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Currency Exchange

Exchanging currencies has been around for thousands of years. Today however, one can exchange currencies for the purpose of trading, travel, international purchases of moving internationally.... Read More »

Forex Chart Types

There are three main types of charts that are used by most traders in the forex market. Two of them, bar charts and candlestick charts, display basically the same... Read More »

Forex Order Types

There are a number of different ways to buy and sell on the forex market. This article will give you a brief overview of the basics types of orders. Market Order – An order... Read More »

Fundamental Analysis

Fundamental analysis serves as a basic means to determine the future of a particular investment. It is based on using a variety of economic and political indicators tied... Read More »

Most Watched Economic Releases In the Forex Market

The most popular economic indicators in the forex market have the ability to cause swings of several hundred pips in either direction if they come out at numbers that are different... Read More »

Spread

The spread represents the difference between the amount brokers will accept to sell a currency for (ask) and the amount that they will pay for a currency (bid). These prices... Read More »

Intermediate

Best Chart Choices

In trying to understand what financial data predicts about future returns of a particular currency, the investor can turn to different types of graphs in order to glean... Read More »

Commodity Currencies

Commodity currencies are currencies of countries that rely primarily on exports of commodities to fuel their economy. The major quirk in the behavior of commodity... Read More »

Forex Trading Compared to Stock Trading

Forex Trading Costs

Typically, while trading currencies on the forex market, the investor does not have to worry about costs stemming from trading commissions. That having been said,... Read More »

Forex VS Futures

Forex trading is now a popular alternative to trading in the stock market or futures market. Markets can be very volatile, you may have seen just how volatile by the... Read More »

How to Choose a Forex Broker

For forex traders, there is no one online forex broker that towers above the rest in terms of traffic, trade-volume and services provided. There are a number of good ones... Read More »

Most Active Trading Times

Though the forex market is open 24 hours a day, there are specific times when the market is faster moving, and it’s easier to make money. There are three main time zones for... Read More »

Moving Averages and Technical Trading

A moving average is a simple technique that lets chart-makers and analysts sift out a lot of the “noise” that short term price swings create. A more common term outside... Read More »

Risk Reward Ratio

The risk reward ratio should actually be called the reward risk ratio, since the first number – the RRR is generally denoted like odds at a race track – is usually... Read More »

Support and Resistance

Support and resistance for a currency pair at certain price levels comes from several different sources. Either barrier is always at least somewhat psychological in... Read More »

Technical Analysis and Charting Indicators

Bollinger Bands Perhaps the most frequently encountered type of chart in the forex world are those depicting Bollinger Bands. Named after John Bollinger, a forex trader... Read More »

Trading Cross Currencies

Currency crosses are also known as cross currency pairs. They are, simply, currency pairs that do not involve the US dollar. Trading in currency crosses makes... Read More »

Trading on Margin

Margin investing is a borrowing method by which a forex investor can trade currencies at higher volume than he would be able to on his own. The intuition is simple: A forex... Read More »

Novice

Bollinger Bands Introduction

Bollinger Bands are used as an indicator to compare both volatility and relative price levels over a specific time period. The indicator is made up of three bands that... Read More »

Creating a Trading Plan

It is generally a good idea to create a trading plan ahead of time. Some trading strategies are more conducive to long term planning than others. Day trading and... Read More »

Forex Market Movers

Unlike most markets, the forex market is moved most notably by macroeconomic and geopolitical events. The forex market is so huge that events in a particular industry... Read More »

Forex Micro Accounts

Forex Micro Accounts Some forex brokers are now offering Forex micro accounts, which allow traders to trade in much smaller increments. A micro lot is 1,000 units of the base... Read More »

Forex Micro Lots

Forex Micro Lot Overview Forex micro lots are used when trading currencies and are equivalent to 1,000 units of the base currency. They allow traders more flexibility when trading... Read More »

Head And Shoulders Candlestick Pattern

Head and shoulders is a term that refers to a type of pattern-also called a trend-that is useful in gauging future market values of financial assets. In particular, the... Read More »

How do I know if I can trust my forex broker?

There are a couple of ways to check up on your forex broker. For the most part, these steps aren't much different than what you would do with any other financial services... Read More »

How to Pick a Money Manager

Many forex traders use money managers to deal with the profits they are not trading with in the forex market, or to manage all their investments for an extended amount... Read More »

Interest Rate Changes and the US Dollar

Think about interest rates as the price of spending money. If the fed has raised interest rates, it has raised the cost of spending money. When interest rates rise,... Read More »

Money Management

Money management is one of the most important aspects of forex trading. Even the most brilliant traders aren't right anywhere close to a hundred percent of the time, and... Read More »

NFP - Non Farm Payrolls

A classic example how how the forex market is moved can be found in the non-farm payroll (NFP) numbers published each month by the US government. The NFP number is a seasonally-adjusted... Read More »

Trade Rollover

The forex market is active 24 hour a day which makes for some unique market dynamics. One of the most idiosyncratic is a rollover. A rollover occurs when a... Read More »

Advanced

Common Candlestick Patterns and History of Japanese Candlesticks

It's not too often that tools of financial analysis have a near-mythical origin. In the forex market, however, the most common graphs are referred to as “candlestick”... Read More »

Create a Forex Trading System

When creating your own trading system, there are a few things to keep in mind. You are going to need to be able to spot trends, while making sure not to get faked out. The real... Read More »

How to Trade Synthetic Crosses

A synthetic pair is a combination of two currency pairs that are combined in such a way that the trader's positions on the third currency mutual to both pairs – almost always... Read More »

Important Charting Patterns When Trading Forex

Important patterns exist within forex trading that offer traders cues as to when by or sell, and sometime as to what direction the market is about to move in. The following is... Read More »

Japanese Candlestick Patterns

Candlestick analysis denotes a particular type of technical analysis derived from price information gleaned from a candlestick chart of a particular security. This type of... Read More »

News Announcements And Trading

NFP is a monthly statistic collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The acronym stands for Non-Farm Payroll. The statistic is released by the BLS on the first... Read More »

Price Channels

Price channels are a chart tool used by traders to set buy and sell points for currencies. They usually consist of two parallel lines above and below the value of a currency. They... Read More »

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Forex Terminology

National Futures Association

The National Futures Association (NFA) is a self-regulated agency created in 1981 that is involved in the futures industry. The NFA operates in the private-sector.

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