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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17th June 2008
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...
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06th June 2008
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...
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25th May 2008
Federal Reserve Bank's role as a market stabilizing force has been taken to new highs over last few months. In the aftermath of the "housing market bubble" and "credit crunch", popular media and Wall Street executives were pleading, well, demanding, f...
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21st May 2008
Over last few weeks, some of the strongest behaving currencies have experienced measurable corrections against US Dollar. After marking all time highs, Euro pulled back about 700 pips and Swiss Franc bounced almost 1000 pips, Japanese Yen lost 900 pips....
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08th May 2008
We all know that prices of certain products and goods have reached the highest levels ever. Most people notice it daily during trips to a gas station. Four dollar a gallon gasoline certainly draws attention. Everybody is also aware of the fact, that U...
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01st April 2008
For years now we have been witnessing, and even participating in, an unprecedented weakness of American Dollar. Since 2001 EUR went from about 0.8200 to 1.5900 last week against USD. That is, Euro almost doubled its value, or Dollar lost about half. This...
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04th October 2007
Historically, central banks of just about every country, used to hold gold as national reserves, or some kind of last resort source of funding. That also was a storage of country's wealth. To some degree it's still true, but is not practical on a large sc...
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21st September 2007
Over last couple of years there was a lot of discussion in Forex trading circles about Canadian dollar and oil prices. Why? Canada is major producer of oil and with surging oil prices people have been trying to find a correlation and take advantage of it...
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20th September 2007
For last few years there has been few, if any, surprises, when it came to FED interest decisions. We enjoyed long a steady period of gradual rate increases, followed by a prolonged time span of no action policy. For most part these outcomes have been expe...
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28th August 2007
Entire libraries have been written and published on a subject of trading mistakes. Just about every trader with some experience has his own list of pitfalls. They can vary from under capitalization to over leveraging to lack of general market education. W...
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24th August 2007
There are some currencies known in financial circles as “commodities currencies”. Their fortunes seem to be rising an falling in tandem with prices of raw materials. These are the “other dollars” CAD, AUD and, to a smaller degree, NZD.
These c...
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21st August 2007
For those who trade currencies and Yen crosses in particular, last three weeks were truly eventful. We witnessed, or even participated in, very large moves. These kind of of moves were experienced for the first time by most current Forex traders. Why? Cur...
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16th August 2007
Most newcomers to currencies markets are trying to trade it on very short time frames.
Seems like everybody wants to focus on 15M and even 5M charts. While it's certainly possible to trade short term moves, and be successful at it, there is number of ser...
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14th August 2007
In the previous article we covered some of general attributes of trading Forex. Those included liquidity, long term trends, availability of information or fundamental news, 24 H access and Forex as a tool for diversification. Here we are going to look at...
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08th August 2007
With the easy access to some better known financial instruments, what are the reasons people trade Forex?
When a person wants to enter trading arena, one of the most important questions is “What should I trade?”. There is an overwhelming choice ...
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