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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...
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Jan 12, 18 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Can bitcoin can’t go mainstream as a payment service?
Bitcoin and crypto currencies were not only the hottest topic amongst many forex traders in 2017, they also became a hot topic in the mainstream media. Hardly a day passed without news channels in the USA and U.K. covering the subject of bitcoin. Naturally,...
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Dec 27, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
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Political analysis is often confused with fundamental analysis, however, the two separate phenomena and the skills required to identify and translate the entities into coherent trading decisions, shouldn’t be confused. We should be aware of and fully...
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Dec 27, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Trading Forex successfully, what works and what doesn’t. Part two; fundamental analysis
The majority of experienced FX traders and market analysts will testify that its fundamental economic events that move our markets. They’d also contend that the only time technical analysis effects our trading is if price either: reaches a critical round...
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Dec 27, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Trading Forex successfully, what works and what doesn’t. Part one; technical indicators
Depending on where you are on the learning scale, you’ll have a different view of the various trials and tribulations you’ve experienced (and at times endured) during your FX learning pathway. If you’re close to the start of your journey, having...
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Dec 26, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The FX market is always right, it’s our job to be on the right side of price
There are some obvious benefits in learning how to trade in the globe’s largest market and there’s some subtle benefits, which are far less straightforward to identify. We know that due to the huge levels of turnover, estimated at $5 trillion a day...
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Dec 20, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Trading over the Xmas and the New Year holiday period, how should we adjust our trading plan?
As we’ve now entered the final two weeks of the trading year, many of us will slow down our trading, particularly if we’re manual day traders we’ll consider simply downing tools for a week or so. If we trade on a fully automated basis, then we’ll...
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Dec 19, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The Bitcoin and crypto coin craze, will it continue, or climb into a crypt of its own making?
Ask a colleague, friend, or family member what they knew about Bitcoin, or crypto currencies back in 2015 and the likelihood is that you’d be faced with a blank stare. This year the Bitcoin phenomenon has truly gone mainstream. It’s impossible to compare...
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Dec 15, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on We traded manually, then we traded with automation, then we moved into machine learning
It’s fascinating watching television coverage of the markets, particularly when, for example, Bloomberg switch to a trading floor at the NYSE. As far back as 2010, estimates suggested that between 50-70% of all stock trading on Wall Street was conducted by...
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Dec 13, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Brexit, its past, present and future impact on the value of the U.K. pound
Outside of the fundamental analysis we have to continually conduct, concerning the economic calendar events that are released and published each trading day, we also have to develop skills in order to learn how to analyse technical analysis. Whilst we have to...