Trading Timeframes

Long TermLong term traders will work from end of day data and look to hold trades for a few weeks up to many months. Usually trend trading.AdvantagesNo need to watch the markets intraday.Fewer transactions means lower commission costs.Cost of equipment and data is minimal.DisadvantagesLarge equity swings on single positions with... Read More

Trade Entry Techniques

Most traders tend to concentrate on pinpointing the perfect entry for a trade. However, in reality the entry price is just one part of the equation. The common entry techniques are:Channel BreakoutsA trend trader will tend to use channel breakouts to enter trades in order to catch a trend when... Read More

Money Management, Part 1

There are some common mistakes I've seen traders make in the area of money management. First, let's understand what money management is all about.Money management overlaps with risk, trade, business, and personal management, yet it has many aspects that make it unique, distinctly different from all of the other areas... Read More

The Seven Most Traded Currencies in FOREX.

Currencies are traded in dollar amounts called "lots". One lot is equal to $1,000, which controls $100,000 in currency. This is what is known as the "margin". You can control $100,000 worth of currency for only 1,000 dollars. This is what is called "High Leverage".Currencies are always traded in pairs... Read More

New Opportunities with Forex Trading

The simplest definition of currency trading is the practice of exchanging one country's currency for another country's currency. Basically, currency trading involves four main variables: currencies, exchange rate, time, and interest rate. The interplay of these variables creates opportunities for small investors to obtain investment returns that are generally unheard... Read More

What I Learnt Losing £60,000 My First Year as a Full-time Trader

During my first year as a local (independent trader) on the floor of LIFFE, I bought and sold 8804 FTSE futures contracts, about 40 contracts per day on average. The result was a loss of £61,620 or -£267 per trading day. I was profitable on 55% of days with an... Read More

A Beginner?s Guide to FOREX

FOREX is the abbreviation for the Foreign Exchange market. FOREX is basically an international exchange market where currencies from all over the world are bought and sold for profit. The market today began in the 1970's. FOREX is a very unique market because it is not based in any particular... Read More

How Do Other Countries Devalue Their Currencies?

Countries devalue their currencies only when they have no other way to correct past economic mistakes - whether their own or mistakes committed by their predecessors.The ills of a devaluation are still at least equal to its advantages.True, it does encourage exports and discourage imports to some extents and for... Read More

Online Forex

Q1: When you consider that the foreign exchange market has become the world's largest financial market, with over $1.5 trillion USD traded daily, where does it go from here?A1:The FX market is unique, in the UK there is no central exchange, we trade via the inter bank market. With more... Read More

Forex Made Easy for Everyone

Forex made easy is as simple as you would want it to be. The foreign exchange market is a worldwide market and according to some estimates is almost as big as thirty times the turnover of the US Equity markets. That is some figure to chew on. Forex is the... Read More

Day Trading Training ... You need more than just going to a free stock market workshop to learn

Day trading is all about making buy and sell decisions. When you make a trade either your going to lose money or your going to make money, and some other times you will break even. When you win some body else will lose and so forth, but that's NOT what's... Read More

Where is the Market Going?

If you ask me whether the market will have moved up or down by this time next year, well I may as well flip a coin, because I don't know.If you ask me whether the market will have moved up or down by this time next month, well again, I... Read More

Intrenet Marketing VS Forex Currency Trading

Have you noticed that when someone's trying to sell you something - such as a system for making money - they always make it look far easier than it is? Let's look at two Internet businesses, almost as diametrically opposed as it's possible to be ? Internet Marketing and Forex... Read More

Forex Trading - Advantages and Disadvantages

What is Forex Trading?Forex, or Foreign Exchange, is the simultaneous exchange of one country's currency for that of another. This market of exchange has more daily volume, both buyers and sellers, than any other in the world. Taking place in the major financial institutions across the globe, the forex market... Read More

Online Forex Trading

Foreign exchange currency trading is also known as Forex trading, or FX, and has no single physical marketplace like the New York Stock Exchange does on Wall Street in New York or the Tokyo Stock Exchange does in Japan. The New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange online... Read More

