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Fep 26, 14 • 2991 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe on Why realistic trading expectations will serve us well in our early days of FX trading and during our future development
There’s nothing wrong with dreaming in our industry, so long as those dreams are realistic. After all, if we weren’t extremely ambitious in relation to our trading then we’d need to quickly find another profession, or hobby. But how do we...
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Fep 21, 14 • 5756 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
1 Faamatalaga
As we move through an explanation and analysis of the indicators that we favour in our “is the trend still your friend?” weekly trading article, we’re now going to look at one of the simplest, most popular and arguably one of the most...
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Fep 20, 14 • 4077 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe luga o le tusi lesona poʻo le fefaatauaiga otometi, o le fea e sili atu mo oe ma o afea e tatau ai ona e faia le suiga?
It’s worth taking a step back from our industry from time to time to marvel at the improvements and opportunities that have developed over recent years. Our retail industry as we know it, operating on the web through trading platforms, is only just over...
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Fep 19, 14 • 3305 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe O lea ua matou filifili e suia a matou fefaʻatauaiga lautele, o le a le isi mea e fai. Vaega lua
OK, so yesterday we decided that our strategy wasn’t working and rather than simply condemn it to the trader recycling bin, we subjected it to what we’ve termed our “due diligence failure template” and categorically proved to ourselves...
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Fep 18, 14 • 3151 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe i luga O lea e te manaʻo e sui lau fuafuaga tau fefaʻatauaʻiga, o fea e te amata ai ma pe faʻafefea le tele o suiga e tatau ona i ai?
We’ve given our current strategy enough time to either work (or fail), so how do we now go about making a clean break and starting with a fresh new ‘shiny’ strategy? And will this gleaming new strategy be any better than the previous one, or...
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Fep 14, 14 • 8188 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
3 Faamatalaga
If you were holding a trading conference and you gathered a group of traders into a hotel bar for a relaxed conversation on all trading related ‘stuff’, to then ask them to nominate “just one indicator that they could rely on, “but...
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Fep 13, 14 • 3044 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe on What currency pairs should we trade and why? And are there any ‘exotics’ that we could trade?
It may surprise many traders to realise exactly what currencies are in the basket of currencies that make up the dollar index. Many of us will have made various assumptions as to what’s in and what’s not, so here’s the definitive definition...
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Fep 12, 14 • 3079 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe luga o Fefaatauaiga clichés, o le sili ona leaga, o le sili ma i latou e moni moni. Vaega Lua
Yesterday we began a two part article regarding the trading clichés that we’re bombarded with on a regular basis, through forums and blogs in particular. We concentrated on the clichés that we believe fail to stand up to rigorous scrutiny. In part two...
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Fep 11, 14 • 3633 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
faamatalaga Teugatupe i luga o Fefaʻatauaʻiga clichés, sili ona leaga, sili ma i latou e moni lava aoga. Vaega I
As traders progress through the maze that is trading, eventually discovering the path leading to fulfilment and what we’re fond of terming a form of ‘trader enlightenment’, we come across many trading related clichés on our journey. Some...
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Fep 7, 14 • 8201 Manatu •
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Maria Iakopo
11 Faamatalaga
As we continue our short series on the most popular indicators swing traders prefer to use, we move onto one of the first indicators novice traders will experiment with – the MACD, or the moving average convergence divergence. It’s visual...