Articles tagged: "dollar"
1: The Fate Of The US Dollar
An article on the US economy and whether the American dollar hold up years to come
2: The Decline of the British Pound Limits Travel for Holidaymakers
British tourists are having to re-think how many holidays they can take overseas in a year, as the British pound hits an all time low against the Euro.
3: Exchange Rates Affect Holiday Plans
It 's summer time, and summer time for many people is holiday time. But the weakness of the US dollar and British pound could influence where Americans and the British take their holidays this year.
4: Time to Evaluate the Possibility of a Change of Trend
Many American investors bought foreign stock making profit as the dollar kept falling. Now they are selling some of the foreign investments. Is this the time side with the dollar?
5: Duck And Dive But Not With Borrowed Money
A currency deal brings a winner and a loser, trade with money you can afford not with borrowed money, it is fine to take small profits but watch out for danger waves, only patient investors can survive.
6: Let Us Not Forget the Pendulum Factor of the Foreign Currency Exchange
Foreign currency exchange, the swinging pendulum factor, the US dollar and the euro, foreign currency exchange companies, odds in favour, nerve and courage, realtors and fantastic property, purchasing at the right time, being greedy can be detrimental.
7: Rick Redmont Bases Trading on Wyckoff Theories
Off-floor trader Rick Redmont gained his first experience trading stocks as a college student during the bull market of 1961. "I had ,000, which turned into ,000. I followed the Chartcraft (Inc.) point and figure book-but it didn't really matter what you bought. The only thing that made you mad
8: Tom DeMark Relies 100% on Market Timing
Trader and consultant Tom DeMark has invented dozens of proprietary technical indicators over the years and relies strictly on the technical principles of market timing for his research and trading. In fact at one point in his career, DeMark went through the CFA program (certified financial ana
9: Tom Bierovic Uses Discretion on Top of His Rules
Off floor trader Tom Bierovic, trades according to a set of rules he has developed over the years, but uses his own discretion on top of these rules. Bierovic believes he was lucky because he was introduced to the futures business at a very young age. His father was a trader at the MidAmerica E
10: Choosing a Trading System That Actually Works
I believe a good trading system should be considered for inclusion in one 's portfolio in order to potentially enjoy superior returns. Finding a good trading system, however, can be a very difficult process. So it becomes necessary to have a way of distinguishing good systems from the rest. Fort
11: Linda Bradfore Raschke Focuses on Technicals
After spending six years trading on the floor, first at the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange and then at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Linda Bradford Raschke shifted gears and moved to an off-floor office in 1987. After trading her own money for several years, she moved into the money management
12: George Lane Still Trading Off Stochastics at Age 75
George Lane completed his 47th year of trading in December 1996 and is still going strong. After many years of trading in the grain pits in downtown Chicago, Lane has shifted to screen trading during his "retirement" in a small community about 80 miles south of Chicago.However, retirement means
13: Angelo Reynolds Scalps in the Eurodollar Pit
As a trader in the Eurodollar futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Angelo Reynolds cites mental toughness and courage as two of the necessary factors to successful pit trading. "I knew I always wanted to be involved in the markets," Reynolds said. After graduating from the University
14: Grant Noble Reads Mass Media for Contrarian Signals
Futures trader and author Grant Noble looks to the mass news media in order to garner signals of major market bottoms or tops. Only, he looks to the media with a contrarian perspective.Noble gained his first introduction to the futures industry when he worked as a retail commodity broker in the
15: Glenn Neely Bucks Traditional Elliott Analysis
Glenn Neely locks horns with traditional Elliott wave theoreticians and has developed his own approach to trading the markets, which he calls NEoWave Theory. Neely first encountered the Elliott wave theory back in the early 1980 's while he was working off-shore in the oil industry. At that time
16: Key to Day-Trading: Have Your 'Team' in Place
Day-trading is a very serious business; if you don't have all the right ingredients in place before you begin trading, you're dead. One of the most important aspects of the day-trading business is your "team:"- Your broker- Your trading advisor- Your live quote feed- Your trading software- Your
17: Lee Gettess Focuses on Controlling Risk
Trader Lee Gettess focuses on risk control as a major factor in determining his success in the commodity markets. However, it wasn't always that way. Gettess received his introduction to the commodity futures markets via a telephone call from a broker. "He told me how Omar Sharif had made mill
