‘Swing Trading Lessons’

Somebody Profited From ECB’s Leaks-Bloody Gangsters in Suits!

Hello traders, if you have been watching the EURUSD charts on Monday 18th May 2015, you would be right in thinking the EURUSD was in an uptrend (based on the 1hr chart). So I was waiting price to come down so that I can buy on the bounce of an upward trendline and that setup […]

Why Is My Forex Trade Executed Without Price Touching It? Is The Forex Broker Dodgy?

Have you ever been in a situation where you place a pending order and noticed that your trade was executed without the price actually touching the price level or line you wanted to get in on your trading charts? Is the forex broker executing trades too early without price touching it or is it something […]

Here’s One Simple, Yet Very Effective Way To Determine The End Of A Trend

Did you know that one very simple, yet very effective way of determining the end of a trend has nothing to do with moving average cross-overs or stochastic being oversold or overbought  or any other forex indicators? Moving average indicators only shows you the fact after it has happened…because they are lagging indicators. Did you also […]

How To Exit Profitable Trades in Four Easy Ways

Exit profitable trades is the objective of all trading right?  Let’s take a look to see various ways we can accomplish just that. At the end of October we took a look at the monthly EURUSD chart and saw a break of a wedge formation.  You can see what we wrote back then in this […]

How to Make Money Trading Unlike Losing Traders

This post appeared at NetPicks Active Trading Strategies and we feel it is critical to learn how to make money trading to understand what losing traders don’t do and how you can make sure you DO these things to avoid their same fate.   There is a lot of value that can be obtained if we […]

How To Profit From Swing Trading Forex

There are many things that Forex traders should know and one of the most important ones is:  To profit from swing trading Forex is not easy. The Forex market can take an overconfident trader and humble them faster than any other venture out there. Why is that a trading truth? Because trading is a meritocracy.  It […]

Price Action Trading And My Top Forex Price Action Strategy

Price action trading, also called trading naked is about being able to read the price movement on a chart and base your decision off of that movement and the price structure it leaves behind. The reason the alternate term of trading naked is used is because the price action trader relies on the chart without the […]

What Is The Commodity Channel Index (CCI) + 2 Trading Strategies

The Commodity Channel Index indicator was designed by Donald Lambert and fits into the category of being a momentum indicator for those involved in technical analysis. Due to the lines on the indicator, it is often used as an oversold and overbought indicator. That can often be a flawed use of the CCI considering it […]

Top 10 Japanese Candlestick Patterns For Swing Trading Forex

Japanese candlestick charts originated in Japan in the 18th century where buyers and sellers in the rice markets used them to exchange a form of currency for the rice. We’ve come a long way, with the help of Charles Dow, since the days of rice trading and Japanese candlestick patterns are used by many swing […]

How To Use The Free Forex Factory News Calendar In Trading

Forex Factory is an online trading website that features a Forex economic news calendar that lists all of the news events and upcoming news releases for the weeks ahead.  For many Forex traders, it is the first place they look before starting their trading day. The Forex Factory calendar, as they put it themselves is […]