Tag Archives: foreign exchange

Understanding Currency Moves Requires Looking Deeper

Reader Rod is a good one for sending me questions, and generallyÂ interesting ones at that. Here’s his …

Book Review: Making Sense of the Dollar

Ten myths about the dollar, international trade and related economics and politics

The Cost of Forex Trading

I was asked by frequent emailer Rod to address something he came across regarding the cost of …

Take a Breath Folks. Forex Leverage Won’t Be Cut to 10:1

The other day I posted Increasing Regulation of Retail Forex Trading discussing the continued efforts of the …

Increasing Regulation of Retail Forex Trading

There is an article on the Financial Times website on the subject of increased regulation in the …

The best forex trading technique or trading system

I got the following email over the weekend. Let me know what your immediate response is. I …

Watching Positioning Figures for Biases and Changes

As you may have gathered from some of my prior posts (like Using COT data to spot …

VectorVest and Trading Forex in IRAs

Back in action after nearly a week off leading up to my 40th birthday! It’s nice to …

The Dominant Players in Forex

I see the question all the time about where prices come from in the forex market and …

Looking at Volatility Across Markets

The other day I commented on a post on a personal finance blog. The article was an …

Understanding and Using the Dollar Index

The folks on CNBC and elsewhere in the media are all over the fact that the Dollar …

Someone Else Slamming Forex

I really wish people would get their facts right. There was an article posted in the ft.com/alphaville …

Taking the Piss Out of Goldman

My British and Aussie/New Zealand readers will understand the above headline, as will those who have spent …

Professional Forex Analyst Interview

A short while back I did an interview with one of the Content Editors (a position I …

Book Review: Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading

A pretty good basic overview and description of the retail forex market

Whenever I trade the market goes against me.

Here’s an email I recieved from a clearly frustrated new forex trader. My problem is most of …

Forex Crosses Do Actually Trade

A question that comes up sometimes from new forex traders is whether the cross rate currencyÂ pairs such …

How can forex brokers provide so much leverage?

Margin and leverage in trading are topics that cause a great deal of confusion to new traders. …

Volume in the Forex Market

Here’s an email question that came in recently which relates to volume in the forex market. Hello …

Is Technical Analysis Useless in Forex Trading?

An email came in from one of my list members the other day. It basically asks the …

New Micro Forex Futures Contracts on the CME

Many forex traders (or would-be forex traders) look askance at trading in the spot market, especially through …

Most Active Forex Currency Pairs

It is often asked what the most actively traded currency pairs are in the forex market. This post provides answers to that very question.

Forex Market Seasonal Patterns – Really!

Much of the time, when the idea of seasonal patterns is brought up in trading and the …

What’s the secret to making a living from internet based forex trading?

I recently saw the question “What is the secrets of making a living from internet based forex …