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Stocks & Commodities V. 23:12 (14-17): Forex Focus By John Forman
stocks & commodities v. 23:12 (14-17): forex focus by john forman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. basic statistical analysis: a tool for all traders what implications could these statistical studies have on the spot foreign exchange market? many of you look at charts. many of you evaluate the fundamentals. but how many of you look at statistics? granted, there is not a whole lot of glamour in what is often referred to as the quantitative analysis of the markets, but there certainly is the potential for value. in this article, you will find examples of studies that anyone can perform without much strain. price changes and daily ranges pictures speak volumes, so it is worth looking at a couple of charts. figure 1 is a distribution of the daily ranges in the exchange rate between the euro and the us dollar (eur/usd). the ranges are calculated as a percentage of the days average price (high plus low divided by two). there is a lot of purple to the right-hand side of the graph where the lowest values are located. a few sizable ranges were included (including one in excess of 5%), but in most observations the market held within a range of 1.5% or less. to anyone familiar with the markets, this is hardly earth-shattering information. it tells you that the market tends to move in small increments and to experience fairly small ranges, but also on occasion it experiences significant volatility. you are not going to develop a trading system based on this analysis alone, but it can come in handy where risk management and...
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Third Party New : Intermarket Analysis: Profiting From Global Market Relationships (wiley Trading
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Introduction To Foreign Exchange Trading: The Truly Modern Market Opportunity Is Knocking
with the economic world drawing together faster, the forex market has become its most critical market. and for the new breed of global trading and investors, the opportunities in forex are just beginning. find out how to get on board in this sample chapter....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:5 (34-38): Forex Focus: Bearish P&f Formations By Cornelius Luca
stocks & commodities v. 24:5 (34-38): forex focus: bearish p&f formations by cornelius luca access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. bearish p&f formations previously, we looked at how point & figure charts could be applied in a bullish currency market. this time, we will look at how the technique can be applied in a bearish one. breakouts of lows, descending formations, and downward breakouts of support levels are all examples of what you can find in a bearish market. now, lets take a look at how we can identify these formations using point & figure charts. breakout of a triple low the breakout of a triple low is formed by two consecutive declines, which stop at the same support level, followed by a third one, which manages to break below this line. figure 1 shows the price structure of a breakout of a triple low. in this diagram, the sterling/dollar consolidated in the range of 1.4690 to 1.4740, or six boxes. the first two selloffs failed at 1.4690. this support gave way during the third attack and the currency extended the selloff....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:4 (14-18): Forex Focus By Darrell Jobman
stocks & commodities v. 24:4 (14-18): forex focus by darrell jobman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. where will the us dollar find support? monetary trends in the first quarter of 2006 may have the answer. monetary policy will remain very important for currency trends during the next few months, even if the markets give greater attention to the growing us trade deficit. the exact timing of a peak in us interest rates is difficult to forecast, but there is a strong possibility that rates will peak in the first quarter of 2006. thereafter, short-term us rates should not change very much for the remainder of 2006. the european central bank (ecb) is likely to increase interest rates steadily during the year with a rate around 3.0% realistic by the end of 2006. the bank of japan is set to abandon its ultra-expansionary monetary policy during the first half of 2006, potentially in april, although interest rates will stay low. nominal yields will continue to favor the us dollar, but the gap relative to the euro and yen is unlikely to widen significantly further. in fact, spreads are likely to narrow from late in the second quarter, and with markets looking forward, the us dollar will find it more difficult to attract capital inflows. a benign series of events is possible, with the dollar settling into a trading range as interest rate differentials stabilize or narrow slowly. of course, there is also still the risk of sharper dollar falls if the markets start to price in a quick us interest rate cut....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (14-19): Forex Focus: Going Beyond 70 And 30 In Forex By Jamie Sattele
