Archive for October, 2009

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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Times To Trade

Markus Heitkoetter, CEO at Rockwell Trading, comments the best way to determinate trading conditions. Also gave us some tips about how to identify what markets are doing and the necessity of incorporate volatility in your trading. Markus let us know his three favorite technical indicators.

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Video Interview with Markus Heitkoetter: How to determinate the trading conditions in volatile markets

Andrei Pehar, Chief Technical Strategies, gave us his keys tips to do a better Fibonacci analysis in an exclusive interview recorded at the FXstreet.com’s International Traders Conference 2009 in Barcelona. Andrei comments the four essential points in Fibonacci.

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Video Interview with Andrei Pehar: How to improve your Fibonacci reading?

Some companies are running out of shares for their employee stock purchase plans.

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Some Stock Plans See Scant Supply

Even as investment managers have grown more conservative, the giant swathe of the world labeled “emerging markets” is graduating to the big league, fundamentally changing the calculation of risk in portfolios.

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Investment Paradigm Shifts

In today’s market, a trader’s problems change as quickly as he or she can solve them, which is why having a rule-based strategy is more important than ever, says Mike Baghdady. In addition to trying to make correct trading decisions, new issues have arisen that we must attend to such as anonymity to protect our orders from negative selection and executing our orders with the least possible market impact.

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Understand your Trading System

In today’s market, a trader’s problems change as quickly as he or she can solve them, which is why having a rule-based strategy is more important than ever, says Mike Baghdady. In addition to trying to make correct trading decisions, new issues have arisen that we must attend to such as anonymity to protect our orders from negative selection and executing our orders with the least possible market impact. We also have to seek liquidity and have an algorithm to help us find that liquidity; and

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Understand your Trading System

There is a hand signal we use on the trading floor. The signal is to put your hand to your throat like your choking yourself. The name for this signal is “hung.” Not a pretty visual I know but its meaning is just as uncomfortable.

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Market Traps, Novice Traders Beware

One of the most rewarding aspects of instructing for Online Trading Academy is getting to work with new students. As well as teaching in the ongoing XLT program with various graduates of Online Trading Academy, I also have the pleasure of welcoming new students to the world of Forex trading when I teach in the classroom from time to time. This has been one of those weeks in London where I have been teaching the Forex Trader course and as usual, my students arrived on the very first day, each

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Start as You Mean to Go On

Hedge funds and the managers who run them have been getting a lot of publicity lately — and not of the flattering kind.

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Hedge Fund Investing