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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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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
Take A Step In The Right Direction With Your Back-Testing Read More »
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
Why Only Trading The Major FX Pairs And Commodity Price Pairs Makes Perfect Sense Read More »
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,
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
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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Price action is one of the most charismatic and enigmatic definitions to describe a mechanism for trading the markets, particularly the forex market. Whilst many traders and ‘price action aficionados’ may disagree on the interpretation of the ‘raw’ data generated off the vanilla charts they will agree that price action is their only preferred method
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I recently exchanged e-mails with a fledgling FX trader who was concerned with his “lack of focus”. He felt that his mind drifted from subject to subject and he often found himself “aimlessly wandering around the internet” and not focusing on the job in hand. He wondered whether he suffered from some form of attention
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There are many Japanese candlestick purists who will dismiss Heikin-Ashi candles as being; too simplistic, misleading and in some cases amateurish. The most common complaint is that HA lags in a direct comparison with Japanese candles and that lag causes late entry when looking for price action. The counter argument would be that similar to
Once you’ve traded for some time you’ll have a library of trading anecdotes, some are personal, some are second hand or third party. Whilst supporting my youngest Son playing football at a tournament this summer I got into conversation with another Dad. It’s not ignorance on my part but I rarely ask other parents (or
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