Timeline

Timeline

What About Inflation?

Why does inflation matter to traders? It matters because inflation is a cost and a risk of holding a currency, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nonfarm Payroll: What it Is and How to Trade It

Employment reports are one of the leading indicators that can tell us if an economy is improving or worsening. The ...

Technical Analysis Basics: Pattern Based Indicators

Pattern Based Indicators There is large group of charting techniques that, for brevity, we'll call pattern based. These identify regularly ...

Technical Analysis Basics: Oscillators

Oscillators The purpose of oscillators is to show when a market is either overbought or oversold. This suggest likely points ...

Technical Analysis Basics: Moving Averages

Moving Averages Moving averages are another widely used method. Moving averages are simply a smoothed (averaged) representation of the price ...

Technical Analysis Basics: Trends and Ranges

Trends and Ranges Traders use trends and ranges extensively in the financial markets, and Forex traders are no exception. Markets ...

Technical Analysis Basics: Support/Resistance

Support/Resistance As one of the easiest to understand, support and resistance levels indicate where traders expect the price to meet ...

Technical Analysis Basics: Charting

Charting Charting is really a sub-discipline of technical analysis - however it's a very big one as nearly every Forex ...

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 ...

The Reverse Carry Trade

The reverse carry trade is what's called an event driven strategy. It's not a trading system you can use every ...

4 Early Indicators for Trading on Inflation Data

We all have some basic understanding of what price inflation is - for the most part, people tend to think ...