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Technical Indicators Tutorial
Volatility Indicators Volatility shows how active a market is as reflected by the size of price ranges without specifying a price direction. An indicator such as Bollinger Bands reveals changes in volatility levels, which often lead changes in prices. Bollinger Bands - Bollinger Bands are volati...
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Spread betting: Setting your own size
Spread betting: Setting your own size One of the most important facets of successful trading involves position sizing – that is, having a larger position when the market is going your way and smaller positions when it isn’t. That concept is treated a little differently in U.S. markets than it is...
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Chart Patterns Tutorial
Basic Chart Patterns: Reversals Like their name implies, these patterns suggest that one trend is ending and the market is ready to begin another trend in the opposite direction or, perhaps more likely, move sideways for a while. As with continuation patterns, a trendline is the basic pattern to...
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Japanese Candlestick Charts Tutorial
Japanese Candlestick Charts Tutorial Candlestick charts provide the same information as a bar chart – open, high, low and close prices – but do so in a way that is a more visual depiction of price action during a single time period or series of time periods. One candlestick itself can provide im...
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Fundamentals for Traders Tutorial
Economic Reports Governments gather and tabulate mountains of statistics and release dozens of economic reports every day. Sometimes the task is not so much getting fundamental information but sorting out that which is relevant to prices. Economic statistics are made public on a regularly schedu...
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The Business of Trading Tutorial
The Role of the Regulators Government regulators act as watchdogs, overseeing trading in the securities or futures industries. Although industry officials sometimes complain about too much oversight and regulators sometimes claim the industry isn’t providing enough, the check-and-balance tension...
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Basic Trading Concepts Tutorial
Developing a Trading Mentality Much has been written about what type of personality it takes to be a successful trader. What makes this question particularly difficult is that there is no definitive answer about the characteristics a trader should have to be successful. If you assess your person...
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