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Just Follow the Trend?ah? What's a trend?
by Raul Lopez
Back in the early days of forex trading everyone would tell you: Just identify the trend and trade in the same direction: that?s everything you need to do to trade profitably. But, what exactly is a trend? How can we identify it so we increase the odds of being profitable?
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Trade with Hedging Facility
By Dr. S. Sivaraman
Forex market has become more of uncertainties. The volatile moves of the market are mostly seen as independent moves irrespective of market sentiments created by data release and events. When the data released is USD negative then quick rises are seen in other majors and also when the data released is USD positive the market duck briefly and discounts the data and firm up again
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Using Fibonacci to Determinate Market Goals (Part I)
By Facundo Molina
Leonardo Pisano, better know as Fibonacci, explained the development of natural growing phenomenon through his famous numerical sequence. He proved that this series was highly connected with the growing of dynamics structures, and the most important use is relationated with its ratios
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The 3 Duck's Trading System
By Captain Currency
Firstly I would like to say, I did not reinvent the wheel with this system, I have just added one or two ideas to a 60 period simple moving average (sma) to make it my own and named it "The 3 Duck's Trading System" for obvious reasons as you will find out later on. The system is fairly straight forward and easy to use
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Trading Should Be a Game
By Stuart McPhee
Unfortunately, many people who start trading find success difficult to achieve, certainly in the period of time immediately after starting. Trading is a challenging endeavour that has torn people from all across the world across generations, from every extreme of their emotions. It is our money that is directly involved in trading and therefore at risk, and the potential of making more money is... 
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The Big D
By Stuart McPhee
When most people start trading, they never consider whether they are well prepared and have the necessary skills and attributes to be successful. This is likely to be one of the last things on their mind. Somewhere along the path of trading however, most people come to a realisation that trading is probably not as easy as they first thought.
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Exercise to Profit
By Stuart McPhee
Unfortunately, many people who start trading find success difficult to achieve, certainly in the period of time immediately after starting. Trading is a challenging endeavour that has torn people from all across the world across generations, from every extreme of their emotions. It is our money that is directly involved in trading and therefore at risk, and the potential of making more money is...
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Defense Wins
By Stuart McPhee
Whilst I concede the idea of making money is important, it is not as important as protecting the money that you have to trade with. I think Paul Tudor Jones says it best when he said, ?Don?t focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have.?
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Moving Averages: A simple and basic tool
By Valeria Bednarik
As many of you have read before, Forex is the most amazing and popular electronic financial market: It moves 1.5 trillion dollars a day, what NY Stocks market moves in a year. A 24 hours a day, 7 days a week market, with high volatility and liquidity, and with a plus advantage: leverage.
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Trader Self-Evaluation
By Van K. Tharp
I believe the most significant work that anyone can do to increase market returns is self- work. Really understanding yourself and how you think can give you an edge that others in the market don't have.
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Yo Trader! Are You SOL?
by Rob Booker
That's right. The SOL number. Your SOL Quotient, or SOLQ, is your risk management IQ. It's more important than your win percentage. More important than the size of the average win compared to the average loss (a false measure of security comes from a so‐called 2:1? risk to reward system, but more on that later). More important than your ?profit factor,? or any other metric that I've ever...
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Strategy:10
by Rob Booker
The forex market offers more opportunity for fast financial success ? and financial ruin ? than almost any other market. The get-rich crowd has always been attracted to it. This crowd includes speculators, trading novices, retirees, and professionals looking for a way to get out of debt, increase the excitement in their lives, or simply
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Trading with Pivots
By Sunil Mangwani
The *Pivot Point System* is a technique developed by floor traders, to help ascertain where the price is relative to previous market action. It can be classified as a technical indicator derived by calculating the numerical average of the high, low and closing prices, of any currency / index / stock etc.
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Using Fibonacci to Determinate Market Goals (Part II)
By Facundo Molina
I whish to remark that the different Technical tools named in this work, were used to make diagnostics about the probable price behavior, find the triggers (sell price and buy price), and to calculate the stop loss, and the price target, every day since more than a year.
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Trader Self-Evaluation
by Van K. Tharp
I believe the most significant work that anyone can do to increase market returns is self- work. Really understanding yourself and how you think can give you an edge that others in the market don't have....
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What is a Trading System?
by Van K. Tharp
Beginning traders and investors to some seasoned investors are constantly asking us , What exactly is a system?? The purpose of this article will be to give you that information as clearly as possible. First, we'll go through some background information to help you understand what a system is outside of the context of trading. You'll learn how different people relate to systems according to how...
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Market Sentiments and Operators Intentions
By Dr. S. Sivaraman
Since the forex market is 24 hrs trading market and also traded during different time zones of the world, the 'big players' or 'operators' create market sentiments during different sessions of the day and reverse using data release time. They don't continue with the market sentiments during all the 3 sessions of the day. They create initially USD negative sentiments and induce traders to take buy...
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Trading Mistakes: A Whole New Definition
By Raul Lopez
Many traders spend a great amount of time searching for the right system, indicator or methodology. Although it is important, you must not forget about other important subjects such as: money management, risk and trade management, trading psychology and others. Being a successful trader is about equilibrium between all these important subjects.
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How to Regain Your Trading Consistency
By Brett Steenbarger
We can't control whether any individual trade will be a winner, but we can control how much we are willing to bet on each trade. Outsized losses don't happen to a trader; they are actively caused
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Spot vs. Futures--Which is better?
By Barbara Rockefeller
The foreign exchange market comes in two flavors, spot and futures.. Which should you trade? In theory, you should be indifferent between the two. Although the price quotation convention is different in each market and the delivery dates are different, price changes are virtually identical, and for a speculator, it's the price change that counts.
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