When it comes to the euro, the most recent addition to the world order of currencies, where do we start? And perhaps the most obvious place is at the end, rather than the beginning.

Next I want to consider the euro complex, and the picture here is a little more complicated.

So what do we mean by volume?

The supply and demand dynamic can be applied and understood in several different ways, and will depend on the market under consideration, and we have included three examples here from different markets to highlight the different approaches.

Order types are a very personal choice, and whilst there are many available, every trader will have his or her preferences for entry and exit.

And finally we come to what many consider a boring part of trading, and that’s record keeping, and keeping that all important trading journal.

Now perhaps we come to the most complicated aspect of yield, namely, the yield to maturity. And this is the aspect of yield we need to analyse when considering the bond markets over a longer time horizon, and is what is known as the yield curve. This is often simply referred to as "yield."

In the UK, as indeed in many other global economies, housing is used as one of the fundamental metrics of inflation, growth, consumer confidence and spending.

The last of our consumer sentiment releases is the Core PCE, is a very interesting and important indicator, standing as it does for Personal Consumption Expenditure, as it measures consumer spending on goods and services by individuals.

For the New Zealand dollar the overseas trade index is one of the interesting releases, but which falls outside the mainstream of fundamental news, in the sense it provides a unique view on the balance between imports and exports which is then reported as in index.