UNDERCAPITALIZATION

Undercapitalization is closely related to leverage, since, contrary to what many people believe, higher leverage actually increases risk-capital requirements. While the broker allows the client to control higher amounts through less initial capital through high leverage, because price swings are amplified in the process, the trader has to increase his capital that he deposits with the broker in order to survive periods of high volatility (in other words, wide price fluctuations).

Leverage increases the amount of loss or gain that a trader must experience. When the account is registering a positive unrealized return, leverage, and price fluctuations will not cause much problem since they're absorbed by the unrealized profit. When the account is in the red, however, undercapitalization becomes a problem, because even if the price eventually moves in the direction that the trader anticipated when opening the position, the amount of risk capital (in other words, margin) may not be enough to absorb the temporary fluctuations in the meantime.

What use is a successful prediction of market direction if you will never be able to survive the inevitable price fluctuations in between? What use is a complete and well-thought analysis if your capital allocation doesn't allow that analysis to bear its fruit?

Leverage amplifies volatility, and thus increases the initial deposit that must be maintained. But we had said that leverage allows the trader to control large sums through lesser initial deposits. What is the whole point of this circular game? So we reach back at what we argued at the opening of this section: Overleverage is wrong, and must not be used except in very unusual circumstances

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BOE DECISION: No Surprises from Carney and Co.

The November meeting came and went without any fanfare. As expected Mark Carney and co. at the MPC kept their powder dry and did not shift interest rates or asset purchases at this meeting. The BOE did not release a statement, instead leaving us with bated breath for next week's Inflation Report.

This report is likely to be markedly different from the last one in August, when the BOE announced its forward guidance programme. This time the focus is on how the BOE will upgrade its growth and employment forecasts, thus pushing forward the prospect of rate hikes from Q3 2016 without causing havoc in the markets and long-term Gilt yields to rise sharply.

It's the economy, stupid.

The sustained strength of the UK's economic recovery has scuppered the BOE's first iteration of forward guidance. It will be interesting to see if the BOE embarks on forward guidance 2.0 next week. Carney could challenge the stunning survey data (PMI) and instead question the strength of the real economy; he could also widen the economic threshold to focus on wage growth, which has remained stubbornly weak. If the BOE takes this track then it could disrupt the pound's recent rally.

Although it will be next week's Inflation Report that steals the headlines and has the biggest impact on the future path of UK interest rates, we expect the BOE was united once again ion voting to keep rates and asset purchases unchanged. We will find out what the vote split was on 20th Nov when the minutes of this meeting are released.

GBPUSD: 1.5980 - 50 day SMA - could cap any downside

GBPUSD barely budged after the BOE announcement and has been in a tight range all morning as we wait for the ECB and the NFP tomorrow. It continues to hover around a key resistance zone between 1.6055-75- the Tenkan and Kijun lines on the daily cloud. As long as we stay above here the immediate outlook is fairly bullish, which opens the way to 1.6120 then 1.6260 - the high from 1st October and a key resistance level.

Unless we get a major shock in tomorrow's US NFP's, we believe that GBPUSD could grind higher into the Inflation Report next week as the market expects the BOE to revise up its growth forecasts and revise down its forecast for the unemployment rate. Key support lies at 1.6030 - the low from 5th Nov, then 1.60 - a key psychological level, ahead of 1.5980 - the 50-day sma and a critical support level.

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Bank Of Japan On Hold, Unaffected By Slower Growth In Q3

Bank of Japan (BoJ) as expected did not announce any new easing measures in connection with today's monetary meeting. The target for expansion of the monetary base (now the main policy instrument) was as expected maintained at JPY60-70trn annually and approved in an unanimous decision by the nine members of the BoJ board. BoJ's view of the economy was also broadly unchanged. BoJ believes the economy is recovering and will continue to recover moderately.

BoJ continues to regard the main risks to the Japanese economy as mainly external (the European debt crisis, emerging markets and the pace of the recovery in the US). At the press briefing after the meeting BoJ board governor Haruhiko Kuroda said that ‘BoJ did not change its view on the economy after the Q3 GDP data' and ‘it is too early to talk policy changes as the economy is on track', underscoring that the slowdown in GDP growth in Q3 to 1.9% q/q ann. from 3.8% q/q ann. in Q2 has not pushed BoJ in the direction of further easing in any substantial way. Kuroda also said ‘it is too early to discuss exit strategy', underscoring that tapering is unlikely to be on the agenda in Japan any time soon.



