This is very short video of 3 minutes 17 seconds: Why Watching the News Can Hurt Your Trading by Alexander Elder - trader and author, explains why he feels business TV can be detrimental to one's trading and believes standing aside can sometimes be the best approach...
GBP/JPY Technical Analysis - price has been choppy throughout 2014, but we can see a bullish bias to this madness. In fact,*there has been higher lows and a fresh high on the year at 175.36 in July. But after that, price have been mainly bearish...
EURJPY does not look too optimistic. Don't have a lot of data to back it up, but here is the basic picture. A sharp drop on the daily two trading days ago. Friday's trading action was minimal pretty much...
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...
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...
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...
A lesson on the structure of the Federal reserve for traders and investors in the stock, futures, and forex markets...
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...
An introduction to interest rates, what they are composed of and their extreme importance in the stock, futures, and forex markets...
MarketWatch analyses why it is high time to buy Apple shares now. After losing $26 billion of its market capitalization in one day, Apple investors may finally have a chance to grab fresh shares of the tech giant ahead of its big product event next week...
A lesson on the business cycle and how the government uses fiscal policy to try and keep growth going and inflation in check and what this means for traders of the stock, futures, and forex markets...
A sharp rally through 0.9209 swing high and up to 0.9340 must be wave three and not wave five. So if that's the case then we know that pair should reach further gains after any minor correction...
Non-farm Payrolls (metatrader5.com) Non-farm Payrolls is the assessment of the total number of employees recorded in payrolls. This is a very strong indicator that shows the change in employment in the country...
NFP Is a Highly Anticipated News Event Expectations are Set at 230k The release of the monthly Non-Farm Payroll figures is a highly anticipated moment for Forex traders...
