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The U.S. dollar index (USDX) is a measure of the value of the U.S. dollar against a basket of six world currencies – Euro, Swiss Franc, Japanese Yen, Canadian dollar, British pound, and Swedi...

The U.S dollar index – USDX / DXA

Travel firms, store operators rally on reopening optimism, big tech firms look back at a tumultuous year, and could Zoom be among the stay-home winners?

Just under 15 months after covid-19 r...

Stocks: Stay-at-Home Vs Recovery Equities. A Year After Covid, Who Are The Real Pandemic Winners?

To aspire to greatness in trading requires a key virtue that’s common to most professions and most arts: balance. Each trade requires us to split ourselves into two parts: caution and courage...

The Mindset of Great Traders: How To Get In, Get Out & Keep Your Head In The Game

Although there are more than four thousand different cryptocurrencies in existence, the two titans of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) remain king, accounting for more than 65% of the entire mar...

Bitcoin Vs Ethereum: The Difference Between Crypto’s Two Big-Hitters

One of the most popular approaches to trading strategy creation is so-called breakout trading. The idea is to open new trades when the price breaks a support or resistance level and moves bey...

Breakouts, shakeouts and fakeouts

First described by the Italian scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger in 1557, platinum (XPT) is one of the rarest and most expensive commodities in the world.

In terms of availability, it is more s...

Platinum (XPT) – One Of The Most Expensive Metals On Earth

We’re all familiar with the term “unemployment”. We’ve all either been out of work, know someone who has been out of work, or are familiar with the states of the economy that lead to high or ...

How Unemployment Figures Affect Currency Exchange Rates

There’s a commonly held belief that success in trading is about finding a secret formula, a system that nobody else knows, that could explain price moves and offer a “solution” to the markets...

A Tale of Two Traders: Fundamental Vs. Technical

What makes some markets more popular than others? Why is it for instance that the main dollar pairs are favoured more than some obscure FX pairs? There certainly are plenty of markets to choo...

What makes popular markets so popular?

You might have seen ads with amazing track records with a 95% success rate and promises that just by paying a couple of hundred dollars to the developers you will be allowed to join the ever-...

The best market analysis tool EVER!

MetaTrader 5 (MT5) looks almost exactly the same as MetaTrader 4 (MT4) so what are the differences? This short article will cover the main differences and point to some very useful features y...

Which MetaTrader version is the best?

Let’s face it, deciding which stocks to buy is difficult. Period. Even those that do it professionally find it challenging and don’t always get it right. We know that markets aren’t 100% effi...

The best stocks to buy now?

The IBEX 35 (ESP35) index is Spain’s domestic and international benchmark for the BME Spanish Exchange. It is used as a barometer of the health of Spanish and European stock performance.

It ...

The IBEX 35 (ESP35) – Spain’s Biggest Index

The currency trading market was one of the first financial markets in history to provide quotes and order books, 24 hours a day on business days to traders globally.

This was possible largel...

The Best Time To Trade Forex – The 3 Major Sessions Of The Market That (Almost) Never Sleeps

With single stock trades, we are sometimes exposing our trading accounts to more risk than we understand. If such trades are highly leveraged and held overnight, traders definitely take more ...

How to trade the stock market effectively and with lower risk?

Over the years in the industry, I have seen lots of different kinds of traders. Some have no idea what they are doing while others have even achieved some success. There have been traders tha...

Markets will be there tomorrow, what about you?

As late as 2010 the Japanese stock market was known as the perfect market for perma-bears. It was an ideal market for traders who were always negative on stocks and believed that every rally ...

QE can turn a perma-bear into a raging bull

Did a hoard of retail traders squeeze the hedge fund giants out of their short trades in January 2021? This is what it certainly looks like. At the time of writing this, the news is freshly o...

Hedge fund titans squeezed out of their shorts

What is the most important trading tool a trader can have? There are many candidates for this nomination but I believe that one specific tool available in traders’ toolboxes is well above all...

The most important trading tool

A forex transaction is the exchange of one country or economic region’s currency for another. As such, forex traders need to keep abreast of the status of the world’s largest economies to asc...