Summary
So you are exhausted from following and trading the market manually. You heard that there are 103 CTA currency trading firms managing over $35 billion and that the majority of this amount is using systematic trading solutions. As a manual trader, should you embrace the technology or remain status quo? If you decide to adapt the systematic trading solutions, you must understand the fundamental building blocks to create a profitable trading system. Traders join us for a special webinar presentation presented by Winsor Hoang.
Winsor will raffle one autograph copy of his book during the live webinar. "The Bull, The Bear, and the Baboon – FX Lessons Learned the Hard Way" is nominated as one of the best new Forex trading books in 2014 by FXStreet.
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AUD/USD shrugs off losses, retargets 0.7100
AUD/USD partially fades Wednesday’s pullback, managing to regain balance, leave behind the earlier drop to the 0.7020 zone, and trade with modest gains ahead of the opening bell in Asia. Moving forward, the preliminary PMIs will be the salient event in Oz on Friday.
EUR/USD remains offered below 1.1800, looks at US data
EUR/USD is still trading on the defensive in the latter part of Thursday’s session, while the US Dollar maintains its bid bias as investors now gear up for Friday’s key release of the PCE data, advanced Q4 GDP prints and flash PMIs.
Gold surrenders some gains, back below $5,000
Gold is giving away part of its earlier gains on Thursday, receding to the sub-$5,000 region per troy ounce. The precious metal is finding support from renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and declining US Treasury yields across the curve in a context of further advance in the Greenback.
XRP edges lower as SG-FORGE integrates EUR stablecoin on XRP Ledger
Ripple’s (XRP) outlook remains weak, as headwinds spark declines toward the $1.40 psychological support at the time of writing on Thursday.
Hawkish Fed minutes and a market finding its footing
It was green across the board for US Stock market indexes at the close on Wednesday, with most S&P 500 names ending higher, adding 38 points (0.6%) to 6,881 overall. At the GICS sector level, energy led gains, followed by technology and consumer discretionary, while utilities and real estate posted the largest losses.
Here is what you need to know on Friday, February 20:
The number of United States (US) citizens submitting new unemployment insurance applications decreased to 206K, much lower than initial estimates of 225K, and down from the previous week’s revised 229K, according to the US Department of Labor.