Forex Trading and Miscellaneous

Many experienced and by definition successful traders, are fond of referring to the 3 Ms principles of trading and insisting that you embed these principles into the trading plan you create, a working plan that you should never deviate from, other than with micro adjustments, in order to perfect your overall strategy. You’ll read and […]

After months of effort and much trial and error, you eventually develop and discover an edge, more importantly an edge that works for you. You don’t consider yourself to be a novice trader anymore. You’re also now mature enough to know that you haven’t discovered a fabled holy grail, as you’re wise enough to know

Many experienced traders would deliver a categoric “yes” as the answer to the question, others may deliberate for a while, before answering, “maybe”. And as is the situation with many questions, when discussing and seeking the answer to such binary/black and white questions, both responses would potentially be correct, in our highly complex world of

If you’re just starting to take your first steps in our forex industry, then welcome to our fascinating, challenging, at times frustrating, but incredibly rewarding industry. The vast majority of us will probably discover retail forex trading by accident, as much as by design. We may stumble across trading through an introduction, or through an

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