Board member Takahide Kiuchi at the meeting again proposed changing the wording of the inflation target so it does not include the aim of reaching 2% inflation within a two-year time frame. Instead Kiuchi proposed that the time frame for achieving the 2% inflation target should instead be ‘medium to long term'. Kiuchi's proposal was again defeated in a 8-1 vote. Kuichi is concerned that the inflation target is too ambitious and in the end could undermine BoJ's credibility. 

The main message from BoJ today is that it remains on auto-pilot and is unlikely to announce any additional easing soon. However, looking further ahead GDP is poised to slow markedly in Q2 14 in the wake of the planned increase in the sales tax from 5% to 10% in April 2014 and we believe this could force BoJ to ease monetary policy even more aggressively at some stage in Q2 next year. There has been no major market impact from the BoJ announcement. JPY has weakened overnight but this was driven mostly by strong US retail sales data, the FOMC minutes and renewed focus on possible Fed tapering soon. Our fundamental view on JPY remains: further JPY weakness next year due to the divergent monetary paths in Japan and the rest of the world.

 

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WHAT IS FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET ?

To buy foreign goods or services, or to invest in other countries, companies and individuals may need to first buy the currency of the country with which they are doing business. Generally, exporters prefer to be paid in their country’s currency or in U.S. dollars, which are accepted all over the world. When Canadians buy oil from Saudi Arabia they may pay in U.S. dollars and not in Canadian dollars or Saudi riyals, even though the United States is not involved in the transaction. The foreign exchange market, or the "FX" market, is where the buying and selling of different currencies takes place. The price of one currency in terms of another is called an exchange rate. The market itself is actually a worldwide network of traders, connected by telephone lines and computer screens—there is no central headquarters. There are three main centers of trading, which handle the majority of all FX transactions—United Kingdom, United States, and Japan. Transactions in Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Germany, France and Australia account for most of the remaining transactions in the market. Trading goes on 24 hours a day: at 8 a.m. the exchange market is first opening in London, while the trading day is ending in Singapore and Hong Kong. At 1 p.m. in London, the New York market opens for business and later in the afternoon the traders in San Francisco can also conduct business. As the market closes in San Francisco, the Singapore and Hong Kong markets are starting their day. The FX market is fast paced, volatile and enormous—it is the largest market in the world. In 2001 on average, an estimated $1,210 billion was traded each day—roughly equivalent to every person in the world trading $195 each day. Theory and Econometric Evidence The flotation of exchange rates in the early 1970s saw a significant increase in the importance of foreign exchange markets and in the interest shown in them. Apart from the consequent institutional changes, this period also witnessed a revolution in macroeconomic analysis and finance theory based on the concept of rational expectations. This book provides an integrated approach to recent developments in the understanding of foreign exchange markets. It begins by charting the institutional background and looks at the recent history of movements in some of the major exchange rates. The theoretical sections focus on the economic and finance theory of the asset market approach, the macroeconomic models developed from this approach, and on interest rate parity theory. The empirical chapters draw on the authors’ own research from a high quality set of exchange rate and interest rate data. The statistical properties of exchange rates are analysed; the relationship between spot and forward rates is examined; and the modelling and impact of new information on the forward and spot relationship is considered. The final chapter is devoted to the estimation and testing of exchange rate models.

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Which common mistakes Destroy a Forex beginner: Part-4

Not learning from your mistakes

As the saying goes “Those who don’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it.”

Admitting mistakes is difficult. It’s a lot easier to blame something else. 

But you can only learn

from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it.

Most people give up on their goals because they’re not prepared for the mistakes and setbacks

they’ll face on their way to what they want.

The larger your ambitions, the more dependent you will be on your ability to overcome and

learn from your mistakes.

Most costly mistakes don’t stem from a lack of knowledge but from a lack of discipline.

Understanding what and why you made a mistake will help you avoid repeating it again.

Brushing it under the carpet will not.

It doesn’t mean you will never make a mistake again. None of us perfect. But avoiding major

pitfalls will help you achieve what you set out to do - to make money.

Thanks for reading carefully.

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Which common mistakes Destroy a Forex beginner: Part-3

Focusing on the news not the price

Successful forex traders don’t watch business channels all day long. Watching TV is more likely

to confuse, scare or mislead you.

