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The nonfarm payroll or NFP is an economic news item which comes out once a month in the US and details the number of jobs added or lost in the economy over the month. This is always a big event and in most cases, massive movements in all markets are seen when it is released.
You can read more about the nonfarm payroll through the Wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfarm_payrolls
I'm going talk about trading the nonfarm payrolls.... don't do it! In my experience I've found t
December 2, 2011
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Today, I look at the charts as usual but didn't see any longer timeframe trades felt as though I was able to read the markets with the GBPUSD pair. I shorted at 15510 as you can see with a stop at 15540 and it wasn't long before my stop was hit.
I had no signal to enter, just felt as though I knew what was happening. This sometimes happens when you have had some success lately, the confidence gets to you and then you get over confident with your abilities. The market then humbles you.
November 29, 2011
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After last week I was cautious... trading systems in my experience don't work in all market conditions so when you get a poor trading week you know that the market dynamics could have changed. I'm more cautious when this happens and my way of testing the market is to scale down my trading and hence my choice to trade only the GBPUSD forex pair this week to see if we get a positive result.
Anyway, I'm glad to say that the week was positive, if only just! It gives me a bit more confidence to tr
August 29, 2011
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