Showing posts with label technical analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technical analysis. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Choosing Regulated Forex Broker

Make really sure you're getting a forex spot account and not forwards and futures account. Almost everybody uses the spot market as it is easier to rollover your position. Be certain that you feel comfortable with regulated forex broker policies before registering. Look for these few stuffs

1. Bid/ask pip price on currency pairs

As we take the journey through the final part of this article, you can look back at the first part if you need any clarifications on what we have already learned.

2. minimum trading unit size 3. Reliability of the trading platform

4. EBook in teaching you the standard strategies to trade

5. Requoting policy

Search for the most competitive spreads as this will decrease your costs of trading FOREX. If you're trading heavily, it might cost you a lot of dollars for not receiving a great competitive spreads. Competitive spreads are about 3 to 5 pips and if you're receiving spreads of 8 pips or more, just snub this platform.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Technical Analysis:

There are lots of things that you can get when you utilize stock resource sites like Featured Profiles. You will get different methods for stock analysis. One of which is technical analysis, which for some is a useful tool for stock behavior. The technical analysis uses charts that determine the trending of stock price in a given period. It also shows the level of the high and low movement of the stocks. Although technical analysis is only one tool in stock analysis, investors find it relevant to have technical analysis approach to stock analysis. And this is present at Featured Profiles when they provide traders and investors with the featured company or stock picks. Aside from the technical analysis, the site also provides other approaches that are even more popular and important such as fundamental analysis and quantitative analysis.

Fundamental Analysis and Technical analysis

Technical analysis and fundamental analysis are the two basic areas of strategy in the FOREX market which is the exact same as in the equity markets. However, technical analysis is by far the most common strategy that is used by individual FOREX traders. Here is a brief overview of both forms of analysis and how they directly apply to forex trading:

Fundamental Analysis
If you think it's hard enough to value one company, you should try valuing a whole country instead. Fundamental analysis in the forex market is often an extremely difficult one, and it's usually used only as a means to predict long-term trends. However it is important to mention that some traders do trade short term strictly on news releases. There are a lot of different fundamental indicators of the currency values released at many different times.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Forex Value Dates


All Forex quotes are typically based on settlement business days after the transaction was executed (the one major exception being the USD/Canadian Dollar which settles after one business day).

Theoretically a currency trader will take physical delivery of the currency in two days; however, delivery is avoided by rolling the positions forward one day, usually referred to as Tomorrow Next Day (Tom Next) procedures. The newly opened position is assigned a new value date allowing the client to hold this position another day without taking delivery of the currency. The Tom Next rate is determined by the respective difference in interest rates between the two currencies held. If a trader is long a high interest currency and short a low interest currency he will earn interest for one day. If a trader is holding the foreign currency with the lower rate of interest he will pay interest. These payments are received during the establishment of the new opening rate, in the form of a slightly better or worse price after the roll (swap) has taken place.

During the roll procedure all open positions are closed at the current market rate, and any unrealized profits or losses are realized. This new rate is determined by the price the position was closed out at plus or minus the Tom Next rate. If a trader is flat e.g. long €2 million EUR/USD and short €2 million EUR/USD it is not necessary to roll positions.

Monday, August 18, 2008

MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal with ForexGen

MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal has been created to provide trade operations and technical analysis in real time mode, when working at Forex, CFD, Futures financial markets. A wide range of orders allows flexible management of trading activities.

Client Terminal MetaTrader 4 key Features:working with securities of Forex, Futures and CFD markets;various execution technologies: Instant Execution, Request Execution, Market Execution;confidentiality of all trading operations;unlimited charts quantity;support of various timeframes (from minutes up to months);large number of technical indicators and line studies;experts, Custom Indicators and Scripts;multiLanguage program interface;realtime data export via DDE protocol;signals of system and trading actions;getting on-line news from financial markets;internal e-mail system;printing charts and completed trading transactions statements.