The Traderszone Network

China official manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs for April are both due on Sunday
– April 30
– At 0100GMT
(Set your alarms! … yeah, right)
Manufacturing:

We got slowing but still good industrial production data from Japan earlier
Along with plenty of other economic indicators:
The vehicle production data is not a usual FX market mover.

Major stock indexes in Asia fell slightly on Friday, mirroring Wall Street’s cautious sentiment on risk taking, though strong earnings results from tech companies saw shares in the sector rise.
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Forex news for Asia trading Friday 28 April 2017
– ICYMI:
US President Trump had comments reported right into the US evening, again. In brief (see bullets above for more):

while doing a review of my trades, i noticed that the times that i really struggled / obsessed over a position, it usually turned out to be fairly unprofitable (even if i managed to turn it into a small net profit after going back and forth multiple times, the opportunity cost in terms of wasted time and energy, not to mention missed trades elsewhere, usually made the whole deal quite low in ROI)

that got me thinking, what are some shortcuts that allow us to do things the easy way when…

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Alternative assets under administration jumped more than 14% last year to reach $7.64 trillion, according to the 17th edition of eVestment’s annual Alternative Fund Administrator survey. 

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President Donald Trump focused on the Korean Peninsula on Thursday, telling Reuters that he may cancel a free-trade agreement with South Korea and that “a major, major conflict” with North Korea is possible.
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