When you have been trading futures, options, stocks and commodities for over 20 years, it can be easy to forget what it was like starting out. In this article I will share with you some of my secrets that I wish I had known when I started trading.
Much of what you read about Financial [...]
There are absolutely no guarantees in forex trading. About the only thing that is guaranteed is that nobody knows for sure how the market will move. Sure there are indicators and trend lines to read, but these are really not fool proof. The successful forex trader should be able to accept at the onset of [...]
Forex or foreign Exchange or FX involves the buying and selling of one currency against another currency. They are always traded in pairs e.g. EUR/USD, USD/JPY. So when you are buying Euro dollars (EUR) you are also selling the US dollars (USD) in exchange for the Euro dollars. If you want to buy US dollars [...]
Losing in currency trading is not impossible and has a probable chance of happening. In any investment decision you make, there is the chance of losing and gaining money. Don’t make the mistake that all your choices will end up gaining you profits. The chance of losing money is likely to happen in currency trading. [...]
In the late 90’s, many financial company dominated the Forex Exchange Market. In the past several years the Forex Exchange Market has show a dramatic development. Nowadays private company are offering access to the Forex Market via internet data feed trading platform.
Private investors are going into Forex Market, with access to the same market [...]
It was a strange sight in the past to witness customers exchanging stacks of money with their agents at public places such as the international bus terminus, prominent official buildings or even at the airports. These agents were prepared to sell you the foreign currency that you want with a little profit given to them. [...]
Companies, exporters and importers are also very much involved in the forex market as buying and selling of products takes place all over the world thus buying and selling of currencies to facilitate and complete all these transactions are needed. An exporter in the USA might have sold his products to a company in Europe [...]
FACT: 95% of forex trader do not know what is forex options, 4% of forex trader know what is forex options but they think that forex options was too complicated for them and only 1% use forex options for trading.
Why Forex Options? Options allow you to have the right but no obligation to either [...]
When you start trading in the Foreign Exchange market, you will notice that the prices for either buying or selling a currency pair always come in a pair of price quotes. One is called the ‘Bid’ (or Sell) and the other is called the ‘Ask’ (or Buy). You will notice the same in any other [...]
To read a forex price quote consisting of two different currencies you have to note that the first currency is known as the base currency while the second currency is called the quote currency. Another point of note is that the first currency value is always 1 (one).
To further illustrate, the price quote or [...]