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Feb 23, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The life of a Forex Trader
Retail trading from home can be a lonely activity. Let’s be honest, even if you’re incredibly successful, your spouse and nearest and dearest won’t be that interested in the mechanics involved in trading, beyond the profits. Trying to hold a...
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Feb 22, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Fibonacciand its Application to Forex Trading
Of all the: terms, patterns, indicators and tools used in trading, the word, allure and concept of “Fibonacci” stands out as the most mysterious and evocative. It’s legendary use in mathematical calculus, lends it an authority not associated...
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Feb 20, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The Heikin Ashi candlestick and its purpose in Forex trading
We love to experiment as traders, if we didn’t have that capacity for intellectual curiosity and experimentation, then it’s highly unlikely we’d discover markets to invest in, or trade forex. Naturally, as part of our voyage of discovery, we...
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Feb 15, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
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Trading is a cerebral profession, it’s neither a team, or an individual player sport. However, analysts, traders and market commentators often use sporting analogies to make our points. We’ll talk about having “the guts to get up off the...
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Jun 26, 12 •
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Gold futures closed higher, mostly on some safe haven and bargain buying at lower levels. Prices also found support from investor’s ahead of the European Union Summit meet later this week. Gold holdings of SPDR gold trust, the largest ETF backed by...
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Feb 1, 12 •
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There’s been some fascinating developments in the world of Yoga in the USA lately. As with many activities and pastimes they move in phases and, using our trading terms, yoga broke out of it’s tight range a couple of years back and has stayed...
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Sep 13, 11 •
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Comments Off on Italians Wooing Chinese to Buy Italian Bonds
Equities received a modest boost in USA in late trading on Monday evening as news emerged that Italy is apparently courting China trying to get it to buy as much of it’s ‘junk’ as possible. Apparently these negotiations have been conducted...
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Sep 13, 11 •
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The USA Congress estimates that the war waged in Afghanistan since ‘911’ has cost nearly $450 billion. That sum is equivalent to handing every Afghan man, woman and child $15,000. That sum is also 10 years of earnings for an average Afghan,...
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Sep 7, 11 •
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Comments Off on There's snake-oil and then there's snake-oil
The California Gold Rush of 1848–1855 began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. Approximately 300,000 people migrated to California from the rest of the United States and abroad to be...
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Sep 6, 11 •
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Comments Off on Are the ghosts of 2008-2009 looking to haunt the markets again?
There were many amongst us in 2008-2009 who believed that insoluble medium term sovereign debt crises would be the ultimate result of rescuing the insolvent banking system by way of quantitative easing and continual bailouts (both secretive and published). As...