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Fibonacci Fan and its Uses

Most traders are familiar with the classic Fibonacci indicator. This technical indicator is often used to define lines of retracement ...

Demo Trading vs Real Trading

Demo accounts are where most people learn how to survive the ups and downs of trading financial markets. However it's ...

Bollinger Bands: Four Basic Trading Strategies

Bollinger bands are useful indicators that appear in most charting packages. First applied to stocks and commodities, they are now ...

Meta Scalper – A Simple Low Risk Scalping Strategy

Strategy Overview The idea behind this scalping strategy is to catch the short wave retracements that take place when the ...

Market Moving News Releases: US Jobs and Unemployment

The jobs market is a barometer to the health of the economy. Other than interest rate announcements from the Federal ...

How Do FX Dealers Make Money?

The Dealer’s Desk A forex dealer’s job is to quote a price at which he will buy from sellers and ...

A Simple Momentum Swing Trading Strategy

What is Swing Trading? Swing trading is a strategy that requires close attention to both charts and fundamental news flows ...

Maximal Strategy Questions

Firstly thanks very much for your very thought provoking article. I'd always thought I might be placing my stops too ...

Drawdown: Exit Strategies and Avoiding Common Mistakes

What is Drawdown Drawdown happens when losses in a trading account outweigh profits over a certain period. If you trade ...

Triple EMA Strategy

This is a very common strategy also used by some Managed Futures Funds. The great thing about it is its ...

Ichimoku Trend Indicator or Oscillator?

I see a lot of literature that suggests the Ichimoku Cloud is either a trend indicator or an oscillator, well ...

Discrete Martingale

I use the martingale system while setting a specific set of rules regarding pip difference at any given moment and ...

How to Arbitrage the Forex Market – Four Real Examples

What Is Arbitrage? Arbitrage is a trading strategy that has made billions of dollars as well as being responsible for ...

5 Economic Indicators that All Traders Need to Understand

Trading the foreign exchange markets can be lucrative for those skilled enough to understand the forces and dynamics that affect ...

FX Derivatives: Using Open Interest Indicators

The FX Spot Market Most FX traders use what we call the forex spot market. Spot is simply trader’s speak ...