HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

An overview of IQ Option and its platform offering Not all brokers are created equal, which is why it is important to research as much as you can about a platform before taking the leap to open an account. For your convenience, this review will look at IQ Option, a broker well-known for its versatility

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

What are CFDs and how do they work? CFDs are complex financial derivatives based on an underlying market. They enable you to benefit from both rising and falling markets across a vast range of financial instruments, including forex, stocks, indices and commodities. CFD stands for ‘contract for difference’ – when you trade a CFD, in

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

In this post, we would be taking a look at the top 7 trading tools you should leverage in 2020. These tools have been tested and are very accurate when it comes to analyzing the forex market. Below is a list of the trading tools we would be talking about much later in the article:

Gap trading   what is a gap? A gap is when a ‘gap’ or a ‘space’ is seen on a price chart. For example, look at the chart below and you can see that there is an empty space where price has ‘gapped’ over the weekend on the AUDJPY pair in early March. This is called

You gotta dance The most-famous line of the financial crisis came from Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince who said: “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance.” His comment was about leveraged lending but it took on a life of its own and was attributed to mortgage lending, CDOs and

The USDCHF is not saying much to me at the moment, but I will talk about it anyway…. Most times, I can make some logical sense from the picture of a chart.  It’s no secret, the 100 and 200 bar MAs are important in my analysis. They tell me a story every day. Why?   Because

A look at the key focus areas in the market today I’ve covered the negative rates story in some detail the last two days and this time around it was down to BoE Gov Bailey to focus on the debate. Bailey did go somewhat against his deputy’s recent comments, with the governor pushing back on

Raymond Thomas Dalio is founder of the massively successful hedge fund Bridgewater Associates He has been providing preview chapters of his upcoming book ”The Changing World Order.”  It begins: In order to understand why empires and their economies rise and fall and what is happening to the world order right now, you need to understand how money,

The piece is about the Reserve Bank of Australia but its discussion of quantitative easing via a central bank buying government bonds has wider applicability. Its not overly detailed, but it does cover the essential very well and understandably. Something to read over the coming few days of market holiday perhaps? The government issues bonds,

HIGH RISK WARNING: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all of your initial investment; do

Sound words of advice Josh Brown on CNBC said as he and Brad Gerstner of Altimeter Capital discussed the markets, (and I paraphrase): The person you want to run away from now is the person who KNOWS what will happen. Just before that Adam and I were chatting and shared these simple thoughts: The fact

Volatile markets heavily drive sentiment What a few weeks we have had in the market in the recently. The human cost to the current coronavirus crisis is mounting and fresh deaths are sadly being reported day by day. Adam was well ahead of the curve of almost everyone when he flagged this concern to ForexLive

These are certainly strange and uncertain times as of late COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the globe with over 204,000 cases reported worldwide and over 8,000 deaths. The ongoing pandemic has seen many governments place its people in forced quarantine. This started in China, where the pandemic started in the city of Wuhan with a

Trade continues in forex despite the closing of futures tade due to limit locks  FX has no such restriction, the chaos is expressed in wild swings (USD/JPY range today has been over 300 points, and others have been wider still) and wide spreads. No limit down. No limit up.  USD/JPY chart. daily candles: ForexLive

When can you catch a bounce?   I came across a thought provoking article on Market’s Live Blog this am on the S&P500 futures chart. The piece was suggesting that some buyers might be buying S&P500 futures this am on the premise that after four big down days then a correction is due. Here was the

The importance of gauging market sentiment 101 Having returned from Dubai where I taught around 150 people how to trade the financial markets it has reminded me once again of going over the basics of trading. One of the most foundational aspects to grasp is that of sentiment, or put simply, the mood of the

Unpicking the jargon What is the Gold/silver ratio? The Gold/Silver ratio measures the relative strength of gold versus silver prices. It shows how many ounces of silver it takes to purchase one ounce of gold. To get this number, you divide the current gold price by the current silver price. When you have done this you now have

It’s all in how you approach your trading In her book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, Carol Dweck characterizes people in two general buckets.  Fixed mindset  Growth mindset The FIXED MINDSET person: Looks at CHALLENGES and avoids them Gives up easily when OBSTACLES get in the way See EFFORT as fruitless or worse Ignores

Keep the main thing, the main thing I was thinking this last week what I would consider to be the most important aspect of FX trading to understand. There are many different aspects of trading: the fundamentals, the technicals, sentiment analysis, trading psychology and risk management to mention the main ‘pillars’. The reality of course

Understanding the balance sheet The Fed is going to continue adding cash into the banking system by buying billions of Treasury bills for a few more months. However, it want to start cutting back these purchase in Q2 according to Jerome Powell on this week’s rate meeting.    Why did the Fed start buying Treasury