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Feb 2, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Emotions can be the biggest barrier to our forex trading outcome
Overcoming and controlling our emotions can be a considerable barrier to overcome. To suggest to a relatively inexperienced trader, that they’ll eventually overcome one of their major trading issues and that it just takes time, provides very little in the...
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Jan 31, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on As USA equity markets continue to reach record highs and the U.S. dollar falls, what could it suggest for 2018, in terms of FX trading
There’s hardly a day goes by, when we don’t hear reports on the rising record USA equity indices, during 2017 the rise of the three main USA markets; DJIA, SPX and NASDAQ was unprecedented, an approx. 30% YoY growth across the board. With FAANG stocks...
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Jan 30, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Can retail forex traders genuinely scalp trade the Forex markets?
The word scalping is one of the most understood words and concepts in our industry. Ask the majority of retail traders what the concept of scalping means to them and they’ll generally cite that it’s a method to aim to take a small amount of pips out of...
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Jan 29, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on How the dollar index can prove to be a useful gauge to measure other currency values and performance
The financial mainstream media has been recently full of articles regarding the rise of sterling during 2017 and its continual rise in 2018. The press became extremely excited on Thursday January 25th as GBP/USD rose through the 1.4300 handle, before...
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Jan 29, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on What (if any) impact will the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos have on the key issues facing the global economy and society?
In a relatively quiet week for economic calendar news and events, the mainstream financial media chose to concentrate on two issues from Monday onwards; the inevitable resolution to the USA Federal government shutdown (a deal was reached to keep the system...
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Jan 27, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Your 100 forex trade analysis and back testing for scalping or day trading
We’re constantly analysing our trading performance on a short term basis, we can clearly see it in our rolling profit and loss statement, or at the end of the day (EOD). Over a short period of time, after our introduction to forex trading, we’ll also...
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Jan 27, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on “Buy bitcoin with credit card” – the new crypto craze
Over recent weeks there’s been a surge in the search term “buy bitcoin with credit card”, the rise corresponded with the huge spike in the price of BTC, which saw price rise to circa 20,000 in December 2017, from 8,000 in October. Price then fell to...
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Jan 25, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The Elliott wave theory – a metric to identify market sentiment and psychology
It’s all too easy to dismiss certain indicators as having little use or value, Elliott wave theory has many fans and equally as many detractors. Metrics that attempt to identify market sentiment and psychology will always be treated with skepticism,...
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Jan 23, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The Swiss National Bank (SNB) as one of the most profitable FX trading firms on the planet
Over recent days the SNB revealed the profits it made for 2016, yes that’s right you read it correctly; a central bank that makes profits. They don’t quite conduct themselves in the manner of most central banks, such as the Fed, ECB and the BoE. Not only...
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Jan 13, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Making New Year’s trading resolutions is easy, sticking to them requires discipline and dedication
As we’ve now entered the New Year it’s worth reflecting on our achievements in 2017, in relation to the ambitions we originally set for ourselves at the start of the year. Did we reach our targets, did we grow our trading account by the percentage we...