Zahir Shah

It’s fascinating watching television coverage of the markets, particularly when, for example, Bloomberg switch to a trading floor at the NYSE. As far back as 2010, estimates suggested that between 50-70% of all stock trading on Wall Street was conducted by high frequency trading algorithms. As we reached 2012 the leading USA investment bank Morgan […]

Outside of the fundamental analysis we have to continually conduct, concerning the economic calendar events that are released and published each trading day, we also have to develop skills in order to learn how to analyse technical analysis. Whilst we have to learn to analyse both of these distinct and influential factors, we also have

Trading will often try the patience of saints. Even patient, calm, decisive people, who pride themselves over how they’ve developed emotional control over their decision making and the measured way they navigate through their own personal lives, have been known to smash keyboards and trash their home office space, during their formative trading months and

Randomness could be defined as the lack of pattern or predictability in a series of events. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps, appears to have no order and fails to follow an intelligible pattern, or any combination. If you get a group of traders together for a discussion on their craft, one of

Only a tiny percent of retail traders will ever make it. There’s lots of information, data and opinions on this subject, but none of it is conclusive or definitive. We read that 95% of traders fail, that only 1% of forex traders make a living trading and that the vast majority of traders give up

Whether we discover the (at times) lonely and solo activity of retail forex trading by accident or design, we’re social animals and in the social media world we now inhabit, we’ll eventually discover forums and other social media methods, to share and discuss our trading ideas. As we discover forums and other discussion venues, we’ll

The majority of the most popular and highly respected trading forums, are sub divided into various categories. You’ll see separate discussion sections for: general trading discussion, platforms, automation, brokers, journals, systems etc. Interactive trading and trading systems are generally the sections that experience the highest number of posts, but not the highest number of threads.

Occasionally there’s weeks listed in the economic calendar, which deliver high impact news events in rapid succession. We may get: an interest rate decision, a GDP reading, a jobs report, and PMIs etc. all delivered within days of each other. And if they all relate to the economy of a particular country, then the impact