
The forex market is active 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That means traders can log into their trading platform of choice and move currency around. Despite this 24/7 availability, it’s unwise to trade around the clock without a specific strategy in mind.&nbsp;
When trading forex, timing can be everything. There are ideal t...

Timing Is Everything: The Best Times to (and Not to) Trade Forex


Every forex trader should understand margin and margin requirements. Often considered a “good faith deposit” when opening a position, margin is collateral that’s deposited with a broker to cover the risk associated with an exchange.

What is margin in forex?
When it comes to forex trading, margin is simply a portion of a custom...

How to Calculate Margin for Forex Trades


As forex traders seek out stable investments that can hedge against inflation, market instability, and other geopolitical factors, gold has become more popular than ever. Traders can use gold as a way to hedge against other investments or as a safe haven that provides consistency over time and is more resistant to dramatic swin...

9 Tips for Trading Gold (XAU/USD)


Index trading is a popular, easy way to invest in a group of businesses, or a representative sample of a country’s largest companies, without being forced to invest in individual companies.
For forex traders, index trading is an attractive alternative to directly investing in a specific country’s stock market. Typically, indice...

How to Profit from CFD Trading the US30


Both the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) and the relative strength index (RSI) rank among the most popular momentum indicators used in forex trading. When used in combination with other technical indicators, both MACD and RSI can offer value in validating trade opportunities and timing trades to optimize your risk ...

How to Use MACD and RSI Together to Spot Buying Opportunities


One of the most fundamental indicators of both financial market activity and exchange rate changes is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report. At its core, the GDP’s first release and its revisions influence the currency of the nation for which it is released. If the data comes out higher than expected, this is typically consid...

How the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Report Impacts Forex Trading


There is serious earning potential at hand when you choose to trade currency, something that every investor should be trying to unlock. Looking at the scale of forex trading, it’s certainly worth knowing not only what the top traders are making, but also how they are making it and how top traders differ from the rest.
While mos...

How Much Money Do The Top Forex Traders Make?


Investors of all stripes use hedging as a strategy to protect one position from adverse price movements. Typically, hedging involves the opening of a second position that is likely to have a negative correlation with the primary asset being held, meaning that if the primary asset’s price makes an adverse movement, the second po...

Forex Hedging: What is It and How Do You Use It?


When you’re building a list of forex pairs to target through a swing trading strategy, there are a few basic characteristics you want to prioritize to identify the strongest trading opportunities possible. Any currency pair is going to offer price movements that create swing trading potential over time, but if you’re serious ab...

Swing Trading: The Top 6 Forex Pairs to Trade for Quick Trades


Naturally, all traders are looking for the best technique to help them achieve their trading objectives. Range trading is an increasingly popular approach to the market, more people are looking to it as a means to take advantage of what the forex market has to offer.&nbsp;
For some people, the idea of range trading—or even the ...

Range Trading: A Simple Forex Strategy Explained



Making money on the forex market—or any other exchange, for that matter—can certainly be tricky. But thanks to a number of chart patterns, you can learn to anticipate price movements and act accordingly. Making money doesn’t have to be impossible.
Unfortunately, with so many different patterns out there, it can be difficult to...

Common Chart Patterns: A Forex Cheat Sheet


When you choose to engage in forex trading, you’ll quickly come to understand that it pays dividends to make use of any and every tool that is available. These tools should help push forward your trading strategy, improve your output, and effectively help generate more profit. Looking at what could very well take your forex tra...

How to Read and Understand Forex Trading Signals


Timing is everything in forex trading. Enter a position too late, and you might miss out on the price movement you were hoping to use to generate a profit from your trade.&nbsp;
The same is true when exiting a trade: If you exit too early, you might miss out on additional price action that would have fattened your profits. But ...

Forex Exit Indicators: When to Exit Your Trade and Take a Profit


Economic calendars lay out the dates and potential impacts of scheduled national and international events that are likely to affect the price and popularity of given markets or assets. Because certain types of events have been known to impact trade in significant, predictable ways, the nature and date of each event on an econom...

How to Read an Economic Calendar


Forex traders bring all kinds of strategies and trading timelines to the table when they analyze forex charts. Both chart patterns and forex indicators can be used to evaluate trade opportunities depending on both your personal trading preferences and the price activity taking place on the forex charts.
When it comes to identif...

3 Forex Indicators to Help You Confirm a Breakout


When analyzing chart patterns to identify potential volatility with an asset’s price, an inside bar indicator is one of the stronger signals traders can spot. Inside bars on a candlestick chart represent the consolidation of price action where the bulls and bears are both struggling to move the price higher or lower from its cu...

4 Steps to Using the Inside Bar for Trading


If you’re involved in forex trading, you probably have at least some familiarity with the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms. These software solutions rank among the most popular trading platforms for a wide range of traders and advisors, thanks in large part to the value of their tools and resources when it comes to evalu...

MT4 vs. MT5: Which Forex Trading Platform Should You Choose?


Forex indicators are useful in a variety of ways. They operate as tools that are embedded in trading platforms and connected throughout in order to offer traders a different—and often more concise—perspective on the market. They can offer long- or short-term forecasts, a view into the current state of a currency pair, or a look...

6 Types of Technical Analysis Every Forex Trader Should Learn


As a trader, being able to identify overbought and oversold market conditions can help you determine when to enter and exit a trade, what position to take, and when a trend reversal may be imminent. This insight allows you to manage risk and make more informed trading decisions.&nbsp;
The most popular indicators used to identif...

Determining Overbought and Oversold Conditions Using Indicators


Volatility is a two-sided coin when it comes to forex trading. On the one hand, volatility is how forex traders are able to turn a profit, especially when looking to make a quick buck off of short-term trades.
On the other hand, increased volatility means less certainty about the market’s movements. When you’re trying to make t...

The Best Volatility Indicators to Use in Your Forex Trading


One of the biggest challenges of forex trading for beginners is knowing when to close your position. When your open position keeps rising in value, it’s tempting to believe the earnings will never stop. And when prices take a turn for the worse, pride and ego are often begging you to hold on and wait for things to turn around.
...

How Long Should I Hold an Open Position in Forex Trading?


Hedging is a leading forex trading strategy for those who want to shrink portfolio exposure. Traders frequently choose to hedge as a way to spread out their capital and maximize the potential for profit. Hedging against movement reduces risk, and there are plenty of different hedging strategies floating around, so it’s definite...

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