tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38041050268370658832024-09-14T04:37:58.276-07:00chaos is proven perfect tool for swing trading or scalping!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-46172158899418013072011-03-30T12:19:00.000-07:002011-03-31T07:18:48.408-07:00<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: left;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_nominal_per_capita_world_map_IMF_2008.png" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="World map showing countries by nominal GDP per..." height="137" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/GDP_nominal_per_capita_world_map_IMF_2008.png/300px-GDP_nominal_per_capita_world_map_IMF_2008.png" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_nominal_per_capita_world_map_IMF_2008.png">Wikipedia</a></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">Traders typically approach financial markets in one of two ways: either through <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Technical analysis">technical analysis</a> or fundamental analysis. The reality is that history is full of traders who have had very successful careers as traders that employed both of these types of analyses. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In fact, in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_D._Schwager" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Jack D. Schwager">Jack Schwager</a>'s best-selling classic, <b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Market-Wizards-Schwartz-Champion-Trader/dp/1592802788%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dazitaco228%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1592802788" rel="amazon nofollow" title="Market Wizards: Marty Schwartz, Champion Trader">Market Wizards</a></b>, two of the traders interviewed are <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Seykota" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Ed Seykota">Ed Seykota</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.jimrogers.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Jim Rogers">Jim Rogers</a>. Rogers is quite adamant in his statement that he believes it is impossible to make a living as a technical trader. He goes so far as to say he has never met a rich technician. Seykota actually shares the exact opposite story. According to Seykota's own interview, he was a struggling trader when he traded according to fundamental analysis. It was not until he became a technician that he started to make a living trading financial markets.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As stated, successful traders throughout history have employed both technical and fundamental analysis. In this article we are going to break down the basic principles of fundamental analysis in the forex market.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_analysis" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Fundamental analysis">Fundamental Analysis</a> is commonly defined as a method of evaluating a specific security in order to determine its intrinsic value by analyzing a host of economic and financial data. In the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Foreign exchange market">foreign-exchange market</a>, a security would be a currency. Market participants are continually analyzing the emerging fundamental from a country in order to determine the intrinsic value of the country's currency. There are several key economic indicators that every trader should understand on a basic level. Fluctuations in the data of these key indicators will generally cause the value of a currency to rise and fall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Interest Rates</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These are the single greatest driver of currency value over the long-term. Most <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Central bank">Central Banks</a> announce interest rates each month, and these decisions are watched very scrupulously by market participants. Interest rates are manipulated by Central Banks in order to control the money supply in an economy. If a Central Bank wants to increase the money supply, it lowers interest rates, and if it wants to decrease money supply it raises interest rates.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Gross domestic product">Gross Domestic Product (GDP)</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">GDP is the most important indicator of economic health in a country. A country's Central Bank has expected growth outlooks each year that determine how fast a country should grow as measured by GDP. When GDP falls below market expectations, currency values tend to fall and when GDP beats market expectations, currency values tend to rise.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Inflation">Inflation</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inflation destroys the real purchasing power of a currency, and, therefore, inflation is very bad for the economy in most circumstances. Each year a normal rate of inflation between 2-3% is expected, but if inflation begins moving beyond the upward targets set by the Central Bank, a currency value will actually rise due to expectation of an imminent rate hike. Higher interest rates tend to fight off inflation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Unemployment</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We will discuss consumer demand in a moment, but people are basically what drive economic growth; therefore, unemployment is the backbone of economic growth. When unemployment levels increase, it has a devastating effect on economic growth; consequently, when the labor market contracts and unemployment increases, interest rates are often cut in an attempt to increase the money supply in the economy and stimulate economic growth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Consumer Demand</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As stated in the previous point, people are what drive economic growth; as a result, healthy consumer demand is essential to the normal, healthy functioning of an economy. When consumers are demanding goods and services, the economy tends to move forward, but when consumers are not demanding goods and services, the economy falters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even if you are a technical trader, it can still be very helpful to understand these basic elements of fundamental analysis. The <a href="http://www.forextraders.com/learn-forex-trading-course.html">best forex course</a> will oftentimes offer further insight into how the emerging fundamentals drive price behavior.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/%7Er/actionforex/yxoL/%7E3/Zq77Q1TKPoE/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View the original article here</a></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://joeyjardins.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/forex-trading-technical-analysis-understanding-fundamental-and-technical-analysis-in-forex-trading/" rel="nofollow">Forex Trading Technical Analysis - Understanding Fundamental and Technical Analysis in Forex Trading</a> (joeyjardins.wordpress.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://forextradingspeculation.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/barbara-rockefeller-big-picture-collection-of-articles-about-technical-and-fundamental-analysis/" rel="nofollow">Barbara Rockefeller "Big Picture" collection of articles about technical and fundamental analysis</a> (forextradingspeculation.wordpress.com)</li> </ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=04598973-b770-4141-81a8-dfa4fd3aa440" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-34272478354464530562011-03-30T00:53:00.000-07:002011-03-31T07:22:06.448-07:00<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: left;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forex_p%C3%A5se.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Money in a bag from the nordic foreign exchang..." height="225" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Forex_p%C3%A5se.jpg/300px-Forex_p%C3%A5se.jpg" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forex_p%C3%A5se.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">Trading the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_%28finance%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Over-the-counter (finance)">OTC</a> (over the counter) <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Foreign exchange market">currency markets</a> offers an opportunity to hedge stock and bond investing, but really is more of a traded market following the ebbs and flows of global commerce than it is an investment arena to plan retirement from. Getting to know six major currency pairs would seem an easy task when compared to the tens of thousands of stock and bond options available for analysis. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Forex trade is not all about how each currency will move against the Usd, just as important is knowing when the market will have momentum, because that is key to not getting caught in reversals and snap-backs whilst leveraged at 100:1.