To find out what’s going on at any time, just watch the price. The market tells you when to be

bullish or bearish, not the media.

Here’s a key lesson: The price leads the news, not the other way around. Most days, the media is

simply reacting to market movements. 

If it’s an up day, then good news is reported. If it’s a down

day, then bad news is reported. 

The truth is on any given day there is good news and bad news,

but chances are you are only hearing the news that fits the market move for that day.

Always keep in mind: news doesn’t make major trends, news comes from the trends.

Which common mistakes Destroy a Forex beginner: Part-4 coming soon

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Which common mistakes Destroy a Forex beginner: Part-2

Adding to a losing trade

Adding to a losing trade or “averaging down” as it’s sometimes called, is equivalent to not

admitting your mistakes.

As we’ve discussed earlier, successful traders are brave enough to cut their losses. Adding to a

losing trade is doing the exact opposite of this (throwing fuel on the fire).

Sure, sometimes a trade might hit your stop-loss and then turn around and go back up. That can

be very frustrating, but that doesn’t mean you should abandon money management.

Adding to a losing trade effectively ties up more and more of your money in the trades that

aren’t working. It’s putting added pressure on the weakest part of your portfolio. 

This could back

you into a corner, shutting you off from reason or clear thinking. Your trading will become

paralysed by emotion rather than logic.

Adding to a losing trade is the most direct road to ruin that we know of.

Thank you....... 

Wait for Which common mistakes Destroy a Forex beginner: Part-3

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Best Exchange rate at FX market

Currencies are traded in pairs and exchanged one against the other

when traded, the rate at which they are exchanged is called the exchange

rate. The majority of currencies are traded against the US dollar (USD),

which is traded more than any other currency. The four currencies traded most

frequently after the US dollar are the euro (EUR), the Japanese yen (JPY), the

British pound sterling (GBP) and the Swiss franc (CHF). 

These five currencies

make up the majority of the market and are called the major currencies or

“the Majors”. Some sources also include the Australian dollar (AUD) within the

group of major currencies.

The first currency in the exchange pair is referred to as the base currency.

The second currency is the counter currency or quote currency. 

The counter

or quote currency is thus the numerator in the ratio, and the base currency is

the denominator.

The exchange rate tells a buyer how much of the counter or quote currency

must be paid to obtain one unit of the base currency. 

The exchange rate also

tells a seller how much is received in the counter or quote currency when

selling one unit of the base currency. 

For example, an exchange rate for

EUR/USD of 1.5083 specifies to the buyer of euros that 1.5083 USD must be

paid to obtain 1 euro. 

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Which common mistakes Destroy a Forex beginner: Part-1

As a trader, success comes from two things: making big profits and avoiding costly mistakes.

Many a portfolio has been ruined by just a small number of really bad trades.

We will now look at four of the most common and costly mistakes made by forex traders – both

new and old.

Failing to cut your losses

It’s a cliché, but “cut your losses” will always be the central rule for effective money

management.

The problem is that human nature is programmed to seek pleasure and avoid pain. It’s a survival

mechanism that keeps our species from extinction.

In terms of financial markets, profits give us pleasure and losses give us pain.

That means that we “naturally” avoid taking losses. No one enjoys taking a loss. No one likes

admitting they are wrong.

But the truth is a big loss can quickly undo months or years of your hard work.

The world’s best traders know that to succeed at trading, you have to overcome your natural

tendency to avoid taking a loss. 

That doesn’t mean you have to like them, but you have to

accept them.

Paul Tudor Jones is one of the world’s most successful hedge fund managers. He’s been trading

for 35 years and Forbes lists his wealth at over $3 billion, so he knows a thing or two about

making money from trading the markets. 

Here’s what he has to say on the subject:

“If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them... Risk

control is the most important thing in trading. 

If you have a losing position that is making you

uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in.”

There’s a simple way to avoid this mistake: Place a stop every time you make a trade.

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Best 6 Forex FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS

The most important and most complicated component of currency dealing is the ability to analyse tendencies of market changes and, respectively, forecast what factors and how will influence currency rates. Price behaviour includes both opportunities of quick gain of profit and possibilities of quick and considerable loss. That’s why correct forecasting of market movements, assessment of events, as well as the understanding of rumours and expectations, is a required component of broker’s or dealer’s work and is a guarantee of his successful activity. There are many factors that influence both, the whole currency market in general and some currencies, in particular.

