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Introduction You've been searching all over the MQL signals database for a signal that fits your risk/reward appetite and you think you've finally found your holy grail...
I posted a very short term trade set up for the USDCAD pair actually. It was a very short term pre-NFP trade. If you had a tight stop loss, you would've been stopped out. However, you may have earned a pretty nice profit it you gave this pair greater leeway...
EUR/USD Monthly “Long term, a failed breakout and top would keep with the pattern of 3 year cycle tops. The break of 1.3476 completed a topping process with targets of 1.3294 (origin of diagonal), 1.3209 (2 equal legs), and 1.3012 (head and shoulders target...
Mark Carney and Haruhiko Kuroda speeches, New Zealand rate decision, Australian employment data, US Unemployment Claims, Retail sales and Consumer sentiment are the major events on our calendar for this week. Here is an outlook on the main market-movers coming our way...
A Bearish Technical Case for Precious Metals (Brandt) Shale Is Not a Ponzi (FT Alphaville, Part II) Millennials Aren’t Changing Jobs as Much. That’s a Big Problem for the Economy (Wonkblog) see also Why Hasn’t the Class of 2009 Grown up? (Vox) Is It Time to Refinance...
As we already discussed it here, in blogs, trading, banking and other finance-linked activities are usually male-dominated professions, especially at the top. Since women in the United States make up 55.4% of the total labor force in finance, so far they comprise only 16...
Dollar Matches Longest Run in 15 Years - A Distinct Reversal Risk If indeed, the dollar is riding high on the difficulties of its most liquid counterparts; then its trend is fragile and at significant risk of stalling...
Once a position has begun to move in a traders favor many successful trader's will manage that position through the use of what is known as a trailing stop...
Google is to pay at least $19m (£11.6m) to settle a formal complaint over unauthorised in-app purchases. The complaint came from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which said Google should do more to warn people about how much they were spending...
US crude stocks dropped less than expected in the past week as gasoline stocks fell amid a rise in distillate inventories, according to Energy Information Administration data. In comparison to the 1.1 million barrels drop expected by analysts, the crude inventories dropped 905,000 barrels...
A lesson on the structure of the Federal reserve for traders and investors in the stock, futures, and forex markets...
Check out the Eur/JPY on Tokyo open, going back years- just straddle the 3.00(GMT+3) candle (7am Tokyo and bd time : 6 am) use the opposite of the trigger candle as your stop & target 100 pips...
Most of what we see and hear about how to invest comes from either the fund industry or the financial media – both of which have their own agendas. This landmark documentary is an attempt to redress the balance...
First up, USDJPY is at a relative high point only hitting this point in December, 2013. We are seeing a string of overlapping bars becoming bigger and bigger. Keep in mind that this is the daily. Order flow wise, you have buyers and sellers pushing the price up one day and down the next...
1. Background neutral and strong on the current and above timeframes respectively. It should be at least bullish in one of them, and can’t be bearish in none. 2. Near an up trendline, and with strength signals before (not necessary), wait for a low volume down bar. Go long when its high is broken...
An introduction to interest rates, what they are composed of and their extreme importance in the stock, futures, and forex markets...
This is the second short video by Alexander Elder about necessary to understand the psychology of trading. Successful traders not only understand their own psychology, but also the psychology driving the markets, explains Dr. Alexander Elder, imparting advice for getting a handle on both...
On Friday the euro was deep in the red, having suffered its highest dip in three years after the European Central Bank stunned markets by cutting interest rates and embarking on a trillion-euro asset-buying binge...