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How to Read the Forex Economic Calendar

A powerful tool used by most traders to help you track good & bad news announcements, economic indicators, government reports and upcoming market-moving events. Each day you’ll see a list of financial world and economical news events in a chronological order. A great add to your trading arsenal.

Forex Market Introduction what-is FX Trading

The Forex market has a daily turnover of around $ 5 trillion per day. To put this into perspective, the daily turnover of Wall Street is only $ 22 billion. In fact, the FX market dwarfs the combined turnover of all the equity markets around the world on a daily basis. It is the most liquid market on the planet. The FX or Forex Market derives its name from Foreign Exchange.

The 2% rule with spread trading

Most traders who enter the market, destroy their portfolios within a short period of time. They are simply oblivious to the trading risks and realities. If they just knew a few essential money management rules, they would avoid this scenario and keep their portfolio afloat. My rule is very simple and easy to apply to Spread Trading.

Candlesticks Price Chart Explained

MetaTrader 4. As a new trader, it can be quite an eye opener to open the trading platform to find a whole lot of numbers, colours and charts. But I don’t want you to worry. I’m going to make your life as easy as possible with the trading platform and how to enter and exit your trades. Today I’ll explain to you what the chart type is and how it works.

How Spread Trading Works With Shares

Spread Trading is one of the most exciting and profitable methods to trade local and international markets. Whether you’d like to trade stocks, indices, currencies or even commodities, BlackStone Futures offers you the ability to do just that. I’m going to introduce you to the world of spread trading with shares.

How to Read the Market Sentiment Tool

This (sentiment) measuring bar will show you a sliding percentage scale of traders who are long and short a currency pair. The RED part of the bar shows traders’ who are SHORT (sellers). The GREEN part of the bar shows traders’ who are LONG (buyers). There are three important features you’ll need to know to use this tool.

Take Profit Targets – What You Need To Know

One of the biggest mistakes that new forex traders make is taking profit too soon and allowing losers to run. Hence, you often find that traders will have a 92%-win rate yet still blow their accounts. We have, over the course of our recent training syllabus, covered some strategies to take profit. Know your reward before taking a trade.

16 March 2017 EURUSD Trade Setup MT4 – How to

We offer hundreds of markets for clients to trade on where you can get exposure to equities, stock indices, commodities and FX. We offer clients the choice of two state of the art platforms in order to execute their trades. We have our own proprietary platform CloudTrade and MT4, the World’s most used platform.

Technical vs Fundamental Analysis in FX: The big debate

Forex Help – Envelopes

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