There are two main analysis methods of the market situation: fundamental analysis and technical analysis. The first one assesses the situation from the point of view of political, economic, financial and credit policy. The second one is based on methods of graphic research and analysis based on mathematical principles.

Fundamental analysis implies the study of various messages about financial events in the world, about the activity in the political and economic life in both specific countries and in the world community, in general, that can influence the development of the foreign exchange market. Some analysis is done to understand what changes in the currency rates they can cause. Information about the functioning of stock exchanges and of big companies of the type of market-makers, the discount rates of the central banks, the economic and administration policies, the possible changes in the political life of the country, as well as various signs and expectations are found to be important here.

Fundamental factors are assessed from two positions, as a rule:

from the point of view of their influence on the official discount rate;

from the point of view of the condition of the national economy of the country.

Fundamental factors that influence the FOREX market.

Fundamental analysis distinguishes four groups of factors that influence the market directly:

economic;

political;

signs and expectations;

force majeure.

Classification of news according to the degree of their expectancy:

accidental and unexpected – usually some news of political and natural origin, more rare economic news (political instability in the country, wars, natural disasters, etc.);

planned and expected – usually news of economic character, more rare – political news.

The economic group of factors and their influence on the market are based on the axiom that any currency is a derivative of the economic development of the country and its cost may be regulated with the help of certain economic measures.

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HOW TO TRADE FOREX-Part-2 ?

After the currency is bought, if the change in the rate is favourable, the trader sells and gains profit from the difference in the rates. That is, he concludes the transaction. At the moment the transaction is done, the credit is automatically closed, the collateral remains at the trading account of the trader as well as the gained profit – in full. That is the mechanism that makes it possible to gain good profit that sometimes exceeds the collateral used in the transaction even if the change in the currency rate is not big. The risk of the trader is limited only by the collateral.

Let us examine one transaction with the rate of euro to dollar. This rate (cross-rate) is designated as EUR/USD and shows the cost of EUR, which is expressed in USD. Traditionally, the exchange rate (quote) is represented at any moment with a five-digit number. The last digit in this number is called point (pip). Now let’s see how one can do a transaction.

Assessing the situation on the market, the trader makes a decision about buying EUR/USD (see the figure) from the 1.2500 level. At the level of 1.2530 he closes the transaction.

By doing that, the trader got a profit of 30 points.

Suppose that the trader used USD 1,250 for the transaction. At the moment of buying, the dealing centre automatically provided him with 1:200 leverage.

The volume of the transaction being 2 lots (1 lot = 100,000 units of the base currency) of EUR 200,000.00 of base currency or USD 250,000.00, the cost of a point for the EUR/USD currency pair is USD 20, i.e. the profit from the transaction was USD20*30 points = USD600.

As we can see, even a change of the prices by 30 points can bring good profit, and daily fluctuations of currency rates on the Forex market achieve sometimes several hundred points!

To try trading on FOREX, to learn doing transactions, one needs to just fill in the registration form and download FXD Trading Terminal, install it on his computer and open a free demo-account to train. The demo-account is provided by our company. The time of operation of the account is unlimited. Any initial amount (of virtual money) can be set up at the account as collateral. All terms of trade at the demonstration account conform fully to the real terms: current market quotes, rate charts, procession of transactions, spreads and other parameters.

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Various techniques and terms for Forex

Various techniques and terms

Many different techniques and indicators can be used to follow and predict

trends in markets. The objective is to predict the major components of the

trend: its direction, its level and the timing. Some of the most widely known

include:

Bollinger Bands - a range of price volatility named after John Bollinger,

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who invented them in the 1980s. They evolved from the concept of

trading bands, and can be used to measure the relative height or depth

of price. A band is plotted two standard deviations away from a simple

moving average. As standard deviation is a measure of volatility,

Bollinger Bands adjust themselves to market conditions. When the

markets become more volatile, the bands widen (move further away

from the average), and during less volatile periods, the bands contract

(move closer to the average).

Bollinger Bands are one of the most popular technical analysis

techniques. The closer prices move to the upper band, the more

overbought is the market, and the closer prices move to the lower

band, the more oversold is the market.