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Setting times to trade really does make a lot of sense with the near-term view that forex valuations carry, and the fact that each 24 hour period has to absorb three regional commercial market's trade, in Asian, Europe and the U.S.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are three main forex moving times that regularly garner attention, and therefore offer an ability to move prices with momentum. They are the 2am <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Eastern Time Zone">EDT</a> German Dax futures market getting underway, the 6-7am EDT <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5072222222,-0.1275&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=51.5072222222,-0.1275%20%28London%29&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="London">London</a> gold/oil fixings and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Interbank_Offered_Rate" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="London Interbank Offered Rate">LIBOR</a> rates being set, and the 11am EDT <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="European Economic Area">European market</a> close.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Outside of that, the return from lunch in Japan between 11pm EDT and midnight, and the closing of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.7144444444,-74.0169444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=40.7144444444,-74.0169444444%20%28New%20York%20Mercantile%20Exchange%29&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="New York Mercantile Exchange">NYMEX</a> markets at 2.30 pm EDT really are the only other times that prices move substantially and then hold.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the U.S. session the pattern is for Asian markets to try and initially reverse U.S. trade direction, although the lack of volume tends to soon allow pairs to find and hold support areas. The European markets tend to move in the same direction as Asian trade, and then <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778%20%28Chicago%29&amp;t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="Chicago">Chicago based</a> futures movement will try to reverse things back in the direction of where the U.S. previously closed, and re-set their books as the London fixings are placed between 5-6am EDT.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At 10:30am GMT in London, telephone bids for the gold and oil fixings take place, something that sets the morning clearing prices for bullion and crude dealers that (are then adjust once again at 3.30pm GMT). At 11am GMT each day in London the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.bba.org.uk/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="British Bankers' Association">British Bankers Association</a> set the inter-bank LIBOR rates, something that sets the tone for lending rates between financial market participants.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The London fixings tend to force Chicago based futures markets into a re-alignment program at 06:00 EDT that replicates the newly set fair values on oil, gold, and lending rates, and by default tends to then impact Usd based currency values. It is rare for the U.S. not to push back each morning and reverse the pattern of forex trade that came before, especially if a sizeable move has happened in overnight forex trade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Forex traders really need to know what is going to trigger the technical set-ups, and therefore be prepared to ride momentum while it lasts, and to cap expectancy and exposure in things are moving against the near-term trend. In the trading forex arena there are different things to look for than in the equity and bond investment world; a week in forex absorb fifteen regional equity market moves, and all of which are movinmg for varying commercial regions, and using foreign exchange to hedge commitments, repatriate overseas profits, align reserve values, and garner swap interest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The European and NYMEX close (11am EDT and 2.30 pm EDT are the U.S. based things to get out of the way, because then, maybe, the equity markets can reveal where they really want to go, and by default send the Usd in the opposite direction. Traders looking for moves outside of 2am, 6am, 11am, and maybe 2:30 EDT, may just find themselves sitting and waiting, wondering why they just bought the high of the day that then reversed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Try it out, take a look at a volume study in forex futures, or look at the longest daily 30 minute candles, and see on average what time they hit. Then look at the times that nothing happens. That is not luck, it is the forex market tagging along, following the ebbs and flows of global commercial trade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As the global economy travels trades its way out of the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3804105026837065883&amp;postID=3427247835446453056">business</a> cycle trough phase, the leaning is towards looking at S&amp;P futures trade to confirm near-term sentiment, and risk tolerance. The speculators are never too far away from the S&amp;P in times of fear; either selling into the fear of loss, or buying into the fear of missing profits. That is the reason for so much near-term volatility, and that is how things will stay until signs of GDP expansion are seen globally.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Until then it seems that the 24 hour a day S&amp;P futures trade will set up the eight hour S&amp;P cash market for currency traders to monitor, that will be followed by the S&amp;P futures market tracking the 16 hours of Asian and European activity. Forex will follow that equity trend, at least until interest rates start to rise globally, and economic expansion takes place. At that time interest rate differentials will take over the valuation of forex pairs, to the greater degree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Written by TheLFB <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Trade">Trade</a> Team, © 2007-2008 LFB Services, LLC. All rights reserved. <a href="http://www.thelfb-forex.com/" target="_blank">http://www.TheLFB-Forex.com</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TheLFB Risk Disclaimer can be found at <a href="http://www.thelfb-forex.com/content.aspx?id=174" target="_blank">http://www.thelfb-forex.com/content.aspx?id=174</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Copying, Broadcast, Republication or Redistribution of TheLFB Content is Expressly Prohibited Without the Prior Written Consent of LFB Services, LLC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/%7Er/actionforex/yxoL/%7E3/gCHzXV6rXuk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View the original article here</a></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://joeyjardins.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/currency-trading-charts-how-important-are-forex-trading-charts/" rel="nofollow">Currency Trading Charts - How Important Are Forex Trading Charts?</a> (joeyjardins.wordpress.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://joeyjardins.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/trader-signals-importance-of-forex-trading-signals/" rel="nofollow">Trader Signals - Importance Of Forex Trading Signals</a> (joeyjardins.wordpress.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.brighthub.com/money/investing/articles/111900.aspx" rel="nofollow">Is There a Reliable Way to Tell Which Direction the Forex Market Will Trade on a Daily Basis?</a> (brighthub.com)</li> </ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=1bd1cc5b-84f4-4487-9e13-1efc7f701fe7" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-15408508642897055812011-03-29T18:01:00.000-07:002011-03-31T07:23:11.804-07:00<span class="zemanta-img separator" style="clear: left;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gretl_screenshot.png" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gretl is an example of an open source economet..." height="256" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Gretl_screenshot.png/300px-Gretl_screenshot.png" style="border: medium none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution" style="clear: both; float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 300px;">Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gretl_screenshot.png">Wikipedia</a></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_factor" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Risk factor">Risk Factors</a> to Consider When Choosing a Metatrader Expert Advisor</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With thousands of Metatrader EAs out there, it can be tough to cut through the noise and find one suitable for your trading style and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Risk aversion">risk tolerance</a>. To help you in this search, I've compiled the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Statistics">statistics</a> that many <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_%28finance%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Trader (finance)">traders</a> find to be very beneficial when analyzing any Metatrader EA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Keep in mind that many of these backtesting statistics look solely at past performance. It's important to mention here that past performance is not indicative of future results.