Guides
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66Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 8: Don’t Add to a Loser
As we covered in a previous Golden Rule, wishful thinking can be the undoing of a trader. One of the most common...
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99Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 7: Timing Is Everything
Wishful thinking can be a great thing in the right context. However, for a forex trader, it's suicide. Yet, many traders indulge...
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74Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 6: Use Technical AND Fundamental Analysis
One of the most commonly-asked questions among novice traders is "Should I use technical or fundamental analysis?". Well, there are a lot...
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109Learn about the Advantages and Disadvantages of Forex Rebates
Forex rebate websites are essentially marketing machines used by brokers to bring in more customers. Traders get a small amount from their...
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65Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 5: Don’t Go With Your Gut!
There's a time and a place for going with your gut instinct. Deciding on whether to accept a marriage proposal is a...
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86Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 4: Stick to Your Stops
Sticking to your strategy is one of the hardest things to do as a forex trader, especially when your emotions are running...
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84Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 3: The Magic 2%
One of the most common - and most frequently ignored - rules in trading is to never risk more than 2% of...
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83Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 2: Protect Your Profits
There is nothing worse than seeing one of your trades up by 40 pips one minute only to see it reverse shortly...
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76Forex Trading Golden Rules Part 1: Always Pair Strong With Weak
In any contest, there is almost always a favourite. Sometimes, competitors will be quite evenly matched, but more often than not there...
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130Guide to Trading Forex Futures Part 4: Speculating
While forex futures are commonly used as a hedging strategy for directional spot trades, they can also be used in isolation as...
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106Guide to Trading Forex Futures Part 3: Hedging Strategies
Yesterday, we looked at the differences between traditional futures and forex futures. Today, we'll be looking at the one of the main...
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73Guide to Trading Forex Futures Part 2: FX Futures vs Traditional Futures
Yesterday, we looked at how futures contracts tend to work across a variety of asset classes. Today, we're going to zone in...
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95Guide to Trading Forex Futures Part 1: What Are Futures?
With a daily trading volume of over $2 trillion a day, the spot forex market is by far the world's biggest market....
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102Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 10: Option Volatilities
Option volatilities are a measure of the magnitude and frequency of the changes in the price of a currency. On the other...
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94Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 9: Risk Reversals
Risk reversals reflect the expectation of the market in terms of the direction of an exchange rate and useful for generating profitable...
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115Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 8: Theta and Vega
Theta Theta measures the time decay associated with an option, which is the amount that an option will lose each day as...
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83Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 7: Delta and Gamma
The price of options don't always move in exact correlation to the price of the underlying currency pair, as other factors such...
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103Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 6: Hedging Strategies
One of the most common uses for FX options among forex traders is to use them as a hedge against cash positions....
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85Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 5 – A Worked Example
In the previous instalments, we've looked at the differences between the various types of option. Today, we're going to look at an...
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115Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 4 – Pricing
There are several factors that influence the value of options. These are: Intrinsic value This is a measure of how much the...
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98Guide to Forex Options Trading Part 3 – Why Trade Options?
There are a number of reasons why options are appealing to traders. Here are some of the main ones: Downside risk is...
