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Supply and demand is a concept used in technical analysis that was made famous by Sam Seiden. Saying "supply and demand" is simply another way of saying support and resistance. As you may already know, support and resistance are basic…
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Talking about stop losses is one of those less popular subjects. No one likes to dwell on trades that are going south! But, statistically speaking, around 40% of the trades that successful traders make are not going to work out. Even…
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You have probably heard, if not experienced for yourself, that forex trading is difficult to learn. In the beginning, I made it hard for myself too; I simply couldn’t get everything right. And that’s ok! Depending on who you ask, chances…
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When you first open your trading platform, the number of instruments available to trade can be a bit overwhelming. There is so much to choose from! Where do you start? Even seasoned traders from other markets or investment tools might…
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One of the unfortunate realities that we know as retail traders is that we can't practically access arbitrage. Algos are so much faster in balancing triangular arbitrage. So, unless we make an investment in the hundreds of thousands of…
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Once you know how and why bonds are so closely related to forex, we need to take a closer look at bond prices and yields. A currency's value is determined by what you can buy with it. And since most of the currency moves that affect forex…
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The Bloomberg terminal is one of the most widely popular terminals for trading and for conducting fundamental analysis. Due to the institutional pricing of the software, it is often out of reach for the average home-based trader. If you…
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Most people, even without a background in economics or finance know that inflation means that the value of a currency is going down. Broadly speaking, this is translatable in some sense to the currency markets. If one currency has higher…
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So far in this series, we've talked about how indicators basically work by identifying patterns. They do this by focusing on relationships between certain data points, and they are represented in the form of graphs to make patterns easier…
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