Learn the ins and outs of forex trading with our educational resources and expert guidelines.
Swing trading seeks to profit from market “waves” by entering trades at key support and resistance levels. This approach works by examining technical indicators, chart patterns, traders’ sentiment and fundamental trends to spot prospective entry and exit points. The most popular methods are reversal, retracement, breakout, and breakdown trading. Its advantages include fewer trading (compared...
Consuming too much information for forex market prediction often results in issues like analysis paralysis, emotional burnout, confusion and weak decision-making ability. Let’s take a closer look at how constantly feeding on unchecked influx of news, limitless opinions, and overwhelming number of indicators can cloud your speculative accuracy and limit growth: Market Analysis Paralysis When you...
When following a trend, you should ask questions about a trend’s cause, strength, timeframe, supporting indicators, market sentiment, trade volume, right entry points, risk factors, and likely external influences to make informed decisions. Let’s address these questions in details: 1. Is the trend very clear You should ensure the market’s direction is pronounced. Look for ascending peaks...
Local holidays significantly influence the forex market. The majority of FX transactions are conducted within their framework, giving them substantial control over the value of their country’s fiat currency. During nationwide closures, notable effects can often be observed on the nation’s legal tender and trading volume. Let’s look at some of the negative things that...
Inflation can impact forex markets by weakening a currency through reduced purchasing power and investor uncertainty, while also prompting central banks to adjust interest rates. Market expectations and economic instability further drive forex price movements and volatility. Let’s look at how rising CPI rates affect forex trading and why you as a trader should monitor inflation reports:...
Trading XAU/USD offers benefits such as acting as a safe haven asset in volatile markets, enhancing portfolio diversification due to its inverse correlation with other assets, and providing high liquidity for quick transactions. However, it comes with challenges like unpredictable price swings, dependency on the US dollar, risks from leverage, and the complexity of analyzing global...
The 5-3-1 forex strategy emphasises focus on five currency pairs, concentration on three trading strategies and trading only at a particular time in a day. Let’s dive more into this. 1. Five Trading Instruments Here, you’re expected to choose a maximum of 5 currency pairs. This controls your desire to trade every asset you come across and enables...
Sentiment analysis in forex is the method of assessing how other investors feel about a market in any given moment. This analysis is about deciphering the collective mood or emotional tone of participants towards a currency pair. Are they positive, hopeful or negative and pessimistic? Are the majority buying or selling? How to carry out sentiment analysis...
COT is a statistical publication made every Friday at 3:30pm EST by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the US. Regarded as a sentiment indicator, it shows a picture of traders’ positions as of the preceding Tuesday. All open positions are revealed in a categorised format. The aim is to enhance market transparency and potentially prevent price manipulation. Interestingly,...
Margin trading is a trading method that helps traders use their account balance as collateral to access bigger capital from a broker or prop firm. It enables traders to open positions that multiply their balance. We will look at how it works and break down its key components: How does margin trading work? When trading on margin,...
