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Once a position has begun to move in a traders favor many successful trader's will manage that position through the use of what is known as a trailing stop...
Google is to pay at least $19m (£11.6m) to settle a formal complaint over unauthorised in-app purchases. The complaint came from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which said Google should do more to warn people about how much they were spending...
US crude stocks dropped less than expected in the past week as gasoline stocks fell amid a rise in distillate inventories, according to Energy Information Administration data. In comparison to the 1.1 million barrels drop expected by analysts, the crude inventories dropped 905,000 barrels...
A lesson on the structure of the Federal reserve for traders and investors in the stock, futures, and forex markets...
Check out the Eur/JPY on Tokyo open, going back years- just straddle the 3.00(GMT+3) candle (7am Tokyo and bd time : 6 am) use the opposite of the trigger candle as your stop & target 100 pips...
Most of what we see and hear about how to invest comes from either the fund industry or the financial media – both of which have their own agendas. This landmark documentary is an attempt to redress the balance...
First up, USDJPY is at a relative high point only hitting this point in December, 2013. We are seeing a string of overlapping bars becoming bigger and bigger. Keep in mind that this is the daily. Order flow wise, you have buyers and sellers pushing the price up one day and down the next...
1. Background neutral and strong on the current and above timeframes respectively. It should be at least bullish in one of them, and can’t be bearish in none. 2. Near an up trendline, and with strength signals before (not necessary), wait for a low volume down bar. Go long when its high is broken...
An introduction to interest rates, what they are composed of and their extreme importance in the stock, futures, and forex markets...
This is the second short video by Alexander Elder about necessary to understand the psychology of trading. Successful traders not only understand their own psychology, but also the psychology driving the markets, explains Dr. Alexander Elder, imparting advice for getting a handle on both...
On Friday the euro was deep in the red, having suffered its highest dip in three years after the European Central Bank stunned markets by cutting interest rates and embarking on a trillion-euro asset-buying binge...
MarketWatch analyses why it is high time to buy Apple shares now. After losing $26 billion of its market capitalization in one day, Apple investors may finally have a chance to grab fresh shares of the tech giant ahead of its big product event next week...
A lesson on the business cycle and how the government uses fiscal policy to try and keep growth going and inflation in check and what this means for traders of the stock, futures, and forex markets...
A sharp rally through 0.9209 swing high and up to 0.9340 must be wave three and not wave five. So if that's the case then we know that pair should reach further gains after any minor correction...
Non-farm Payrolls (metatrader5.com) Non-farm Payrolls is the assessment of the total number of employees recorded in payrolls. This is a very strong indicator that shows the change in employment in the country...
Goldman on Abenomics’ moment of reckoning (FT Alphaville) This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Motley Fool) Wolf: Holdouts give vultures a bad name (FT) The Strange Allure of Higher Fees (NY Times) see also Trader Who Scored $100 Million Payday Bets Shale Is Dud (Bloomberg) Bond market conundru...
NFP Is a Highly Anticipated News Event Expectations are Set at 230k The release of the monthly Non-Farm Payroll figures is a highly anticipated moment for Forex traders...
This is another trade I took. Hopefully it will span out before the NFP announcements in seven hours. Very simple chart set up as usual. The price is currently testing the trend-line. I would say it is around the third to fourth. Generally this will hold...
Why is all advice I seem to get on Stock Markets about 'This is the Time to Sell' and yet for years all we seem to do is go higher? Dmitry KorinPrivate Trader / Technical Analyst at Candle Trading & AnalysisTop Contributor 'Short sellers see once in a lifetime opportunity' - Nov 2013...