stocks & commodities v. 24:8 (14-19): forex focus: going beyond 70 and 30 in forex by jamie sattele access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. heres a look at the performance of a foreign exchange strategy that was applied to the eur/usd. the relative strength index (rsi), developed by j. welles wilder, is one of the most widely used indicators in technical analysis. but by the same token, it is also one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly applied indicators in technical analysis. too often, a trader attempts to pick a top or a bottom and then watches in frustration as the market fails to top out or bottom out and continues to move in the same direction. most traders realize that rsi is an oscillator and that its value can range anywhere from zero to 100. extreme readings are said to be over the 70 level and below the 30 mark, with the former considered overbought and the latter oversold. catching a move this is where most mistakes are made. novice and experienced traders alike jump at the opportunity to sell a cross below 70 or buy a cross above 30, trying to pick a top or a bottom. some of the trades will surely work out, but it is the one or two losses that occur when the trader finds him- or herself on the wrong side of a strong trending market that will wreak havoc. it is not necessary to sell tops and buy bottoms. instead, its more effective to try to catch portions of large moves with higher-probability entry points....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:10 (16-23): Forex Focus By Ian Copsey
stocks & commodities v. 24:10 (16-23): forex focus by ian copsey access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. relative spread strength as a long-term cyclic tool having a hard time identifying cycle peaks? this indicator can help confirm cycle highs and lows. i use time cycles within my analysis a great deal, but one of the common problems in doing so is identifying cycle peaks. so i set out to create an indicator that could be used as a proxy for cycle highs and also help confirm cycle lows. the indicator i ended up with is quite simple, simply measuring the relative strength index (rsi) of the spread between two simple moving averages. this is why i refer to it as the relative spread strength (rss). the objective was to record the strength of the expansion of the spread that occurs in a move in one direction and then record the contraction as the market corrects, causing the moving averages to move back toward each other....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (30-32): Forex Focus By Vikram Murarka
stocks & commodities v. 23:9 (30-32): forex focus by vikram murarka access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. here are some strong, classical technical signals favoring a euro/ dollar trend reversal. date: 5/23/05 closing price of eur/usd: 1.2595 at the beginning of january 2005, i studied the relationship between the euro and the us dollar and the 10-year bund-treasury bond differential and analyzed how it tied in with the technical picture of the euro/us dollar. given the elliot wave counts and the yield differentials moving in favor of the us dollar, the indications were that the euro would fall. this is a follow-up article, aimed at finding out whether there are any further technical analysis points to be noted, and what the future might hold. if you look at figure 1, this is perhaps one of the most classic technical bear turnaround setups in the currency markets in a long time. first note the elliot waves count on the euro uptrend that started in late 2000. wave 5 was completed toward the end of december 2004, as marked in the chart, and the euro started falling thereafter....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (12-14): Forex Focus By Brent Donnelly
stocks & commodities v. 25:6 (12-14): forex focus by brent donnelly access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. position yourself in the foreign exchange market using a reliable chart pattern. a reliable trading pattern in foreign exchange markets is the false break and reverse, or slingshot reversal pattern. in this article i will introduce the slingshot reversal, discuss how the pattern is traded, and provide a recent example from the aud/usd (australian dollar) market. a slingshot reversal occurs when a major support is broken but the price does not hold and the market then reverses, going back up through the old support level. here i am referring to a broken support but everything described also applies to the opposite formation, where resistance breaks and the rally fails and reverses back below the resistance. this pattern works so well because the downside break of the major technical level clears existing long positions and creates new weak shorts. the large number of breakout systems and momentum models in foreign exchange further enhances the reliability of the structure. the slingshot reversal pattern is not unique to forex markets, however. the pattern can be exploited profitably in other markets as well; entry/exit parameters need to be adjusted for other commodities, but the concepts are identical....