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With that said, the very first thing many traders look for, and this is rather intuitive, is: <b>How well has this EA performed in the past?</b> Obviously it's important to look for one that has shown profitable results, but stopping there could lead to some detrimental results.<br /> These returns need to be adjusted for risk. If the Metatrader EA has shown some eye opening profits, but took on a ton of risk, these returns may not have been worth your while. To quantify profitability while also considering the risk taken on by the EA, many traders look at a statistic known as the “<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_%28accounting%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Profit (accounting)">Profit</a> Factor.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Profit Factor:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This ratio essentially shows you how much you can expect to gain for each dollar put into the account, over how much you're at risk of losing. The profit factor is calculated as:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>(profit - commission)/(max <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawdown_%28hydrology%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Drawdown (hydrology)">drawdown</a> + commission)</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Metatrader EA with a profit factor less than 1 is a historically poor performing EA. The returns that it has produced do not justify the amount of risk taken on. Take a look at the table below for statistics of three hypothetical Metatrader EAs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="/2009041611.gif" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see from this table, EA 3 has a profit factor less than one, and can be immediately eliminated from your decision. If you look closely, EA 3 actually was profitable (Total Gain - Total Loss = $890), however this return does not justify the amount of risk (drawdown) taken on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The risk measurement that many traders tend to focus on are the drawdowns that the Metatrader expert advisor has produced. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawdown_%28economics%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Drawdown (economics)">Drawdown</a> Analysis:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When first analyzing the drawdowns of an EA, a good place to start is simply by looking at the equity <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Curve">curve</a>. An EA with a choppy and sporadic equity curve shows a historically volatile EA (see the chart below to the left); whereas a smoother equity curve shows a historically more stable EA (see the chart to the right).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Equity Curve - <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_%28finance%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Volatility (finance)">Volatile</a> EA</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="/2009041612.gif" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Equity Curve - More Stable EA</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="/2009041613.gif" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, to further quantify the drawdown analysis; there are three measures that many traders look at.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Max Drawdown:</b> This is the largest drawdown (in percentage terms) that the EA has realized over its trading lifeThis is the best indicator of a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%2C_worst_and_average_case" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Best, worst and average case">worst case</a> scenario<b></b>A good way to think about this is: If this drawdown occurred immediately after opening your account, could you stomach this type of risk?<b></b><b>Average Drawdown:</b> The average drawdown size (in percentage terms) realized by the EA over its historical performance.Calculated by summing up all the losses (%) and dividing by the actual number of losses. In most cases this statistic can be provided by your EA vendorThe average drawdown will give you an idea of what you might typically see (on average) in a peak-to-trough cycle.<b>Drawdown Recovery:</b> Shows the time frame the trading robot has taken, on average, to recover from a drawdown back to a positive balance.A less volatile Metatrader expert advisor will often take longer to recover. Keep this in mind before deciding that a fast recovery is a good attribute.More volatile EAs often recover quicker, but this is due to large fluctuations and swings in performance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These risk measurements will certainly be helpful when selecting the right EA for you. Keep each of these risk statistics in mind when analyzing any Metartrader EA, and always evaluate how they fit your personal risk tolerance. There are many more statistics and factors to consider when choosing an EA, and I will explain these in later articles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Patrick Flynn</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.traderschoicefx.com/self-traders/trade-rebates.html" target="_blank"><b>TradersChoiceFX - Forex Broker</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/%7Er/actionforex/yxoL/%7E3/kKQ6mm1w_AE/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">View the original article here</a></div><div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;">Related articles</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://forexeurusd.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/the-best-way-to-learn-forex-eurusd-trading/" rel="nofollow">The Best way to Learn FOREX EUR/USD Trading</a> (forexeurusd.wordpress.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/30/ea-vs-ultima-iv/" rel="nofollow">EA vs Ultima IV</a> (rockpapershotgun.com)</li> </ul></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=52868064-5eb8-4513-8ed6-794d54966fa1" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-63364477119567321192011-03-29T14:13:00.000-07:002011-03-29T14:13:00.778-07:00 <P>Adding value to a <A href="http://www.homebuyersnotebook.com/" target="_blank"><STRONG>Seattle Real Estate</STRONG></A> asset is crucial for creating a positive impression in the mind of the intended buyers. 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I hope these observations are useful; reader comments are welcome.</P><P>Technical analysis is sometimes studied as if it contains a grain of secret knowledge or portrays an intrinsic truth about currency movements. Often it is said that a specific chart formation will produce a specific price movement.</P><P>Technical analysis does nothing of the sort. A chart is a reflection of past prices, nothing more. In itself a graph cannot predict future price movements. A currency does not trade up or down because of a formation on a chart. It moves because market participants make basic assumptions about future price behavior based on the record of past price action. A charted history of price action is the cumulative story of thousands of trading decisions; it is a record of the past behavior of thousands of individual traders.</P><P>Price information is meaningful only because trader's decisions give it predictive power. A simple proof of the limited forward intelligence of historical price action is the well attested notion that fundamental developments always trump technical analysis. If the Federal Reserve raises rates unexpectedly or the Chinese Government announces it will no longer buy US Treasuries there is no chart formation that has ever existed that will prevent the dollar from rocketing up in the first instance or plummeting in the second.</P><P>Technical analysis does not produce price movement. I state the obvious because in the endless attribution of trading cause and effect to 'the market' it is easy to lose sight of the actual composition of the market--thousands of individual decision makers. The translation mechanism for technical analysis runs from the information contained in a chart, through the assessment of that information by market participants to the trading behavior of those market participants.</P><P>Another way to approach this idea is to ask, just who is the 'market' and what is it trying to accomplish every day. It is likely that over 90% of the $3.2 trillion daily volume in the FX market is speculative. That means that everyone in the market from the hedge fund trader with $1 billion under management, to the euro trader on the Deutsche Bank interbank desk to the retail trader in her study, is trying to do exactly the same thing, take home daily trading profits.