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Mean reversion is an important property of a stationary time series. When a stationary time series deviates too much from the mean, massive correction takes place to bring it to the mean. Interestingly almost all financial time series are non stationary...

Particle Filter is a powerful Sequential Monte Carlo Method that is used in many fields. Particle Filters are being used in robotics a lot. But you will surprised to know that we can use particle filtering in trading also...

If you trade economic news release then you must be familiar with GDP Q/Q Revised. If you don't trade news, then reading this post is going to help you understand GDP Q/Q Revised. GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product...

Python is rapidly becoming the language of choice for machine learning. Python has many good modules for deep learning as well. Machine learning is a new game that is becoming very popular. If you are a trader, you can use machine learning to predict market direction...

GBP/AUD is a good pair for swing trading. GBP/AUD gave a very good sell trade in the first week of 2017. Is the downtrend over? This is an important question. I have written this blog post in which I explain how to analyze GBP/AUD...

Currency market is too big to be manipulated. We are told often. 6 big banks have been fined more than $ Billion for market manipulation. These banks include Citibank, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, UBS and RBS. I have explained in this post the currency market manipulation allegations as well as videos...

Bet As Previous Binary Options Strategy is a simple strategy. We will open a trade in the direction of the previous candlestick. For example, we want to trade 15 minute expiry binary options. If the candlestick closed bullish, we immediately buy a call option with expiry 15 minutes...

Channels are formed when price starts bouncing between two parallel trendlines. When price hits the upper trendline we sell and when price hits the lower trendline we buy. Sounds simple? Yes it is. The problem lies in finding the channel which you will trade...

Trend trading is what makes fortunes for professional traders. Trading trends on lower timeframes can be confusing and tiring. However if you trade trends on daily chart, you don't need to stay glued to the charts all day...

Who created bitcoins? This has been the million dollar question for many years. It is alleged that one unknown Japanese Satoshi Nakamoto published a research paper in 2008: "Bitcoin- A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System...

Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency has become very popular with a lot of people. Bitcoin price jumped above $1000 in the first week of this year for the first time after 3 years. Most of recent demand for bitcoins is coming from China...

There are many ways to do forex scalping. Keep this in mind different pairs have different personalities. EURUSD behaves very differently from GBPUSD. GBPUSD behaves very differently from USDJPY. So a scalping strategy that works for EURUSD may not produce good results with GBPUSD...

Candlestick patterns are important signals on all timeframes. The problem is most of the time you read the signals wrong. There is some vagueness attached with each candlestick signal. You need to master the art of knowing when to act and when to ignore...

Trendlines are very simple yet very powerful technical analysis tools. Trendlines are a powerful leading indicators that you should learn how to use effectively. Trendlines are drawn by connecting two higher lows or lower highs. Surprisingly price seems to obey and respect these trendlines...

US Dollar Index is a measure of US Dollar strength weakness against a basket of six currencies. These six currencies are the EURO, YEN, POUND, CANADIAN DOLLAR, SWEDISH KRONA, SWISS FRANC. Surprisingly this basket of currencies does not include Chinese Yuan...

Federal Reserve Bank of USA is the most important central bank in the world also known as FED. Traditional tool at the disposal of a central bank is the monetary policy. Monetary policy means increasing decreasing the interest rate in the economy or increasing decreasing the money supply...

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo indicator is very good indicator that many traders ignore because of a difficult name. There are many professional traders who trade solely based on Ichimoku Kinko Hyo indicator...

Support and Resistance is a very important concept in trading. Support is the area where price finds great buying pressure and bounces up. Resistance is the area where price finds great selling pressure and bounces down...

15 minute chart is good for scalping. On M15 chart you can catch good 500-100 pips moves easily depending on the currency pair. Candlestick patterns on M15 chart when combined with support and resistance can be good signals...

If you don't understand M5 chart, you will lose a lot on it. The key to understanding M5 lies in trading it naked. Naked trading means focusing only on price action and ignoring indicators. All indicators are lagging. So ignoring them won't be a problem if you know how to read price action...