Market Commentaries

When you’re a novice trader you’ll be continually reminded and encouraged by your mentors and fellow traders to create a trading-plan. There isn’t an accepted blueprint for a plan, although there are a set of generally regarded rules most traders would agree are essential to be embedded in the plan. The trading-plan should be so […]

As you get older you should get wiser, you also begin to realise that some key phrases you heard when you were younger can apply to any job, hobby or passion you’re involved in. These phrases can also also apply to life in general. “The secret of success is hard work, when the going gets

It’s impossible to completely eliminate stress and anxiety from all aspects of your life. We’re constantly reminded that certain stresses are good for us. The general quotes regarding positive forms of stress we witness constantly regurgitated in the mainstream media, will involve claims that some forms of stress can actually motivate us to achieve targets,

Many trading mentors are fond of reciting the mantra of the three Ms of trading; Mind, Method and Money-Management. Experienced mentors will offer up opinions as to how you should rank these critical success factors. Some will suggest all three rank equally, others will suggest that without an edge and strategy the other two factors

There are many self-fulfilling prophecies involved in trading, these phenomena are especially relevant to any forms of technical analysis. Traders have a tendency to over-complicate technical trading analysis, they also have a habit of joining up dots that are, for the most part, totally meaningless. Seeing patterns which are irrelevant, have no value and that

Ensure that you document the precise entry point for every trade you take. Record how close to the quote your trades are filled, whether or not you experience any slippage and how consistent the spreads are during various times of the session, or during times when high impact calendar data is published and when outlier

FX analysts and traders will scrutinise the latest Q2 annualised GDP data for the USA economy when it’s published at 13:30pm U.K. time on Friday afternoon. The expectation is for the figure for Q2 to come in at 1.8% falling from 3.2% in Q1. If the forecast is met equity markets in the USA and

At 13:30pm U.K. time on Friday July 26th the latest annualised QoQ GDP figure for the USA economy will be published. The metric covers the time period up to the second quarter of 2019, Q2. The figure is not the estimate it’s the actual and final reading published by the BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis),

Central bank’s’ decision making will continue to make headlines during Thursday’s trading sessions. Focus was on Australia’s central bank in the early hours and during the afternoon session market attention will shift to the Eurozone’s central bank, the ECB. Mr. Philip Lowe the Governor of the RBA, Australia’s central bank, announced in a speech in

After several decades of intense and heated discussion, the jury is still out and unable to reach a verdict in relation to the efficiency and effectiveness of technical analysis (TA). The opinions are generally binary and polar opposites; some FX analysts and traders swear by the proficiency of TA, others dismiss technical analysis as tea-leaf