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Technical Indicators Tutorial

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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 volatility curves used to identify extreme highs or lows in relation to price. They establish trading parameters, or bands, above and below a moving average at a set number of standard deviations from this mo...

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Spread betting: Setting your own size

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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 in the United Kingdom and other markets.

In the U.S. stock market investors can buy as many shares as the size of their account can handle. While 100-share increments are more typical, you could buy onl...

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Chart Patterns Tutorial

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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 watch. If prices break through a trendline and then follow through in the same direction, this is the best evidence of a trend reversal. Keep in mind that all chart patterns apply to all trading time f...

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Japanese Candlestick Charts Tutorial

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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 important information about the strength or weakness of the market during a given day or other time period, visually portraying where the close is relative to the open. Although one candle can be signif...

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Fundamentals for Traders Tutorial

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Economic Reports

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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 scheduled basis and help market observers monitor the pulse of the economy. Because they are so closely followed by almost everyone in the financial markets and frequently draw a market reaction, the f...

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The Business of Trading Tutorial

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The Role of the Regulators

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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 between them helps to guard the public interest and maintain a level trading field for all investors and traders. Nearly everyone can agree that a balance of regulation is a good thing because i...

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Basic Trading Concepts Tutorial

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Developing a Trading Mentality

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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 personal traits honestly and realistically, you can probably develop a trading program that fits your personality more easily than you can adapt your personality to a particular trading program.

But wh...

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