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Trading Strategies, Psychology
Why you need to know about Expected Value
Many traders early on in their trading journey may jump into trading without knowing if their system or edge can be profitable. The most important metric that a trader should measure their system on is by using expected value. This essentially wors out the average return that the system will return for every trade that it makes, considering both wi...
November 22, 2022Read More >Why you need to be aware of Stop Loss Hunting
Stop loss hunting is frustrating, annoying and can be detrimental to any retail trader. The premise of stop hunting is that large systemised institutional trading strategies know where the average retail trader or most traders will set stop losses and therefore profit off triggering these ‘stops. Their own algorithm will then deliberate...
October 28, 2022Read More >What is mean reversion?
Mean reversion strategies are some of the simplest trading strategy’s used by sophisticated traders. However, when most traders hear the term, they immediately get confused. So, what is mean reversion and why do traders use it as a strategy? Mean reversion is the tendency for the price of an asset to move back to its long-term averag...
October 18, 2022Read More >How to maximise your trading strategy using Relative Volume?
For new traders, it can be difficult to know which indicators to use, the saturation of various moving averages, RSI’s, MACD’s and more can be overwhelming and counterproductive. However, utilising relative volume, as an indicator is one of the most important sources of information for technical traders. What is Volume? Vo...
October 13, 2022Read More >Is Ethereum Deflationary? And is it a good thing?
What is a deflationary Cryptocurrency? A Deflationary Cryptocurrency is one that burns, (mints) its supply. This process lessens the number of coins or tokens on the market over a specific period (generally a year), which reduces supply and increases the price. In general terms, ensuring that there isn’t an oversupply of a currency can ...
October 11, 2022Read More >How to practically implement Long-Short strategies into your trading
Long and Short trading and investing strategies are often seen as advanced strategies only used for large hedge funds and large banks. However, retail traders can learn valuable lessons and ideas from this type of trading strategy that is usually reserved for institutional players. What is a long-short strategy? A long-short strateg...
October 10, 2022Read More >Optimising trading strategies by using multiple timeframe analysis
Many trading strategies utilise technical analysis to predict price patterns and for entries and exits. These strategies revolve often begin with the idea of the price having identifiable support, resistance and trendline market structures which indicate where various buying and selling points can be placed for a trade. These support and resistance...
October 3, 2022Read More >What are Bonds and how do you trade them?
Maturity, Yields, Par Values and Coupon payments. These are words that everyone has heard of but not many have a good understanding of what they mean. In this article all these complicated terms will be explained. Please note that while this information is most relevant for physical bonds, it is still important to understand when dealing with CFD�...
September 28, 2022Read More >How to develop a good training plan?
Trading FOREX, equities, commodities, and any other asset can be an emotional rollercoaster. With so many different emotions and external factors difficulties impacting a trade, it is crucial that before any trade is executed a trading plan is produced to minimise the impact of the ‘noise’. Generating the Idea ...
August 25, 2022Read More >Is it time to Capitalise on Short Squeezes?
Is it time to Capitalise on Short Squeezes ? Short Squeezes are one of the interesting price action patterns that can occur in the market. They can provide It can provide explosive momentum trading opportunities that can go on for days. They can provide trading opportunities for scalpers, intraday, and swing traders. What actually is...
July 29, 2022Read More >How to ‘Trade the News’
‘Trading the news’, is a phrase that is often said, but to new traders it can be a confusing statement without much context. What does it mean to trade the news? Is it simply trading a News Company, or is it trading based on a news report, this article will explain some of the intricacies of the famous strategy of ‘trading news’. What is...
July 6, 2022Read More >Popular Expert Advisors on MetaTrader:
The following EAs are examples of Expert Advisors rated on Trustpilot. They have been rated by traders in general, however, please understand that past performances are not indication of future success. Below is a list of EAs, which you can purchase online, however there are several free ones you can find on the market, these are labelled (f), plea...
June 7, 2022Read More >What’s a VPS and why use one?
In my previous article we discussed, what is an EA and their benefits. To read up on their disadvantages please follow the link to an article written by my colleague Daniel Vary here. Today we are going to discuss how you would use a VPS to enhance the use of an EA, especially if you are running various EAs simultaneously. What is a VPS? ...
June 3, 2022Read More >What’s an EA: Expert Advisor
Expert Advisors are programs which are configured to execute trades or read market price movements. When a parameter is met or triggered, it commands the EA to open or close trades on your behalf whilst you are otherwise engaged or sleeping. EAs are compatible to be used on the Metatrader 4 and 5 systems. Algorithmic trading is a method of ...
June 2, 2022Read More >How to trade the Volatility Contraction Pattern
The Volatility Contraction Pattern, (VCP) is a famous trading pattern identified and dissected by Market Wizard, Mark Minervini. The premise of the pattern is that stocks in long term up trends will pause and consolidate as some holders exit their positions and the stock is accumulated again by buyers in the market. The chart pattern can provide op...
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