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Friday, December 12th, 2008You will see a lot of marketing materials out there explaining why the spot market is so much better and cheaper than the currency futures market, but how much of it is fact and how much is hype? What are the real differences between these two closely related markets? Is it really cheaper to trade [...]
Riding the Waves: Managing Longer-Term Position Trades for Larger Profits
Sunday, May 25th, 2008by Timothy Morge
Many traders look at longer-term charts and see the large moves that can occur on these longer time-frames. But not many traders catch these large moves. Is it impossible? The key to catching these large moves is using a low amount of leverage to limit your exposure, finding a high probability entry set [...]
Lost in Translation: Foreign Exchange Tax Codes (Part III)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Section 1256: Lovable Tax Savings for Futures Traders. It’s not often in the complex world of trader tax accounting that we stumble upon an out-and-out gift from the Internal Revenue Service with no strings attached, but just such a friendly St. Bernard of a tax break may be found in Section 1256 contracts.
What is a [...]
Lost in Translation: Foreign Exchange Tax Codes (Part II)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Section 988: Worst Case for Gains, Best Case for Losses. The world ’round, life seems to come in twos: Heads and tails. Regular and premium. Standard and deluxe. Coach and first class. Gold and platinum.
The same is true when it comes to forex trading and the tax rules that pertain to it.
There are [...]
Lost in Translation: Foreign Exchange Tax Codes (Part I)
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Remember that hit movie “Lost in Translation,” in which a clueless Bill Murray wanders dumbstruck through the foreign and thoroughly baffling world of modern-day Tokyo? That’s the look that comes over many forex traders when they try to get their head around the Internal Revenue Code as it relates to foreign exchange trading.
Forex is the [...]
Technical Indicators In Forex Trading – Understanding Their Limitations
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008By Jovan Vucetic
Forex traders often look at indicators such as Bollinger Bands, Pivot Points, MACD, Moving Averages and the such to help them determine where to enter or exit trades. Using technical indicators is fine, however many traders overemphasize their importance or just plain misunderstand them.Many forex traders think that they can simply download an [...]
The Best Way to Trade with Limited Capital
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007by Bruce Babcock
One of the biggest swindles unscrupulous commodity vendors are pulling is to suggest that you can be a successful commodity trader with minimum capital. In order to sell their trading courses, they claim you can make a fortune starting with whatever amount you currently have available.
Most thoughtful experts agree that there is a [...]
High Probability Trading
Friday, November 30th, 2007by Neal Hughes – FibMaster
Even traders with limited experience start to realize that we are not trying to capture every market move. We want to improve our odds and reduce our frustration by filtering, for high-probability trades.
The combination of trend and Fibonacci techniques can provide powerful signals for higher probability trading. We already know [...]