Zahir Shah

Gold surges, U.S. dollar sells off versus main peers in late trade, USD-JPY slumps as Japan’s inflation rises

As the FX markets reopened on Boxing Day, liquidity and consequently the trading in currencies was significantly reduced, as many institutional traders at major banks and funds remained out of the markets, or on holiday. Many currency pairs experienced whipsawing conditions during the trading sessions, which provided both challenging conditions and opportunities for many retail […]

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Trading Forex successfully, what works and what doesn’t. Part three; political analysis

Political analysis is often confused with fundamental analysis, however, the two separate phenomena and the skills required to identify and translate the entities into coherent trading decisions, shouldn’t be confused. We should be aware of and fully conversant with the impact medium to high impact news releases have on our trading. The vast majority of

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Trading Forex successfully, what works and what doesn’t. Part two; fundamental analysis

The majority of experienced FX traders and market analysts will testify that its fundamental economic events that move our markets. They’d also contend that the only time technical analysis effects our trading is if price either: reaches a critical round number (generally referred to as a handle), reaches or breaches a big moving average, such

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Trading Forex successfully, what works and what doesn’t. Part one; technical indicators

Depending on where you are on the learning scale, you’ll have a different view of the various trials and tribulations you’ve experienced (and at times endured) during your FX learning pathway. If you’re close to the start of your journey, having recently discovered FX trading as a potential investment opportunity, or you’re a part time

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The FX market is always right, it’s our job to be on the right side of price

There are some obvious benefits in learning how to trade in the globe’s largest market and there’s some subtle benefits, which are far less straightforward to identify. We know that due to the huge levels of turnover, estimated at $5 trillion a day according to BIS, we trade in the most liquid market there is.

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The Omicron fears and the safe-haven currencies

Focus turns to Japan and yen over the holiday period, as European and U.S. data supply recedes

It’s a relatively quiet week for economic calendar news, due to the Xmas holiday period, however, Asian economic news (particularly from Japan), comes thick and fast and will include the latest CPI figure, which has remained extremely low at 0.2% annually, despite the various stimulus measures put in place as part of prime minster Abe’s

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Gold continues recent recovery, euro rises versus peers, key European equities sell off sharply, U.S. equities fall after tax cut programme gets the green light

Throughout 2017, the promise of Trump’s flagship tax cutting programme, has bolstered the value of equities, as investors have immediately translated the cut as substantial increased profits for major corporates, leading to increased shareholder rewards and dividends. With the programme now only a step away from becoming law, it would appear that the markets have

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Trading over the Xmas and the New Year holiday period, how should we adjust our trading plan?

As we’ve now entered the final two weeks of the trading year, many of us will slow down our trading, particularly if we’re manual day traders we’ll consider simply downing tools for a week or so. If we trade on a fully automated basis, then we’ll maybe consider disengaging our expert advisor over the holiday

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U.S. equities slip, despite House of Representatives passing tax reforms, euro rises due to hawkish ECB comments, sterling under pressure, as U.K. govt discusses Brexit trade deal

The Trump flagship tax reform programme took a step closer to becoming law on Tuesday. Having passed a vote in the House of Representatives, the bill now passes to the Senate for final approval on Wednesday, before Trump gets the opportunity to sign off the reduction into becoming law. Questions as to what it must

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The Bitcoin and crypto coin craze, will it continue, or climb into a crypt of its own making?

Ask a colleague, friend, or family member what they knew about Bitcoin, or crypto currencies back in 2015 and the likelihood is that you’d be faced with a blank stare. This year the Bitcoin phenomenon has truly gone mainstream. It’s impossible to compare the mania and craze to recent stock market events, such as the

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