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Currency Pair Correlations
Currency Pair Correlations It is useful to know that some currencies tend to move in the same direction while others move in the opposite direction. For those who want to trade more than one currency […]
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Best Hours, Days, Months to Trade
Best Hours, Days, Months to Trade It is great that forex is a market that can be traded around the clock, 24 hours, 5.5 days a week, 12 months a year. Being open all day […]
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Market Hours
Market Hours The Forex market is an around the clock market, 24 hours, 5.5 days a week (from Sunday 5:00 pm EST to Friday 5:00 pm EST).Somewhere on the planet, financial centers are open for […]
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Chart Types
Chart Types Charts plot the price movement of a currency pair over time.The x axis has time increments increasing left to right. The y axis has price increments increasing bottom to top.Charts are used to […]
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Trade Order Types
Trade Order Types This is an article on the most common order types available to the MT4 platform and how to use them properly. We will examine in brief the following order types: Market Order […]
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Leverage, Lots and Margin
Leverage, Lots and Margin What Is Leverage? Leverage represents a margin trading ratio, and in forex this can be very high, sometimes as much as 400:1, which means that a margin deposit of just […]
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Overnight Interest, Rollover, or Swap Rate
Overnight Interest, Rollover, or Swap Rate At about 5 pm EST (time varies with some brokers) if you are holding an open position your account is either credited, or debited, an interest charge on the […]
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Transaction Costs
Transaction Costs (Spreads and Commissions) One of the advantages touted for Forex, and often by the brokers themselves, is that there are no commissions, a statement which can deceptively lead most newbie traders into thinking […]
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Pips and Profits
Pips and Profits What Is A Pip? When you are into weightlifting, the common lingo of performance is pounds: “I bench pressed 150 pounds today.” When you are into forex, the common lingo of performance […]
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Currency Pairs
Currency Pairs Forex is always traded in pairs. Whenever you see a currency exchange rate, it will belong to a currency pair such as EUR/USD. EUR/USD indicates two currencies: the Euro and US Dollar. Here […]
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How to Start Forex Trading
How to Start Forex Trading You are about to start a new business. Fortunately the infrastructure for your new business is in place. It is a global network of commercial banks and currency dealers that […]
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Reflections of a Trader in the World of Options
Reflections of a Trader in the World of Options Options are financial instruments that give the purchaser the right to buy or to sell a specific commodity or stock at a specified price for an […]
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Reflections of a Trader in the World of Commodities
Reflections of a Trader in the World of Commodities With your computer, an internet connection, and some trading capital, trading commodity futures or options is another way to try to make some money. Almost everyone […]
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Reflections of a Trader in the World of Stocks
Reflections of a Trader in the World of Stocks My first exposure to a market came as a 10 year old boy visiting my father’s law office in Dayton, Ohio, circa 1940. After lunch at […]
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FX Advantages Over Stocks and Futures
FX Advantages Over Stocks and Futures Forex Stocks Futures Size & Liquidity Largest and most liquid market in the world Liquidity dependent on stock’s daily volume Liquidity dependent on month of traded contract Execution Speed […]
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Who Trades Forex
Who Trades Forex? Liquidity & Participants The Size And Growth Of Forex With a trading volume that exceeds $4 trillion per day, Forex is the largest and most liquid market in the world. In fact, […]
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What Is Forex (FX) Trading?
What Is Forex (FX) Trading? We have all been to a dinner party where the mere mention of Forex gets baffled looks. Most people don’t know what forex is or how it works and neither […]