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Forex Options: How to Make Use of Implied Volatility in Trading Forex
By Forex Fraud:
Forex options can be exceptionally useful for a forex trader, but there’s no single way of using them in trading. You can use them as a kind of hedging mechanism, or to reduce the overall exposure of your account to a currency pair. You may use them to limit your downside. And you [...]
The Forex Heatmap ™ – Version 2.0
The Forex Heatmap ™ is a real time visual map of the spot forex and it tells you what pair is the best to trade and which direction. This unique forex trade entry management system organizes a vast amount of data from 8 different individual currency families and the data is presented as a simple [...]
Downtown Forex’s Indicator Library Launched
By Downtown Forex – June 25th – Just launched today! Check out our “Expert Advisor” section for over 2700 indicators, free for download. Check back in the next couple of days for our library of expert advisors.
MetaTrader 5 Is More Than Just An MT4 Upgrade
BY FOREXMAGNATES -
This is the first in a 5-part series on MetaQuotes upcoming release of the MetaTrader 5 trading platform. The new MT5 platform is not an upgrade of MT4 but rather an entirely new client terminal, written from scratch. MT5 will feature:
5 order types and 4 execution modes available for trading
Implements practically any trading [...]
My favorite indicator of inflation and it’s not gold!
BY ADAM HEWISON -
There is an indicator which has been around since 1957. It has accurately forecasted every inflationary and deflationary cycle since.
This is my number one indicator for large cyclic trends. You may want to watch this index carefully should you want to invest in certain stocks and commodity related markets.
Over the last half-century, [...]
Forex Morning News: Dollar and Yen Weaken Overnight
By ForexDistrict- The Dollar and Yen weakened against its major counterparts as Asia stocks gained, spurring demand for higher yielding assets. Higher commodity prices and the strongest gain in Australian consumer confidence in 22 years, helped fuel stocks into positive territory for the first time in three days. Oil and gold prices maintained momentum, reaching [...]
USD/JPY Bows to Our 3rd Tier Downtrend Line
Technorati Profile
By Fast Brokers – The USD/JPY is turning south from our 3rd tier downtrend line as we notice a Dollar appreciation across the board today. We haven’t seen any abnormal volume to the upside on the 1-day chart, leading us to believe that the USD/JPY may remain in its steady downtrend. It would take [...]
U.S. Wholesale Inventories Decline in April
(ForexDistrict) – U.S. wholesale inventories declined for the month of April by 1.4%, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The decline followed a revised -1.8% the month prior, indicating the eight consecutive month of decline among this index.
Sales for the month declined 0.4% and are now 19.5% below the level a year [...]
US Treasury Yields in a Tug of War
“The Wall Street firms that trade directly with the Federal Reserve say speculators betting that interest rates may head higher this year are wrong.
Policy makers will keep the target for overnight loans between banks in a range of zero to 0.25 percent this year, according a survey of 15 of the 16 primary dealers of [...]
GBP/JPY – Another Trade Idea
by: Back Bay FX
GBP/JPY has been trading in a range that is well-defined by the 2 hour time frame Bollinger Bands. In the below snapshot, the pair has bounces off the midline and seems to be continuing it’s move higher. Yet that midline is a very important level.
We will use a Buy Limit order to [...]