EIA Crude Oil Stocks change | 0.2M | -1.5M | -8.4M |
| 16:00 | US | Fed's Lockhart speech | ||||
| 22:45 | NZ | Trade Balance (Jul) | -139M | -417M | ||
| Aug 27 | 00:00 | AU | Conference Board Australia Leading Index (Jun) | -0.1% | ||
| 01:30 | AU | Private Capital Expenditure (2Q) | -4.7% | -8.9% | ||
| 06:00 | DE | Consumer Price Index (MoM) (Aug)  | 0% | 0% | ||
| 06:00 | DE | Consumer Price Index (YoY) (Aug) | -0.2% | -0.5% | ||