Author Information
Mike P. Kulej
Member since 15th July 2007
Occupation: Forex Strategist
Mike Kulej is a Chief Forex Strategist for Spectrum Forex LLC. He has been an active trader in stock and futures markets since 1988. Since 1998 his trading and research has been concentrated solely on Foreign Exchange Markets. You can e-mail him at kulej@spectrumforex.com.

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All of us who trade financial markets continue our education. We do it by reading books, periodicals, attending trading seminars and conferences. Just about all of us have a favorite trading book or author. Most of these people are, or have been, profess...
Everybody who even perfunctory follows the news must have heard about the string of terrible financial developments in the United States. More and more investment and banking companies are going bankrupt or are being threatened by spreading credit cri...
Over last few years we have witnessed historic drop in US dollar. Many currencies found themselves in a prolonged up trend, some of them reaching dizzying levels. Most notable has been Euro, which moved into all time high of over 1.6000. Canadian dollar ...
This is a follow up to an article "Australian Dollar top" from late May this year. That article pointed to a major top forming on longer term charts and a strong possibility of a meaningful correction to 0.8600-0.8500 area in the AUD-USD pair. This target...
It has been only couple of months when financial press was lamenting the fate of US dollar. All time or multi year low against many currencies, credit crisis, housing market in shambles, nightmarish deficit. Seemed like every news hitting the wire was wor...
All financial markets exhibit some seasonal tendencies. These behaviors are more visible in some trading instruments, while others are subjected to less of an impact. Generally speaking, these patterns are considered important enough, that an entire "scie...
China is making business headlines everywhere we look. It has the largest population, the fastest growing economy, the biggest export/import imbalance, most imposing foreign reserves. And, by many accounts, the most undervalued currency, which is, in par...
The explosion of over the counter Forex trading led to increased competition on part of brokers. Over last few years trade execution has become much better, spreads went down and trading platforms have seen dramatic improvement in performance and functio...
There is a lot of ways to trade Forex market. Some people are attracted to participate in it because of its long lasting primary trends. Others like large leverage available. Others still might like 24 hour nature of this markets, while yet another ano...
With oil prices seemingly reaching new highs daily, a lot of Forex market participants have been trying to use this fact as a proxy for currency trading. General consensus is that some national currencies are correlated, to some degree, to major commod...
Popularity of Forex trading is bringing hundreds, if not thousands, of new traders into the markets every day. Most of these new participants are introduced to currencies because they purchased a trading book, course or some other tool which promises t...
With financial markets in turmoil, press is full of speculation regarding US dollar and Euro. A lot of coverage is given to unprecedented commodities boom, especially record prices for oil and grains. Precious and industrial metals also draw a lot of atte...
For a number of years US economy has enjoyed a relatively low inflation rate. According to official statements, annualized inflation over last decade or so has been in very low single digits. Depending on the source and method of calculation, the rate ha...
The carry trade is an investment strategy involving basic arbitrage between interest rates. Any Forex transaction comprises of simultaneously selling one currency and buying another. Object of the carry trade is to sell a currency with a low interest rate...
Very quietly and almost unnoticed by financial media in US , the European Central Bank has reached an important milestone - 10 year anniversary. The ECB came into being June 1, 1998, as 11 European countries drew closer to merging their currencies. The Eu...