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7 Habits of a Highly Successful Trader

by Free eBooks on April 24, 2012

Everyone can understand the concept of the book from the title easily. It’s all about the habits of a trader, sorry to be exact, a successful forex trader. This is not a technical or fundamental or statistical analysis of stock/forex/any insurance related companies. Its all about how human psychology can work good with a trader’s [...]

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The heikin-ashi charting technique is a visual, less subjective method for displaying trending and consolidation periods. The color of the modified candlesticks indicates the nature of the trend: A series of white bodies shows an ascending trend, while a sequence of black candle bodies is associated with a downtrend. The size of the candlestick body [...]

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The Asian crisis of 1997-98 and its aftermath quickly shifted attention to and interest in concerns about currency crises and exchange rate movements in an era of rapid global capital flows. Given the high degree of economic openness in the region and its consequent importance of trade and investment, the Asian economies are especially susceptible [...]

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Simply put, if you want to survive, then you need to start thinking like a Woodchuck. If you want to make money, you need to commit yourself to freeing yourself from the trap and getting the fruit. Or, more importantly, finding a way to eat the fruit without ever entering the trap in the first [...]

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Trend Following Stochastic Forex Trading Strategy

by Free eBooks on February 8, 2012

This is a forex strategy found over internet written by anonymous author. This strategy sounds simple but I feel it will not work on both trending as well as ranging markets. Two indicators namely Stochastic Oscillator and ATR (14) are used in this strategy. In addition to the two indicators, trend lines are also used [...]

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Trend vs No Trend : Which Technical Indicators to Use?

by Free eBooks on January 21, 2012

Trendline analysis is sometimes underestimated because it is perceived as overly subjective in nature. While this criticism has some truth, it overlooks the reality that trendlines help focus attention on the underlying price pattern, filtering out the noise of the market. For this reason, trendline analysis should be the first step in determining the existence [...]

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Michael C.Thomsett | ISBN-10: 013701290X | ISBN-13: 978-0137012909 | FT Press | 240 pages Use Puts to Mitigate Risk, Reverse and Offset Losses, and Protect Profits–Even in Plummeting Markets! “In these financial times, this is an especially timely book. Michael C. Thomsett provides practical, direct instruction to investors on how to employ put options to [...]

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JON GREGORY|  WILEY | ISBN :047068576X | ISBN 13 : 978-0470685761  | PAGES : 448 The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure [...]

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17 Money Making Candlestick Formations

by Free eBooks on December 22, 2011

Candlestick lines and charts : Traditional Japanese charts whose individual lines look like candles, hence their name. The candlestick line is comprised of a real body and shadows. See “Real body” and “shadow”. Belt-hold line : There are bullish and bearish belt holds. A bullish belt hold is a tall white candlestick that opens on [...]

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Using Fibonacci Ratios And Momentum by Thom Hartle

by Free eBooks on December 22, 2011

During an uptrend, good traders will buy the pullbacks, positioning themselves with the trend, taking advantage of the market’s tendency to ebb and flow. When the market is in a downtrend, however, the strategy is to sell rallies, awaiting for the downtrend to resume.Fibonacci ratios, which are used by traders, is based on the work of the 13th-century Italian mathematician Leonardo [...]

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