Advanced Forex Education
Educational Themes of Intermediate and Advanced Complexity. In this section, we include all that is needed to master technical analysis such as complete coverage of price action themes: Support-resistance, volume, volatility, breakouts, reversals, trend and range trading, candlestick and chart patterns and formations, Elliott wave and Fibonacci retracements and extensions, and harmonic patterns. It includes also a section covering all indicators from simple moving averages to the complexity of Ehlels Filters.
Another sub-section is dedicated to trading systems desing.
AUD/CHF Global Macro Analysis
In this analysis, we will look into endogenous economic factors that influence Australia and Switzerland's growth. We will analyze factors that affect the fluctuation...
AUD/JPY Global Macro Analysis: Ranking Impact Factors
The global macro analysis of the AUD/JPY pair focuses on endogenous factors that impact GDP growth in Australia and Japan. We'll also analyze exogenous...
Beliefs That Can Limit Our Forex Profits
In this article, I will try to expound on "Limiting Beliefs": what they are, why they appear, and how they affect us in Trading.
Forex Lot Size: How to Limit Risk in Forex More Easily
Position size is usually the easiest way to keep maximum transaction loss under control, and sometimes it is the only way. The size of the forex position is how many forex batches (micro, mini or standard) you order per transaction. Your risk is broken down into 2 parts-transaction risks and account risk.
The Absolute Best Forex Indicators (and How to Combine Them)
One of the most challenging and time-consuming aspects is trying to find out what your trading style is and the time period that best...
Forex Robots: Are they Money Making Machines?
If you have always wanted a robot to clean your house or take your dog for a walk, you would understand how attractive a...
Every Trader Should Know This About Money Management
Money management is generally the most important factor determining profit or loss in Forex trading strategies. This fact is so often overlooked that it...
Alexander Elder and the Psychology of Markets
With the suggestive quote below, Alexander Elder begins his masterpiece, Trading for a Living. Elder, who studied psychiatry in the former Soviet Union, enlisted in a ship from which he fled risking his life and after being chased by his own companions arrived in New York in 1974, with 25 dollars in his pocket and no one to ask for help. He currently presides over Financial Trading Inc., a company mainly dedicated to providing training and is widely known for its contribution to the psychology of trading.
Differences Between Price Action and Forex Indicators
If a survey were conducted among Forex and Futures retailers and one of the questions was: "What method or system did they first use...
How to Neutralize Emotions When Trading
In this article, I will try to teach you to neutralize the emotions you may feel during the usual operation. Imagine, for example, that...
What You Can Do Today to Control Your Trading Risk
Risk, something that you are either afraid of or something that you love, whichever one is you, controlling it is vital if you want...
Trading Forex On the Most Important News Events
It is possible that you have come this far because you are thinking about trading when news is published and taking advantage of the...
How Much Money Should I Risk On Forex Trading?
Novice traders are often surprised to learn that when it comes to being profitable in the long run, controlling risk is as fundamental as...
Fundamental Analysis Vs. Technical Analysis
If you are trying with any kind of financial market for a significant period of time, you will start testing and forming some kind...
How to Set Up a Forex Risk Management Policy
Working out how to set up your risk management plan is quite a big question. In fact, there are a hell of a lot...
How Important are Chart Patterns in Forex?
Chartist analysis in forex consists of identifying figures on the price chart, these are usually repeated historically so you can practice in their identification, also they are usually formed in different financial instruments and periods of time, and through them, it is possible to predict with some reliability where the next price movement will follow. It is perhaps the most classic form of analysis in Forex and surely one of the most effective, so your knowledge is always very advisable.
The Link Between Interest Rates and Forex Trading
Although there are many elements that influence the appreciation of a currency, one of the most important factors to consider is a country’s interest...
ICO´s Are Indeed Risky, But Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Them…
What will the future of ICOs look like internationally? Without a doubt, ICOs are generating great expectations and I think there is probably an...
Are Risk and Volatility One In the Same?
According to the dictionary, someone or something is volatile when it changes or varies easily and unpredictably. Speaking of a financial asset, its volatility or standard deviation is a statistic that describes simply with a number how much the price moves over time. That is the more volatility an asset exhibits, the faster and more extreme its unpredictable fluctuations are.
What You MUST Know About Psychology In the Financial Markets
It’s cloudy. Every minute, the number of clouds doubles, and in 100 minutes the sky will be covered. How many minutes will it take...