Support / Resistance – The

Support level

is the lowest price an

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instrument trades at over a period of time. The longer the price stays

at a particular level, the stronger the support at that level. On the

chart this is price level under the market where buying interest is

sufficiently strong to overcome selling pressure. Some traders believe

that the stronger the support at a given level, the less likely it will

break below that level in the future. The

Resistance level

is a price at

which an instrument or market can trade, but which it cannot exceed,

for a certain period of time. On the chart this is a price level over the

market where selling pressure overcomes buying pressure, and a price

advance is turned back.

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Support / Resistance Breakout - when a price passes through and stays

beyond an area of support or resistance.

CCI - Commodity Channel Index - an oscillator used to help determine

when an investment instrument has been overbought and oversold. The

Commodity Channel Index, first developed by Donald Lambert,

quantifies the relationship between the asset's price, a moving average

(MA) of the asset's price, and normal deviations (D) from that average.

The CCI has seen substantial growth in popularity amongst technical

investors; today's traders often use the indicator to determine cyclical

trends in equities and currencies as well as commodities.

The CCI, when used in conjunction with other oscillators, can be a

valuable tool to identify potential peaks and valleys in the asset's price,

and thus provide investors with reasonable evidence to estimate

changes in the direction of price movement of the asset.

Hikkake Pattern – a method of identifying reversals and continuation

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patterns, this was discovered and introduced to the market through a

series of published articles written by technical analyst Daniel L.

Chesler, CMT. Used for determining market turning-points and

continuations (also known as trending behavior). It is a simple pattern

that can be viewed in market price data, using traditional bar charts,

or Japanese candlestick charts.

Moving averages - are used to emphasize the direction of a trend and to

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smooth out price and volume fluctuations, or “noise”, that can confuse

interpretation. There are seven different types of moving averages:

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simple (arithmetic)

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exponential

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time series

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weighed

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triangular

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variable

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volume adjusted

The only significant difference between the various types of moving

averages is the weight assigned to the most recent data. For example,

a simple (arithmetic) moving average is calculated by adding the

closing price of the instrument for a number of time periods, then

dividing this total by the number of time periods.

The most popular method of interpreting a moving average is to

compare the relationship between a moving average of the

instrument’s closing price, and the instrument’s closing price itself.

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Sell signal: when the instrument’s price falls below its moving

average

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Buy signal: when the instrument’s price rises above its moving

average

The other technique is called the double crossover, which uses short-

term and long-term averages. Typically, upward momentum is

confirmed when a short-term average (e.g., 15-day) crosses above a

longer-term average (e.g., 50-day). Downward momentum is confirmed

when a short-term average crosses below a long-term average.

MACD - Moving Average Convergence/Divergence - a technical

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indicator, developed by Gerald Appel, used to detect swings in the

price of financial instruments. The MACD is computed using two

exponentially smoothed moving averages (see further down) of the

security's historical price, and is usually shown over a period of time on 

a chart. By then comparing the MACD to its own moving average

(usually called the "signal line"), traders believe they can detect when

the security is likely to rise or fall. MACD is frequently used in

conjunction with other technical indicators such as the RSI (Relative

Strength Index, see further down) and the stochastic oscillator (see

further down).

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Momentum – is an oscillator designed to measure the rate of price

change, not the actual price level. This oscillator consists of the net

difference between the current closing price and the oldest closing

price from a predetermined period.

The formula for calculating the momentum (M) is:

M = CCP – OCP

Where:  CCP – current closing price

OCP – old closing price

Momentum

and

rate of change

(ROC) are simple indicators showing

the difference between today's closing price and the close N days ago.

"Momentum" is simply the difference, and the ROC is a ratio expressed

in percentage. They refer in general to prices continuing to trend. The

momentum and ROC indicators show that by remaining positive, while

an uptrend is sustained, or negative, while a downtrend is sustained.

A crossing up through zero may be used as a signal to buy, or a crossing

down through zero as a signal to sell. How high (or how low, when

negative) the indicators get shows how strong the trend is.

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RSI - Relative Strength Index - a technical momentum indicator,

devised by Welles Wilder, measures the relative changes between the

higher and lower closing prices. RSI compares the magnitude of recent

gains to recent losses in an attempt to determine overbought and

oversold conditions of an asset.

