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Just walked in the door after a weekend in Dubai. Estate agent calls to confirm my house buyer has offered another £20k for our house and wants to move very quickly then the money broker calls me to tell Aud is at 2.40 Lets av some of that, Fantastic Moving getting cheaper by the day. Pinch me someone. Noosa here we come 27th November.

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Jammy bugger - only kidding! Apparently it hit $2.48 earlier too.

Good luck with everything

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no one knows which way it`ll go next do you lock it in at 2.4 with a 10% deposit or sit tight ??

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I've just checked Ozforex and they are only quoting 2.3864:confused: Where have you seen 2.47 and are these companies open 24hours or do we have to sit tight until tomorrow???

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think you mite of missed it ....it peaked at 2.48 about 7.30 pm........now down to 2.41 but still a good rate compared to a few months ago

her`s a link to the site i use....just hit refresh every 10 mins or so

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/currency...AUD&amt=1&t=1d

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just relised.........oz has been awake for a few hours now,guess there fighting back :lol:............perhaps now is good time to exchange your pounds??? or is it :D:D

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£1 = $2.40 fantastic rate! exchanged today 12.30 am got $2.23 which I thought was pretty good,will keep watching over next couple of days fingers crossed rate may go upto the golden $2.50!! Good luck everyone

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Thanks very much for that, will keep my eyes peeled:lol:

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no worries :)

i just hope u make a few more dollars by keepin your eye on the chart;)

i did earlier :D

i see your off to perth,nice,same here .....hopin to be there in jan next year :eek:

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http://www.fxstreet.com/rates-charts/currency-rates/ has live forex rates

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nice:D:):)

now i`m addicted to bloody live numbers !!:lol::D:D

i thought i was sad watchin a graph !! just like being back at school !! lol

but needs must ;)

cheers for the link:)

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Shame no one can sell their house to make the most of it :(

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It's driving me a bit batty this rate thing! I've been sittin' on it for a couple of months now, but I'm going to our cash very soon I think - especially with the pressure the UK banks are under right now. :unsure:

Nic

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I exchanged at 2.39 and was happy with that, to be honest just do it as you never know what will happen, yeah you might win a little, but equally could lose a little, anything over 2.35 in my opinion is a good exchange rate...

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I hear you, but we want to move our entire house equity, and we stand to make a lot of $ if we move at the right time! I understand that we might lose by not acting as well, that's what's making me nervous. At the end of the day, relocating to Oz is an expensive business, and every penny counts!

Nic

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Advice pls, we have only registered an account with moneycorp, not sure if this is a good exchange broker or not really, but if we were to register with another broker, can you simply do this or does it take days to set-up an agreement. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks

Russ

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I just found this forcast on the web...


Daily FX
Australian Dollar Technical Outlook
Monday October 6, 12:21 pm ET
By Jamie Saettele, Senior Currency Strategist [email protected]
The AUDUSD is in free fall. Based upon wave structure, the free fall may continue. .7822 may be the top of a small second wave.

As long as price is below there, expectations are for the decline to continue until chart support at .7012 and a Fibonacci extension at .6467.

Sounds great... But I haven't got a clue what he's talking about :huh:

it is this planet thou!

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We decided to use OzForex - had opened a couple of accounts including HIFX. To date, OzForex have been good - no problems at all. If I remember correctly, account opening was same day/instant. Check their website which will have a link to open an account/register.

HTH
Nina

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My worry at the moment is that my money in the UK (GBP 12,000) is currently "guaranteed" if the bank it's in goes under... there's no such guarantee over here in Australia so I'm a tad reluctant to bring the money over when we don't have an imminent "use" for it.

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I know where your sitting right now, I moved over 100,000 gbp so I understand a few points makes a difference, that being my point, it becomes irrelevant after time. Stop sweating the do or don't I scenario and just do it now.

Also more potential to save money with good property, furnishing and car choices.

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Hi Paul,
I'm very near to Noosa...if you need a hand with anything when you arrive, let me know :)

Good luck with the move. :)

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You can still set up a forward exchange contract. You can roll it forward again and again (until you get the money from the house sale) with no penalty and keep your great exchange rate.

Gina

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I jumped in both feet ordered £100k for december Hope Ive got the money by then got $2.3969 I'm happy could have gone the other way $2.02 not so long ago and I,ve been doing my sums on 2.15 so I'm happy.Thanks for the offer Sallie/ sarah I'll keep that in mind. I used Globalexchange.com have used them before gave a good rate and service.

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You can put the money in a ausi bank account in england in $aud Migratingbank.com you then get the same protection or check at your own bank about opening a currancy account

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I've done it:D Pre-fixed the funds for the end of the month at 2.4 yippeeee
Thought I had better do it now otherwise it will just be my luck and tomorrow it will drop to 2.1:lol:

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hi, does pre-fixed the funds mean you have purchased the funds now at 2.40, but dont have to pay the broker until end of the month..

I bet you sleep better now, Ive got a limit order placed at 2.47, but dont think this will be achieved, so might have to revise this figure during the week. Its so difficult to know what to do for the best.. especially after I exchange some funds we required back in july when it was sh.t !!!!

good luck to everyone.

Russ

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I saw it hit 2.46 last night, we brought at 2.45 from Ozforex - having the laptop open watching their rate was good as when we eventually got through, they said 2.39 but hubby stood his ground and said rate is 2.45 so the just agreed and gave us that. We 'forward brought' which means we pay the 10% now and pay the remainder in 6 months (think you can pay remainder in 12m if you want)

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OH determined to wait a bit longer...hope this doesn't end in tears.

I'm trying to get him to consider a ERG or at least a limit order but it'll take a week to convince him yet. Lets hope he's right

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I've just booked my rate at 2.4110 with HIfx to settle in Feb, very pleased with this as I was looking at 2.2 last week :thumbsup:

My heart was pounding in the phone, when its you savings its a big thing, could hardly breath to give him my date of birth!!!

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We got stung quite bad a couple of years ago when we moved to NZ, the bank said wait it will prob get better and it just kept going down and down - we lost loads:confused: so was adamant it wasn't going to happen again and we were happy with 2.4;)

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Me as well, I decided to play safe rather than be greedy, it may well spike and drop off and then not spike again for a year or possibly more, but then again it may sky rocket, who knows, I managed to get 2.42 so I am happy

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that's what i am afraid of too but he's more of a gambler than me - but then he'll winge more if he gets it wrong whereas I'll be more philasophicla and think at least its not the 2.08 of a month ago

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Exactly, we were happy with 2.4:thumbsup: Perth here we come:thumbsup:

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We have just booked at 2.51, think i'm getting greedy because its still going up :eek:

Should have held my nerve :lol:

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Good on you guys, really glad for you all.

Unfortunately i think i'm one of the few that require it to go the other way as i will need to send money back to the UK to support a mortgage on a house that i cannot rent out !!!


Stu

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I'm just waiting to have my docs checked... on the phone now...

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The more the better for us all hey, can't believe that it is still going up I thought it my move around the 2.4ish mark possible high 2.4 but well done you:thumbup:

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