Zahir Shah

As we’re fond of reminding clients; retail forex trading (as a concept), is both a very young activity and business. In many ways it’s a miracle, an accident of birth. It’s as if a Big Bang took place, approximately eighteen years back, as the internet began to become mainstream, to create what’s now become a […]

It’s a common reference, which we constantly read and hear relating to currency trading; that currency pairs move in a more random nature in comparison to other securities, such as; equities, precious metals and commodities. That belief is often taken one stage further, as many traders are of the opinion that certain currency pairs not

I’m sure many of our readers and clients had to read this title twice, in order to check if it actually made any sense. It’s a deliberate reference to how counter intuitive Forex trading can be at times. We pride ourselves on creating a bullet proof trading plan that (at its beating heart) has strict

As highlighted in previous articles, the dropout rate for traders in our industry is frustratingly high and frighteningly quick. It’s frustrating to us analysts and advisors, because it’s needless and most traders exit because of self-sabotage. They continually fail to take on board the sound advice which is constantly delivered to them and continue to

I recently conversed with a trading chum I’d lost touch with, we met on a trading forum approximately seven years back. He’s still quite active on the forum, I tend to avoid forums for many reasons, but don’t let me put you off posting on forums, or reading them. If you have the patience and

You may be approaching your first year anniversary as a trader, you’ll have no doubt experienced many highs and lows, you’ll have lost money and gained money and you’ll have wasted time and spent many hours, days and at times weeks chasing down blind alleys. But you may be surprised at just how much you’ve

It’s a very useful exercise to take some time out occasionally, in order to remember just how you badly you traded, when you first discovered Forex retail trading. Not only should it provide an indication of just how far you’ve travelled on your journey, how much your trading and self has developed over the years,

The definition of the words and the concept of oversold and overbought, are straightforward to understand. A security, such as a Forex currency pair, is generally considered to have fallen into this category if certain indicators, for example; the RSI (relative strength index), has entered an oversold, or overbought area. This is generally indicated by