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Feb 26, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Why realistic trading expectations will serve us well in our early days of FX trading and during our future development
There’s nothing wrong with dreaming in our industry, so long as those dreams are realistic. After all, if we weren’t extremely ambitious in relation to our trading then we’d need to quickly find another profession, or hobby. But how do we...
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Feb 21, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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As we move through an explanation and analysis of the indicators that we favour in our “is the trend still your friend?” weekly trading article, we’re now going to look at one of the simplest, most popular and arguably one of the most...
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Feb 20, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Manual or automated trading, which one is better for you and when should you make the change?
It’s worth taking a step back from our industry from time to time to marvel at the improvements and opportunities that have developed over recent years. Our retail industry as we know it, operating on the web through trading platforms, is only just over...
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Feb 19, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on So we’ve decided to change our overall trading strategy, what to do next. Part two
OK, so yesterday we decided that our strategy wasn’t working and rather than simply condemn it to the trader recycling bin, we subjected it to what we’ve termed our “due diligence failure template” and categorically proved to ourselves...
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Feb 18, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on So you want to change your trading strategy, where do you begin and how dramatic should the changes actually be?
We’ve given our current strategy enough time to either work (or fail), so how do we now go about making a clean break and starting with a fresh new ‘shiny’ strategy? And will this gleaming new strategy be any better than the previous one, or...
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Feb 14, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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If you were holding a trading conference and you gathered a group of traders into a hotel bar for a relaxed conversation on all trading related ‘stuff’, to then ask them to nominate “just one indicator that they could rely on, “but...
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Feb 13, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on What currency pairs should we trade and why? And are there any ‘exotics’ that we could trade?
It may surprise many traders to realise exactly what currencies are in the basket of currencies that make up the dollar index. Many of us will have made various assumptions as to what’s in and what’s not, so here’s the definitive definition...
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Feb 12, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Trading clichés, the worst, the best and those that are actually valid.Part Two
Yesterday we began a two part article regarding the trading clichés that we’re bombarded with on a regular basis, through forums and blogs in particular. We concentrated on the clichés that we believe fail to stand up to rigorous scrutiny. In part two...
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Feb 11, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Trading clichés, the worst, the best and those that are actually valid. Part I
As traders progress through the maze that is trading, eventually discovering the path leading to fulfilment and what we’re fond of terming a form of ‘trader enlightenment’, we come across many trading related clichés on our journey. Some...
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Feb 7, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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As we continue our short series on the most popular indicators swing traders prefer to use, we move onto one of the first indicators novice traders will experiment with – the MACD, or the moving average convergence divergence. It’s visual...