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Ten Pennies Per Year

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:19:36 +0000

My friend Rob Booker who runs a great new website call Trade for Life recently posted an interesting video lesson in which he makes the following point.

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Ten Pennies Per Year

‘FX is slowly but surely entering the mainstream of American financial markets’ – Felix Shipkevich

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:59:27 +0000

When the global credit crisis exploded in 2007, lax financial regulations were blamed by public opinion, political parties and governments all around the Western world. What have been done and what effects will the new regulation have on the market and its actors?

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‘FX is slowly but surely entering the mainstream of American financial markets’ – Felix Shipkevich

Adding to Positions and How it Affects You

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:25:32 +0000

Adding positions to an open trade is an advanced trading technique that, although potentially risky if not done correctly, can magnify profits exponentially. But just like every other aspect of trading, this technique can have a strong psychological effect that may hinder your trading performance.

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TSX down on income disappointments, Greek security – ball and post office (blog)

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:16:01 +0000

The Hindu TSX down on earnings disappointments, Greek bailout Globe and Mail (blog) The Toronto stock market was slightly lower Thursday amid some disappointing earnings reports while traders had a muted reaction to news that Greece reached an agreement that would meet the conditions to secure its next bailout. US Stocks Trade Sideways As Market Weighs Greek Deal, Jobless Data Wall Street Journal Stocks rise early after Greek deal, then flatten Atlanta Journal Constitution Stock markets, commodity prices higher MetroNews Canada Forex Pros all 3,148 news articles��

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TSX down on income disappointments, Greek security – ball and post office (blog)

What Did I Miss? Did I Do Something Wrong?

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:24:40 +0000

Hello traders! In a recent Online Trading Academy class I was teaching, a new student/novice trader was silently staring at his screen with a perplexed look on his face. “Jim” has been aware of the markets for a long time, and had made a couple of stock trades in his entire investing career – mainly he was a mutual fund holder.

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What Did I Miss? Did I Do Something Wrong?

The Time Factor

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:58:45 +0000

One thing I have paid close attention to in my many years of writing articles is making sure I did not spend much time writing about concepts and strategies that everyone else writes and talks about. If I did, there would be no point in reading the article. To accomplish this, however, means suggesting ideas, concepts, and strategies that sometimes fly in the face of conventional wisdom.

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Develop a Positive Trader Trance

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:57:17 +0000

Have you ever emerged from a trading session in a fog and found yourself looking over the trading carnage of violated rule after violated rule and heard yourself say, “Who made those trades?” And, as the fog lifted, it became clear that you had been trading like a crazy person? It was like someone or something had control of your mouse and you felt as if you were in a trance; a negative trading trance to be exact

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European one in camp stock, euro drop before of Greece debt deadline – San Francisco Chronicle

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:14:21 +0000

Bloomberg European Stock Futures, Euro Drop Before Greece's Debt Deadline San Francisco Chronicle Indonesia's economy expanded 6.46 percent last year amid rising investment and domestic spending, according to a report from the statistics bureau in Jakarta. The growth was the fastest since 1996, based on International Monetary Fund data. Stock ETFs to consider if Europe gets it together MarketWatch Japanese Stock Futures Rise After U.S.

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European one in camp stock, euro drop before of Greece debt deadline – San Francisco Chronicle

How To Bounce Back After Getting Hit By a Bus

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:48:21 +0000

“Everybody having fun yet?” I tweeted the other day. “Between Wen and Junker its like shades of 2008 $EURUSD”. This past Thursday the euro managed to spike to within a few pips of 1.3200 only to drop like a stone a few minutes later crashing though 1.3100 on some negative comments regarding the never ending Greek restructuring talks.

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‘It is still premature for China to become the first power’ – Lan Yee Chan

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:04:36 +0000

“The development of this market far exceeds my imagination” says Lan Yee Chan, who joined the ranks of FX traders in the 1970s, shortly after the abolition of the gold standard. She thus has a long experience in Foreign exchange which, she says, is “a young profession still shaping and self-perfecting.” The VP and Chief Dealer of Union Bank thinks “retail traders with access to the Internet are gaining additional traction” these days and with the disappearance of old-fashioned means of