Strategies

Reducing broker fees can be one of the most effective ways to improve your trading profits. This post explains the cost of fees and how to minimize them.

This post looks at the strategy of divergence trading which uses oscillators such as MACD and RSI to detect market turning points. Divergence highlights places where momentum is slowing and is likely to reverse.

Trading on divergences and convergences between related markets can produce profitable trades with very high success rates. Strategies that exploit relationships between markets are...

When traders talk about hedging, what they often mean is that they want to limit losses but still keep the potential to make profits. Of course having such an idealized outcome has a hefty price.

The idea behind this scalping strategy is to catch the short wave retracements that take place when the market reaches a peak overbought or oversold state. It is best applied to ranges.

In tactical carry trading, short-term "technical" trades are entered in the direction of carry interest. This allows interest income to be accrued.

A profitable carry trade involves selecting the right combination of currency pair and broker. This article looks at the factors a trader must consider.

An Anti Martingale system does what many traders think is more logical. “Martingale in reverse” hangs on to winning trades, and drops losers. If that sounds better, read on.

Martingale: What is it and how does it work? In this post, I talk about the strategy, it’s strengths, risks and how it’s best used in the real world.

A dual grid is a play on the grid trading theme which I’ve talked about before on forexop. Here we place our buy/sell legs at the same price levels.