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Mar 13, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Are successful traders born or made?
In a recent article we discussed how many of us within our trading community appear to be genetically programmed to struggle with trading. We then went further and questioned whether or not we’re all biologically programmed to suffer some form of...
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Mar 12, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on News trading, how to improve it and what to look out for when news events break
If we take a cursory look at the majority of FX trading blogs and forums we’ll very quickly note just how many hundreds of thousands of threads and articles are dedicated towards method and moreover the technical analysis that underpins that method. And...
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Mar 11, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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Trading the markets offers up an incredible insight into our own psychology and that of our peer group, a peer group that we often witness on forums suffering all kinds of self-imposed agonies in their struggles to become successful… It’s hard to...
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Mar 7, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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Many traders in our community will recall vividly the moment they became interested in technical analysis. Many will testify to the fact that it was moving averages that first peaked their interest. Perhaps we’d placed a 21 day moving average on a daily...
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Mar 6, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Is it time to consider a “set and forget” strategy and if we do what are the benefits?
A “set and forget” strategy is a fairly simply proposition; rather than continually and at times obsessively market (and chart) watch whilst awaiting for our sets up to occur, we instead place orders into the market and allow them to be executed...
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Mar 5, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Is your mind set preventing you from being a profitable FX trader?
We’ve mentioned the 3 Ms of trading many times in our blog and various articles; however, it’s worth repeating what they represent for the many new traders who may have stumbled upon our blog. The 3 Ms are; mind set, method and money management....
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Mar 4, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on As predicted the RBA leaves Australia’s base rate at 2.5% whilst Spain’s unemployment falls slightly
In the overnight/early morning trading session the RBA announced that they were keeping the base interest rate at 2.5% whilst governor Stevens at the bank, in what may be code, stated that the central bank believes that the current conditions overall remain...
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Mar 4, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Finally I have a profitable forex trading strategy, when is it time to give up my full time job, if at all?
So the dream is finally realised. We’re in an elite club; we are one of the successful ones. We’ve traded part time over the years and have developed a trading strategy that has finally begun to deliver rewards. And the journey towards becoming...
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Feb 28, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on The ADX, the average directional index. How to use it and when
Moving on in the series regarding the swing trading indicators that we favour using in our “is the trend still your friend?” weekly trend trading analysis articles we now come to the ADX… One of the simplest indicators to use it’s not...
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Feb 27, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Selling FX trading to a close relative whilst stressing the positive outcomes
Can readers recall how their closest nearest and dearest relatives reacted when they were told they were considering trading the markets? This author recalls the day as if it were yesterday when he told his wife (over ten years ago) that he was considering...