</P><P>Interestingly, the overall worldwide foreign exchange trading volume in 2007, the year of the last survey, increased almost 50% from the prior survey in 2004 of $1.9 trillion daily. The counterparty reporting segment to which retail foreign exchange belongs boosted its share of turnover to 40% from 33% according to Bank for International Settlements in Basel (BIS, 2007) which conducts the tri-annual survey.</P><P>To return to my previous point, if every market participant is attempting to do the same thing, namely wring trading profits from the day's activities, how do they all go about it?</P><P>The first thing every trader does, in New York, Tokyo, London and in every land in between is to pull up charts and look for trading opportunities. Every trader looking for profit is judging the same charts. Everyone sees the same price history, and everyone identifies the same potentially profitable chart formations. And, in the absence of other factors, the majority of traders will come to the same trading conclusion based on the observed chart formations.</P><P>If euro has been in an up channel for two weeks and is approaching the bottom of the channel most traders looking for an opportunity in euro will bet on the continuance of the up trend and the maintenance of the channel. They will place buy orders just above the floor of the channel. And much of the time the charts will have been proven correct, the euro will indeed bounce from the floor of the channel. But it bounces not because, for instance, the ECB is expected to raise rates at some future date, but because of the fit between the goals, information and assumptions of the market's traders.</P><P>Traders need profits, all charts contain the same information and all traders operate with similar assumptions about market behavior based on chart formations. If enough traders place their buy orders above the bottom of the channel it becomes likely that the euro will bounce off the floor of the channel and continue the upward channel formation, barring external events of course.</P><P>There is powerful self-fulfilling logic in technical analysis, it works, because everyone trading believes it will work and makes their trading decisions accordingly. For a retail trader this knowledge is the most accessible and effective trading strategy that exists. </P><P>Joseph Trevisani<BR>Chief Market Analyst</P><P><A href="http://www.fxsol.com/" target="_blank">FX Solutions </A></P><P>IMPORTANT NOTICE: These comments are for information purposes only. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results. Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and Foreign Exchange involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. 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Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; uptrend lines in green; downtrend lines in red; horizontal support/resistance lines in yellow; 200-period simple moving average in light blue.) </P><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/~r/actionforex/yxoL/~3/n9bmbA4cAGk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-85451780501226003872011-03-29T00:45:00.000-07:002011-03-29T00:45:00.067-07:00 <P>Private label articles can open up a world of opportunity, one that allows another earnings.  How you can really use private label articles mixed using the possible earnings possibilities of advertising with them, online and off, with are nearly endless. 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So I could think of nothing better for an end of the year column then sharing with you my evidence based approach to the markets. Before I begin let me preface by saying that I am the first to admit that this trading technique is far from bulletproof. Markets at their core are simply pools of sentiment and can therefore be wildly irrational and unpredictable. Nevertheless, over the long run trading is a game of probabilities and I try to put the odds in my favor every time I trade. As Daymon Runyan once said, "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."</P><P>My philosophy of trading is relatively simple.</P><P>1. Have a bias<BR>2. Let price confirm your bias<BR>3. Manage the risk</P><P>For me, my evidence based approach starts with Kathy's Economic Calendar. Every week she combs through all the upcoming economic data isolating the most probable economic surprises using a host of proprietary analytic techniques to beat Wall Street at its own game. Over the course of the year she has been accurate approximately 65% of the time - an edge that I will take any time. </P><P>More importantly Kathy's calendar calls provide me with an intelligent, logical, well researched foundation for my fundamental view. Often currency markets will start moving in the direction of her call hours in advance of the economic event, bringing me to my second point. The fundamental bias is worthless if price action does not confirm the thesis. In trading your opinion does not matter. The only opinion that counts is the opinion of the majority of market participants. Ultimately our job as traders is to figure out the opinion of the majority and join the move before it runs out of steam.</P><P>There are a hundred different ways to generate a signal for technical entry using my approach, but my most favorite one is simply to let the price fall (if my bias is short) or rise (if my bias is long) through the 20 period simple moving average on the 5 minute chart. The key point for me is that I never sell on a green candle and I never buy in a red candle. Guessing tops or bottoms is a mugs game and I need evidence of strength or weakness before I put on a trade.</P><P>Of course price can lie. Sometimes breakdowns are instantly reversed and break outs fade faster than Vanilla Ice's career. That's when risk control becomes paramount. Again there are a hundred variations on proper stop and take profit placements but I prefer two basic approaches.</P><P>Approach One - trade with 2 units. Make the take profit target on half the position 1 times risk (usually 20-30 points). Once T1 is hit trail the rest by 10-15 points back.</P><P>This is generally the better risk control model because it allows you to capitalize on occasional large break out moves. Alas I have no patience and frequently opt for approach two.</P><P>Approach Two - trade with 1 unit and make your Take Profit target 75% of your risk stop (15 points TP on a 20 point stop) This is negative risk reward ratio, but it works if you have a high probability set up with 70% accuracy rate or better. When I adhere to my evidence based rules I often achieve better than 70% rate of success. When I deviate - I pay the price.</P><P>Trading is one of the few human enterprises where you can do everything right and still fail. That's why evidence based trading does not always work. But as Churchill once said about democracy -it is the worst type of government except for all others. Evidence based trading forces you to be aware of and utilize every aspect of the currency market - fundamentals, technicals and money management and I hope it provides you with the same edge that it has given me.</P><EMBED height=344 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=425 src=http://www.youtube.com/v/IICEvqU-N_Y&hl=en&fs=1 allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></EMBED> </P><P><STRONG>Boris Schlossberg<BR><A href="http://www.bktraderfx.com/" target="_blank">BKTraderFX</A></STRONG><A href="http://www.bktraderfx.com/" target="_blank"></A></P><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/~r/actionforex/yxoL/~3/18R0IgJmbKw/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-44951619992677243812011-03-28T17:24:00.000-07:002011-03-28T17:24:00.392-07:00 <P>Effective copywriters earn lots of money and they can charge a few thousand dollars for crafting a single sales letter. 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The huge market swings trigger thoughts of monumental upside, but also for potential loss especially if traders do not take the necessary precautions. During times of volatility, traders need to adjust their strategy to compensate for erratic market. When trading during these market conditions, traders should follow the rules below.