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Forex Trading Articles - Rocky Road of Trailing Stops

The Rocky Trail Of Trailing Stops Can Help To Lock In Your Forex Profits

Love them or hate them, if used effectively and correctly trailing stops can be a very valuable trade management tool, particularly for swing or position traders, intraday forex traders can also enjoy many of the benefits. Perhaps the biggest ‘mistake’ new users to the phenomena of trailing stops make is putting their trailing stops too […]

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Forex Trading Is Chess Boxing

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An old friend of mine used to teach scuba diving, he often remarked that many of his new divers had already been on the basic learner PADI course, PADI = Professional Association of Diving Instructors, he joked that he offered a different course, the STFUADI course. The last three letters of the acronym were “and,

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What do you need to know about Forex chart patterns

Forex Chart Patterns Leading To Increased Probabilities

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The use of chart pattern recognition as the ‘method’ part of a trader’s overall edge contained in a trading plan can be a heated and subjective discussion amongst many in the trading community. Pattern recognition can be viewed as far too random and imprecise in order to make considered and calculated entry and exit decisions.

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Forex Trading Articles - Pattern Recognition

Cognitive Pattern Recognition in FX Trading

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A single euro coin has eight sides; heads, tails, edge side, outside, inside, top side, bottom side and inner wall. We often use popular phrases such as “there’s two sides to every coin”, or “there’s two sides to every story” and accept without question these statements as received wisdom. Issues and problems have more than

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Forex Trading Articles - Survive Then Thrive

First Survive And Then Thrive

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Earlier this year I was invited by an industry contact to give a brief video presentation on trading. I thought long and hard with regards to the invitation, not the doing, that went without saying as I felt I owed the broker firm some help given the support and encouragement I’d experienced from the company

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Forex Trading Articles - Back Testing Forex Strategies

Take A Step In The Right Direction With Your Back-Testing

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Many successful traders share consistent habits, one deeply ingrained habit will be thorough backtesting of their trading strategies. Backtesting your trading strategy can never guarantee profitability, but as with many of the themes we cover as part of our trader education series, backtesting is an essential part of any professional trader’s armoury. In this article

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How to Pick the Best Forex Pair to Trade?

Why Only Trading The Major FX Pairs And Commodity Price Pairs Makes Perfect Sense

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So what are we 'selling or buying' in our forex markets? The answer is "nothing" our retail FX market is purely a speculative market. No physical exchange of currencies ever takes place. All trades exist simply as computer entries and are netted out depending on market price. The banks provide the liquidity we trade that

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Forex Articles - Trading in a Political Storm

When you trade through a political storm hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark

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Please accept my apologies in advance for altering a lyric of "You'll Never Walk Alone" a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead,

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Why Forex?

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Faced with a vast array of markets and securities to trade it's small wonder that retail traders often ask why they should specialise in forex and not equities, futures, or commodities? What are the major benefits to trading forex over and above trading other markets? What has underpinned the massive growth in the retail forex

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If I Knew Then What I (Think) I Know Now

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So I was at my circuit training class on Monday and during the warm up (a few laps around the gym and some stretching) I got talking to a guy I hadn’t seen for a while. Last time we spoke he was looking for a new direction. Having been an accountant he felt he’d become

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