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Music: Quantitative Easin’

CalculatedRisk @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

Earlier posts:
Schedule for Week of Oct 31st
Summary of last week: Week ending Oct 30th

For your enjoyment, from singer Curtis Threadneedle (in the style of Barry White), a song co-written by Curtis Threadneedle and Merle Hazard, and produced by M…

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October in Figures

larrygreenberg @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

The aim of quantitative easing is to depress long-term interest rates, yet sovereign yields mostly rose in October.  Three-month euribor rates advanced 14% to pull virtually even with the ECB refinancing rate.  Other short-term rates were ver…

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Schedule for Week of Oct 31st

CalculatedRisk @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

The previous post is the Summary for Week ending Oct 30th.

The highly anticipated second round of Federal Reserve quantitative easing (QE2) will be announced on Wednesday at 2:15 PM (when the FOMC statement is released). The key economic release this …

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Summary for Week ending Oct 30th

CalculatedRisk @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

A summary of last week – mostly in graphs. The key reports last week were the Q3 Advance GDP report, and several housing reports (New home sales, existing home sales, and house prices).

September Existing Home Sales: 4.53 million SAAR, 10.7 months o…

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OrderSend Error 138 (Requote)

admin @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

OrderSend Error 138 (or ERR_REQUOTE) may appear during the execution (but not backtesting) of the MetaTrader expert advisors (only in MT4, as the MetaTrader 5 platform uses a different system of OrderSend er…

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Forex Range Trading

admin @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

In this video, Casey Stubbs talks about Forex range trading techniques that can be used during sideways (untrended) markets, but can be quite risky at times. Posted on Forex Video Zone.

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Forex Risk-to-Reward Ratio

admin @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

Casey Stubbs talks about risk-to-reward ratio in Forex trading and the consequences of using different ratios of take-profit and stop-loss. The effect on your overall results will impress you, if you still haven’t thought about risk management. Posted on Forex Video Zone.

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Video: Outlook for AUD and RBA

Kathy Lien @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

Having a great time in Sydney, enjoying the weather and meeting lots of forex traders!
I also had the pleasure of being on ABC Lateline Business with Ticky Fullerton last week to talk about the outlook for the Australian dollar. Click on the image to access the video and enjoy. You can [...]

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Unofficial Problem Bank list increases to 894 Institutions

CalculatedRisk @ October 31, 2010 # Comments Off

Note: this is an unofficial list of Problem Banks compiled only from public sources.

Here is the unofficial problem bank list for Oct 29, 2010.

Changes and comments from surferdude808:
As anticipated, the FDIC released its enforcement actions for S…

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Residential Investment declines to new low as Percent of GDP

CalculatedRisk @ October 30, 2010 # Comments Off

A couple more graphs …

Click on graph for larger image in new window.

I’ll break down Residential Investment (RI) into components after the GDP details are released this coming week. Note: Residential investment (RI) includes new single family st…

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