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More Good Mid-Summer Trading — 3/4 ITM

Jul. 18, 2014

The market has been surprisingly amenable to a decent amount of trade set-ups recently. Normally, during the lower-volatility period of the mid-summer the market is at its most lackadaisical point. But for anyone looking for quality trade set-ups you definitely can’t complain about price movements backed by legitimate volatility. Needless to say, one needs a […]

Two Rules For Support And Resistance

Jul. 17, 2014

Support and resistance are one of the most basic forms of technical analysis. Like many other tools of the trade, being basic does not make it simple. Identifying and using support and resistance, S/R, successfully as part of your daily trading routine takes time and practice. I am here today to help you gain an […]

EUR/USD Trading for July 15, 2014 (2/3 ITM)

Immediately when I began looking at the market, the resistance 1 level of 1.36073 stuck out as the first price level to consider trading. The market seemed to be venturing toward it so I set my alarm a few pips above it and it triggered about ten minutes later. The first touch occurred on the […]

How To Set Up A Day Trade Using Fibonacci Retracements

Jul. 15, 2014

 As you may know, I really like Fibonacci Retracements. They are a fantastic tool for technical analysis with many uses and applications. Basically, FR’s are target areas for support and resistance based on ancient mathematical relationships found in nature. At heart is the Golden Ratio, which can be found between all living things such as […]

How Often Should I Trade?

If you’re a day trader (or swing trader or even investor) you’ve probably asked yourself, or someone else, a similar question– “How often should I trade?” Trading too much can erase your edge in the market place, and highlight other problems such as lack of discipline or poorly defined trading strategies. Trading too little means […]

EUR/USD Trading for July 14, 2014

Today was an interesting trading day with many ebbs and flows in the market that made things interesting. Summer trading tends to always be lower in terms of volatility, but it did feel more like a day during the fall or spring where there’s a lot more up-and-down. And this, of course, was just the […]

EUR/USD Binary Options Trading for July 10, 2014

Jul. 13, 2014

As has been customary this summer, more support and resistance trading mainly through the primary use of pivot points as my guiding influence was the basis behind today’s trading. The pair made a steady decline back down toward the daily pivot level of 1.36324 around the beginnning of the 3AM (EST) hour. It came agonizingly […]

EUR/USD Binary Options Trading for July 9, 2014

Jul. 12, 2014

I found a solid trade set-up on the support 1 level of 1.36153. As I stated in my post on the GBP/JPY trading from yesterday, my favorite type of trades are those that go with the general trend at retracements back to recent support and resistance levels. By “trend” in the case of short-term binaries, […]

Best and Worst Ways to Learn to Trade

Jul. 11, 2014

Best and Worst Ways to Learn to Trade New traders take all sorts of different approaches to learn to trade. Here’s a look at some of the common methods, with thoughts on each to help you make the most of them. Trading Books: I personally love trading books (see 4 Great Trading Books You Should […]

Why Use Historical Charts

Historical charts, or just charts, are the means by which we do what we do. Trade. Charts of historical price action are incredibly valuable and there is no question of there importance to technical analysis. However, there is widespread debate over the importance of using historical data to back test and its reliability on future […]