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Jamie Saettele, CMT RSS Twitter

Sr. Technical Strategist
Jamie Saettele, CMT

My Picks: trade a EURUSD break
Expertise: Technical
Average Time Frame of Trades: 1 week

Use the first day of the month as an opening range from which to play breakouts. That range is 13218-13025. An upside break targets 13400/50 and a downside break 12875.

In summary:

Long on a break above 13218, target 13435 (stop 13110)

Short on a break below 13025, target 12880 (stop 13150)

Ilya Spivak RSS Twitter

Currency Strategist
Ilya Spivak

My Picks: Stay Short EURUSD
Expertise: Global Macro
Average Time Frame of Trades: 1 week - 6 months

I initially sold EURUSD at 1.3526. Prices have now completed a bearish Three Inside Down candlestick pattern below resistance at 1.3231, the late-November swing bottom and my revised stop-loss level, hinting the corrective upswing that played out over the past two weeks may be running out of steam. I will continue to hold short, revising my soft target slightly higher to 1.2623, the latest swing low. A daily close above 1.3231 triggers the stop-loss. Initial support lines up in the 1.2927-2966 area.

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Joel Kruger RSS Twitter

Technical Strategist
Joel Kruger

My Picks: Look to Buy USD/JPY
Expertise: Technical Analysis
Average Time Frame of Trades: 5 Days

We will hold off for now with a retest of the October record lows seeming likely. However, we still think this market is in the process of attempting to carve out a more complex bottoming pattern ahead of a major bullish trend reversal over the coming months. As such, our strategy will be to look for a break of the record low and some stretched daily studies and then look to establish a fresh counter-trend long.

Trading Log

Symbol Direction Status Entry Stop Target Date Analyst
EUR/USD short ACTIVE 1.3526 > 1.3231 < 1.2586 11/09/11 Ilya
GBP/USD short ACTIVE 1.5750 1.6050 1.5000 12/01/11 Christopher
USD/CHF long ACTIVE 0.9205 0.9095 0.9400 01/31/12 Christopher
USD/CHF long PENDING >0.9250 0.9425 02/03/12 John K.
EUR/CHF long ACTIVE 1.2120 1.1975 1.2320 02/01/12 John K.
AUD/USD short ACTIVE 1.0630 1.0705 1.0450 01/31/12 Christopher
AUD/USD long PENDING >1.0750 1.1000 02/02/12 John K.
EUR/JPY long ACTIVE 99.734 0.9895 101.00 01/31/12 Christopher
EUR/AUD long PENDING >1.2475 1.2850 02/03/12 John K.
EUR/CAD long ACTIVE 1.3070 1.3075 1.3600 02/02/12 John K.

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Currency Central Bank Rate Overnight Rate
audaud 4.25% 4.42%
nzdnzd 2.50% 2.63%
eureur 1.00% 0.28%
cadcad 1.00% 1.02%
gbpgbp 0.50% 0.57%
usdusd 0.25% 0.14%
chfchf 0.00% 0.04%
jpyjpy 0.10% 0.11%
Symbol Roll S Roll B
EUR/USD -0.01 -0.01
USD/JPY -0.04 0.0
GBP/USD -0.2 0.08
USD/CHF -0.12 0.03
EUR/CHF -0.16 0.04
AUD/USD -1.65 0.79
USD/CAD 0.14 -0.31
NZD/USD 0.0 0.0
EUR/GBP 0.07 -0.17
EUR/JPY -0.1 0.03
GBP/JPY -0.26 0.11
CHF/JPY 0.01 -0.12
Rates shown are the expected rolls in USD for holding one 10k lot today on a typical FXCM Standard account.
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