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How to Create an Option Straddle, Strangle and Butterfly
One of the advantages of option strategies is that you can create a system with a guaranteed downside risk. That ...
Brexit: Significance and Opportunity for Contrarian Trades
It is now less than 10 days until the UK's Referendum on its membership of the European Union. This momentous ...
Option Spread Strategies
The Credit Spread The term “credit spread” might sound confusing because it’s also the name for a trading strategy used ...
How to Enhance Yield with Covered Calls and Puts
The Covered Call A covered call is a way of generating income from a trading position that you already hold ...
Fibonacci Retracement: A Myth or Reality?
If you ask any technical trader which charting tool they rely on the most, Fibonacci retracement would probably come fairly ...
How to Use Patterns in Contrarian FX Trading
Contrarian trading is a way to profit from crowd behavior. Most successful contrarians know that this requires understanding and then ...
Selling Options: How Much Margin Do I Need?
When selling (writing) options, one crucial consideration is the margin requirement. Correct planning in this area will help you to ...
Option Selling Strategies: A Tutorial
Why Sell Options? Writing uncovered options has the traditional connotation of “picking up nickels in front of a steamroller”. So ...
The 3 Signals of Ichimoku and How to Trade Them
As far as technical analysis methods go, Ichimoku or by its full name Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, is one that’s usually ...
Is Your Broker Eating Your Lunch?
Here’s a question to think about: If you do 100 trades using a typical strategy, how much could a half ...
Why Losses are the Best Teacher
Nobody sets out to loose money, however many traders will suffer a severe and sometimes a total financial loss within ...
The Straddle Trade: How to Trade Breakouts with Limited Downside
Straddle trades are so called because they have two separate legs that sit either side of a given price level ...
The Divergence Trade: Finding Reversals Using MACD & RSI
In my last post I talked about a strategy for trading divergence events between different markets. In this post I’ll ...
Using Intermarket Analysis: Real Examples in Forex, Commodities
Trading on divergences and convergences between related markets can produce profitable trades with very high success rates. Strategies that exploit ...
Contrarian Method for Trading False Reversals
This day trading strategy can be used to produce profitable short-term trades on GBPUSD, EURJPY, AUDJPY, and EURUSD. But it ...
Forex Hedging: How to Create a Simple Profitable Hedging Strategy
When traders talk about hedging, what they usually mean is that they want to limit losses but still keep some ...
Using Linear Regression Channels to Trade Ranges
Range trades can be a very effective strategy and are used widely by technical traders. But detecting suitable ranges in ...
Trading the Hammer Candlestick – Price Action Strategies
This article describes a short term, day trading strategy for trading hammers and hammer reversal signals. Using Price Action Signals ...
Trailing Stops – Can they Increase Your Profits?
Trailing stop losses can give you a way to limit losses and to lock in profits on your trades. A ...
Let’s Build a Hedged Martingale EA
Hi all, Steve's done a great job on this website. I love these strategies and his clear, thorough explanations and ...
