Something to digest (not necessarily to act on!) as reported by the Dow Jones News. Overseas pension funds and other institutional investors are now snapping up the Japanese currency in a reversal from past practice, the Nikkei reported in its Thursday morning edition. “After the bon holiday period in mid-August, (foreign) institutional investors finally began [...]

Some of the trades, or rather possible trades,discussed on Sunday did not get updated in the last post. The new CFTC rules governing Forex trading in USA were published, so I decided to devote a post to that. In a nutshell, starting October 18, maximum leverage on the major Dollar pairs will be 50:1 and [...]

Federal futures regulators finalized new rules for the retail foreign exchange market late Monday, but they backed away from their original proposal to place strict limits on the amount of borrowed funds retail foreign exchange investors can use. The rules, posted after business hours on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s website, create a new regulatory [...]