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ASX Share CFDs: Timing Entry: “The professionals close the market”?

Traditionally, one of the long-lasting market clichés is that the “amateurs open the market the professionals close it”. Although this may be a little simplistic, there is no doubt that commonly trading volume in equity markets is at it’s highest at the beginning and the end of the day, but of course there are active market participants thr...

July 9, 2019
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The European Union Top Jobs

The European Union Top Jobs The European Central Bank (“ECB”) President The European leaders nominated Christine Lagarde, a French lawyer and a politician serving as Managing Director and Chairwoman of the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") as the ECB President. The ECB is responsible for the monetary policy of the nineteen EU member countr...

July 4, 2019
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5 influencing factors on the impact of economic data in your trading

There are few times when the market (irrespective of trading vehicle) is more likely to move in price quickly than on the release of some economic data. Judging potential market response can be complex as often many data points are released in quick succession but is an important component of overall risk management relating to your trading positio...

July 3, 2019
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Gold to Silver Ratio: Is it useful to commodity CFD traders?

When digging deeper into issues relating to trading precious metals you may come across the idea of using gold to silver ratios as part of decision-making. This brief article explores what this means both in terms of definition and potential implications for traders.   What is the Gold-Silver Ratio? The direction and degree of move...

July 2, 2019
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The G20 Summit: President Trump-Xi Meeting

The G20 Summit The G20 Summit is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union to discuss global economic challenges. Non-member countries can also be invited to attend the summit. The Group of Twenty nations attending the summit represents more than 80% of the global GDP, which is...

June 27, 2019
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Share CFDs: Know Your Costs

Many traders have the prudent approach that treats trading as you would a business. A critical component of this is to have a thorough knowledge of your expenditure in relation to your trading activity. With Share CFDs these are potentially fourfold, namely: Your cost of trading (e.g. brokerage) Your cost of holding a position The...

June 18, 2019
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Setting Up Phone MT5 Trading Notifications For Pending Orders

The ability to set up phone notifications for trading activity on your MT5 platform has many advantages including of course the opportunity to “Check-in” on the market whist on the move. It could be argued that this ability goes beyond simple convenience and in the case of “pending orders” could be viewed as an important part o...

June 18, 2019
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Share CFDs: Know the costs.

  Many traders have the prudent approach that treats trading as you would a business. A critical component of this is to have a thorough knowledge of your expenditure related to your trading activity. With Share CFDs these are potentially fourfold namely: a. Your cost of trading (e.g. brokerage) b. Your cost of holding a position c. T...

June 13, 2019
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Preview: The Bank of Canada Rate Decision

One of the must-watch economic events this week will be the Bank of Canada interest rate decision. The decision is scheduled to be announced on Wednesday 29th May at 15:00 PM London time. Why Is The Announcement Important? A bank interest rate is a rate at which a countries central bank lends money to local banks. The interest rate is charged by ...

May 28, 2019
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Option traders – Time to Hedge your Currency Risk?

Many traders utilise options amongst their investment strategies either for income or capital growth. As with Forex and CFD trading, options offer an opportunity to get into a leveraged position giving exposure to the movement of an underlying instrument. One of the key factors that options traders may consider in their choice of specific mar...

May 17, 2019
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“Will China Dump US Treasuries?”

“Will China Dump US Treasuries?” A tweet from Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times grasped attention on Tuesday morning,  and even Bloomberg reported that it had triggered a readership surge on its Terminal. It came at a time when China responded to the additional tariffs by increasing duties on $60 billion worth of US goods. T...

May 15, 2019
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Position Sizing for ASX Share CFDs ( Free calculator download )

Position sizing is simply the number of contracts that you choose to enter for any specific trade. It is this, combined with the movement in price (either positively or negatively) from entry to exit in your trade, that determines your final dollar result for any specific trade. As this result impacts on your trading capital, position sizing,...

May 15, 2019
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Cognitive Trading Biases #1 – Loss Aversion

As a serious trader, one of the key areas you must work on is to develop an awareness of the way the market affects your mind, and subsequently the decisions you make whilst in a trading situation. What are trading biases? People have inbuilt set of belief and value systems that develop over the years through learning and instruction from others a...

May 14, 2019
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Dividends and ASX Share CFDs

  Trading Share CFDs gives you exposure to the movement of underlying shares. There are a few issues that are specific to Share CFDs and differ from for example trading Forex or commodity CFDS. One of these issues is that of company dividends. This article aims to clarify the potential impact of dividends of the CFD trader. How do dividend...

May 7, 2019
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Another New Indicator? – 4 Questions to Judge If It Is the Right Time for You

Invariably, the motivation to look at adding another technical indicator is a belief that your trading results, and the system that creates these, could be improved. As traders, we are bombarded with information relating to the use of technical indicators to guide decision making in our entry and exit decisions. Such information can be “persuasi...

May 7, 2019
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