18: Cynthia Kase Relies on Proprietary Technical Indicators
Trader and consultant Cynthia Kase relies on a series of proprietary technical indicators that has developed for her trading signals. Kase makes her trading decisions strictly based on these technical indicators and doesn't rely on fundamental analysis at all.Kase was first exposed to trading i
19: Jake Bernstein: Psychologist Turned Trader
Jake Bernstein, one of the futures industry 's best-known traders, started trading "by accident" he told FWN. Bernstein was a psychologist who responded to an ad in the newspaper regarding "ag futures." A broker started calling him and Bernstein opened an account."I had quick success, which turn
20: Day-Trading: Not What You Think
The day-trader is a cross between an extrovert and an introvert with both characteristics in balance. The introvert aspect is depicted by the disciplined workaholic with a reclusive concentration. The extrovert aspect is depicted by an aggressive, competitive, self-motivated individual striving
21: George Fontanills Incorporates Options to Lower Risk
Trader George Fontanills first began utilizing options in order to go "delta neutral" on his futures positions, which would allow him to "still sleep well at night." Since he began using options in conjunction with his futures trading, Fontanills believes he has found a way to accelerate his pr
22: Walter Bressert Reads Market Via Cycles & Oscillators
Walter Bressert earned a college degree in economics, which taught him "economists don't know much about the way the world works." An active trader for many years, Bressert relies on cycles and oscillators in his intraday futures trading, in which he primarily focuses on the S&P 500 contract.Ho
23: How an Options Specialist Prepares for the Market Opening
At 6:45 a.m. the traffic already is building on the expressways that feed into downtown Chicago. From inside your car, the only real difference between winter and summer at this time of day is that in summer the sun is already up. In the dead of winter, traders only see the sunshine on vacation
24: George Angell Keys in on Volatility and Liquidity
Volatility and liquidity are the two elements independent trader George Angell looks for in a market to trade. Currently, Angell exclusively trades the S&P 500 futures, putting on intraday trades only, never holding positions overnight. "Liquidity and volatility are the two things you have to h
25: Gary Wagner Uses Candlesticks to Measure Sentiment
Japanese candlesticks offer a "mathematical expression of psychological market sentiment" to trader Gary Wagner, who utilizes these Eastern technical indicators in conjunction with Western tools to actively trade for himself.It took Wagner several years into the commodity business before he beg
26: Larry Williams: Training Key for Trading, Running
Trader and marathon runner Larry Williams sees parallels between successful trading and successful marathon running. Williams, who recently completed his sixteenth marathon run, pointed to "pain and agony" as being two of the obvious similarities between trading and long-distance running."Anyon
27: Persistence Pays Off for Joe Stowell
According to independent trader Joe Stowell, persistence and courage are two key characteristics necessary for success in trading. Persistence certainly has paid off for Stowell, who traded part time off and on for 20 years, before leaving his job as a school teacher to trade full time.Stowell
28: Ben Warwick 's "Event Trading" Keys in on News
While many traders focus either on technicals or fundamentals as they develop their trading strategies, trader Ben Warwick focuses on a market 's reaction to news. Warwick has developed his own method of trading, which he calls it "event trading."Warwick first gained exposure to the financial ma
29: Lost in Forex Loss
An email prompted me to consider the significance of taking responsibility in trading. There is a natural tendency for most people, in any area of life, to not take responsibility for results and behaviors that appear negative. We want to see ourselves in a good light and it is tempting to try
30: How To Nail The Market When Everyone Else Is Wrong
Picture the scene -- you have done your an alysis and have been waiting for the breakout of a range. You might even have identified a head and shoulders or double bottom. So anyway, you have a trade all set up and you are just waiting for the move.Let 's say you have identified a rectangle and a
31: How To Think Like A Winning Day Trader
What makes the best traders successful? Are they "lucky"? Have they discovered some "secret" indicator? No. They've learned the truth about trading. Trading success is a simple as 1-2-3.Step 1 - Understand what trading is really about;Step 2 - Learn what a winning day trader does;Step 3 - Th
32: Easy Way to Cut Losses
I have successfully given up two unhelpful behaviors, one was smoking which I stopped 10 years ago; and the other was drinking alcohol, which I gave up last year. Most people these days agree that smoking is a bad habit, but equally most people still consider drinking to be perfectly healthy in
33: What is Paper Trading?