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V. 22:9 (14-20): Make The Trend Your Friend In Forex By Kenneth Agostino And Brian Dolan
v. 22:9 (14-20): make the trend your friend in forex by kenneth agostino and brian dolan so you didnt see that last headline-grabbing market move coming? here are some techniques you can use to make sure youll be prepared next time. of the many market sayings that traders throw around, none may be more overused and less understood than the adage the trend is your friend. all too often, the phrase is used after a trader has taken a countertrend position and subsequently been stopped out at a loss. at this point, remorse sets in, and most traders kick themselves not only for having lost on a countertrend trade but also for not having caught the latest move in the trend itself. to avoid this all-too-common scenario, let us suggest using several technical tools to identify whether a trend is in place, and then additional indicators to help maximize trading profits. having a strategy in place to identify trends is essential to successful trading in any market, but especially so in the case of the foreign exchange (forex) markets. currencies have a greater tendency to move in trends due to the longer-term macroeconomic elements that drive exchange rates, such as interest rate cycles or global trade imbalances. currencies are also predisposed to short-term, intraday trends due to international capital flows reacting to day-to-day economic and political news....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (46-47): Forex Focus By Kathy Lien
stocks & commodities v. 23:8 (46-47): forex focus by kathy lien access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities is introducing forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. what moves the us dollar? many factors are responsible, but some are more important than others. most speculative currency traders are technicians that is, traders who rely solely on charting methods. however, this does not mean that fundamentals are insignificant and have no bearing on trading decisions. in fact, more and more technicians are inquiring about the expectations of the market leading up to major economic releases. numbers to keep an eye on it is estimated that approximately 25% of all traders base their strategies off fundamentals, using releases such as gross domestic product (gdp), employment, and consumer price index (cpi) as the basis for their trading decisions. because of this substantial influence in the market, knowing how, why, and which releases provoke the biggest response beforehand can be a profitable way to formulate trades....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:2 (10-12): Forex Focus By Matt Blackman
stocks & commodities v. 24:2 (10-12): forex focus by matt blackman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. is inflation a threat? find the answer by looking at the historical performance of commodity prices, the us dollar, gold, and economic conditions. on new years eve 2004, the us dollar index hit a nine-year low of 80.53, a level of dollar weakness that had been seen only twice before in the past 30 years. two months later, the commodity research bureau index (crb) hit new multiyear highs and continued to move up from there. the basket of commodities and the dollar had been at simultaneous, opposite extremes only once before in recent memory, and that was in november 1980. while the us dollar index recovered going into 2005, commodity prices continued to rise. the crb (recently renamed the continuous commodity index) hit 336.56 on september 1, just short of the all-time high of 337.60 hit on november 20, 1980. in september 2005, gold was hovering around a 17-year high. during both periods, gold and oil prices were also at or near either all-time or multiyear highs. but there was one pivotal difference: the federal funds rate was 3.75% this time around, while the last time the dollar and commodity prices were at opposite ends of the scale (in 1980), it was approaching 20%. given the number of similarities between the late 1970s and recent times, can understanding what happened to the markets after 1980 help us anticipate what to expect today? and if so, what impact will dramatically lower interest rates today have...
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:3 (16-20): Forex Focus By Matt Blackman
stocks & commodities v. 24:3 (16-20): forex focus by matt blackman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. the currency combo integrating strategies can increase forex trade confidence. before entering a trade, traders must do whatever they can to put the odds in their favor. candlesticks have been helping traders in this for hundreds of years. from analyzing an individual candlestick right up to complex patterns involving a group of them, traders may gain a substantial advantage by learning to use them. because they do an excellent job in giving visual cues to what is happening in the market, a candlestick chart can quickly show whether there is a trade coming, one setting up, or if nothing much is happening. since there are excellent books already written on the topic, this article will instead focus on how to combine candlesticks with a crossover strategy on the us dollar index to provide more reliable buy and sell signals. no matter what time frame you are using from one minute to monthly there are advantages to performing a candle-by-candle analysis. why? the shape of the candle where it opens or closes, its relation to the previous candle or candles, its position in the overall trend, and if its at or near levels of support or resistance can provide insight about where price is going. by knowing what the highest-probability outcome is for the next candle, a trader can make a more rapid decision as to whether he or she should stay in, stay out, take a profit, or take a loss....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:1 (12-16): Forex Focus By Darrell Jobman
stocks & commodities v. 24:1 (12-16): forex focus by darrell jobman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. down under may be over the top. if you doubt it, then whats it mean when commodities trend down when the australian dollar weakens against the us dollar? to a large extent, fundamental analysis involves extrapolating the future from the events of the past as analysts review historical numbers in search of identifiable trends. traditional technical analysis suffers from the same backward-looking drawback when it relies on traditional moving averages, arcane chart patterns, and a variety of measurements to indicate when or if a market or security has become overbought or oversold. the purpose of investing, however, is not to identify what has happened but rather to anticipate what is likely to happen. one of the best ways to look and think forward comes from studying how the trend of one market affects another. most often, this is called intermarket analysis. as capital flows from one long-term theme to the next, it typically shifts its geographical emphasis. in recent years, money has poured into asia in search of superior investment returns and out again with almost single-minded ferocity. in 1998, capital outflows from countries such as singapore, thailand, indonesia, the philippines, and malaysia helped create a financial markets crisis that spilled over to russia and then brazil. capital continued to flow into the us dollar to help finance the tech bubble that eventually began to collapse in 2000 before turning...