</P><P><STRONG>1. Be More Selective Before Placing Trades</STRONG> </P><P>Wanting to take advantage of all the trading opportunities that present themselves in volatile markets, traders are tempted to place an increase number of trades. This temptation should be avoided. It is important to remember that in volatile times, losses are likely to be big. Before placing a trading, assess <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk" target="_blank">risk tolerance</A> levels. Determine the level of risk that is acceptable for the trader both psychologically and financially before placing any trades. </P><P><STRONG>2. Use Less Leverage</STRONG></P><P>During high market volatility, losses can be traumatic. With the average trading range increased in volatile times traders should be considering how <A href="http://www.onlineforextrading.com/glossary/levergage" target="_blank">leverage</A> will affect trades. At a one percent or even a half percent margin, investors should be mindful of how much leverage or even the size position being traded can affect their portfolio. In normal market conditions, placing a 2 lot position is fine when you are looking to make about 50-100 pips. During a more volatile time, when the potential loss is 100-200 pips, it stops being an effective risk to reward ratio. To compensate traders should look to taking on smaller trading positions, in this case only one lot as opposed to the average 2 lot position.</P><P><STRONG>3. Trade with More Discipline</STRONG> </P><P>Traders should always follow their predetermined trading strategy regardless of market condition. During volatile markets, this is even more important to use that same level of restraint. Traders must adhere to any set stops, contingency plans or risk management benchmarks without hesitation. This will help to define how much risk is taken should price action be uncontrollable. Without this level of discipline and self control losses can be great.</P><P><STRONG>4. Tighten Stops</STRONG> </P><P>Many traders are hesitant to use tighter stops in volatile markets because they see the large swings increasing the likelihood that the position will be taken out. Having tighter stops can also provide great risk managers in times of extreme volatility. For example, on a EURUSD trade, rather than setting an 80 pip stop to protect your position, consider placing a 50-60 pip stop. This will insure the protection of your currency position and if the stop is broken, there is a high likelihood that the trend will continue lower and the stop took you out before you could potentially lose more money. </P><P>The width of the stop being set does depend on the currency pair being trading as some pairs have wider ranges. In a Yen cross like the GBPJPY or AUDJPY, traders may be more likely to have wider stops as their average daily range is 50% more than that of the EUR/USD. With that said, stops during volatile market conditions should not as wide as before. Instead of a stop 100 pips below entry, traders may consider a 25 pip reduction and have a 75 pip stop. Below is a chart showing the EURUSD and the GBPJPY on the same very volatile day in the forex market. The EURUSD had an impressive range of nearly 600 pips! The GBPJPY far dominated though with nearly a 2000 pip trading range.</P><IMG border=0 src="/2008112811.gif"></P><P><STRONG>5. Be Prepared</STRONG></P><P>It also helps a trader to know what is causing the current spate of volatility in the markets in order to be prepared for the unexpected. As such, an investor can accommodate their strategy to the market environment and not just the currency pair being traded. The first of these considerations is accounting for emotions in a market: is fear currently driving the market lower? Or is it buyer's mania that is keeping the bullish tone alive? Traders' overreaction and emotion tend to push markets to overextended targets. This fact alone creates volatility through simple supply and demand.</P><P>Volatility can also, and more than likely will, be sparked by economic events. In this instance, market participants may interpret fundamental data differently and not as cut and dry as the more novice trader. A perfect example of this is usually monthly manufacturing reports that are released in pretty much all industrial economies. The classic scenario has the market honed in on a particular number for the month. However, traders young and old will sometimes wonder why the market sold off if manufacturing showed positive growth. The answer is simple. The market had a different interpretation and positions were violently reshaped and shifted. These tend to create great opportunities for some and horrible memories for others. Below is an hourly chart of the EUR/USD during ISM Manufacturing for October 1, 2008. Here we can see the huge price gap that occurred due to market volatility as well as the resulting trend.</P><IMG border=0 src="/2008112812.gif"></P><P>Panic and erratic momentum can additionally be found in certain market environments. Not to be confused with fear or greed, panic selling and buying can create very choppy and relatively untradeable markets. These conditions will lead some to flip flop their positions while leaving others gaping at the fact that the position was right, only to be stopped out prematurely. These two common examples will create further panic and volatility as traders abandon their own individual strategy for the possibility of instant profits or stoppage revenge. As a result, a vicious cycle of volatility ensues until a definitive market direction can be established.</P><P>The simple rules above, and a task of getting to know the current trading environment, can empower every trader through the ranks. Although some relate volatility with difficult and untouchable markets, opportunities continue to remain abound in these less than attractive conditions to those focused and fortunate.</P><P>By following these five simple steps, trading in volatile market conditions should be a little simpler. Don't forget to adjust leverage based on volatility, follow your trading plan, tighten your stops and know why you are getting into a trade before you place it.</P><P><STRONG>Richard Lee</EM></STRONG> is the Chief Currency Strategist for <A href="http://www.onlineforextrading.com/" target="_blank">Online Forex Trading</A>, a currency trading website that focuses on providing actionable <A href="http://www.onlineforextrading.com/blog" target="_blank">forex news</A>, unbiased <A href="http://www.onlineforextrading.com/broker-reviews" target="_blank">forex broker reviews</A> and trading software reviews. Richard has been featured on Bloomberg, FX Street, Yahoo Finance and DailyFX.</EM></P><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/~r/actionforex/yxoL/~3/V8fMaiar6wQ/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-32964599120650651712011-03-28T10:45:00.000-07:002011-03-28T10:45:00.676-07:00 <P>It today’s time if you wish to survive within the aggressive market you must take your corporation go nationwide and international. However most people hitch taking this resolution as they believe language barrier would hamper their enterprise and so they may wind up in serious troubles. But with coming of agence de traduction you needn’t worry!</P><P><A href="http://www.translia.com/fr" target="_blank">Agence de traduction</A> gives trouble free and high quality translation companies in almost all vital languages. All you might want to do is locate the perfect for yourself. 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Correlation is measured on a range of -1 (perfect negative correlation) to 1 (perfect positive correlation). A positive correlation implies that the two units move in similar directions, the higher the correlation the closer and more accurately these moves are. Conversely, a negative correlation represents opposite movements with a smaller (more negative) number representing a stronger relationship between the opposite movements. </P><IMG border=0 src="/2009050511.gif"></P><P>It is important to understand that in the forex market you are trading currency pairs as a single unit. These pairs consist of two different currencies and are priced based on the value of one currency divided by the other. Technically you are making two trades when you trade any forex pair. You are buying one currency while simultaneously selling the other. For example: with the AUD/USD you are buying the AUD while selling the USD when you go long the pair. So, instead of looking at currency pairs as a single unit like a stock or a commodity, it is more appropriate to look at currency pairs as two separate trades. Viewing forex pairs as two separate trades will help you understand the relationship between other currency pairs, and will help to clarify why there seems to be an outstanding amount of correlation within the forex market. </P><P><STRONG>Creating Healthy (Forex) Relationships</STRONG></P><P>If you were to compare some of the major pairs in the forex market, you would immediately notice that many have an uncanny resemblance in their pattern. Below is an example of the EUR/JPY vs. EUR/USD:</P><IMG border=0 src="/2009050512.gif"></P><P>The above two pairs move in such a similar manner and show a high level of correlation. There is a simple reason for this and becomes apparent when you break the trades down. In both the EUR/JPY and EUR/USD you are buying the EUR and selling some other currency in a long trade. If you take another look at what you are actually comparing in mathematical form the reason for the strong correlation becomes quite obvious:</P><IMG border=0 src="/2009050513.gif"></P><P>Now take the example of the USD/JPY and EUR/USD:</P><IMG border=0 src="/2009050514.gif"></P><P>In this example you see a highly negative correlation. Similarly to the last example, the driving factor here