Automated Trading Can Save Time The greatest benefit of all, is the time saved when running automated strategies. Being free from sitting behind a computer screen all day looking at charts allowed me to live a more balanced life...
After many years of trading, you’ll be hard pressed to find an indicator as simple or effective as moving averages. Moving averages take a fixed set of data and give you an average price. If the average is moving higher, price is in an uptrend on at least one or possibly multiple time-frames...
1) Preparing - What you do to identify and exploit opportunity in markets, including observation, research, idea testing, trade structuring, portfolio construction, and trade planning...
In a Downtrend, RSI Can Remain Oversold Use the Centerline to Determine Market Direction Settings Can be Adjusted for More or Less Oscillation RSI (Relative Strength Index) is counted among trading’s most popular indicators...
I love to trade. 10, 20, 30, 40 round turns per day - the more the merrier! After all anyone who is really honest with themselves will admit that we trade not only for money, but for excitement. For a trader there is nothing sweeter than having the market go your way...
1. Be More Selective Before Placing Trades It is important to remember that in volatile times, losses are likely to be big. Before placing a trading, assess risk tolerance levels...
One of the most popular currency trading strategies in recent history, the carry trade has been successfully used by traders for years. With recent market conditions, this very popular strategy is beginning to look like a losing proposition...
The Win Percentage If I had a strategy that has a win percentage over 90%, would you be willing to use it? If you quickly responded, “yes,” you should think a bit longer about what a 90% win rate actually means...
The NZDUSD sell signal generated earlier based on the upswing pull back and hitting hitting the simple moving average was overestimated. Currently, it is down 46 pips and a second sell order has also been put in place just below what we thought to be a resistance level...
1. Holding time Do you tend to hold trades for more than a day? Or do you only hold your trades open for hours at a time...
There’s not much action going on with NZDUSD so this will just be a quick post. It’s pretty much confirmed this pair will go in one direction only and that is down. The last few posts I’ve made on this pair showed a break below support and breakout of a wedge or ascending trend-line...
1. The Theory and How to Use in Trading Adaptive moving average (AMA), as the name suggests is an adaptation of moving average. It is designed to adapt according to the dynamic market as needed...
A recent line of research has established that global factors significantly correlate with national inflation rate movements, so much in fact that they can help forecast national inflation rates.1 A forthcoming Federal Reserve Bank of St...
“USDCAD has fallen apart which ironically means it is probably going to find some sort of low soon. The rate is nearing important price levels. The 2011 high at 1.0657 and current year open at 1.0634 are possible supports...
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Where to Draw the Fibonacci Retracement? Where exactly is that? For starters, we need to identify an extended move up or down on our chart. In other words, a swing low followed by a defined high or a swing high followed by a defined low...
Support and Resistance is one of the widely used concepts in Forex trading. Most traders plot horizontal lines to show support levels and resistance levels...
USD/JPY Technical Strategy: Flat Support: 103.53, 103.05, 102.75 Resistance: 104.00-12, 104.30, 104.54 The US Dollar is hovering near the highest levels in five months against the Japanese Yen after rallying the most since mid-March earlier in the week. A daily close above the 104...
What is the secret of running a successful electronic FX business, and what are the most common pitfalls? You need a few different things I think...
Jack Schwager is a recognised expert on markets and trading who has authored a number of very well known trading books...
