Why is it that we appear to get over excited with winning trades and close them early, in order to bank the profits and yet we allow our losing trades to run, desperately hoping and praying that they’ll somehow turn around and come back into profit? Psychologists have begun to explain the process by establishing […]
There are two high impact, economic calendar news events, which traders need to monitor carefully on Wednesday October 25th. The first concerns the U.K., whose official statistics body the ONS, will be publishing the latest Q3 quarter’s GDP growth figure. The second involves Canada’s central bank, who will be revealing their interest rate decision. Both
The U.S. dollar initially reached a three month high versus yen on Monday, as a consequence of investors believing that Abe’s re-election in Japan will ensure that the loose monetary policy; of low interest rates and asset purchase/quantitative easing, would now continue. However, yen clawed back its losses, versus many of its peers, deep into
From an early age we’re conditioned to believe that hard work equals results, that the more effort we put into an activity then the chances are we’ll experience greater success, to paraphrase the famous golfer Gary Player; “the harder I practice, the luckier I get.” The notion that dedication, application, practice and overall “hard work”
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The continual, gravity defying, record rises in the main equity markets in the USA, comes at a time when older heads are remembering the thirty year Black Monday anniversary, 19th October 1987, when markets in the USA fell by up to 23% in a day. In today’s era, when if the markets fall by 2%
Many analysts, trading tutors and market commentators, will often discuss the various trading styles and suggest that novice and intermediate level traders should become aware of the four key classifications and match their psyche accordingly to that trading style. The four key trading styles being; scalping, day trading, swing trading and position trading. However, and
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The coming week is an extremely busy week for high impact data releases, Australia’s CPI, currently at 1.9%, will come under scrutiny, as rumours persist that an interest rate adjustment is possible if (and when) the annual CPI rate exceeds the generally accepted central bank target of 2% consistently. There’s a raft of Markit PMIs
If you’re one of the trading savants, who discovers forex trading (by accident or design) and immediately figures it all out, becoming profitable within weeks, whilst building up your small account to a large account, without suffering much in the way of losses and experiencing no drawdown, then look away now, this article will be
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The key event in the FX markets on Thursday concerned the kiwi, New Zealand’s dollar. The Labour Party in New Zealand will now be in power with a coalition of partners and as a consequence the NZD slumped, losing over 1% versus many of its peers. Equities in the country also fell. As to whether
Although they’re often classed as “soft data” metrics, sentiment readings are invaluable when attempting to determine the direction of forex currency pairs. Examples of hard data economic calendar results would be: • Unemployment • Inflation • Official economic numbers (manufacturing growth, GDP growth and interest rate decisions) Soft data would be classed as: • Sentiment
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