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Trading Opportunities at Recently Created Levels of Support and Resistance

Aug. 05, 2014

This article was originally contributed by the archived community member Mifune. We no longer maintain contact details for the original author. The content has been fact-checked and updated for accuracy by our editorial team. August 3, 2014 Last Friday’s trading of the EUR/USD didn’t amount to much in the way of trading opportunities setting up […]

EUR/USD Trading for July 31, 2014 (1/1 ITM)

Aug. 03, 2014

This article was originally contributed by the archived community member Mifune. We no longer maintain contact details for the original author. The content has been fact-checked and updated for accuracy by our editorial team. 1. The first trading opportunity I encountered was not as easy when it came to making a cut-and-dried decision about if […]

EUR/USD Trading for July 29, 2014 (1/2 ITM)

Aug. 02, 2014

This article was originally contributed by the archived community member Mifune. We no longer maintain contact details for the original author. The content has been fact-checked and updated for accuracy by our editorial team. A bit of a unique set-up occurred when I first began trading, in that it’s not one that comes up frequently. […]

Trading Seasonality in Individual Stocks

Aug. 01, 2014

Seasonality refers to recurring patterns in asset classes, often due to a time of the year impact. For example, summer may push up the price of crude of oil as more people drive cars and go on holidays, or heating oil prices may be pushed up in the winter as more people require heat in […]

How To Draw The Best Trend Lines

 This article is in response to a question I get asked, or see asked, just about every week. There are dozens of great answers out there but none seem to focus on the mechanics of actually drawing the lines and how that may affect your analysis. I began this article by grouping support, resistance and […]

Trading is Not About Prediction

Jul. 31, 2014

Sitting at dinner last night with several friends I was asked my thoughts on the stock market — a question I get asked numerous times each day. My response is usually the same “I am a trader, I don’t have thoughts on the what the future holds for the market.” I like saying it because […]

Small Pivot Point Range Trading: 3/3 ITM

This article was originally contributed by the archived community member Mifune. We no longer maintain contact details for the original author. The content has been fact-checked and updated for accuracy by our editorial team. July 28, 2014 The benefits of having a tightly constricted set of pivot points is that the market may provide several […]

Random Advice From One Trader to Another

Jul. 30, 2014

The following is an email I sent to an aspiring traders based on some questions he had asked me. So with that in mind here are some random pieces of advice from one trader to another. These points are based on how I day trade, and I typically day trade on very short time frames […]

Trading Around News Time

Jul. 27, 2014

This article was originally contributed by the archived community member Mifune. We no longer maintain contact details for the original author. The content has been fact-checked and updated for accuracy by our editorial team. July 26, 2014 Trading when the news is released as a binary options trader can be risky. In Forex trading, managing […]