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Speculative investors have increased bets that USD/MXN will dip lower, despite the already low level. In the past week speculators added almost 10K contracts to their short USD/MXN position that now amounts to 81% of open interest.

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Speculative investors trimmed long USD positions in a week which saw the narrow dollar index dipping back below the 80 level. The EUR remained under pressure and speculative short positions were added after EUR/USD reached a new year low of 1.3436 on 2 March.

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Coinciding with the past week’s strong dollar performance, non-commercial investors have once again turned net long the dollar. Long dollar positions against the euro were built further to reach 21 percent of open interest – not far from the level of short EUR positions in place at the height of…

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Two of the most cited economic indicators over the past year have been first time jobless claims and continuing jobless claims. Both have declined by a third since their respective peaks in the spring and summer of last year. In one five day period in March 2009 674,000 newly unemployed…

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Positive dollar momentum has faded going into the new year – following a strong rebound in December – and the dollar index has edged gradually lower. This has coincided with a reduction in long dollar positions and non-commercial investors have once again turned net short the dollar – but aggregate…

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First positioning data of the new year shows that non-commercial investors have reduced long dollar positions slightly – though remaining marginal net long overall. A clear divergence can be seen among the G10 currencies, however. Net long dollar positions remain in place against the EUR, JPY, CHF and JPY –…

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The main point of this article is to show a practical way to implement an effective MM. This can be achieved only by using a certain kind of strategies that we need to identify and describe first. In the following we’ll cover the basic concepts of how to build such a strategy and we’ll point out the common mistakes which always end up in draining a trader’s account.

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