How to Profit from Trading the News
News is a fundamental part of the analysis that every Forex trader must make before placing a position. There are several ways to operate...
Simple Trading Advice That Can Save Your Forex Account
Are you losing control of your trading? Do you feel lost in your own analysis and despair in the markets because your trading goes...
When Professionals Run Into Problems With Trading, This Is What They...
If somebody told you at the beginning of a professional forex career that you will have to bust many accounts and work for a...
Hedging and Coverage: What Forex Trader’s MUST Know
If you’ve heard the word hedging or hedging mentioned and you’re not sure exactly what this is about when trading, this article can help....
Weird Hobbies That’ll Make You Better at Forex
There are things that we do in our everyday lives that can actually make us better at trading. Some of them may be related,...
How Do Forex Robots Actually Work?
What’s this about trading robots? Do they work? Are robots bad? Many questions are those that usually roll in the head when you hear...
How Do I Know if My Risk Appetite is Reasonable?
Risk is something that is present in pretty much everything that we do when it comes to trading forex, each trade that we put...
Maybe Emotions are Actually Good for Forex Trading?
In the last 20 years, advances in brain imaging technology and other methods of analysis of neurological activity have produced important advances that allow...
Five Reasons You Need to Stop Stressing About Forex
Forex can be stressful, it’s one of the things that are told to us over and over again especially when things are going the...
The True Benefits of the ATR Indicator
Instead of using your own judgment, some statistical measures of price volatility are available. One of the most popular is the ATR indicator (Average...
The Impact of Psychology On Cryptocurrency Trading
The cryptocurrency market does not follow the rules of technical and fundamental analysis. Only psychology works here. Who will be the strongest: institutional investors,...
Everything You Need to Know About Using MACD (Moving Average Convergence...
Moving averages identify trends when filtering price fluctuations. Under this idea, Gerald Appel, an analyst and portfolio manager from New York, developed a more...
Top 10 Forex Trading Psychological Mistakes
It is said that the personal psychological challenge constitutes 90% of the struggle to achieve consistent success as a forex trader. Can it be...
Monte Carlo Simulation Testing in Forex Trading
As a trader, when you need to calculate the risk or consistency of your trading system you need to test your trading systems. The...
Trading Algorithms IX – RSI Failures System
Trading the naked RSI system depicted in this series's previous video as an overbought/oversold signal generator is too risky, and its long-term results questionable. The system is profitable only in sideways movements. Thus, a trending filter or a detrending step will be needed to avoid the numerous fake signals.
How To Use the ADX for Forex Day Trading
All that glitters is not gold, they say. The same often applies to everything that is popular. And, if nothing else, ADX is one...
Trading System design -Creating Your Strategy with Tradingview’s Pine Script –...
In part 1 of this article series, we have created the Stochastic RSI indicator as part of our idea for a scalping strategy. Now that we have it functional, we will make the bull/bear phases and visually inspect whether it captures the turning market's turning points.
USDJPY: Be Ready for this Flag Pattern Breakout
The USDJPY pair presents the breakout of a flag pattern corresponding to the third wave of Subminuette degree identified in green, triggered after the flag pattern breakout observed in Wednesday 26th session. Examine with us what's next for the coming trading sessions.
Trading System design -Creating Your Strategy with Tradingview’s Pine Script –...
As promised, in this article, we will go through the steps to create a custom strategy, from the initial idea to the implementation of signals, stops, and targets.
How to Deal with Saturation of Sideway Market Movements
The market you are in is experiencing capital outflows, that is what is going on. Pull up your plan B. You noticed how the...
Trading System design – A Summary of your Best Options to...
In our latest article, we have seen that manually backtesting our strategy is cumbersome if performed correctly. Also, It is usually subjected to errors and the interpretation of the trader. Therefore, a basic knowledge of trading algorithm development and computer coding is a desirable task for any trader. The good news is, nowadays, there are many easy ways to do it since high-level languages are very close to natural language.
The Application of the Moving Average on Indicators
Traders worldwide have shown interest in the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator that we all know as MACD. Praised as a two-line indicator that has...
Trading System design – Manual Backtesting your Trade Idea
Trading System design - Manual Backtesting your Trade Idea
Incorporating the Right Indicators Into Your Trading System
Technical traders are not making decisions on any other input but their set of indicators and rules. As a holistic approach, it is a...
GBP/NZD Global Macro Analysis – Part 3
GBP/NZD Exogenous Analysis
The UK and New Zealand Current Account Differential
The current account differential between the UK and NZ is the value of...