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The Bollinger Bands are self adjusting which means the bands widen and narrow depending on volatility. Standard Deviation is the statistical measure of the volatility used to calculate the widening or narrowing of the bands...
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BlondieNews, 1 August 2014, 13:08
Prices broke above another layer of resistance after reversing upward as expected having put in Bullish Engulfing candle pattern. Near-term resistance is at 10560, which is 50% Fibonacci retracement. Daily close above that exposes 61.8% level at 10606...
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Sergey Golubev, 1 August 2014, 12:03 #dollar index
Prices are drifting cautiously lower having topped below $1350/oz three weeks ago. Near-term support is in the 1281.38-87.13 area, marked by a falling trend line set from late June and the 38.2% Fibonacci expansion. A break below that on a daily closing basis exposes the 50% level at 1269.22...
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Damiano Fabiański, 1 August 2014, 10:45 #breakout, xauusd, gold
Interest Rate Differential theory claims that exchange rate movements are determined by a nation's interest rate level...
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Ray Steve, 1 August 2014, 10:04 #Interest Rate
Forex trading is considered as much harder field than science. It includes numbers, ratios and charts that are complicated to understand by most people especially those who do not have any idea what Forex trading is...
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Damiano Fabiański, 1 August 2014, 08:12
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...
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Lonny Strike, 1 August 2014, 06:12
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...
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Traa-der, 1 August 2014, 04:00 #dax, support
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...
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Sergey Golubev, 1 August 2014, 03:12 #breakout
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...
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Damiano Fabiański, 31 July 2014, 21:11
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...
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Sergey Golubev, 31 July 2014, 20:20 #high frequency trading
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...
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Ray Steve, 31 July 2014, 18:12
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...
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Patti, 31 July 2014, 15:54 #GDP
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...
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Lonny Strike, 31 July 2014, 15:18 #resistance, support
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...
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Lonny Strike, 31 July 2014, 13:02 #breakout, resistance, support
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...
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Ray Steve, 31 July 2014, 11:15
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...
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EmmeMe, 31 July 2014, 09:18
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...
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Dian Kemala, 31 July 2014, 08:04
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...
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Sergey Golubev, 31 July 2014, 07:18
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...
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Damiano Fabiański, 31 July 2014, 04:12
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...
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[Deleted], 30 July 2014, 23:18