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Building a buffer simply means adding profits to your account to protect your original balance/original account value (principle). For example, suppose you opened your account with $20K...
Möchte hier einen Informationsblog für deutsche Trader eröffnen. Tip´s und Hilfen, Anregungen und Hinweise, Meinungen und Prognosen.......! Würde mich über reichlich Einträge freuen. Traa-der...
Managing risk is a concept all traders need to come to grips with when creating an active trading plan. This is especially important when trading a scalping or day trading based strategy...
Easing rates during the financial panic in 2008 was the right move in stopping the economy from plunging over a cliff. By late 2010, however, the recovery was already under way and the unemployment rate was falling, but the Fed kept the federal funds rate just above zero...
Haim Bodek, former CEO of Trading Machines, a Prominent High Frequency Trading firm based in Connecticut, joins Merlin for a look into what has been happening in the HFT world...
After trading at the $11.50/share levels earlier in the month, Blackberry shares have retreated off its highs and is finding support at the $9.50/share area of interest. Technical indicators show that there’s still some buying pressure left, which might pave the way for a larger pullback...
The Canadian economy grew at the fastest pace in four months in May, driven by gains in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, energy and construction. Gross domestic product, the total of goods and services produced in the country, rose 0.4% to 1.62 trillion Canadian dollars ($1...
USD/JPY Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 102.71, 102.45, 102.25 Resistance: 103.03, 103.50, 103.79 The US Dollar may have completed a major upward breakout against Japanese Yen after prices cleared resistance capping gains since January...
Price Hovers Near Range Resistance Range Support Sits at 1.4533 Price Above R4 Signals a Breakout For the beginning of Wednesdays trading, the EURCAD remains locked between defined values of support and resistance. Range resistance, as marked above by the R3 camarilla pivot, resides at 1.4566...
U.S. home mortgage applications fell last week, lead by a decline in refinancing requests, reported the Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday. The MBA announced that its seasonally-adjusted measure of mortgage applications, which covers both new home purchases and refinancing, plunged 2...
Entry Size I have chosen leverage of 1:200. So technically I will need to maintain a usable margin of 0.5% or higher at all time after I open my trades. However my broker requires me to add a small cushion as a safety-net besides 0.5% margin requirement...
Channel Up pattern break and success to perform Head and shoulders pattern. Break and retest at 174.20 with 5 fibonacci PRZ. This pattern projection target at 170.94, and failed if price success to break 174.58...
Elon Musk's fortune has more than tripled in the past year, clocking in at $2.7 billion for 2013. Stock in Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker he founded, is up 625% in the past year, and stock in SolarCity, the solar panel designer and installer run by his cousin Lyndon Rive, is up 340...
Having lost more than $14 billion already this year, Russia’s 19 billionaires face an increasingly uncertain future, as Western sanctions begin to bite. Steel tycoon Vladimir Lisin dropped $2...
Leverage in forex is expressed as ratios: 1:1, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200, 1:400. Let's study the chart below to understand how leverage is created in forex. Mathematically, Leverage in forex = Purchase Power/Capital Invested...
While no indicator is perfect, they can help traders address probabilities in a market Moving Averages can be helpful, but often lack an active signaling mechanism MACD takes trading with moving averages one step further The MACD Line MACD is an acronym that is short for Moving Average Convergenc...
In a three wave move, the alternating waves will be wave A and wave C (or if you label with numbers, wave 1 and wave 3...
Support: 10481, 10456, 10375 Resistance:10513, 10560, 10606 US Dollar Index broke above yet another layer of resistance after reversing upward as expected having put in a Bullish Engulfing candle pattern. Near-term resistance is at 10513, the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement...
EUR/USD closed at its lowest level in seven months on Friday before recovering modestly off the 6th square root relationship of the 2013 low near 1.343 Our near-term trend bias is lower in the euro while below 1.3545 A daily close below a key Fibonacci confluence in the 1...
