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Dec 4, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Patience and its relevance to Forex Trading
Trading will often try the patience of saints. Even patient, calm, decisive people, who pride themselves over how they’ve developed emotional control over their decision making and the measured way they navigate through their own personal lives, have been...
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Dec 2, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Are the movements in Forex Markets random?
Randomness could be defined as the lack of pattern or predictability in a series of events. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps, appears to have no order and fails to follow an intelligible pattern, or any combination. If you get a group of traders...
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Nov 30, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on A few Forex Trading myths; discussed and debunked. Part two
Only a tiny percent of retail traders will ever make it. There’s lots of information, data and opinions on this subject, but none of it is conclusive or definitive. We read that 95% of traders fail, that only 1% of forex traders make a living trading and...
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Nov 30, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on A few Forex Trading myths; discussed and debunked. Part one
Whether we discover the (at times) lonely and solo activity of retail forex trading by accident or design, we’re social animals and in the social media world we now inhabit, we’ll eventually discover forums and other social media methods, to share and...
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Nov 29, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Forex Trading systems – how do we separate the useful, from the useless?
The majority of the most popular and highly respected trading forums, are sub divided into various categories. You’ll see separate discussion sections for: general trading discussion, platforms, automation, brokers, journals, systems etc. Interactive...
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Nov 23, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on How long can a high impact news event effect the forex markets and how should we prepare?
Occasionally there’s weeks listed in the economic calendar, which deliver high impact news events in rapid succession. We may get: an interest rate decision, a GDP reading, a jobs report, and PMIs etc. all delivered within days of each other. And if they...
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Nov 20, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Risk vs. reward – risking the right amount of your account for a reasonable reward
If you no longer consider yourself to be a novice trader then you’ve probably suffered some trading losses, you’ll have trader scar tissue imprinted on your conscious mind and gained valuable experience during your journey. Whilst you’ll also quickly...
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Nov 18, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Testing our Forex trading strategy: backtesting, forward testing or a combination of both?
There appears to be two binary opinions with regards to the overall value of backtesting and that opinion is evenly divided. Many traders swear by backtesting, others cite it as patently useless, claiming that only forward testing in real time in the market...
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Nov 17, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The importance of properly utilizing indicators when Trading Forex
Discussing various trading methods and strategies with fellow traders, can prove to be a fascinating and enjoyable exercise. Many of us more experienced traders, will enjoy conversing with novice traders, who think they’ve discovered the infamous holy grail...
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Nov 16, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Three steps to becoming a Forex Trader
Many traders will ask the most relevant and pertinent questions when they first discover forex trading, as either an investment hobby or potential career; “what do I have to do in order to become a trader, how much do I need to trade, how long will it take...