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FTSE declines for second consecutive day

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Stocks in London slid for a second successive day today, resulting the in the FTSE 100’s largest two day decline in 10 months. The index was down 0.63 percent on the day as investors became increasingly More...

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Using Bollinger Bands with CFD Trading

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Ever since John Bollinger developed the Bollinger Bands technical indicator in the 1980s, countless traders around the globe have been using it to guide their trading activities. More...

CFD trading and fundamental analysis

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Short term CFD traders are not the most likely candidates to make use of fundamental analysis. One would normally find them glued to their laptops, analysing the latest share, More...

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Sterling hits one-month low against the Euro

The Pound Sterling hit a one-month low against the Euro today on the back of retail sales data which showed an unexpected decline. Analysts had originally expected the report to More...

AUD/USD pair hits ceiling

The Australian Dollar has hit a ceiling of 0.9787 and retreated to 0.9757 at the time of writing. The steady slow down and decrease in demand is being attributed to the upcoming More...

Managing an open options position

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Introduction Some traders prefer to set up an options position and then forget about it until the expiration date. While More...

Options frontspreads explained

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Introduction In a previous article options backspreads, which benefit from volatile trading conditions, were explained More...

silver Silver continues to decline

Silver continued its decline today, ending the week on a two and a half year low....

bullion Gold slump continues

Gold is currently undergoing its longest decline in more than four years and according to Goldman...

solaar Good ETFs Protect Against Bad Weather in Alternative Energy Investing

China is enduring its coldest winter in decades.  That should chill those investing in the alternative...

Credit spreads explained

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Anyone who goes on an introductory course in options trading will no doubt become familiar with credit spreads. More...

Rolling over and doubling up in binary options trading

It is virtually inevitable that every binary options trader will come into contact with rolling over and doubling up at some..

Options Trading and Margin Requirements

There are few things that options traders find as confusing as margin requirements. The fact that there is a difference between..

Issues Related to Back Testing

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Back testing a trading strategy is the process of evaluating the profitability of a methodology based on returns More...

Does Systematic Trading Help or Hinder the Financial Markets?

Systematic trading, also known as algorithmic trading is an automated style of trading using computer generated instructions.  This type of trading..

More about volatility skews, crunches and smiles

Regular readers will by now be familiar with the fact that one of the most popular options valuation models out there..

Stock Trading’s Biggest Adversary: Emotion

binary options Emotions and stock trading don’t go hand in hand. They should be kept as far apart as possible. Agreed, money brings..
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Forex Fundamental News Strategies

Government news releases containing important national economic data can have major effects on the Forex market causing price to sometimes spike..
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Three Volume-Based Technical Indicators to use with CFD trading

While most technical indicators study changes in price behaviour in an attempt to predict future price movements of CFDs, there is..
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Technical Analysis: Indicator Tools

Now that we understand some of the critical features of price movements that can be seen in technical analysis (rallies from..