is the increased appearance of a specific currency. In this case the USD. However the difference in this case is that you have the currency appearing on opposites ends for each trade. Because one pair is buying and one is selling, you have inadvertently caused a negative relationship. To further illustrate this point, let's assume that the only currency that moves is USD, while the two other currencies (JPY and EUR) remain flat. Now you are effectively comparing the relationship of USD to that of the inverted USD, which is rather useless. Here is the comparison in equation form:</P><IMG border=0 src="/2009050515.gif"></P><P><STRONG>Understanding Correlation in the Forex Market</STRONG></P><P>When comparing pairs in the forex market for correlation, it is usually not wise to have a currency represented more than once. In the comparison of two currency pairs you will have a total of four currencies affecting the relationship. To avoid one currency from being overstated it is vital that all four currencies, regardless of whether they are being bought or sold, only appears once. By doing this you can create unique relationship that will be able to give you a valuable and unique insight in to the relationship of two pairs. Correlation comparison can potentially set you up for new and exciting trading opportunities as well as offer you several unique trading strategies. 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With that said, stops during volatile market conditions should not as wide as before. Instead of a stop 100 pips below entry, traders may consider a 25 pip reduction and have a 75 pip stop. Below is a chart showing the EURUSD and the GBPJPY on the same very volatile day in the forex market. The EURUSD had an impressive range of nearly 600 pips! The GBPJPY far dominated though with nearly a 2000 pip trading range.</P><IMG border=0 src="/2008112811.gif"></P><P><STRONG>5. Be Prepared</STRONG></P><P>It also helps a trader to know what is causing the current spate of volatility in the markets in order to be prepared for the unexpected. As such, an investor can accommodate their strategy to the market environment and not just the currency pair being traded. The first of these considerations is accounting for emotions in a market: is fear currently driving the market lower? Or is it buyer's mania that is keeping the bullish tone alive? 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Here we can see the huge price gap that occurred due to market volatility as well as the resulting trend.</P><IMG border=0 src="/2008112812.gif"></P><P>Panic and erratic momentum can additionally be found in certain market environments. Not to be confused with fear or greed, panic selling and buying can create very choppy and relatively untradeable markets. These conditions will lead some to flip flop their positions while leaving others gaping at the fact that the position was right, only to be stopped out prematurely. These two common examples will create further panic and volatility as traders abandon their own individual strategy for the possibility of instant profits or stoppage revenge. As a result, a vicious cycle of volatility ensues until a definitive market direction can be established.</P><P>The simple rules above, and a task of getting to know the current trading environment, can empower every trader through the ranks. 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I hope these observations are useful; reader comments are welcome.</P><P>Technical analysis is sometimes studied as if it contains a grain of secret knowledge or portrays an intrinsic truth about currency movements. Often it is said that a specific chart formation will produce a specific price movement.</P><P>Technical analysis does nothing of the sort. A chart is a reflection of past prices, nothing more. In itself a graph cannot predict future price movements. A currency does not trade up or down because of a formation on a chart. It moves because market participants make basic assumptions about future price behavior based on the record of past price action. A charted history of price action is the cumulative story of thousands of trading decisions; it is a record of the past behavior of thousands of individual traders.</P><P>Price information is meaningful only because trader's decisions give it predictive power. A simple proof of the limited forward intelligence of historical price action is the well attested notion that fundamental developments always trump technical analysis. If the Federal Reserve raises rates unexpectedly or the Chinese Government announces it will no longer buy US Treasuries there is no chart formation that has ever existed that will prevent the dollar from rocketing up in the first instance or plummeting in the second.</P><P>Technical analysis does not produce price movement. I state the obvious because in the endless attribution of trading cause and effect to 'the market' it is easy to lose sight of the actual composition of the market--thousands of individual decision makers. The translation mechanism for technical analysis runs from the information contained in a chart, through the assessment of that information by market participants to the trading behavior of those market participants.</P><P>Another way to approach this idea is to ask, just who is the 'market' and what is it trying to accomplish every day. It is likely that over 90% of the $3.2 trillion daily volume in the FX market is speculative. That means that everyone in the market from the hedge fund trader with $1 billion under management, to the euro trader on the Deutsche Bank interbank desk to the retail trader in her study, is trying to do exactly the same thing, take home daily trading profits.</P><P>Interestingly, the overall worldwide foreign exchange trading volume in 2007, the year of the last survey, increased almost 50% from the prior survey in 2004 of $1.9 trillion daily. The counterparty reporting segment to which retail foreign exchange belongs boosted its share of turnover to 40% from 33% according to Bank for International Settlements in Basel (BIS, 2007) which conducts the tri-annual survey.</P><P>To return to my previous point, if every market participant is attempting to do the same thing, namely wring trading profits from the day's activities, how do they all go about it?</P><P>The first thing every trader does, in New York, Tokyo, London and in every land in between is to pull up charts and look for trading opportunities. Every trader looking for profit is judging the same charts. Everyone sees the same price history, and everyone identifies the same potentially profitable chart formations. And, in the absence of other factors, the majority of traders will come to the same trading conclusion based on the observed chart formations.</P><P>If euro has been in an up channel for two weeks and is approaching the bottom of the channel most traders looking for an opportunity in euro will bet on the continuance of the up trend and the maintenance of the channel. They will place buy orders just above the floor of the channel. And much of the time the charts will have been proven correct, the euro will indeed bounce from the floor of the channel. But it bounces not because, for instance, the ECB is expected to raise rates at some future date, but because of the fit between the goals, information and assumptions of the market's traders.</P><P>Traders need profits, all charts contain the same information and all traders operate with similar assumptions about market behavior based on chart formations. If enough traders place their buy orders above the bottom of the channel it becomes likely that the euro will bounce off the floor of the channel and continue the upward channel formation, barring external events of course.</P><P>There is powerful self-fulfilling logic in technical analysis, it works, because everyone trading believes it will work and makes their trading decisions accordingly. For a retail trader this knowledge is the most accessible and effective trading strategy that exists. </P><P>Joseph Trevisani<BR>Chief Market Analyst</P><P><A href="http://www.fxsol.com/" target="_blank">FX Solutions </A></P><P>IMPORTANT NOTICE: These comments are for information purposes only. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results. Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and Foreign Exchange involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time. The information contained on this email does not constitute a solicitation to buy or sell by FX Solutions,LLC., and/or its affiliates, and is not to be available to individuals in a jurisdiction where such availability would be contrary to local regulation or law.