Good forex news site?

[NAsX]

Hi guys,

I've started looking into forex, mainly the futures contracts, and was wondering if there are any good forex specific news sites, such as MarketWatch for equity.

I've found a couple such as DailyFX, FX TV...etc, but none of them seem to get updated regularly, or as frequent as say MarketWatch.

Any recommendations appreciated.

Cheers
NAsX

 

[tayser]

www.forexfactory.com

check out their forums too.

 

[Kauri]

You could try this one... I find it great..
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/

Cheers
,,,,,,,,,,,Kauri

 

[white_goodman]

You could try this one... I find it great..
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/

Cheers
,,,,,,,,,,,Kauri

nah its pretty ****

 

[Page]

I think the best site for Forex news is www.forexpros.com/
It provide you daily analysis, charts, technical and fundamental analysis of the market and more..

 

[Stormin_Norman]

www.forexfactory.com

check out their forums too.

seconded. although due to popularity it can become unresponsive during big news.

 

[Timmy]

Have to second the nomination of forexfactory, it is excellent. Couple of thoughts though.

What sort of “news” are you talking about? Is it news of what the result of some expected, scheduled, economic release is; for example, what is the NFP figure, the CPI, etc.? Sites like forexfactory and such should provide a reasonably timely result for these types of releases. I would suggest, though, that paid services such as Bloomberg and Reuters will be marginally quicker with these releases (happy to be contradicted on this). When I say paid services I mean a Bloomberg or Reuters terminal, not the company websites.

Or is it “new” news, news of the unexpected and unscheduled? For example, a terrorist attack, missile tests from North Korea, an oil pipeline fire …. stuff like this? First thing you will see is the currencies move, then paid news services will (most likely) carry the story (Bloomberg or Reuters terminal), then the free services (websites etc.).

Anyway, 'nuff thinkin', couple of other alternatives…

http://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/marketwatch/
http://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/marketwatch/market_news_list/

and

http://www.fxstreet.com/news/forex-news/

 

[Stormin_Norman]

http://www.ransquawk.com/squawk

might be worth looking at too.

 

[Timmy]

Norm - is that site address correct?

 

[BentRod]

Take the sqawk off the end.

Do you use a squawkbox Norm??

 

[Stormin_Norman]

oh theyve changed it from when i last used it.

it used to be 30 seconds delayed for free users, now its 2 minutes.



i used to use it when i was trading manually, now much of my energy is into EAs so i have less use for the news squawk.

 

[macca]

I haven't tried this for awhile but if you open a game account with Oanda, then open up their news section and have the box open at news time, it used to be a live feed into the window a few seconds after the announcement.

The other way is to have the news at FF open, refresh about 5 mins before due, you will get a small green icon next to the scheduled announcement, click on this icon just after news time and you will get the details much quicker than refreshing the whole page.

HTH