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Dec 14, 11 •
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There’s two diverse opinions on the subject of multiple currency pair trading, do or don’t, yes or no. The principal use and major benefit for engaging in a multi pair trading strategy is to hedge the overall risk, this can be done by observing...
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Dec 13, 11 •
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As many readers will know I’m a swing and or position FX trader. I use the “and or” not as an excuse or to hedge my bets (excuse the pun), but to illustrate that I’m comfortable trading off higher time frames looking for set ups that...
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Dec 9, 11 •
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“Avoid having your ego so close to your position, if your position falls, your ego may fall with it.” – Colin Powell Thomas F. Basso was a stock and commodities trader who was president and founder of Trendstat Capital Management. He is the...
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Dec 8, 11 •
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“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers” – Friedrich Nietzsche. It’s often stated that in our forex community we all eventually gravitate to position trading. Having tried every indicator combo,...
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Dec 8, 11 •
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We left our discussion on the subject of the EUR/USD pair, as luck (or more likely probability) would have it, price aggregated at 13400 during the compilation of the article. I left readers in ‘suspense’ as to which direction price would most...
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Dec 6, 11 •
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In a previous article we discussed the concept of being a “level headed trader”, we looked at support, resistance (the three levels thereof) and the daily pivot. There is also another incredibly important level which forex traders must monitor...
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Dec 5, 11 •
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It's accepted wisdom within our forex trading community that in order to become successful and consistently profitable forex traders need to completely re-configure their 'personal hard-drive'. As part of this de-fragging exercise traders need to...
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Dec 2, 11 •
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'An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones…" We published a frank admission by our losing trader earlier in the week. If readers recall the admission dated back to 2006 and...
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Nov 29, 11 •
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Beck was a homeless musician in New York City. He returned to his hometown of Los Angeles in 1991 due to financial struggles. Described by his biographer Julian Palacios as having "no opportunities whatsoever",...
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Nov 29, 11 •
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“Anyone can see an entry, the real skill is exits and over a lifetime of trading you’ll never get them right and you’ll never be 100% happy with them..” Many traders reach a ‘paralysis’ stage in their trading, they feel and...