Tag: Trading

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...

  One of the keys to success as a forex trader is to adopt good trading habits. Here are five habits that I feel to...

  It's easy to lose money in the forex market. It happens to all of us, whether we're newbies or experienced institutional traders. However, for...

While smartphone versions of trading platforms have been with us for a while now, in most cases, the functionality has been severely limited. The...

The US dollar has been on the upswing this morning, on the back of encouraging employment and inflation data. The biggest market mover was...

  Although high frequency trading has been an integral part of the capital markets in countries like the US and the UK for several years,...

In the world of forex trading, there are several tiers of investors, but they can be loosely divided into two groups – institutional (inter-bank)...

If you have a lot of money to invest, then you essentially have two options. You can invest it in a low-risk way, such...

CFD trading offers many advantages over trading other financial instruments, such as the ability to take short positions and leverage your trades for greater...

  Often, traders will expend huge amounts of time honing and calibrating their trading strategy, and this is, of course, a good thing to do....

One of the most effective ways of enhancing your forex trading know-how and get a few new ideas is to read a couple of...

Stop and Limit Orders Trading CFDs on margin can be something of a mixed blessing. Basically, the use of leverage magnifies the profit or loss...

In the second part of our introductory guide to CFD trading, we are going to walk through three worked examples of common CFD trades...

A Short History of CFDs Contracts For Difference (CFDs) are a type of financial derivative that was developed in the early 1990s by two traders...

Amidst all the fairytale stories of successful traders that end up making billions of dollars with little more than a bit of market know-how...

Most people come to the forex market with dreams of making quick, easy profits, but in reality, it is a lot easier said than...

Trading algorithm backtesting platform providers QuantConnect, who we profiled last month, have just rolled out historical tick data for 5 years of forex and...

One of the biggest growth areas in the forex market is the use of automated trading strategies. These techniques have many names, including black...