With some of these websites, I have different kinds of collaboration which I’m happy with, and it’s also an opportunity to thank them. Others are great sources of information for anyone interested in foreign exchange trading from various points of view.

A new government in Italy couldn’t reassure markets, and the ECB’s bond buying was necessary. In Spain, a terrible bond auction also resulted in some ECB buying. But when will the central bank step up its action? Yields are rising in all countries except Germany. Perhaps they’ll act when German yields also rise – and that’s when the euro will suffer even more.

The launch is accompanied with a significant cooperation: Currensee has partnered with HedgeCo Securities, a network of hedge funds and investors. This will provide various asset gatherers to access to the forex market through the TLIP program.

The e-book aims to help individual investors understand how the world currency market works and demonstrates the hidden opportunities many investors are missing by not taking advantage of this $4-trillion-per-day market of Forex.

The first social network and alternative investment company offers investors to invest their money into forex trading the same way they do with mutual funds. The program already runs since October, and is seeing increasing trading volume and increasing interest from money managers.

This program is running since the end of 2010 and is gaining traction very nicely. The profitability rate of investors in this program is much higher than the average in regular forex trading. Why don’t you give it a try? Check it out here (affiliate link).

Currensee is the first forex social network, and in recent months it has been focusing on its Trade Leaders Investment Program. The program allows people to invest in expert traders and follow their moves, the same as in mutual funds. This program is running since late October 2010, and you can join it here (affiliate link)

Currensee launches a new and impressing tool for assessing potential reward and risk before making an investment. This nice graphic tool, launched in FinovateSpring 2011 provides great previews of different investing portfolios using their Trade Leaders program.

• Michael Greenberg provides the US Forex brokers profitability report for Q2. My reaction: Is the CFTC helping actually helping traders with lower leverage?
• Kathy Lien analyzes how IMF Global Growth Forecasts have changed and what this means for currencies.
• Larry Greenberg debunks some popular misconceptions regarding the Federal Reserve, and more.
• Andriy Moraru provides a poll about where EUR/USD will end the month. How high can it go?
• Adam Kritzer asks what’s next for the yen after it recovered from the big intervention.
• Sophia Todorova, on Casey’s site, discusses the process of forex trading, especially regarding money management.
• Macro Man analyzes the European debt crisis in his amusing style.

Here are interesting long-term articles published on Forex Crunch this week:

This is Round C of financing. The previous round was made for the development of the Trade Leaders program and for expansion outside the US. In the past year or so, additional forex social networks have emerged. It will be interesting to see how this industry will develop.