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Trade from an informed place. We cover news, political events and market analysis plus product updates.

Video: Inner Circle “Interviews with Successful Traders” series – Mark Austin

Another fantastic webinar session yet again, with this week's session of the Interviews with Successful Traders series featuring Mark Austin of Magnetic Trading, whose main speciality is Index trading. What Mark shared not only had relevance to Index trading, but also across all trading vehicles. We are delighted to share the video from the sess...

February 13, 2020
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Top 5 Daily Habits of Experienced Traders

Success leaves clues, and over the years as an educator and coach, I can confidently say that there are several things that traders who achieve positive trading outcomes appear to do, that less successful traders are not doing. One of these is to have a daily agenda or habits that go alongside direct trading activities with the aims of getting...

February 5, 2020
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Counting the cost of poor trading discipline – A motivation for change

    Before we start, this is one of those “tell-it-how-it-is” articles, so perhaps turn your sensitivity meter down a little and read this in the nurturing, supportive spirit in which it was written. It does involve some work for those who are serious about growing as a trader, so be warned it lays down a challenge to act. T...

January 29, 2020
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Inner Circle Video Recording: Using Autochartist on MT4/5 to identify opportunities & create a trading system

  Please find the recording of this weeks Inner Circle session below "Using Autochartist on MT4/5 to identify opportunities & create a trading system" to review at your convenience.   Ilan was not only generous in giving his time to share the power of Autochartist as a trading tool but gave invaluable insights into his own tr...

January 29, 2020
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US Dollar and Gold in Tandem

Which safe-haven to choose in 2020 – Gold or the Mighty Dollar? In times of uncertainties – be it economical, political or policy-related, investors generally seek safety with haven assets like the US dollar, Japanese Yen, Swiss franc or Gold. Our attention today is on Gold and the US dollar, both of which have had an interesting start to...

January 24, 2020
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Revisiting Your Trading Profit Target Strategy

  Using profits targets in trading, irrespective of trading vehicle chosen (e.g. Forex, Index/commodity CFDs, Share CFDs), is commonly discussed as potential exit strategy. The reality however is that these are often executed with a lack of consistency with ambiguity in trading plan statements. This article revisits profit targets and...

January 22, 2020
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Video: Inner Circle – Interviews with successful traders – Nigel Hawkes

Please find the recording of the Latest Inner Circle session, the first in our NEW interviews with successful traders series. Nigel Hawkes is the epitome of a lifetime trader, now at 71 he trades for a living. Hear his fascinating trading journey, the foundation principle of "Six ways the market moves" and his 3 golden rules he abides by in his ...

January 15, 2020
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2020 Kicks off with US-Iran and Climate Change Crisis

The start of the year was marred by the escalating tensions between the US and Iran while extreme weather conditions across the global triggered fierce debates about climate change. What do we know so far about the tensions between Iran and the US? Iranian-backed militia killed an American Defense Contractor The US retaliated with m...

January 15, 2020
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Accumulating into a Profitable Trading Position: A System Checklist

Position accumulation is to increase exposure to a currency pair, by adding a second (or more) position in the same trading direction. Although on the surface the opportunity to increase potential return is attractive, there are also risks that MUST be at the forefront of your thinking. These principles described in this article are appropriate ...

January 15, 2020
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Inner Circle Video: 4 ways to potentially increase your average profit in winning trades

Here if the recording of this week's Inner Circle session to review if you managed to attend or see for the first time if you were not able to make the session live. The principles covered are applicable across all trading vehicles. (click on the icon in the corner for full screen)   https://vimeo.com/383786094     ...

January 9, 2020
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Bump in the road for EV makers

It was a monumental year for two of the biggest electric car makers – Tesla and NIO in 2020. The stocks of both companies rose significantly over the last 12 months with NIO gaining over 1000% and Tesla by over 350% - reaching new record highs. With such gains, both companies have attracted significant public interest and a lot of investors h...

January 1, 2020
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3 potential reasons why forward testing a new strategy is beneficial when amending trading plan

Warning: Turn your sensitivity meter down a little. This is a no sugar-coating, tell-it-how-it-is article (but rest assured it comes from a nurturing place). All over the globe, trading gurus attempt to sell their wares (software, the ‘holy grail’ of trade set ups etc) using retrospective charting examples. Such powerful visual “evidence...

December 27, 2019
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Trend retracement or reversal? – Can volume be a useful “clue”?

    Trading Volume: General principles Many experienced traders (even those using a simple system will incorporate volume as part of their entry (common) and/or exit (less common) system. It is essential (as with any indicator) that you understand the role volume can and cannot play with suggestions of what is happening to marke...

December 26, 2019
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Trading plan specifics – Articulating your trail stop strategy in your plan

  We have discussed many times the importance of unambiguous, and sufficiently specific statements within your trading plan in previous articles and at the weekly “Inner Circle” webinars (for more information see the Inner Circle in the navigation bar). The benefits of this are twofold: 1. Assist in developing consistency in executi...

December 23, 2019
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2019 in a Nutshell and the Transition to a New Decade

If we could describe the year 2019 in one word, we believe uncertainty says it all. The world entered 2019 with a high level of ambiguity and is poised to finish the year with the same extent of uncertainties. The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index which is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 20 countries has remained in ele...

December 20, 2019
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