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Jan 29, 19 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Jovana Pribic
Comments Off on Don’t suffer the curse of overtrading, when simple remedies are within reach
Traders who trade with European based FX brokers have had to adopt their trading behaviour significantly, after the ESMA ruling came into force in 2018. The rules and new framework that ESMA introduced were, in their opinion, designed to protect traders. The...
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Mar 8, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on How using compound interest can grow small accounts rapidly and significantly
Albert Einstein is credited with saying; “Compound interest is the eighth Wonder of the World. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn’t pays it!” In a financial world of low interest rates, a situation that’s existed for close to a decade-...
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Mar 6, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The recent stock market correction should serve as a wakeup call for complacent Forex Traders
Trading successfully can often be described as a complete life skill and there are sections in the poem of Rudyard Kipling which relate to certain aspects of our trading; “If you can dream and not make dreams your master; if you can think and not make...
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Mar 6, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Mario Draghi and the ECB may be facing problems trying to find a ‘Goldilocks’ value for the euro
As a central bank, trying to balance the value of the currency for which your monetary policy is responsible for, is an incredibly difficult task. There’s a Goldilocks temperature; not too hot, not too cold, that’s just right for the economy. The value of...
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Feb 23, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Has the short, sharp, correction in stock markets, given central banks an excuse not to raise interest rates?
“Taper tantrum” is the term used to refer to the 2013 surge in U.S. Treasury yields, which resulted from the Federal Reserve’s use of tapering to gradually reduce the amount of money it was feeding into the economy. Traders and investors may recall...
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Feb 20, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Currency wars; what benefits (if any) can they provide the Forex Trader?
Mario Draghi, the president of the ECB, is apparently concerned that the euro is too high versus USD. EUR/USD recently breached the 1.2500 handle for the first time in over three years, he’s concerned that at this level it may harm exports and damage the...
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Feb 15, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Using a simple strategy for day trading the major pairs may be the most sensible approach for new and part time traders
Discussions have raged since the birth of internet trading and the creation of trading forums, regarding which overarching trading style/method represents the best option for both new and part time traders. Is it scalping, day trading, swing trading, or...
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Feb 13, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Dollar Trades lower despite Trump’s comments
The U.S. dollar crashed in 2017, the reasons were two fold involving Trump’s fiscal stimulus; the tax reform programme and the suggested infrastructure programme spend. Analysts and investors quickly “did the math” and calculated that the fiscal drag on...
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Feb 10, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on At what point might the USA Fed and U.S. administration consider the USD to be too low?
Whilst the Trump administration recently confused and contradicted itself regarding the merits of a low or high value USD, many analysts and economists who will be close to the USA administration, as well as the FOMC committee members and their team of...
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Feb 9, 18 •
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Forex Trading Articles •
Zahir Shah
Comments Off on As the U.K. Bank of England announce the base rate decision, what can we expect from GBP in 2018?
The general consensus opinion delivered by market analysts that sterling recovered in 2017, after suffering a severe sell off due to the referendum shock vote in 2016, deserves closer scrutiny. Many mainstream financial analysts pointed at cable (GBP/USD) to...