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Does your Trading Capital Influence your Trading Style?

We’ve all heard the old adage ‘you have to speculate to accumulate’, and while I certainly agree with its point, but is there a magic number that allows you to accumulate more? And, perhaps even more importantly how does this …

How to Grow as a Forex Trader

One of the questions that goes through every trader’s mind is “when will I become consistent?”. But, like anything we do it’s a process, and it’s not just experience, but education that will lead to eventual success. Take an engineer …

The Trick to Determining Trend Strength

It’s safe to say that every trader should aspire to know not only how to identify a trend, but also determine the strength of a given trend. After all, it’s the strength of a trend that allows us to trade …

Three Bad Trading Habits and How to Beat Them

Letting costly habits creep into your trading is all too easy to allow. After all, you don’t have a boss to tell you what to do, what not to do, how and when to do it, and you can risk …

Calculating Forex Profit and Loss

Why do I need to calculate my trading Profit or Loss? The Forex market is a highly volatile place. Prices can fluctuate wildly and where one day you might find yourself up in profits, the next you can be down. …

The World According to WD Gann

Anyone in the Forex trading world should be at somewhat familiar with the name Gann. William Delbert Gann, or WD Gann was a trader who developed a technical toolset called ‘Gann Lines and Angles. While Gann angles hold great significance …

Identifying the Forex Flag Pattern

We’ve touched on flag patterns before in our ‘flags and pennants’ post, but let’s go into a little more detail. After all, flag patterns come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and it’s not as simple as calling a …

Are Silver and Gold About to Shine?

With the recent running bull markets slipping of late, what could it mean for gold & silver? First, let’s step back and consider what’s happening fundamentally in the markets today. Or more specifically, let’s consider US Politics, Geo-politics and the …

Is it all Doom & Gloom for Global Markets?

A current look at global markets With recent market volatility due to various significant fundamental factors around the world, I thought it might be a good idea to have a look at what the markets around the world are doing …

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