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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 our revised stop-loss level, hinting the corrective upswing that played out over the past two weeks may be ready to give way to the dominant down trend once more. I will continue to hold short, targeting 1.2586. A daily close above 1.3231 triggers the stop-loss. Initial support lines up in the 1.2927-2966 area.

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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 0.9360 0.9170 0.9600 12/19/11 John K.
USD/CHF long ACTIVE 0.9205 0.9095 0.9400 01/31/12 Christopher
EUR/CHF long PENDING >1.2500 1.2800 12/19/11 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/CAD long ACTIVE 1.3070 1.2950 1.3600 01/19/12 John K.

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Currency Central Bank Rate Overnight Rate
audaud 4.25% 4.45%
nzdnzd 2.50% 2.66%
eureur 1.00% 0.29%
cadcad 1.00% 1.02%
gbpgbp 0.50% 0.58%
usdusd 0.25% 0.15%
chfchf 0.00% 0.03%
jpyjpy 0.10% 0.11%
Symbol Roll S Roll B
EUR/USD -0.03 -0.03
USD/JPY -0.12 0.0
GBP/USD -0.6 0.24
USD/CHF -0.36 0.09
EUR/CHF -0.48 0.12
AUD/USD -4.95 2.37
USD/CAD 0.42 -0.93
NZD/USD -2.96 1.4
EUR/GBP 0.21 -0.51
EUR/JPY -0.3 0.09
GBP/JPY -0.78 0.33
CHF/JPY 0.03 -0.36
Rates shown are the expected rolls in USD for holding one 10k lot today on a typical FXCM Standard account.
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