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Articles for category: Educational
The limitations of demo trading: of pain and gain
Demo or paper trading is very advantageous to new traders in learning much of the basics of financial trading. This site strongly recommends all new traders to blow up demo accounts of any size at least 5 times!! One of the issues with that, is that new traders may come to feel demoralised and then ...
Where the big action is – 4H
This is a short one. Over the last 3 years I’ve come to appreciate – and more so in the last year – that the really big action is on the 4H time frame. Yes – for sure there is even bigger action on the daily (1D) time frame on lots of markets/charts. But 4H ...
Another look at stop-losses
Stop-losses are very important to all new traders. In this post I look at it more deeply. The infographic below is about fixed targets which are relevant to most types of trading strategies. It is not very relevant to trend-following methods.
NZDCAD Long
I’ve been stalking NZDCAD for some time. It is a most interesting and challenging currency pair. In August I was stalking NZDCAD for a short. At that time there was a weekly zone of resistance. Now here at the end of November, the picture has changed. Sound traders shift their mindsets as new information emerges. I’m ...
Blood bath on Wall Street?
For those who have been watching the US30 or the SPY or the DJI, there is some crazy stuff going on. The on the night of the Trump victory, the bears mauled the bulls – as you can see on chart below. The bulls rebelled within hours. The market rallied to a new high. But ...
Traps and perspectives
Perspective is everything if you’re a day trader. You may know you’re in a winning situation from what’s happening on the charts. But what lies lurking for you? How can you spot the traps? It’s simple but not easy: change your perspective. The following composite graphic shows how a failure to change perspective could have ...
EURUSD – learning from reflection
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We can learn lessons but in doing so there is a risk of the coulda-shoulda-woulda phenomenon. The following charts show some interesting features in EURUSD. Any lessons there should be applied cautiously.
Complex trends
For some time I’ve been looking at trend lines. It has been noticeable that not all trends are simple. Complex trends may have minor trends within them as in the example below. Why is this important? It’s about how or when you enter a trend. Trend lines are fascinating when you watch them over a ...
Profiting from greed
It is possible to profit from greed as much as it is from panic. The following chart was not a prediction. It was an expectation and it materialised.
