Weekly FX Commentary: April 23rd 2014
Overview
During the last two weeks replete with holidays, major currencies were relatively moribund, although the markets maintained an eye on Russia and the Ukraine....
Forex Broker Models: Straight Through Processing
For those that are ignorant of how forex brokers go about processing trades placed by online traders, it can seem as if every trade...
Choosing a Trading Style: Position Trading
If you are incredibly patient, and have a strong understanding of market fundamentals, then you might want to consider position trading. This is the...
Choosing a Trading Style: Swing Trading
Swing trading a popular trading style among part-time traders, because it requires less of a time commitment than more intensive styles such as day...
Choosing a trading style: Day Trading
Like scalping, day trading is another short-term trading style. However, unlike scalping, where you are making lots of trades every day, a day trader...
Bloomberg introduces Twitter sentiment analysis tools
It used to be the case that financial firms would block social media services such as Twitter on their systems to prevent their employees...
Are You The Next Warren Buffett? Beat Wall Street App –...
One of the major trends in the online trading world over the past few years has been that of simplifying the trading process in...
Choosing a Trading Style Part 2: Scalping
Some trading styles are fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat type affairs that require intense attention, while others are more laid-back and reflective. Scalping, a trading style that...
Saxo #TradingDebates – The Future of Trading preview
To celebrate the official launch of Saxo Bank's new social trading platform, TradingFloor.com, Saxo Capital Markets is set to host a second #TradingDebates event...
Choosing a trading style – part 1
Even in a world of 8 billion people, no two are exactly the same, and this is also true of traders and their trading...
How to Spot Fake Double Tops/Bottoms
Double tops and double bottoms are classic reversal patterns, and they are especially common in charts with shorter time frames. However, you need to...
How To Survive a Run of Forex Trading Losses
Let's face it, it's always hard to deal with failure. But, all things being equal, it's much easier to deal with one or two...
Saxo To Host Second #TradingDebates in London’s British Museum
The second of Saxo's #TradingDebates series, where the online trading and investment community gather to discuss the future of trading, is taking place at...
Dollarization Explained
Sometimes, too much volatility in a currency can cause economic problems for the countries connected with the currency. In most cases, volatility is harmful...
Global Weekly Forex Overview – April 4 2014
Overview
As demand for safety subsides, both the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen began April weaker vs. their major counterparts. This is thanks to...
Hedging Strategies For Forex Traders
One of the constants of trading is that there is always some level of risk involved. In the case of an arbitrage trade, this...
Will We See QE in Europe? MahiFX Market View
In the years following the financial crisis of 2007/8, the U.S. Federal Reserve has been flooding the market with cheap dollars in an effort...
Forex Trading Advice From The All-Time Greats
As you are no doubt aware, it's not easy making money in the forex market, and the vast majority of traders lose more money...
Using Gann Angles to Trade Forex
It's often written in the small print of anything forex-related that “Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
But while this is no doubt...
The Greatest Forex Trades of All Time
Most forex trades are anonymous, unremarkable transactions, of interest only to the trader involved and possibly the broker. Hardly surprising, given that the Forex...