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Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to more directly challenge Google Inc. 's dominance of the online advertising market, developing its own software for placing ads online that could leverage its knowledge of millions of Web shoppers...

USDCHF is trading pips shy of its YTD high but has pushed above the trendline that extends off of the 2010 and 2013 highs (there is a trendline that extends off of the 1985 and 2001 highs near .9400). The nearly 30 year trendline splits the 50% and 61...

Leading financial firm Saxo Bank Group reported mixed performance in the first half of 2014 owing to low volatility in FX markets. However, the firm rolled out new products while clients’ deposits rose by DKK 9.7 billion to a new high of DKK 60.3 billion...

Home Depot announced Thursday that longtime CEO Frank Blake will step down on November 1. He will be replaced by Craig Menear, the company’s current U.S. retail president...

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...

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) and the Singapore Management University announced that TT’s X_TRADER® software is now being used in the University’s Master of Science in quantitative finance program within the market microstructure course curriculum...

This Is the Troubling Future of High-Frequency Trading - The Financial Times reported yesterday that high-frequency traders are leaving investment banks for hedge funds, prop trading houses, and their own startups...

USDJPY Stays Range Bound R3 Resistance Sits at .9320 Market Breakouts Signaled Over .9335 USDJPY 30min Chart In the event that momentum subsides, the USDJPY may produce an environment conducive for a false breakout...

Every trader needs one. Do you know what it is. Many times it's the difference between success and failure in the market. Watch the fifth episode of the "Traders Whiteboard" series and learn from master trader Adam Hewison on how to incorporate this key element into your own trading...

A security breach was reported by BTCJam, the bitcoin lender, on August 10, but hastened to reiterate that accounts of users have not been compromised...

PriceChannel Parabolic system was created for MQL5.COM portal and can be downloaded for free by indicators, templates, trading results, EAs by source codes and forwardtesting/backtesting results of the EAs...

GBPUSD posted its biggest monthly decline in July since May 2013. The selling pressure was driven by the strengthening U.S. economy and increased expectations for higher U.S. interest rates. The U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls report, due to be released on August 2, could set the tone for August...

Amazon has reportedly halted pre-orders of some Disney films, in what looks like another contract dispute following the online retailer's row with a book publisher. Physical copies of titles such as Maleficent and Captain America: The Winter Soldier were unavailable for order on Amazon.com...

The often choppy summer months and the thick of earnings season are often a tough time for investors and traders. They struggle to decide whether to take any action before their stocks report earnings. Deciding when to sell is a difficult decision for most traders and investors...

The miserable trading conditions in USDJPY are probably explained by its long term Elliott wave position. That is, the rate has been mired in a corrective 4th wave all year. The good news is that wave 4 probably ends soon. Keep focused on the Elliott channel...

Prices are attempting to recover after putting in a bullish Piercing Line candlestick pattern above support at a rising trend line set from June 2012. Near-term resistance is at 98.93, the 14.6% Fibonacci expansion, with a break above that exposing the 23.6% level at 100.41...

You might think that investing in the stock market is only for people with a lot of money to spare or someone that has, unusually good luck. Nothing could be further from the truth...

The Bearish Engulfing Candlestick is a powerful bearish reversal candle pattern. The Bearish Engulfing Candlestick Pattern is a bearish reversal pattern, usually occuring at the top of an uptrend...

Stochastic is an oscillator that determines where the most recent closing price is relative to its price range over a given time period. It is one of the most popular oscillators that traders use in range-bound market...