You too can be a forex trader but be warned, it's a gamble May 19, 2012 Read later SO THE $A goes through parity, in the other direction this time, and again every Tom, Dick and Harry is suddenly a currency expert.
The same thing happened when it first rose through parity in October 2010. It's as if the Aussie dollar hitting the big figure miraculously releases a foreign-exchange-predicting hormone that empowers everyone with the skill to predict the future.