Over the years I have trained many traders and I always advise that they spend at least three months paper trading before they go live with real money.Now even though I advise this I have never had a student actually do it. They all give up on paper trading after a few weeks and go live.Why is
34: Richard Rhodes' Trading Rules
I must admit, I am not smart enough to have devised these ridiculously simple trading rules. A great trader gave them to me some 15 years ago. However, I will tell you, they work. If you follow these rules, breaking them as infrequently as possible, you will make money year in and year out, som
35: Should I Override the Forex Strategy?
Trading is all about percentages. You enter a trade because you believe that it 's more likely to succeed than fail. The job of finding favourable trades goes to your trading system. There are numerous books and courses about trading systems. The actual trading system you use is beyond the scope
36: Forex Trading for Beginners
A number of years ago I did a survey of over 1,000 people who had replied to adds I placed in local newspapers advertising various stock market information. This is what I found out: over 73% admitted they were losing money trading their own accounts.Is it any wonder 95% of private traders lose
37: Arthur Hill on Goals, Style and Strategy
Before investing or trading, it is important to develop a strategy or game plan that is consistent with your goals and style. The ultimate goal is to make money (win), but there are many different methods to go about it.As with many aspects of trading, many sports offer a good analogy. A footba
38: John Murphy 's Ten Laws of Technical Trading
Which way is the market moving? How far up or down will it go? And when will it go the other way? These are the basic concerns of the technical analyst. Behind the charts and graphs and mathematical formulas used to analyze market trends are some basic concepts that apply to most of the theorie
39: Why Watch Market Indicators?
A common and effective way to gain perspective on stock price fluctuations is to compare the movement of your stocks to that of indices or market indicators. About 100 years ago, as the number of individual stocks grew, the need to measure how the stock market performed became obvious. In 1896
40: How to Make Money Shorting Stocks in Up and Down Markets
Now I am very much aware that many market players do not like to short stocks. This bias against the short side of the market is totally understandable, especially given the fact that the widespread reluctance is garnered and perpetuated by the various exchanges and the other powers-that-be. Fo
41: Avoiding Mistakes in Forex Trading
A difficult challenge facing a trader, and particularly those trading e-forex, is finding perspective. Achieving that in markets with regular hours is hard enough, but with forex, where prices are moving 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it is exceptionally laborious.When inundated with consta
42: What Are Commonly Traded Securities
Stocks -- When you buy stocks you essentially own a little share of the company you just bought. The more shares you buy the more of the company you own.When the company whose shares you have bought makes a profit you will receive that profit in the form of dividends. Ownership of shares is nor
43: The Trend is Your Friend
We traders have to try to achieve a state of impartiality. We have to accept that we will have losses as readily as we will gains. Reaching a stage where you can comfortably accept losses, in the knowledge that your method of trading will produce profits in the longer term, is the state we have
44: The Flaw In Our Emotions
As humans we have a natural tendency to try and influence our surroundings and events we take part in. This is one reason as a species we have succeeded but it is also one of the fundamental flaws we all have when trying to achieve success as a trader. As traders we have to realize we have no c
45: Momentum Trading
One of the most basic and widely used indicators is that of momentum. Before I go on to tell you how we can use the momentum indicator to trade with, I want to explain the difference between a leading and a lagging indictor.Nearly all indicators are lagging indicators. That is to say that the p
46: The Mastery Of Self Trading
We do everything for a reason. The reason behind any act is, for the most part, unconscious. If we want to change a behaviour we need to identify the reason, the underlying objective, and examine it. We need to examine it to determine whether this objective, this assumption, supports us in what
47: Intraday Trading Tactics
In this lesson I want to discuss intraday tactics that you should be aware of when you start to trade intraday.By intraday I mean very short time frames such as 1 minute, 5 minute and 15 minute charts. This will apply to traders who actively trade and probably trade frequently during the course
48: High Low Breakout Technique
This technique can be used for any market that has a decent daily range. If you look at any chart, what do you see? You should see a succession of bars that are doing one of three things. 1. Going up 2. Going down 3. Going sideways Unless today 's bar turns out to be an inside day or very
49: Who Trades The Markets
Let 's just clarify what is meant by the term trader, sometimes called retail trader or day trader.This is an individual who trades the financial market whatever they may be using their own money. They may or may not be dependent on the results of their trading for their income. This does not in
50: Understanding Stochastics
The foreign exchange markets move when some force makes one currency either more or less valuable than another. The cumulative purchase and sales of a currency cause it to move up or down and to become more or less valuable in relation to other currencies. The primary factors influencing exchan