The formula for calculating RSI is:

RSI = 100 – [100 / (1 + RS)]

Where:  RS - average of N days up closes, divided by

average of N days down closes

N - predetermined number of days

The RSI ranges from 0 to 100. An asset is deemed to be overbought

once the RSI approaches the 70 level, meaning that it may be getting

overvalued and is a good candidate for a pullback. Likewise, if the RSI

approaches 30, it is an indication that the asset may be getting

 

oversold and therefore likely to become undervalued. A trader using

RSI should be aware that large surges and drops in the price of an asset

will affect the RSI by creating false buy or sell signals. The RSI is best

used as a valuable complement to other stock-picking tools.

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Stochastic oscillator - A technical momentum indicator that compares

an instrument's closing price to its price range over a given time period.

The oscillator's sensitivity to market movements can be reduced by

adjusting the time period, or by taking a moving average of the result.

This indicator is calculated with the following formula:

%K = 100 * [(C – L14) / (H14 – L14)]

C= the most recent closing price;

L14= the low of the 14 previous trading sessions;

H14= the highest price traded during the same 14-day period.

The theory behind this indicator, based on George Lane’s observations,

is that in an upward-trending market, prices tend to close near their

high, and during a downward-trending market, prices tend to close

near their low. Transaction signals occur when the %K crosses through a

three-period moving average called the “%D”.

Trend line - a sloping line of support or resistance.

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Up trend line – straight line drawn upward to the right along

successive reaction lows

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Down trend line – straight line drawn downwards to the right

along successive rally peaks

Two points are needed to draw the trend line, and a third point to

make it valid trend line.  Trend lines are used in many ways by traders.

One way is that when price returns to an existing principal trend line’ it

may be an opportunity to open new positions in the direction of the

trend in the belief that the trend line will hold and the trend will

continue further. A second way is that when price action breaks

through the principal trend line of an existing trend, it is evidence that

the trend may be going to fail, and a trader may consider trading in the

opposite direction to the existing trend, or exiting positions in the

direction of the trend.

Don’t fall in love with your Forex position.

Never take revenge of your Forex position

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Transactions are two-way at Forex

Transactions in foreign exchange can be done by two-way in taking advantage. A person can buy in advance ( open buy ), and conclude with selling ( sell ) or otherwise, to sell first, then covered with a purchase.

Unlike the stock market where brokers have equal access to the stock price, foreign exchange market is divided into several levels of access.

At the highest level of access is the inter-bank money market (interbank) consisting of investment banking firms besar.Pada interbank market, the difference between the bid price / selling price (ask) price and demand / purchase price (bid) is a very thin one even usually not exist, and this price is only applicable to their own ranks who are not known to players outside the group of foreign exchange. At the access level below, the range difference between the selling price and the purchase price to be largely dependent on the volume of transactions.

If a trader can guarantee the implementation of foreign exchange transactions in large amounts, they can request that the difference between the selling price and purchase reduced-called better spread (thin difference between buy and sell prices).

Level access to the foreign exchange market is largely determined by the size of the exchange transaction is conducted. Top ranked banks dominate "the interbank money market (interbank)" up to 53% of the entire value of the transaction. And after the top-ranked banks are the next rank is a small investment banks and multi-national corporations large (which require hedge transaction risk and pay employees in different countries), large hedge funds, and retail traders determines the foreign exchange market. According to Galati and Melvin, pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds and institutional investors is a player who has a big role in the financial markets in general and in particular the foreign exchange market since the 2000s decade.

Bank

Interbank money market (interbank) meet the needs of the majority of the velocity of money in the business world as well as the needs of daily transactions speculators who can reach the value of trillions of dollars. Some transactions executed for and on behalf of its clients, but most are for the benefit of owners of the bank or to the interests of the bank itself.

Until recently, foreign exchange brokers are the culprits of exchange turnover in large numbers, facilitating interbank trading and matching sellers and buyers to "wages" (fee) is small. But today many businesses are turning this foreign exchange to a more efficient electronic systems such as EBS (now owned by ICAP), Reuters Dealing 3000 Matching (D2), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Bloomberg and Tradebook (R)

The business world

One actor is the foreign exchange market is the need of the company's activities in making payments for goods and services denominated in foreign currencies. Currency foreign exchange needs of a company is often only a small value compared with the needs of banks and speculators and foreign exchange trading does often only a small impact for the market value of the exchange rate. Nevertheless foreign exchange trade flows of these companies in the long term is an important factor for the direction of the exchange rate of a currency. Transaction some multinational companies can bring unexpected consequences when they close a position (buy or sell position) where a very large once the transaction is not widely known by the market players.

