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How Do FX Dealers Make Money?
The role of the interbank dealer is for the most parts transparent. To retail traders, the primary dealer is often separated by several layers of brokers and middlemen
Drawdown: Exit Strategies and Avoiding Common Mistakes
Drawdown happens when losses in a trading account outweigh profits over a certain period. If you trade in any kind of volatile instrument, some drawdown is inevitable and is one of the risks associated with putting your money into financial markets.
FX Derivatives: Using Open Interest Indicators
Currency forwards and futures are where traders agree the rate for exchanging two currencies at a given date in the future. This can for example be 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months ahead.
What About Inflation?
Why does inflation matter to currency traders? It matters because inflation is a cost and a risk of holding a currency for any length of time.
What Do Central Banks Do?
Control of money and interest rates is vital to the working of an economy and as such in most countries, the responsibility for managing them is given to a central bank.
What Is an Interest Rate Cycle?
Interest rates set the cost of borrowing and lending for a currency. They can also have a big impact on a country’s economy and...
Why Do Interest Rates Matter Anyway?
To understand why interest rates are so important to traders, we first have to be clear about what exactly we mean by interest rates....
Nonfarm Payroll: What it Is and How to Trade It
Employment reports are one of the leading indicators that tell you if an economy is improving or worsening. The number of jobs added or lost generally tracks the business cycle and is a strong guide to future interest rate movements.
Quiz: Charting and Technical Analysis Basics
Test yourself on the basics of inflation with this short quiz.
Technical Analysis: The Basics
The Basics
What is technical analysis, what are the main tools, and how is it relevant to Forex trading? That's what we'll be covering in...
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