Archive for April, 2009
In currency trading, many retail traders can lose fortunes, before ever even hearing about VWAP and TWAP. It’s proclaimed ‘hi-tech’ at home traders can seemingly miss major institutional benchmarks like I have just mentioned
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Volume Weighted Average Price
I have been in the trading and trading education world for many years. My path began on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and included writing a daily trading advisory letter for three firms, managing funds for clients and myself, lecturing to thousands of traders and investors around the world, and more
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Scanning for Opportunity, the Old-Fashioned Way
Today I want to discuss an issue I am asked about on a regular basis. It has to do with the most important component of trading or investing.
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Identifying Turning Points Begins With Proper Focus
Today I want to discuss an issue I am asked about on a regular basis. It has to do with the most important component of trading or investing. This key component is identifying turning points in markets
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Identifying Turning Points Begins With Proper Focus
This article is taken from the Trader’s Journal magazine (February 2009 issue) The author, Subrina Mahmood , is currently working on her MBA in finance at Monmouth University. Moving averages are a popular technical trading tool used to generate buy and sell signals. The question is – do they work
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Moving Averages. Do they work?
This article is taken from the Trader’s Journal magazine (February 2009 issue) The author, Lance Beggs , is a full time day-trader with a current preference for Forex and equity indices. His style of trading is discretionary, operating in the direction of short-term sentiment within a framework of support and resistance. As an ex-military helicopter pilot, I was taught to operate effectively within an environment of risk.
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Minimizing trading risk through proactive threat and error management
Traders are at a stage in the market cycle that is one of the most frustrating to deal with, and where the most money gets squandered trying to work things out. This stage is when we go through a phase of consolidation, moving sideways consolidating the recent moves made, while…
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The Art of Contrarian Trading: Volume, Consolidation, Distribution, Headlines
Trading the OTC (over the counter) currency markets offers an opportunity to hedge stock and bond investing, but really is more of a traded market following the ebbs and flows of global commerce than it is an investment arena to plan retirement from.
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Understanding How and Why OTC Forex Markets Work
With thousands of Metatrader EAs out there, it can be tough to cut through the noise and find one suitable for your trading style and risk tolerance. To help you in this search, I’ve compiled the statistics that many traders find to be very beneficial when analyzing any Metatrader EA.
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How to Search for the Ideal Metatrader EA
The day someone decides they are going to pursue a trading career, they are typically making that decision because of the potential financial prize. In other words, they are making that decision because of the perceived benefit. What most people don’t understand, let alone consider, is that they are about to step into a “mine field” of traps that have the potential to drain and destroy their bank account and self confidence all in one.
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