Forex Trading Strategy: The Carry Trade Part 1
Usually, forex traders can only make money from currency pairs that move in value. Thankfully, they tend to do this quite a lot. However,...
German Consumer Confidence Data Boosts EUR
The EUR/USD currency pair breached the resistance level 1.3500 this morning after the release of some encouraging sentiment data from Germany, but concerns about...
The US Dollar Index Explained – Part 2
Yesterday, we explained what the US Dollar Index is, and how it is calculated. Because it's an average of various currency pairs, rather than...
Euro Falls on Disappointing Ifo Survey Results
The euro fell this morning after a key German business sentiment survey for September fell short of expectations, following on from Monday's news that...
The US Dollar Index Explained – Part 1
Because currencies are always traded in pairs, they are most often spoken about as moving up or down against other currencies, rather than getting...
German Coalition Uncertainty Causes Euro to Dip
The euro dipped slightly this morning in the wake of continued uncertainty over Angela Merkel's future coalition partners. Merkel's CDU party scored a resounding...
Keeping a Forex Video Trading Journal
While it's important to have a good trading strategy in place, there is one important variable in any strategy that is often ignored by...
The German Elections – How Will the Markets React?
In the aftermath of the US Federal Reserve's decision not to scale back its monetary stimulus programme, for the time being at least, all...
Trading Strategy: Inside Bar Breakouts Part 3
In the final part of our series on the Inside Bar Breakout strategy for trading Forex, we shall be revealing how to interpret patterns...
Fed Stuns Markets By Maintaining QE3, Dollar Sinks
Markets were left stunned yesterday with the announcement that the Federal Reserve's much-anticipated plans to scale back its quantitative easing programme have been put...
Trading Strategy: Inside Bar Breakouts Part 2
In the previous instalment of our guide to Inside Bar Breakout Strategy, we showed you how to recognise the various types of inside bar...
Septaper – The Big Day Arrives at Last?
After months of speculation, the US Federal Reserve is set to meet today to make a decision on whether to begin scaling back its...
Trading Strategy: Inside Bar Breakouts Part 1
In the first part of our series on trading Inside Bar patterns, we shall explain how to identify these candlestick formations, both in isolation...
Forex Market Quiet Ahead of Fed Meeting
The dollar moved a bit lower this morning against a basket of major currencies, but the overall trend is towards range trading as markets...
FX Swaps & Interest Rate Swaps Explained: Part 2
In the first part of our series on swaps, we looked at two of the most common types of financial swap, the plain vanilla...
Dollar Plummets as Summers Pulls Out of Fed Race
The US dollar index dropped to a four-week low this morning on the news that former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has pulled out of...
FX Swaps & Interest Rate Swaps Explained: Part 1
In the first part of our series on FX swaps and interest rate swaps, we'll be explaining what they are, how they work, and...
New Fed Chairman Rumours Provoke Dollar Rally
Lingering uncertainty about the future of US monetary policy was intensified this morning by a Japanese newspaper report that claimed Lawrence Summers will be...
Guide to Forex Trading With Candlestick Charts Part 4 – Long...
In the fourth and final part of our series on forex trading with candlestick charts, we'll be showing you how to recognise and interpret...
Dollar Index Stays Flat Ahead of Next Week’s Fed Meeting
Disappointing economic data from the euro zone caused the euro to fall this morning, with the news that industrial output contracted in July. Meanwhile,...
