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Consider these two truthful sentences: Academics who study corporate finance overwhelmingly believe that conglomerates — giant companies that operate in a wide range of industries, often built through acquisitions — are an awfully inefficient way to organize businesses...
The New Sell and Sell Short: How To Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit From Price Declines by Alexander Elder In The New Sell and Sell Short Dr. Alexander Elder explains how to exit a stock at the right time and how to initiate a short position to profit from a stock that is showing weakness...
Traders will look for setups, patterns, or situations that give them 'an edge' for predicting what price will do next. In other words, the trader is looking for something that helps improve their ability or chances. An edge is not something that always happens...
A. Introduction “History repeats itself.” To take advantage of historical price patterns, in this article, fractals are instrumental in (1) forecasting the next profit-taking positions and also in (2) assessing the sustainability of a trend...
AUD/NZD: Short One short position has been opened this week and closed today with a profit of 1/2 Weekly ATR (84 pips). On pullback postions will be opened again. See for more information my Strategy article of this weekend...
The downward pressure on the EUR remains intact especially as the break of some key technical support areas has provoked further selling, notes Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ...
Many believe that Forex investment is a savvy way for making money. There are drawbacks including the amount of time that should be invested in order to make this happen. In many cases, not everyone has the time that is needed. Understanding current market activities is also a plus...
These are two groups of exponential moving averages. The short term group is a 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 15 day moving averages. This is a proxy for the behaviour of short term traders and speculators in the market. The long term group is made up of 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 60 day moving averages...
On Wednesday the greenback got off 11-year peaks against other major currencies, impacted by the data showing the U.S. private sector created fewer-than-expected jobs last month...
In 1967, Benoît B. Mandelbrot published a paper. This paper, titled How Long Is the Coast of Britain...
Building Algorithmic Trading Systems: A Trader's Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Trading by Kevin Davey In Building Algorithmic Trading Systems: A Trader's Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Training, award-winning trader Kevin Davey shares his s...
On Wednesday U.S. crude-oil futures rose Wednesday ahead of U.S. inventory numbers, while Brent declined. Both oil benchmarks had settled higher on Monday...
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is an American multinational financial servicescorporation headquartered in the Morgan Stanley Building, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Morgan Stanley operates in 42 countries and has more than 1300 offices and 60,000 employees...
Leverage financed with credit, such as that purchased on a margin account is very common in Forex. A margined account is a leverageable account in which Forex can be purchased for a combination of cash or collateral depending what your brokers will accept...
The Reserve Bank of India has lowered its policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.5% after making a similar cut in mid-January...
Wednesday marked decline of copper prices for the second consecutive session, as market players awaited the start of China’s National People’s Congress annual meeting on Thursday...
On Wednesday the greenback was steady against the euro and the yen, as market players looked ahead to a fresh series of U.S. economic reports and a European Central Bank meeting for further indications on the direction of monetary policy...
Australia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Metals & Mining, Materials and Consumer Staples sectors led shares lower. The S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.54% at the close in Sydney. AUD/USD was up 0.07% to 0.7822, while AUD/JPY rose 0.01% to 93.59...
GBP/USD Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 1.5322, 1.5180, 1.5117 Resistance: 1.5440, 1.5551, 1.5601 The British Pound is edging lower as expected against the US Dollar after putting in a Bearish Engulfing candlestick pattern. Near-term support is at 1.5322, the 14...
Elliott Wave Principle: Key To Market Behavior by A.J. Frost and Robert R. Prechter A. J. Frost was one of the few other financial professionals who used the Wave Principle. In a distinguished 20-year career, Frost had likewise made many astonishingly accurate forecasts...