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  • Tom Bierovic Uses Discretion on Top of His Rules
    Off floor trader Tom Bierovic, trades according to a set of rules he has developed over the years, but uses his own discretion on top of these rules. Bierovic believes he was lucky because he was introduced to the futures business at a very young age. His father was a trader at the MidAmerica Exchange and Tom would plot daily and weekly bar charts of the agricultural contracts for his allowance money.
  • Tom DeMark Relies 100% on Market Timing
    Trader and consultant Tom DeMark has invented dozens of proprietary technical indicators over the years and relies strictly on the technical principles of market timing for his research and trading. In fact at one point in his career, DeMark went through the CFA program (certified financial analyst), but chose to never complete it.
  • Types of Forex Trading Orders
    Placing orders correctly is probably one of the most important aspects of trading. It is vital that you understand and use the correct order when you trade.
  • Understanding Forex Trends
    Trend is the easiest and the most difficult thing to understand. The difficulty arises because of the time factor. Whenever we talk of trend it has to be related to the context of time.
  • Understanding Fundamental Analysis
    Fundamental analysis refers to the study of the core underlying elements that influence the economy of a particular entity. It is a method of study that attempts to predict price action and market trends by analyzing economic indicators, government policy and societal factors within a business cycle framework.
  • Understanding Rectangles on Forex
    The rectangle contains price movement between two points in a rectangular shape to which we add lines to signify the upper boundary and lower boundary. These lines should be horizontal.
  • Understanding Stochastics
    The foreign exchange markets move when some force makes one currency either more or less valuable than another. The cumulative purchase and sales of a currency cause it to move up or down and to become more or less valuable in relation to other currencies.
  • Walter Bressert Reads Market Via Cycles & Oscillators
    Walter Bressert earned a college degree in economics, which taught him "economists don't know much about the way the world works." An active trader for many years, Bressert relies on cycles and oscillators in his intraday futures trading, in which he primarily focuses on the S&P 500 contract.
  • What Are the Differences Between Trading and Gambling?
    Many people think that trading is similar to gambling. Is this really the case? For example, let's take a look at Black Jack. If you start with $10,000 gambling capital, placing bets of $100 per hand and play 100 hands per day, how long will you last?
  • What I Learnt Losing $60,000 My First Year as a Full-Time Trader
    During my first year as a local (independent trader) on the floor of LIFFE, I bought and sold 8804 FTSE futures contracts, about 40 contracts per day on average. The result was a loss of $61,620 or -$267 per trading day.
  • What is Currency Markets?
    The currency market includes the Foreign Currency Market and the Euro-currency Market. The Foreign Currency Market is virtual. There is no one central physical location that is the foreign currency market.
  • What is Forex (Foreign Exchange) Trading?
    The vast currency market is a foreign concept to the average individual. However, once it is broken down into simple terms, one can begin to easily understand the foreign exchange market and see what a profitable avenue of income participating in the trading of Forex can be.
  • What is Forex Marginal Trading
    Marginal trading is simply the term used for trading with borrowed capital. It is appealing because of the fact that in Forex investments can be made without a real money supply.
  • What is Futures
    Futures are normally traded in contracts and are a legally binding agreement between a buyer and a seller. The seller must deliver the specific agreed upon asset at a future date but for the price agreed today.
  • What is Moving Averages
    A market that is trending up should have higher peaks and higher valleys. The majority of bars should also have higher highs and higher lows. In a down trend the market should have lower valleys and lower peaks and the majority of bars should have lower lows and lower highs.
  • What is Simple Moving Average?
    This is the most widely used and is simply calculated by adding up a set of values and dividing the total by the number in the set. This is the average. Movement of this average is effected by adding the next new value of the set and subtracting the first value of the set and again dividing by the same number of values in the set being studied.
  • What is Support and Resistance
    It is very important to understand the concept of support and resistance. In up trends, every time price drops to the up trend line and then resume their advance, the trend line has acted as support to the price up trend. Support can also be found at prices of previous support or resistance.
  • What You Should Know About Forex Trading
    How difficult is it to make money trading the Forex market? How much time does it take to actually be able to make a living trading the Forex market? These and other important aspects of trading are to be discussed in this article.
  • Where To Place Your Trading Stop
    Many traders have a problem defining where they should place their stop loss. They have no problem entering a trade but often have a problem defining where they should take profits or cut their loses. In this lesson we will cover some of the popular methods of choosing a stop loss.
  • Who Trades The Markets
    Let's just clarify what is meant by the term trader, sometimes called retail trader or day trader. This is an individual who trades the financial market whatever they may be using their own money. They may or may not be dependent on the results of their trading for their income. This does not include professionals who work for institutions or who manage other people's money.
  • Why 10% of Traders Go Bankrupt?
    I was thinking about an article I read some time ago that 90% of traders who ever trade lose their account and that 10% actually go bankrupt. If the first number doesn't scare you then the second definitely should.
  • Why 90% of Forex Traders Go Bust
    Believe me when I tell you that 90% is a conservative estimate. Some sources have it as high as 99% of traders losing their initial starting capital and I have also read that not only do over 90% of them lose their money but also 10% actually go bankrupt.
  • Why Does Technical Analysis Work?
    Technical analysis describes different ways of predicting the future of the stock/futures market based on its history. Unfortunately, technical analysis is not an exact science. Many prominent scientists label it as "voodoo science".
  • Why Most Forex Traders Become Bankrupt?
    The forex market operates in a similar way. The forex is simply a place where the currency (money) of one country is exchanged for another. The main goal in forex trading is also to buy low and sell high. There are simply a few differences between the rules of the stock market and the rules of the forex.
  • Why People Trade Forex
    In today's information technology driven economy you can just about trade anything you want. Whether it is currencies, metals, shares, wheat, pork bellies you name it.
  • Why Should You Trade Forex Market?
    Simply said, no other trading instrument comes even closely to forex market when it comes to liquidity, 24hr market environment and last but not the least, profit potential.
  • Why Trade the Forex Market and Why is it Attracting So Many Participants?
    The Forex market is vital to the general prosperity of the free world economy. Why? Some $1.5 trillion dollars worth of international currencies are bought and sold every single trading day. It is by far the largest traded market in the world.
  • Why Would You Trade Futures?
    Futures are normally traded in contracts and are a legally binding agreement between a buyer and a seller. The seller must deliver the specific agreed upon asset at a future date but for the price agreed today.
  • Yin and the Yang of Markets
    I am reading a fantastic book on trading, first published in 1924, by Richard D. Wyckoff, titled 'How I Trade and Invest in Stocks & Bonds'. Although most of the examples in the book pertain to stocks, the insights into the nature of trading are relevant no matter what instrument you choose to trade.

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