The central bank

The central bank of a country holds a very important role in the foreign exchange market. The central bank is always trying to control the money supply, inflation, and interest rates or even often they have a target of both official and unofficial exchange rates currency country. Often the central bank to use its foreign exchange reserves to stabilize the market.

With market expectations or the issue of intervention by the central bank alone has been enough to stabilize the exchange rate of the local currency, but aggressive intervention conducted several times each year in a country whose exchange rate of its currency fluctuate.

Various sources of funds in the foreign exchange market when combined can easily "play" the central bank (withdraw or sell a currency in very large numbers once the central bank can no longer intervene) in which this scenario appears in 1992-1993 where European exchange rate mechanism ( European Exchange Rate Mechanism - ERM ) experience fall and fall some time currency exchange rates in Southeast Asia.

Investment management company

Investment management company (which usually is a lot of accounts manager on behalf of customers such as pension funds and foundations donated funds) that trade on the foreign exchange market for the needs of foreign currencies to make purchases of shares abroad. Foreign exchange transactions for them is not a primary investment objective so that it does not deal with speculative purposes or in order to obtain maximum profit.

Hedge funds

Hedge funds (an investment company that runs business activities speculative transactions for profit) such as George Soros whose reputation rose due to currency speculation does aggressively since 1990. He manages trillions of U.S. dollars and is still able to borrow more trillions of U.S. dollars, and are thus able to make interventions by the central bank of a country to maintain its exchange rate to be helpless if the economic fundamentals depends on the "mercy" of hedge funds.

Foreign exchange broker

Foreign exchange broker is a company established specifically to conduct brokerage services for the benefit of its customers in the fields of financial markets to obtain compensation for his services. According to CNN , a foreign exchange brokerage transaction volume has between 25 to 50 billion U.S. dollars per day, or about 2% of the total value of the foreign exchange market transactions as reported by the website and Futures Trading Commission ( Commodity Futures Trading Commission - CFTC ) that the novice investor with ease may be a target of fraud in foreign exchange trading.

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Would YOU like to FOREX

Foreign exchange market  ( forex ) is very exciting for everyone, as a means of hedging and investment as well as a professional and as a trader.

One reason is the hour foreign exchange trading begins every day in Sydney , then moves around the world on the business day begins, first in Tokyo , London and then to New York . With a computer and internet connection, you can deal about 24 hours hours per day from Monday morning to Saturday morning.

In contrast to other financial markets, forex respond quickly to currency fluctuations caused by economic events, social, and political at the time it happened - day or night. Zero commission on every transaction with a very low spread forex make much preferred.

Foreign Exchange Offering Advantages To Investors :

Forex trading is simple .

In Forex, you buy or sell a position does not need to monitor hundreds of stocks and a short time to do the transaction.

Trading forex risks controlled .

You can control the risk by placing a stop loss or liquidate a position according to the price determined by your criteria. Forex accounts can be set up so that you will never owe money. If your account equity below the margin required to maintain your open positions, then the broker may close all or part of your open positions.

Everyone can take advantage of forex

Transactions with a relatively small position can be entered and liquidated less than 5 minutes, there is no charge. No need to be a big customer in the bank or fund manager or fund.

Forex easily analyzed

Forex news and Fundamenta responds with a simple analysis. Traders took advantage of it by staying one step ahead of the news with knowing what to expect, how to take advantage if the consensus forecast does not correspond to reality.

Forex is easier than you think

You need to know some basic terms to get started. To increase your knowledge and show that Forex can be traded with a low risk, high profit strategy is not hard to master.

With proper education about the forex. With qualified consultants and reputable sources. Forex can be a useful activity that everyone can make money, either as an occupation, or profession - if they take the time to learn.

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Be fascinating with the trading

Do you ever thinkt why some people become good while others great? One of the reasons for that is attitude to what they doing. Some things you can’t change, such as inborn abilities but some things you can. “Try to change what you can and leave as they are what you can’t”. Attitude means a lot. Many famous persons become great and not just “good” because of their attitude towards their work. They love it. Not just execute it well as a job, but love it. So, you have to do the same. Particularly this love will kick you and let you to stay on process, when you will have:

1. Bad days;

2. Lazy days;

3. Sucky trading experience when all seems bad and wrong;

4. Trading despair and thoughts that maybe its time to find a different job;

You’ve got the point, I suppose - any moment when you will think that all your forces have left you. And at this moments love and your fascinating attitude will tell you: “Feel the Force Luke!” This will help you to stay on the process and succeed. Constant dripping wears away a stone!