</P><P>(Chart courtesy of FX Solutions' FX AccuCharts. Price on 1st pane, Slow Stochastics on 2nd pane; uptrend lines in green; downtrend lines in red; horizontal support/resistance lines in yellow; 200-period simple moving average in light blue.) </P><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/~r/actionforex/yxoL/~3/n9bmbA4cAGk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-27631789004983327692011-03-26T20:29:00.000-07:002011-03-26T20:29:00.231-07:00 <P>5 Ways an ADSL Options(13)’>Broadband Connection Can Save Your Firm Cash</P><P>ADSL presents many opportunities to improve <a href="">business</a> efficiency and minimize costs. Corporations in all places, given the present financial outlook, are in search of methods to save cash either by chopping costs, with out having to give up any companies on which they rely, or by getting exceptional out of existing resources.  An easy, efficient and very inexpensive solution is to explore what  your ADSL connections offers. Here’s a record of the highest 5 issues that we advocate to our ADSL clients :</P><P>1. ADSL – VPN Remote entrance to the workplace<BR>Many companies wish to enable their employees to entry servers,mail or recordsdata at the workplace when they’re at clients or at home . In the event you run your personal <a href="">business</a> you’re in all probability acquainted with the sensation if you end up working at home, on the weekend or after hours, and you keep in mind you forgot some files/mail at the office that you want?</P><P>Well even with the most affordable ADSL line you can setup a Digital Private Network (VPN). A VPN is asecure tunnel that permits the user to access the remote network as if they were on the local lan . In fact the variety of simultaneous user the road can help relies on the line speed but fortunately for us there may be a wide range of ADSL options to help this. Even for giant medium sized corporates there may be the bonded ADSL option. Part of the VPN solutions is that your remote employees will need cellular web access. The best option for this 3G or HSDPA.<BR>Having remote access that keep them from literally having to live at the office makes for happier employyees and happy employees are better workers . More efficient use of time and naturally higher service to prospects when the sales rep can get the most recent worth list inside seconds.<BR>2. 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Getting to know six major currency pairs would seem an easy task when compared to the tens of thousands of stock and bond options available for analysis. </P><P>Forex trade is not all about how each currency will move against the Usd, just as important is knowing when the market will have momentum, because that is key to not getting caught in reversals and snap-backs whilst leveraged at 100:1.</P><P>Setting times to trade really does make a lot of sense with the near-term view that forex valuations carry, and the fact that each 24 hour period has to absorb three regional commercial market's trade, in Asian, Europe and the U.S.</P><P>There are three main forex moving times that regularly garner attention, and therefore offer an ability to move prices with momentum. They are the 2am EDT German Dax futures market getting underway, the 6-7am EDT London gold/oil fixings and LIBOR rates being set, and the 11am EDT European market close.</P><P>Outside of that, the return from lunch in Japan between 11pm EDT and midnight, and the closing of the NYMEX markets at 2.30 pm EDT really are the only other times that prices move substantially and then hold.</P><P>At the end of the U.S. session the pattern is for Asian markets to try and initially reverse U.S. trade direction, although the lack of volume tends to soon allow pairs to find and hold support areas. The European markets tend to move in the same direction as Asian trade, and then Chicago based futures movement will try to reverse things back in the direction of where the U.S. previously closed, and re-set their books as the London fixings are placed between 5-6am EDT.</P><P>At 10:30am GMT in London, telephone bids for the gold and oil fixings take place, something that sets the morning clearing prices for bullion and crude dealers that (are then adjust once again at 3.30pm GMT). At 11am GMT each day in London the British Bankers Association set the inter-bank LIBOR rates, something that sets the tone for lending rates between financial market participants.</P><P>The London fixings tend to force Chicago based futures markets into a re-alignment program at 06:00 EDT that replicates the newly set fair values on oil, gold, and lending rates, and by default tends to then impact Usd based currency values. It is rare for the U.S. not to push back each morning and reverse the pattern of forex trade that came before, especially if a sizeable move has happened in overnight forex trade.</P><P>Forex traders really need to know what is going to trigger the technical set-ups, and therefore be prepared to ride momentum while it lasts, and to cap expectancy and exposure in things are moving against the near-term trend. In the trading forex arena there are different things to look for than in the equity and bond investment world; a week in forex absorb fifteen regional equity market moves, and all of which are movinmg for varying commercial regions, and using foreign exchange to hedge commitments, repatriate overseas profits, align reserve values, and garner swap interest.</P><P>The European and NYMEX close (11am EDT and 2.30 pm EDT are the U.S. based things to get out of the way, because then, maybe, the equity markets can reveal where they really want to go, and by default send the Usd in the opposite direction. Traders looking for moves outside of 2am, 6am, 11am, and maybe 2:30 EDT, may just find themselves sitting and waiting, wondering why they just bought the high of the day that then reversed.</P><P>Try it out, take a look at a volume study in forex futures, or look at the longest daily 30 minute candles, and see on average what time they hit. Then look at the times that nothing happens. That is not luck, it is the forex market tagging along, following the ebbs and flows of global commercial trade.</P><P>As the global economy travels trades its way out of the <a href="">business</a> cycle trough phase, the leaning is towards looking at S&P futures trade to confirm near-term sentiment, and risk tolerance. The speculators are never too far away from the S&P in times of fear; either selling into the fear of loss, or buying into the fear of missing profits. That is the reason for so much near-term volatility, and that is how things will stay until signs of GDP expansion are seen globally.</P><P>Until then it seems that the 24 hour a day S&P futures trade will set up the eight hour S&P cash market for currency traders to monitor, that will be followed by the S&P futures market tracking the 16 hours of Asian and European activity. Forex will follow that equity trend, at least until interest rates start to rise globally, and economic expansion takes place. At that time interest rate differentials will take over the valuation of forex pairs, to the greater degree.</P><P>Written by TheLFB Trade Team, © 2007-2008 LFB Services, LLC. All rights reserved. <A href="http://www.thelfb-forex.com/" target="_blank">http://www.TheLFB-Forex.com</A></P><P>TheLFB Risk Disclaimer can be found at <A href="http://www.thelfb-forex.com/content.aspx?id=174" target="_blank">http://www.thelfb-forex.com/content.aspx?id=174</A>. </P><P>The Copying, Broadcast, Republication or Redistribution of TheLFB Content is Expressly Prohibited Without the Prior Written Consent of LFB Services, LLC.</P><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/~r/actionforex/yxoL/~3/gCHzXV6rXuk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-66612563660824613242011-03-26T11:07:00.000-07:002011-03-26T11:07:01.607-07:00 <P>I love to trade. 10, 20, 30, 40 round turns per day - the more the merrier! After all anyone who is really honest with themselves will admit that we trade not only for money, but for excitement. For a trader there is nothing sweeter than having the market go your way. Its our drug of choice and we are all junkies to one degree or another.</P><P>Trading is first and foremost a passion. How many jobs do you know where people can't wait for Monday (or in our case Sunday night)? We are all fortunate to be involved in an enterprise that we care so much about and enjoy. But trading is also a <a href="">business</a>. And the cold hard, truth of the <a href="">business</a> of trading is that the more you trade the more you lose.</P><P>Of course there are exceptions to this rule. Some traders are extremely adept at high frequency trading and can churn out profits doing 200 round turns per day. Those traders, however, are few and far between. I call them the idiot savants of trading because they tend to have a supernatural feel for price action. For the rest of us mere mortals. rapid trading is usually a suckers game. Many times have I booked hundreds of pips of profit in Europe only to give them all back during North America trade.</P><P>The reason why frequent trading is so hard is because most of the time price action is random. The more often you enter the market the more likely you are to step in front of some monster order on the other side and get rolled over by the flow. </P><P>While it is all good and well to pontificate about discipline and patience it is also utterly unrealistic to expect us flawed human beings to follow such advice. That is why it is crucial to have a garbage account in which we unleash all of our gambling instincts without doing any serious harm to our net worth.