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Stocks & Commodities V. 23:11 (32): Forex Focus By Kathy Lien
stocks & commodities v. 23:11 (32): forex focus by kathy lien access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. ever thought of currencies as an alternative or supplement for oil? maybe now you will. oil prices have been skyrocketing over the past year, with prices of light crude increasing 60% since january. some traders think oil prices will continue to rally to $80 or even $100 a barrel, while others think that it is meeting resistance and, as a result, could turn lower from here on. typically, traditional oil traders prefer to trade oil futures directly to express their views of where oil may be headed next, but many traders have been turning to the foreign exchange market as a supplemental or even alternative way to express those views. if you think oil prices are headed higher, the primary advantage of trading currencies instead of oil futures is the ability to earn interest. not only could you capitalize on oil appreciation but you could also earn interest income....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (14-18): Forex Focus: Is Gold A Hedge Against A Falling Dollar? By John L. Momsen
stocks & commodities v. 25:2 (14-18): forex focus: is gold a hedge against a falling dollar? by john l. momsen access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. is gold the great investment its said to be? lets take a look. the other day i turned on the radio to listen to my favorite radio show. it was still a bit early, so airing was an advertisement for one of those gold investment firms. lately, they seem to be all over radio and television. so i listened to what the ad had to say, which basically was, gold is a hedge against inflation! gold is a hedge against a falling dollar! gold offers terrific profit potential and appreciation! what i heard was normal advertising rhetoric. however, since i have an affinity for the gold market (we both began trading on the futures exchanges at about the same time) and have always been interested in researching various investment vehicles, i decided to investigate the ads claims. gold began to trade on the american futures exchanges in late 1974, so i used data on spot gold from the december 31, 1974, close through the august 31, 2006, close. the period of nearly 32 years of data spanned enough time periods for me to get a true research picture on the claims in the advertisement. spot gold vs. inflation first, i decided to investigate the claim that gold is a hedge against inflation. a hedge can be considered to be something that protects you against a financial loss. simply stated, this means that gold will increase at or above the rate of inflation, thus protecting the buying power of...
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Stocks & Commodities V. 25:3 (14-20): Forex Focus: Spotting Trend Reversals By Cornelius Luca
stocks & commodities v. 25:3 (14-20): forex focus: spotting trend reversals by cornelius luca access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. we strive to identify a trend, stay with it, and take as much profit from it as we can. giving up on a trend, or even a lesser upmove or downmove, is not easy but is often necessary. to help you part with a trend that should be abandoned, here are several methods to identify if the end of the trend is approaching. trendlines figure 1 shows a clear uptrend, a sideways area, a downtrend, and finally a recovery in the euro/dollar. the uptrend was lengthy but the first part was choppy, which likely made it difficult to hold long positions. however, daytraders probably profited from that rough period if they were able to weave their way through the market without holding positions for too long. trendlines can be drawn to bring some order to this market. figure 2 shows two rising trendlines, which highlight the different acceleration rates in the uptrend. the steep uptrend had only one failure during its climb, but since it was on an intraday basis, it was not technically relevant. it wasnt until the second day after the euro/dollar posted its first top that the market closed below the support of the rising trendline, signaling the end of the uptrend....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 23:10 (12-18): Forex Focus By Todd Gordon, Cmt
stocks & commodities v. 23:10 (12-18): forex focus by todd gordon, cmt access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. are fibonacci levels leading indicators for forex? gain insight into the trading tactics of institutional foreign exchange traders. the recent explosion in popularity of the cash foreign exchange markets has been fueled by investors from nearly every trading discipline, from hedge fund managers to commodity trading advisors (ctas) to investment banks to individual traders. this influx of players contributes to the $1.9 trillion turned over daily in the foreign exchange markets, and it is the very size and source of this volume that allows skilled technical traders to place trades in the spot forex markets with relative safety. so how do we safely navigate among the forces in the currency trading universe and live to tell the tale? the key lies in understanding the use of analytic indicators. lets take a look. everybody looks at technicals technical analysis existed in the 1970s and 1980s, but not to the degree that it does today. thirty years ago, there was certainly no equivalent of esignal or tradestation running on every currency traders desk in the interbank market. those traders could not call up a 38.2% fibonacci retracement for a recent move by clicking a mouse, nor could they easily pull up a real-time streaming chart to learn that the dollar/swiss franc (usd/chf) had held 1.1800 for the past month. far from it. back then, when a large order hit a traders desk, he either knew his technical levels...