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So, that’s all, I suppose. It was really nice time that I’ve spent with you and I’ve got a lot pleasure and interesting time during our discussion and passing through our school. Finally, since you’re ready to dive in this terrible but great trading world, probably you will find useful some other work that we’ve done, especially on your way to get successful trading system, find broker and other:

1. Pharaoh’s Forex Basics Boot Camp. Although we’ve discussed some issues, but Pharaoh will get you more details and more pure practical issues on many questions:

- How to choose a broker;

- How to not become scams’ victim;

- How to manage risk;

- How to trade FPA daily trading signals – just to name some, and a lot of other important and different “how to”.

2. Once you will read Pharaoh’s “how to trade FPA daily signals”, you may visit the FPA Daily Trading Signals folder and also the newest explanation on how to trade them.

3. In our Shoulder of Giants part you can pass through real-time analysis process. Here our special consultants give regular (weekly and daily) analysis of market as in text as in videos. Also here is a large archive or historical researches and videos. This is great education resource to find your own trading system and to study.

4. Make chatting and talking with other traders on any topic that you want in our Forum – ask questions get answers, share knowledge and experience!

5. Our Commerce Zone part of forum dedicated to discussion of services and third party companies.

6. We also have special part for discussion of brokers, signal services, software, trading systems and managed accounts – Live Services Discussion!

7. The last but not least our primary task - struggling against scam and punishing scammers. If you need some third part services but you do not want to get trapped by crooks or if you want to complain on some, as you think, scam – your parts are:

Reviews and Ratings read what others said about a company and leave your own reviews.

Performance tests Get a look at performance before signing up.

Scam Alerts Folder. Give details of any serious problems you've had with companies.

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Crude Oil, gold fall, as risk aversion returns to the end of the month

Crude Oil and Gold courses are in the midst of an apparent return of the "classical" risk aversion under pressure. Flows to the end of the month could be the appropriate catalyst.

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Crude Oil and Copper fall as risk aversion grips the financial markets

Gold and silver sold as U.S. dollar hits demand for safe investments again

Commodity prices are at the end of the trading week under pressure, due to of something that looks all the way to a return of the famous risikoaversiven dynamics.The cycle-sensitive Crude Oil and Copper courses follow the shares lower, while the U.S. dollar its reclaims references as a safe investment and rising, de facto gold and silver is under selling pressure. , the S & P 500 futures show strong downward, suggesting that it continues when the Wall Street comes online.

 The cash flow at the end of the month might be the drivers behind it, but that's pure speculation at this point. On the economic data front, the figures are for U.S. personal income and spending, and the Chicago PMI survey and the final revision of the consumer confidence survey from the University of Michigan in May in the center.

Technical Analysis Crude Oil (WTI) - The course seems to form a formation head-and-shoulders top chart. Confirmation requires a close below the neckline of the pattern (now at 92.78), which is initially the 1st low May at 90.09 and a measured target at lower exposing 88.58. Near-term resistance is at 95.89, the high of 28 May and a shock it is aimed at a falling trend line at 96.82.

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Gold Technical Analysis (Spot) - The share price rose more than expected , after a bullish engulfing candlestick pattern formed and overcame the 38.2% Fibonacci expansion at 1401.63. Buyers are now trying to challenge the 50% mark at 1421.26, and a push over it also targets the 61.8% Fib at 1440.90. 1401.63 The brand is now used as short-term support.

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Silver Technical Analysis (Spot) - The course continues to consolidate above support at 22.03, the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement. A fraction of which is aimed at the 50% level at 21.17. Near-term resistance is at 23.10, the 23.6% Fib, and turning it depends on the high of 26 April at 24.82.

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Copper Technical Analysis ( COMEX E-Mini) - The course could be a head-and-shoulders (H & S) bottom chart formation emerge. It is an acknowledgment by a closing price above the neckline of the pattern, now needed at 3,357. In a break above the high of 22 first moves May with 3,418 targeted. Short term support is at 3,275, the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement.

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