• James Woodley brings his most popular posts for 2010. Here are the most popular posts on Forex Crunch.
• Mark Thomas, on Casey’s site, provides the second part of profiting from a price action study.
• James Chen reviews the year in price action – which currencies were strong than others?
• Kathy Lien asks if Santa Claus can help the Euro, looking back at the past ten years.
• Larry Greenberg dives into the multi-decade bull market in fixed income securities.
• Trading NRG examines the tightening of gold and silver prices.
• Andriy reviews a new book by Thomas DeMark, called “The New Science of Technical Analysis”.
• Michael Greenberg reports that US brokers will have to submit daily trading reports. More transparency – at least before regulators.
• Francesc Riverola lists Standard Chartered 8 big forex trades for 2011.
• Adam Kritzer analyzes the recent IPO’s of Gain and FXCM.

Here are the past week’s long term articles published here in Forex Crunch:

As the readers of Forex Crunch already know, I’m a big fan of Casey’s work on Winners Edge Trading. He focuses on making profits from forex trading, but is always realistic and serious. I’m proud to be together with Casey in the list of founding members of the Forex Factory News Network.

• Adam Kritzer explains why central banks have an interest to keep the US dollar strong, and how they operate about this.
• Macro Man dives into the wording of central banks and their statements this week, and discusses the differences in an amusing article.
• Larry Greenberg analyzes the recent decision by the European Central Bank, which was disregarded by many traders.
• Mark Thomas, on Casey Stubbs’ site, advocates to take forex trading seriously and master it, not play with it.
• James Chen explains everything about price oscillator divergences. Sounds Greek to you? You’ll understand after reading James’ piece.
• James W, in another technical article, talks about how to trade RSI and MACD divergence.
• Michael Greenberg reports that Saxo Bank has acquired a software company in order to step up their platform development. The forex software market is always busy.
• Jay Norris talks about how a big move affects different currencies in different waves, and shows that this data is very valuable for identifying market weakness and market strength.
• Tim Barnby is back, and he provides some insight about forex signal providers.

That’s it for now. Have a great weekend!

• Adam Kritzer writes about optimism in Europe. EUR/USD doesn’t only enjoy the dollar’s weakness, but also strong European recovery.
• Eric deCarbonnel talks about gold reaching the breaking point. Gold has a super strong correlation with forex.
• Mark Thomas, on Casey Stubbs’ blog, in an excellent article titled “One that got away”, discusses trades that you missed, and how to learn from them.
• Larry Greenberg discusses economic recovery in the US, Europe, Japan and Britain, and compares them
• Jay Norris, in an article titled “The Markets Give it, and Take it Away”, discusses changes in market behavior.
• Michael Greenberg reports that the NFA finally admits that funds are flowing out of the US. Here’s my post about coping with the new NFA regulations.

That’s it for now. Have a great weekend!

• Mark Thomas, at Casey Stubbs’ site, begins a series of articles about designing a fractal based trailing stop EA. If this sounds hard for you, I’m sure that after reading the article you’ll be enlightened.
• Jason Stapleton, the forex guy, at forex moments, writes about how to become a professional trader.
• Adam Kritzer brings an interview with Howard Lindzon, co founder of StockTwits, which declares that he’s optimistic about forex.
• James W brings the USD/JPY pair as a classic example as why you should always follow the trend in forex trading.
• Jay Norris discusses which screens he uses for forex trading.
• Larry Greenberg analyzes the big improvement in Canadian employment and the related moves in the forex market. I see the road to USD/CAD parity open…

That’s it for now. There’s so much to read and never enough time. Have a great weekend!

• Adam Kritzer discusses the dollar’s weakness and focuses on the low interest rates. He also writes about the prospects for a renewed strengthening of the greenback.
• Jum Hunt, on Forex Magnates, reports that the popular Forex MegaDroid finally understands FIFO. The new NFA regulations, which are in effect for over two months, are still a big issue.
• Mark Thomas, on Casey Stubbs’ site, talks about forex profits through positive thinking. Psychology is a big part of the game.
• Jay Norris talks about the fine line between a correction and a loss. This is one of the things that differentiate new and seasoned traders.
• Larry Greenberg summarizes the week in an interesting way. He notes the changing environment from the current dollar=safe haven attitude.
• Wade Hansen, of Learning Markets, writes that the dollar is the big loser of this week, and marks the Yen as next week’s loser.
• Again in Forex Magnates, but this time it’s mine – I wrote a guest post about which currency pairs to trade.

There’s so much going on in the market – so much news. I think that in the weekend we should sit back and read material with a larger scope.