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Today, oil makes its new record again. Oil runs to $120 per barrel. The main factors behind the new record are USD weak against Euro and Sabotage in Nigeria. If we look back, when governments worried when Oil ran close to $100 per barrel then $108 per barrel, some day before $112 per barrel and $118 per barrel, and hold at $120 per barrel today.
Some week ago, we got good news from Brasilia that they have found the new oil mine. The new oil mine can supply more then 20 percent of OPEC supply. The new made oil price declined to $112 per barrel. Now bad news comes.

Why oil price is too sensitive? When Oil Price was running high and high, the factors didn’t come from the supply, but Stock Exchange did. Investor took profit; Dollar was declined against Euro and some major currencies.
Why Dollar is too sensitive to make Oil Price fluctuating? Why we still use Dollar as Oil Price? Why not Euro or Japan Yen?
The question had been asked to my lecture in university. Why we still use Dollar as the measurement of Oil Price? I said. Actually I didn’t get best answer from him? I read the television; some analysts said that the main factor why we still use USD as Oil Price is because Dollar is transparent and more fluctuating currency if we combined with others. Read more »

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I was a stupid speculator. Stupid Speculation means I can’t do accurate analysis, perhaps the graph shows the trend and I follow it. I just want to find junk dollar from the surplus on big investors. When the trend shows down, I followed it. It’s hard to sharp your analysis because you are just only a micro speculation.

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Here is a simple illustration. I take the picture from my virtual live desk on Marketiva.

I like GBP/JPY because the fluctuating is higher than others. So I can save my time. Profit or Loss! Just that, other currencies like EURO/Dollar is slow moving fluctuating.

I bit GBP/JPY at 204.16 levels in March 13th with $ 10 USD. Each point I get $0.10 USD. You can see if a speculator bids around $ 100 USD, She/he get $1.00 USD. In many cases, if huge speculator bid around $100.000 USD, he get $1.000 USD in every point.