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Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has reached a plea deal to resolve U.S. charges that he engaged in a scheme to sell over $1 million of the digital currency to users of illicit online marketplace Silk Road, his lawyer said Friday...

Euro matches longest weekly consecutive losing streak since inception Sentiment, Positioning, and cyclical studies all warn of a potential EURUSD reversal Watch critical support ahead of highly-anticipated European Central Bank decision The Euro has now matched its longest weekly losing streak on...

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...

Retail inflows to U.S. high-yield funds totaled $672 million during the week ended Aug. 27, roughly on par with the $680 million inflow recorded two weeks ago, and falling well under the $2.2 billion of inflows last week. This week’s inflow helps to offset the $12...

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...

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...

“Long term, a failed breakout and top would keep with the pattern of 3 year cycle tops. 1.3750 is an important reference point (year open).” The break of 1.3476 completed a topping process with targets of 1.3294 (origin of diagonal), 1.3209 (2 equal legs), and 1.3012 (head and shoulders target...

The Double-Top and Double-Bottom formation show multiple tests of support (or resistance) at a particular price level. Traders can look to trade subsequent tests of these price levels...

Jack Schwager is a recognised expert on markets and trading who has authored a number of very well known trading books...

The triangle formation can show in three varieties; we outline each below. Triangles signal congestion or consolidation as the range of price movement decreases. Traders can look to trade breakouts by treating triangles like other congestion patterns. The Triangle...

Successful trading and investing is not about how good you look or how impressive you sound in videos. It’s about what, when and how you do it. It does not matter if you are placing the trades yourself or using an automated trading system...

Risk Factor Keep in mind that backtesting statistics look solely at past performance. It's important to mention that past performance is not indicative of future results...

The S&P 500 rose during the course of the week, breaking the top of the previous week’s hammer. Because of this, it looks like we are heading back towards the 1990 handle, an area that can be used as a staging for the massive breakout that’s expected at the 2000 level...

Litecoin opened up a bearish outlook toward the 2014-low of 2.21 when it broke below a support pivot at 6.66. Since then, price has been “chewing” down the tail from the July 1st spike down...

Volatility is the measurement of price variations over a specified period of time. Traders can approach low-volatility markets with two different approaches. We discuss the Average True Range indicator as a measurement of volatility...

All that glitters isn't gold—at least for the investors who are eschewing the precious metal in favor of the companies that mine it. After years spent in the shadow of gold, miners are back in favor, driven by stronger earnings and cuts to mining costs...

In recent hours the AUDUSD is easing back a little after dropping so sharply in the last 24 hours from above 0.9350 down to a two week low at 0.9260. In the last 48 hours the Australian dollar had surged higher to a one week high near 0.9375, before easing back and then falling sharply...

The key to using CCI with camarilla pivots is to line an entry signal near support and resistance, along with an overbought or oversold reading of CCI. Timing entries is an important step to consider when developing a trading strategy...

1) Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews - Timothy Falcon Crack Heard on the Street is a classic Wall Street interview Q&A book. Many of the questions you will hear in real interviews will have been "borrowed" or modified from this book...