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:11 (14-18): Forex Focus: Profiting From The Gartley By Todd Gordon
stocks & commodities v. 24:11 (14-18): forex focus: profiting from the gartley by todd gordon access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. by identifying advanced patterns in markets about to reverse, you can get a better idea when and where the next five-wave trend could emerge. a distinctive and recognizable pattern occurs in the early stages of an emerg-ing trend. being aware of such a pat-tern can help you position yourself for the pending move. this article will detail the characteristics of that pattern, the symmetrical price legs contained within it, what the price implications may be, and how a trader can iden-tify and profit from this powerful pattern, re-ferred to as the gartley pattern. we will also delve into elliott wave theory to further substan-tiate the symmetrical price swings that accom-pany gartley patterns and their relative location to the market trend. the gartley pattern h.m. gartley first introduced the pattern in 1937, but it wasnt until the late 1980s, when trader larry pesavento assigned expected ratios to the four legs of the pattern, that its use became more widespread. essentially, the gartley pattern uncovers the markets tendencies to take advantage of the trend-following crowd. unknown to the trend-followers, gartleys frequently appear at critical reversal levels. they begin to take shape in the consolidation zones following an extended trend and will often bait latecoming trend-followers into the market, to their dismay....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 25:5 (12-16): Forex Focus: Gann And Forex By Cornelius Luca
stocks & commodities v. 25:5 (12-16): forex focus: gann and forex by cornelius luca access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. famed stocks and commodities trader william delbert gann (18781955) was known not only for his profitability but also for his influential set of technical tools. gann refined several mathematical methods that combined time and price analysis. the complex result helped him make 264 successful trades out of 286 transactions in various stocks in only 25 market days during october 1909 an incredible feat for a trader! gann identified four different phases of the market, which his methods can be applied to: bull, peaking, bear, and bottoming markets. the most important features of gann analysis are: geometric forms geometric angles ratios squaring of price and time cardinal square gann geometric forms w.d. gann used basic forms of geometry: squares, circles, and triangles. lets look at circles first. a circle has 360 degrees, and this number, along with fractions of 360, is widely present in ganns research. in order to reach his time targets, he extrapolated 30, 90, 120, 180, and 360 days from significant chart points. these forward periods are potential reversal dates. the secondary reversal dates are 45, 135, 225, and 315. you can also plot the number of weeks in a year around the circumference of a circle. if you divide the circle into quarters, you will obtain the following numbers: 13, 26, 39, and 52 weeks. any of these dates from a significant peak or trough should be targeted for...
