Articles For Traders
- Trading: My lessons learned. The most important lesson's I've learned trading Forex, so far...
- Trading Strategies That Work. What makes trading strategies work, three ways to apply an edge.
- Forex Trading Advice. Trading advice, who is the best person to take it from?
- Support and Resistance. Support and resistance is a very important element of technical analysis, it is possible to base an entire trading system on support and resistance alone.
- Trading Support and Resistance. A follow-up to my previous article on support and resistance; how to trade using the effects of support and resistance and the markets its effects are strongest on.
- Profitable Chart Patterns. Profitable chart patterns that appear due to the effects of support and resistance, what they look like and why they appear.
- Forex Sentiment Indicators and the Commitments Of Trader report. Market sentiment indicators that pay no attention to price.
- Retail Forex: Why the crowd gets it wrong. My theory as to why the majority of small retail Forex traders are usually on the wrong side of the larger underlying trend.
- Trading Time Frames. Why the time frame you're trading on is so important and the effect of randomness in the markets.
- Technical Indicators. Useful technical indicators, why they work and how to use them.
- Online Spread Betting Vs. Trading CFDs. Online spread betting or trading using CFDs, the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Forex Trading. How strategies for trading currencies compares with trading commodities, shares and stock market indices.
- Pivot Point Analysis. A simply study into the statistical significance of pivot points in the Forex market and how to calculate them.
- Forex Currency Trading System. How to build a Forex Currency Trading system suitable for you, your personality and your trading goals.
- Win To Loss Ratios & Risk To Reward Ratios. Systems that win more often than they lose vs systems that win more pips than they loss and what makes them perform that way.
- Which Currency Pair 'Trends' The Best. Trends: Why they're valuable, how to detected them, how to measure their strength and which currency pairs trend the best.
- Which Currency Pair 'Trends' The Best (Part II). My second experiment into finding the best trending currency pairs.
- Trend Detection Methods. Knowing the direction of the market's trend is a key component of most good technical trading systems, here are three simple methods of doing it.
- Measuring Your Trading System's Edge. Ideas on how to give your trading system a statistical edge and how to measure the size it.
- The Best Time Frame For A Simple Moving Average. What is the best time frame to use for a simple moving average? Here's a simple way to help you decide.
- The Best Time Frame For A 'Look Back' Trend Filter. When you're looking to compare price to past price as a trend filter, how far in the past should you look to produce the optimal 'edge'? And is this better than using a moving average for a trend filer? Hopefully this article will help you answer that question.
- The Beauty Of Time-Based Exits. Exit strategies and the beauty of time-based exits. In this article I explain and compare the four most common exit strategies, with a special mention of the simplest and most under rated, the time-based exit.
- An Observation On The Importance Of Suitable Trading Time Frames. How betting on the next bar or candle moving in the same direction as the previous one provides a tradable edge on a long enough time frame and demonstrates the importance of trading with a suitable time frame.
- Momentum Trading. A short article on trading market momentum with a simple experiment on the GBP/USD currency pair.
- Candlestick Analysis - Part I. My first look at defining candlesticks algorithmically and attempting to measure the statistical edge they provide.
- The Carry Trade Explained. A brief explanation of the carry trade.
- Trading Price Action. Trading Price Action: What is it, how exactly does one trade it, and what is so special about it anyway. A short article.
- Setting Stop-Losses. This article argues the case against small stop-losses by demonstrating that tight stops usually degrade the performance of any technical trading system.
- Profit Targets. This article briefly looks at the effects of profit targets on mechanical trading systems.
- Stop Losses and Profit Targets. How the need for stop losses and profit targets varies depending on both the type of trading system and the 'state' of the market.
- Trading Fibonacci Retracements. Are Fibonacci retracements statistically significant price levels or just mumbo-jumbo? In this article I'm going to perform some tests to try and answer that question.
- Trading Fibonacci Retracements II. Another test of the validity of Fibonacci retracement levels.
- Donchian Channels. Donchian channels, do they still work today?
- Different Types of Markets. A short article on the different types of markets (from a traders perspective).
- Profitable Trading Strategies. Which trading strategies work and which markets do they work on? A short article.
- The Best Forex Trading Systems. Using the information I've come across whilst making this website, I look at what the characteristics and attributes of the best Forex Trading Systems are, why these trading systems work and how to create your own one and follow it successfully.
- Oil Futures Trading Systems. What drives the price of oil, speculation or macro-economic fundamentals? And what is the best edge to employ when trading oil futures, the edge produced by the effects of the trend or the edge produced by the effects of support and resistance?
- Day Trading Times. Countless trading strategies are based around the London open and London close. But does the time of day really matter? This is my first attempt to find out.
- Trend Trading. Trend trading and trading support & resistance. When trading using support and resistance, how much importance must be given to the trend? And how effective is trading support and resistance if the direction of the long-term underlying trend is ignored?
- Black Box Trading and Forex Robots. My advice regarding black box trading systems and Forex robots.
- Trading Shares. A trading strategy specifically designed for trading individual shares.
- Trading Shares: Exit Strategies. A follow-up to my article above on trading shares; the exit strategy used in the article above is compared with two other exit strategies.
- Trading Forex Vs. Trading stocks. Which is best? In this short article I give a few pointers to help the reader decide that for themselves.
- Trading using reversion to the mean. Does it work? In this short article I will test such a system to find out.
- Reversion to the mean. My 2nd experiment on reversion to the mean trading strategies.
- Day Trading Strategies. Out of all the different trading strategies out there, day trying is the hardest. In this short article I look at why day trading so difficult.
- Position Trading. In this short article I attempt to describe what it is, and how, I believe, it differs to investing.
- Stock and Forex Trading Strategies. Trading stocks is very different to trading Forex, in this short article I look at the best strategies for trading each.
- Exchange Rate Forecasts. In this article I examine whether or not it is possible to forecast exchange rates using technical analysis.
- Contrarian Investing. A short article on contrarian investing strategies.
- Preserving capital vs. missing a trading opportunity. Which is worse, missing a trading opportunity or making a small loss? In this short article I give my opinion on this.
- The MACD Indicator. How to trading using the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator.
- Trading shares: Trading value Vs. Trading momentum. In this short article I look at the differences between the two main methods of trading shares (stocks), value investing and trading price momentum.
- Investment or speculation. One of the most common mistake made in the retail Forex, and other trading and investment communities is confusing an investment with a speculative gamble. In this short article I try to clearly define and separate the two.
- Demo Trading Accounts. Should you use one? Is paper trading using a demo account close enough to the real thing to actually be useful?
- The Psychology of Trading. In this article I briefly write about the psychology of trading and in particular, of trading Forex and trend following.
- Forex Trend Analysis. Adding a trend filter usually improves Forex trading systems, but which is the best one to use?
- Currency trading for beginners. Some advice for novice traders aiming to become successful currency traders.
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