Sherif Hasan / Profil

Having a bias is as natural as breathing and eating. Personal judgements, reasonable or not, are entrenched in our everyday activities. You use your biases, for example, to pick a restaurant, a potential date, or the school you want to place your child in...

In trading, it is very easy to get lost in the game. You get on your trading platform, try to get some pips, and in the process you usually forget the most basic risk management practices. Here are five common habits that might help in limiting your risk exposure. 1...

At its very core, positive thinking is simply being optimistic about things. It is the tendency to take a favorable stance on things, hoping for the best possible outcome in any situation...

Becoming consistently profitable in forex trading involves making pips, keeping them, and then repeating the process. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as it sounds. Making successful trades is not just about having a fantastic setup...

Have you ever had one of those days? Your charting software didn’t work just right, your Internet connection was doggedly slow, and you forgot to read up on this week’s latest economic report releases, so you missed all the good opportunities...

The last straw in a trading conviction is often neither fundamental nor technical On Friday a chapter in the US mortgage crisis finally came to an end. The US government has dropped all its efforts to sue Countrywide founder and CEO Angelo Mozilo...

Credit Agricole on the week ahead After several months of market volatility and anxious observation of the pre-referendum polls, FX investors will finally have an answer to the question: Brexit or Bremain? Our central case still is that a Brexit will be avoided...

French economy minister Emmanuel Macron speaking in Le Monde 18 June 2016 "Leaving the EU would mean the Guernseyfication of the UK which would then be a little country on the world scale...

Reuters reporting comments from the Reserve Bank of India governor 18 June 2016 Raghuram Rajan, a former chief economist at the IMF, says he will be standing down on 4 September after one term and returning to academia...

BMG Research have published their final EU Referendum poll results 18 June 2016 I gave the heads up to watch out for this delayed poll result yesterday and as JG points out in the comments section ,it may well have been leaked and had some impact late in NY trading...

Each person chasing their dreams. Beginners Traders come to website like this to write/read something and to try to double their accounts. Usually they are not realistic. They want everything and they want it now. Their greed eat their dreams. Psychology...

I don’t want to offend dear fellow chartists but in my opinion technical analysis has little value if it has any. For these guys interest rate decisions, unemployment data, trade deficits...has little meaning compared to the study of charts...

Hello everyone today i would like to say one of the key points regard pamm services.i want to discuss on following topics 1.what is pamm? 2.how pamm helps the pamm manager? 3.how to attract the pamm investors? 4.how pamm helps pamm investor...

Do you want to become filthy rich over night and earn six figures per day by simply taking your slice out of the daily $5,3 Triillion turnover in the fx-market? Just adopt "this holy grail bs system" and you will soon climb to the top of this years forbes list. Sounds familiar...

Nasdaq hit hardest. The US major stock indices or ending down on the day and down on the week. The hardest hit was the NASDAQ composite index, which was down by my 0.92% in trading today and -1.92% for the trading week. The S&P 500 index fell by my 0.33% in trading today and was down -1...

Analysts at JPMorgan attempt to sift through the polls Cable squeezed higher late in trading on Friday but sank a half-cent from the highs, in part because JPMorgan analysts released a report arguing that the 'leave' side truly is ahead...

Weekly positioning data from the CFTC for Forex futures as of the close on June14 EUR 56K short vs. 67K short prior week. GBP 37K short vs. 66K short prior week JPY 56K long vs. 43K long prior week CAD 18K long vs. 22K long prior week...

S&P down -0.36%. Nasdaq the dog -0.82% the US stock market is down on the day, but off the session lows. The S&P 500 index is down 6.5 points were my 0.31%. It was down about 14-15 points at the lows. The high was near unchanged to +1. So current prices are near the midpoint...

This is the 3rd increase in a row Oil rigs up to 337 from 328 last week Gas rigs up to 86 from 85 last week Miscellaneous rigs remained at 1. Texas rigs were the bid gainer rising from 178 to 191. Of course Texas accounts for - not the majority - but 45% of the total...

GBPUSD extends to new highs. A week ago, there was a poll that sent the GBPUSD racing lower by 172 pips in 15 minutes. It looked like this.... That can wreak havoc with your trading and your P/L...