Option Arbitrage in the Forex Market

What is arbitrage? Arbitrage is the simultaneous buying and selling of identical financial instruments taking advantage of price discrepancies between different brokers, exchanges, clearing firms, etc. and thus locking in a profit. On paper, arbitrage is a risk-less trading strategy. In the real world however, risks abound.So why trade arbitrage?... Read More

Forex Currency Trading

It is possible to buy and sell money from different countries on the foreign exchange market called Forex. Forex currency traders can profit by taking advantage of the dips and swells in the foreign currency market. Capturing these differentials is easier in Forex currency trading than in other trading because... Read More

Trading Profitably on the Foreign Exchange Market

You may be asking yourself "how does one begin to trade profitably as a currency trader?".First, it is important to closely monitor foreign equity markets to attempt to predict or model how their respective currencies will perform against other currencies, ideally, currencies that are not very closely related, nor proportional,... Read More

A Look at Online Forex Brokers

An online forex broker is a firm that facilitates retail trading using Internet technologies. Global Forex Trading (GFT), one of the popular online forex brokers. It provides retail traders with a free demo trading account, allows users to open a live account, gives live help, provides software called DealBook FX... Read More

Mechanical or Discretionary Trading - Which is Best?

Discretionary TradingPure discretionary trading will rely solely on the traders judgement. For example a discretionary trader may spot a particular pattern developing on a chart and decide to enter a trade on that basis. It would be impossible to systemise their trading because it relies on subjective judgements and 'gut'... Read More

Factors Influencing a Currency Pair Exchange Rate

IntroductionThe exchange rate refers to the value of the US dollar against the values of currencies of other countries. Such a rate helps determine how much we pay for imported goods and services and how much we receive for what we export, among other things. When the value of the... Read More

A Short Introduction To FOREX

FOREX is the world's largest and most liquid trading market. Many consider FOREX as the best home business you can ever venture in. Even though regular people have had the opportunity to take part in trading foreign currencies for profit (in the same way banks and large corporations do) since... Read More

Commodity Trading - Advantages and Disadvantages

What Is Commodity Trading?Commodity futures markets allow commercial producers and commercial consumers to offset the risk of adverse future price movements in the commodities that they are selling or buying.In order to work a futures contract must be standardised. They must have a standard size and grade, expire on a... Read More

Forex Training: Follow Your Gut or Your Broker

Which way will the forex market move? Do you just follow your gut feeling? Or do you have Neo's sixth sense that would let you be one with the market and feel the underlying currents.Trading forex is a non stop action movie but a good one, where you really don't... Read More

Be a Smarter FOREX Currency Trader: Three Basic Principles

Below I will describe three basic principles that may come in handy for currency traders. They are very easy to implement and potentially take advantage of as you will see.Principle 1Some currency traders find that it is useful to always trade a given currency pair at the very same time... Read More

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July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. said it hired Jo Narita as head of foreign-exchange trading in Japan from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The ...

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WORLD FOREX: UK Pound Hits 5-Month High In Unsettled Trading
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... currency strategist at Wells Fargo Bank in New York. Thin summer trading flows coupled with month-end activity created volatile trading conditions. ...
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Global Currency Trading Grows Strongly
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CME Profit Gains 22% as Trading Soars in Currency, Interest Rate Contracts
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Average daily trading volume at CME Group climbed 31 percent in the quarter, led by an 82 percent rise in currency futures and a 38 percent jump in ...

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India's RBI Permits Currency Options Trading on Stock Exchanges
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Euro Rises for First Time in Eight Months as Sovereign-Debt Concern Eases
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“What's helping the euro is continued strong data,� said John Doyle, a strategist in Washington at the currency-trading firm Tempus Consulting Inc. “That ...

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Canada Dollar Ends Higher As Risk Sentiment Improves
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"I think the currency and equity markets will see choppy trading ahead of the employment data on Friday," O'Neill said. In the meantime, a risk/reward ...
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Financial Bill Could Set The Stage For Uneven Retail Forex Rules
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Retail foreign exchange trading is a niche slice of the foreign currency market. Unlike most bank-to-bank foreign currency trading, retail trading allows ...

Danville's high-life Ponzi schemer gets prison
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