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Weekly digest compiles the latest news from the world of stocks and finance, currency and commodity news, as well as interesting informative articles for traders. Top news of the week: Currency wars threaten new crises...
The U.S. online retailer Amazon.com has opened a flagship store in local competitor Alibaba Group Holding’s online marketplace, in an attempt to expand in China. Amazon has thus become Alibaba’s customer, paying a commission to the latter for each transaction...
Leverage in forex is expressed as ratios - for example as the following: 1:1, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200, 1:400...
On Friday the Australian dollar edged up marginally in a slim data day with the focus ahead on nonfarm payroll data in the U.S...
To Trade or Not to Trade: A Beginner's Guide Dr Alexander Elder You can be free. You can live and work anywhere in the world, be independent from the routine, and not answer to anybody. This is the life of a successful trader. Many aspire to it but few succeed...
After finding an edge to trade, a trader needs a set of tools or instructions guiding them on how to enter the trade. Let's take two of the edges from the last video as examples, and look at some common tools traders use to help them enter those trades...
The Currency Score analysis is one of the parameters used for the Ranking and Rating list which was published earlier this week...
The following are the long-term technical outlooks for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, and AUD/USD as provided by the technical strategy team at SEB Group...
Similar to the 200-day Moving Average, large institutions often look at long term Linear Regression Channels. A Linear Regression Channel consists of three parts: Linear Regression Line: A line that best fits all the data points of interest...
On Thursday the U.S. dollar climbed against its Canadian peer, despite data indicating that U.S. jobless claims rose unexpectedly last week. The euro stays under broad selling pressure after the ECB statement...
The following are UBS' latest short-term (mostly intraday) trading strategies for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, and GBP/USD. EUR/USD: Softness continues, and there's still no reason to fight the trend. We still like being short, adding on any recovery near the 1.1098 previous low, with a 1.1155 stop...
Naked Forex: High-Probability Techniques for Trading Without Indicators by Alex Nekritin Most forex traders lose because they persist in believing three myths of successful trading: Myth 1: successful trading must beindicator-based. Myth 2: successful trading must be complex...
USD/JPY is on the verge of completing its 3m range trade and resuming its long term bull trend for 120.49, notes Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "A break of Triangle resistance (now 120.06) is the 1st sign that the bull trend is resuming, while a close above 120.49 confirms...
On Thursday the British currency dropped to one-month lows against its US peer, as downbeat U.K. house price data weighed and as markets eyed the Bank of England's upcoming monetary policy statement due later in the day...
To get a grasp on what a margin call is, you should understand the purpose and use of Margin & Leverage. Margin & Leverage are two sides of the same coin. The purpose of either is to help you control a contract larger than your account balance...
Brazil's central bank has raised interest rates to a six-year high of 12.75% to restrain inflation. The bank said in a statement: "In assessing the macroeconomic scenario and the outlook for inflation, the Copom [the bank's monetary policy committee] decided unanimously to raise the rate by 0...
Addressing the National People's Congress (NPC), Premier Li Keqiang said China would target growth of about 7% in 2015 and pledged tighter environmental controls...
I started looking at Harmonics a long time ago. At first I was fascinated at the thought you could find exact mathematical points to enter in the market. I am of the generation of traders that used "gut feelings" and talent to trade. I like harmonics there is something to it...
On Thursday Asian stock markets were mostly lower, as China, the world's second-largest economy, lowered its economic growth forecast for 2015 to about 7%, and as markets tracked weak cues from Wall Street...
For today R4 - 1.5459 R3 - 1.5397 R2 - 1.5380 R1 - 1.5344...
