Accumulation/Distribution Forex Technical Indicator
Thursday, February 25, 2010 GMT
Accumulation/Distribution is a price and volume technical indicator that was developed by Larry Williams who has been accredited with the designs of a number of Forex Analytical tools. The A/D indicator is, in fact, a variant of the popular ‘On Balance Volume’ indicator.
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Forex Candlestick Patterns
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 GMT
Candlestick patterns are used extensively in Forex trading. This article describes a few that are the most popular:
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How to use Binary Options to maximize your earnings during a false breakout
Thursday, February 18, 2010 GMT
Forex options are becoming more and more popular nowadays among Forex traders as an additional tool for short-term speculations which are based on technical events. Although binaries are still young and suffer from liquidity and hence high premiums, Swing-Traders, Scalpers and Day Traders find the predetermined risk-reward ratio (~70% on trades that are "In the Money", and 10% on trades that are "Out of the Money",) extremely productive.
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Problems of Trading Forex using Large Stop-losses
Thursday, February 18, 2010 GMT
The central idea behind trading with large stop-losses is to achieve a very strong win:loss ratio which will then offset the poor risk:reward one. For instance, if you are able to achieve 11 wins of 50 pips against 1 loss of 500 pips, then you would have realised a profit of 50 pips.
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Strategies for Trading Forex Fakeouts
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 GMT
Price consolidation boxes are delineated by resistance and support levels. In addition, we are aware that there is a strong tendency for price to propel itself through one of these trendlines only to retract shortly afterwards. This whipsaw action causes many smaller traders to get stopped-out and is the reason why it is important to be able to distinguish breakouts from fakeouts.
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How to Detect Forex Fakeouts
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 GMT
Many Forex experts claim that fakeouts are caused by large institutional players, such as banks, creating them deliberately in order to stop-out smaller traders. Although, there is much speculation that this could be true, there is still no real evidence proving the validity of this theory.
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Problems with Forex Breakout Strategies
Friday, February 12, 2010 GMT
Breakout strategies are very popular with many traders because price must develop a large amount of energy to escape from a tight trading consolidation pattern. If it is able to achieve this goal, then the resultant momentum can be capable of producing a movement of significant size.
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