</P><P>With so many brokers now offering micro lots, the creation of a garbage/gambling account couldn't be easier. They key is to make sure your well reasoned. disciplined trades go into you real account, and all your impulse trades go into the garbage account. If we can't realistically follow the dictum of Trade Less Win More. we should at least attempt to minimize the damage of our cravings. </P><P>Here is this weeks video including the Trading Live with Boris trade. </P><EMBED height=344 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=425 src=http://www.youtube.com/v/8jECH2jk2VQ&hl=en&fs=1 allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></EMBED> </P><P><STRONG>Boris Schlossberg<BR><A href="http://www.bktraderfx.com/" target="_blank">BKTraderFX</A></STRONG><A href="http://www.bktraderfx.com/" target="_blank"></A></P><br /><p><a href="http://feeds.actionforex.com/~r/actionforex/yxoL/~3/aLi5TmodVe4/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-7429492617837251032011-03-26T07:40:00.000-07:002011-03-26T07:40:00.362-07:00 « previous post</P><A title="Previous post: Commercial Advertising Photo Shoots" href="http://www.blog.mahanimphotography.com/commercial-advertising-photo-shoots/" rel=bookmark>Commercial Advertising Photo Shoots</A> <P>When doing a commercial photograph shoot of a star client You not just have to be good at what you do, you have got to be consistent and work well under pressure. You not just have to make the Celebrity content but supply a photo that all others involved are happy with. Infrequently they'l...</P>next post »</P><A title="Next post: How To Steer Clear Of Flash Over-Exposure In Your Digital Photography" href="http://www.blog.mahanimphotography.com/how-to-steer-clear-of-flash-over-exposure-in-your-digital-photography/" rel=bookmark>How To Steer Clear Of Flash Over-Ex....</A> <P>Even professional shooters take shots that are afflicted by flash over-exposure. The lumination generated by the flash is substantial, and overcomes the model's features. When the issue is severe, faces show up as white globes with the features all but indiscernible; this is one of the most challeng...</P><br /><p><a href="http://www.blog.mahanimphotography.com/wedding-photography-tips-for-newbies/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">View the original article here</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804105026837065883.post-20477031118816014812011-03-26T02:50:00.000-07:002011-03-26T02:50:00.558-07:00 <P>One of the most popular currency trading strategies in recent history, the carry trade has been successfully used by traders for years. With recent market conditions, this very popular strategy is beginning to look like a losing proposition. Traders find themselves wondering is this strategy ever going to be back en vogue or will it remain taboo for generations to come? The answer is murky at best and highly dependent on the global economy and the foreign exchange market. Let's start to evaluate this by taking a look at current market conditions.</P><P><STRONG>What is the Carry Trade and How does it work?</STRONG></P><P>Before one can understand why the carry trade isn't working, one must first understand what the carry trade is. The short answer is that the carry trade is a trade where a currency trader or speculator is attempting to not only gain from the rise or decline of the currency pair, but also the interest rate differential between the two currencies. When carry trading, the trader buys the currency with the higher interest yield while selling the currency with the lower interest. The speculator is attempting to capture the interest rate differential as well as any appreciation in the currency. The carry trader is often more interested in the positive interest earned on the currency pair rather than the profits from the trade itself.</P><P><STRONG>Sample carry trade:</STRONG></P>Trader Buys New Zealand Dollars (Earns 7%) At the same time, Trader Sells Japanese Yen (Pays 0.25%) If the currency pairs stays at the same rate for the entire year trader makes 6.75% (Interest Rate Difference)<P>If this is a 100k position, the trader has earned 6.75% interest on 100,000. With 10:1 leverage, the trader put up 10k and earned $6,750NZD. </P><P>In the recent past, the NZDJPY has often been a great example of the carry trade strategy. Forex traders bought this currency pair not for economic growth in the New Zealand economy, but for its carry trade opportunity. Currency traders jumped at the chance to earn the high 8 percent interest rate that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand was offering at the time while simultaneously, paying a cost of 0.5 percent for the Japanese Yen. This 7.5% rate on margined funds lead to huge potential gain which helped money managers garner a high return coupled with the rise in the currency as the New Zealand dollar appreciated against theYen.</P><IMG border=0 src="/2008120211.gif"></P><P><STRONG>The fall of the carry trade</STRONG></P><P>Like great empires, all good things must come to an end, and this includes the carry trade. Three major concepts have recently taken down this seemingly infallible strategy. With that said, conditions may again become favorable once the market downturn runs its course.</P><IMG border=0 src="/2008120212.gif"></P><P><STRONG>Increase in Risk Aversion</STRONG></EM><STRONG> </STRONG></P><P>An increase in currency market volatility, which is often signified by the large increase in average daily ranges, causes investors became more risk averse. In turn, these investors decide to close these high risk positions. As short term benefits for the carry trade and many stocks decrease, traders close out of their carry trade positions in the FX market. The carry trade, which was once the stable position, is no longer viable as carry trades work best in less volatile environments. Carry traders are now keeping their distance. </P><P><STRONG>Interest Rates Cuts</STRONG></EM> </P><P>With a great deal of global economies in jeopardy and desperate to free markets, they have decided to begin cutting interest rates. This has caused traders and money managers alike to reconsider their already long term carry trade positions. The eight percent return they were previously getting is now a smaller five to six percent return. Although the Japanese yen, a favorite funding currency for the carry trade has also slightly lowered their interest rate from .5% to .3% their interest rate differential is still less. This shrinking differential became too small to compensate against increasing losses as the New Zealand dollar began to weaken. This led to a mass asset reallocation so traders could cut losses and try to build funds elsewhere.</P><P><STRONG>Government Intervention</STRONG></EM> </P><P>Although rare, government forex intervention can occur, most often as a tool when a countries currency either rises or declines faster than central bank expectations. It has rarely been used or mentioned as carry traders exited en masse. The absence of intervention helped to fuel a new generation of sellers as favorite carry candidates took a beating. The list included popular carry trade currencies like the Australian and New Zealand dollars, Euro and British Pound. Had central bank policy makers hinted at some potential action. Unfortunately, this was not the case and there was nothing to curb the downfall.</P><P><STRONG>Where Can We Go From Here?</STRONG></P><P>Risk aversion risk won't last forever, nor will these volatile markets. Forex, like the equity markets typically recover along when investors appetites for higher returns increase. There have been similar situations that appeared in the last ten years, and carry trades will likely repeat once volatile markets have calmed. This opportunity will take some time to resurface, but it will be worth the wait. </P><P>When conditions are ideal again, here is what to look for in a carry trade.</P><P><STRONG>1. Low Market Volatility</STRONG></P><P>The carry trade works best when market volatility is low </P><P><STRONG>2. Healthy Economy of the Higher Interest Rate Currency</STRONG></P><P>Healthy economies are vital for the carry trade to work and are a large part why it is currently failing. Be sure to watch out for strengthening global economies after volatility calms.</P><P><STRONG>3. Large interest rate differentials:</STRONG> </P><P>An example of a good pair to look at would be the British Pound if it has a 4.50% interest rate and the Japanese Yen if it has a 0.50% interest rate. </P><P><STRONG>Richard Lee</EM></STRONG> is the Chief Currency Strategist for <A href="https://www.onlineforextrading.com/" target="_blank">Online Forex Trading</A>, a currency trading website that focuses on providing actionable <A href="http://www.onlineforextrading.com/blog" target="_blank">forex news</A>, unbiased <A href="http://www.onlineforextrading.com/broker-reviews" target="_blank">forex broker reviews</A> and trading software reviews. 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