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:6 (16-18): Forex Focus By Darrel Jobman
stocks & commodities v. 24:6 (16-18): forex focus by darrel jobman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. q: is the yen really turning around? a: over the last five years, the bank of japan has been engaged in a prolonged battle to combat deflation in the japanese economy to bring conditions back to normal. the central bank already cut interest rates to zero in 2001 but took the additional step of flooding the market with excess liquidity. the bank adopted a quantitative policy with a target of 30-35 trillion yen for current account deposits held by the commercial banks. a second element of the policy was to intervene aggressively to prevent yen strength, as a stronger currency would have put further downward pressure on domestic consumer prices. the japanese central bank, under the direction of the finance ministry, intervened heavily to prevent yen gains through the 100 level against the us dollar in the first quarter of 2005, although there has been no need to step in over the last 12 months, given the general dollar gains....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:9 (14-16): Forex Focus By Darrell Jobman
stocks & commodities v. 24:9 (14-16): forex focus by darrell jobman access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. euro sparkling, but faces long-term challenges heres an overview of the eurozone. with a lack of confidence in the us dollar and central bank diversification away from the us currency, the euro is in position to make further gains over the next few months, to at least 1.30 against the dollar. the eurozone area, however, faces tough decisions on economic reform, and government weaknesses in the major economies will make it even more difficult to secure approval for key measures such as labor market reforms. without reform, eurozone growth is likely to falter quickly in the face of higher interest rates, with the european central bank (ecb) taking a firm stance that realistically could normalize interest rates to at least the 3% level by year-end. eurozone growth and prospects for the euro will be particularly vulnerable if there is a downturn in global growth. in these circumstances, there would be pressure for a renewed cut in interest rates and action to curb euro strength. there will also be longer-term concerns over the balance of payments position and, at the extreme, fears that italy could leave the euro arena. euro gains, therefore, could prove to be fragile and temporary, with confidence faltering from late 2005....
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Stocks & Commodities V. 25:4 (14-17): Forex Focus: Recycle Your Data By Patrick S. Nouvion
stocks & commodities v. 25:4 (14-17): forex focus: recycle your data by patrick s. nouvion access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. my job has always been to design new tools for traders, and though i am a trader myself i still find it difficult because most everything has already been done, and done repeatedly. you see, the challenge in my position is to create something that is new and useful. you often see variations of the same concepts and tools. unfortunately, these are often of no help and no better than the originals. for instance, the moving average convergence/divergence (macd) indicator was defined with 12- and 26-period exponential moving averages (ema). people insist on changing the parameters of the averages periods as well as the method and refer to it by a different name. and this is just one example. trading forex being a foreign exchange trader, my attention is primarily focused on the forex market. lately, the buzz has been about the commitment of traders data (cot). i programmed a few indicators that would read the cot data and import it into the interbank fx trader 4 platform. while cot data certainly has its merits, it is something new and useful for the forex trader. i thought we might have overlooked something that was a little more obvious and just as useful, if not better. as a currency trader, if i were to use some data not directly related to the forex market, my choice would more than likely be oil prices, gold prices, the nikkei index, and other values that have a proven and direct effect...
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Stocks & Commodities V. 24:12 (14-18): Forex Focus: Which Currency Pairs Should I Trade? By Grace Cheng
stocks & commodities v. 24:12 (14-18): forex focus: which currency pairs should i trade? by grace cheng access to foreign exchange trading has opened up exciting trading options for the retail trader. you can now trade alongside corporations and institutions in a highly liquid market that is global, traded around the clock, and highly leveraged. before jumping into this market, however, we must understand the factors that affect the forex market. with that in mind, stocks & commodities has introduced forex focus to better prepare the retail trader to participate in the currency market. in the currency smorgasbord, which pairs offer the best trading opportunities? try some of these to decide. the currency market can be likened to a buffet table, where you can select from a variety of currency pairs to trade. with more than 30 currency pairs available, the currency trader has overwhelming number of choices, but having so many options is not unlike a young adult suffering from quarter-life crisis, a recent social phenomenon whereby an individual feels so lost when faced with a multitude of career options that his life seems to be at a standstill. when choosing which currency pairs to trade, besides the usual factors such as liquidity, amount of spreads, technical signals, and so on, other interesting ways of deciding are available. in this article, i will highlight some approaches i use to decide which currency pairs offer the best trading opportunities. strongest/weakest pairing currencies are always traded in pairs, with one currency exchanging for another. when you long a currency pair that is, buying the first currency (known as base currency) and simultaneously selling the second currency in a pair (known as counter currency) you are betting on the price appreciation of the base currency and on the depreciation of the counter currency. you want one currency to become stronger and the other to be weaker in the same pair....
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