In a relatively quiet week for economic calendar news and events, the mainstream financial media chose to concentrate on two issues from Monday onwards; the inevitable resolution to the USA Federal government shutdown (a deal was reached to keep the system limping along for another three weeks) and the gathering of leading: business people, economists, […]
We’re constantly analysing our trading performance on a short term basis, we can clearly see it in our rolling profit and loss statement, or at the end of the day (EOD). Over a short period of time, after our introduction to forex trading, we’ll also become proficient at using the back testing mechanisms on our
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Over recent weeks there’s been a surge in the search term “buy bitcoin with credit card”, the rise corresponded with the huge spike in the price of BTC, which saw price rise to circa 20,000 in December 2017, from 8,000 in October. Price then fell to 10,600 on December 22nd, wiping off circa 40% of
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It’s all too easy to dismiss certain indicators as having little use or value, Elliott wave theory has many fans and equally as many detractors. Metrics that attempt to identify market sentiment and psychology will always be treated with skepticism, therefore the precise technical analysts in our community, will always question the value and validity
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Over recent days the SNB revealed the profits it made for 2016, yes that’s right you read it correctly; a central bank that makes profits. They don’t quite conduct themselves in the manner of most central banks, such as the Fed, ECB and the BoE. Not only does the bank invest/speculate on currency movements, it
As we’ve now entered the New Year it’s worth reflecting on our achievements in 2017, in relation to the ambitions we originally set for ourselves at the start of the year. Did we reach our targets, did we grow our trading account by the percentage we targeted? Did we stick to our trading plan and
Bitcoin and crypto currencies were not only the hottest topic amongst many forex traders in 2017, they also became a hot topic in the mainstream media. Hardly a day passed without news channels in the USA and U.K. covering the subject of bitcoin. Naturally, when an investable product rises by circa 1,500% in a year,
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Traders began to quietly re-engage with the FX markets, as Tokyo and Sydney opened on Monday evening/Tuesday morning. After a fractured ten day holiday period, over the Xmas and New Year period, London’s open will be closely monitored. Last week’s trading ended the year with gold (XAU/USD) finally breaking the critical 1,300 handle after slumping
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Trading in U.S. equities was approximately 40% below the 30 day moving average on Thursday, despite this the major equities markets in the USA experienced rises during the New York session. The medium to high impact economic calendar news generally missed the targets, adding to concerns regarding how much room the equity markets have to
Our economic calendar begins to take on a more recognisable shape this coming week as our: FX, equity and commodity markets finally burst back into life, after the Xmas and new year holidays. Whilst there’s a concentration of global PMI readings published by: Markit, Caixan and the USA equivalent the ISM throughout the week, the
