The Most Common Mistakes in Trading
Trading the financial markets, especially Forex, is increasingly becoming a popular career of choice for most people. However, there are common mistakes that traders, particularly beginners, make when trading. Here is a description of some of them. Lack of adequate training is one of the most common mistakes in trading. Many traders jump into Forex [...]
Read More →Understanding The Rollover in Forex Trading
In the Forex market, rollover refers to the interest paid or earned for holding a currency spot position overnight. It is important to note that every currency has an interest rate connected with it. And, since the trading of currencies takes place in pairs, each trade entails two different currencies as well as their two [...]
Read More →What is Institutional Trading?
Institutional trading refers to the practice of executing trades with relatively large amounts of capital. Institutional traders comprise of large organizations such as banks, financial institutions, and mutual funds that have substantial amount of cash that need to be invested. When they trade, institutional traders usually hold on their positions for an extended period of [...]
Read More →The Margin Call
All day trading markets have margin requirements that stipulate the minimum amount of cash and/or securities that a trader should have in his or her trading account in order to trade those markets. A margin call (sometimes called fed call or maintenance call) takes place when your brokerage company asks you to bring margin deposits [...]
Read More →An Overview Of The Dow Jones Stock Market Indices
The Dow Jones Indices are renowned all over the globe as essential measures for gauging stock price trends. Investors, both young and old, analyze the Dow on a daily basis. A lot of things can be extrapolated from these market indices concerning the performance of stock markets of various countries around the world. They can [...]
Read More →AUD/USD Making Moves To The Upside. Will it Break or Bounce Off It?
For sometime now, AUD/USD has been on a bullish run. And, it seems the pair is not going to relent soon. Currently, it is testing its rising trend line. Will it break or bounce off it? Following the disappointing Non-Farm Payroll report on Friday, traders once again favored higher-yielding assets such as the Aussie. As [...]
Read More →GBP/USD is Still Stuck On Its Ascending Triangle Pattern.
Introduction For over a month now, GBP/USD has been making higher highs and higher lows. As a result, this has led to the formation of a near-perfect ascending triangle pattern. How long will the pair trade within this pattern? Factors Affecting Earlier today, the UK Construction PMI came in at 49.0 against the 50.1 value [...]
Read More →USD/CHF is Still Sinking Lower, How Far Will it Go?
Introduction USD/CHF has been making lower lows at the end of each trading day for a couple of days now. It seems the bears are declaring victory on the pair. However, how long will their party last? Factors Affecting The earlier released Swiss Retail Sales y/y came in at 3.2% against the 3.5% value forecasted [...]
Read More →Will USD/JPY Will Breakout To The Upside or To The Downside?
Introduction For sometime now, USD/JPY has been making lower highs and higher lows. As a result, it has formed a nice-looking symmetrical triangle pattern. Will the pair breakout to the upside or to the downside? Factors Affecting With the absence of major economic catalysts from Japan, the performance of the yen will perhaps be at [...]
Read More →Best Stocks To Buy in 2012
Various experts have projected that the economy will continue with its slow recovery throughout 2012. As such, investors are searching for relatively safe places to channel their cash. And, with the increased uncertainty of other avenues of investment, the stock market remain the investment of choice for people who want to realize good returns on [...]
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