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Sep 27, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on What you wish you knew about trading when you started out
It’s inevitable that once you evolve into a highly proficient trader, you’ll look back at your trading history and regret some of the decisions you’ve taken. But as the phrase in the title suggests, you should try to have no regrets, instead...
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Sep 24, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on What is money management in Forex and why it is so important?
Many experienced and by definition successful traders, are fond of referring to the 3 Ms principles of trading and insisting that you embed these principles into the trading plan you create, a working plan that you should never deviate from, other than with...
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Sep 22, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on The importance of controlling your emotions when trading Forex
We are not machines, we’re emotional beings. None of us like to lose, none of us like to fail. Most of us appear to be either programmed through our DNA, or via our evolutionary development, to strive. In simple terms; the majority of us want to...
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Sep 21, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Steps to take when your win-loss ratio begins to reduce
After months of effort and much trial and error, you eventually develop and discover an edge, more importantly an edge that works for you. You don’t consider yourself to be a novice trader anymore. You’re also now mature enough to know that you...
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Sep 20, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Is it easier to potentially profit from an individual trade in the forex market, when you trade off lower time frames?
Many experienced traders would deliver a categoric “yes” as the answer to the question, others may deliberate for a while, before answering, “maybe”. And as is the situation with many questions, when discussing and seeking the answer to such...
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Sep 18, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on If you’re just starting Trading Forex, what do you expect to achieve and how can we ensure Forex trading matches our expectations?
If you’re just starting to take your first steps in our forex industry, then welcome to our fascinating, challenging, at times frustrating, but incredibly rewarding industry. The vast majority of us will probably discover retail forex trading by...
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Sep 18, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Forex as a Future activity, where can it take us, how will the industry look?
As we’re fond of reminding clients; retail forex trading (as a concept), is both a very young activity and business. In many ways it’s a miracle, an accident of birth. It’s as if a Big Bang took place, approximately eighteen years back, as the...
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Sep 16, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on Are the movements in forex pairs and the currency market, more random than other trading instruments?
It’s a common reference, which we constantly read and hear relating to currency trading; that currency pairs move in a more random nature in comparison to other securities, such as; equities, precious metals and commodities. That belief is often taken...
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Sep 16, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on A disciplined approach to trading Forex may eliminate the short-term risk
I’m sure many of our readers and clients had to read this title twice, in order to check if it actually made any sense. It’s a deliberate reference to how counter intuitive Forex trading can be at times. We pride ourselves on creating a bullet...
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Aug 29, 17 •
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Zahir Shah
Comments Off on How to avoid the four main reasons that lead to quitting Forex Trading
As highlighted in previous articles, the dropout rate for traders in our industry is frustratingly high and frighteningly quick. It’s frustrating to us analysts and advisors, because it’s needless and most traders exit because of self-sabotage....