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Forex Trading Blog

Expert analysis, trading strategies, and market insights to help you navigate the forex market.

Forex Trading Market: Basics & Fundamentals (Pips, Pitfalls & Hours)

September 30, 2016
To quantify profits or losses, it is necessary to refer to the value attributed to each pip. The Pip ("Percentage in Point") is, in simple terms, the smallest variation, either increasing or decreasin…
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The History of Forex: It All Began in 1944

September 26, 2016
The major turning point occurred just before the end of World War II when the Allies gathered in 1944 at Bretton Woods to outline the new post-war global financial structure. A historic handover was d…
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Forex Technical Analysis: What It Is and How It Works

September 23, 2016
Technical analysis is the study of price movements aimed at identifying those recurring chart patterns characterized by a high probability of success. From a statistical point of view, the basic conce…
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How to Choose a Forex Broker: ECN vs. Market Maker

September 21, 2016
Forex brokers can be divided into two fundamental categories: ECN BROKERS MARKET MAKERS ECN (Electronics Communications Network) brokers offer their clients direct access to the vast interbank m…
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Fundamental Analysis in Forex: How to Get Started

September 19, 2016
In reality, although this should be true in everyday practice, other fundamental evaluations must be made as macroeconomic data from a specific geographical area could indirectly have a decisive impac…
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Candlestick Method for Forex Trading Success

September 16, 2016
Candlestick Analysis, the study of candlestick charts, originated in Japan when there was no official currency for trading and rice was the true reference in commerce, eventually leading to the creati…
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Essential and Advanced Forex Trading Strategies

September 14, 2016
Strategies can be divided into basic and advanced strategies. Basic strategies in Forex are always valid, and they are the ones that beginners normally access. However, they should not necessarily be …
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Forex Trading Basics: Liquidity, Volatility, Leverage, Margin, and Financial Instruments

September 9, 2016
Anyone who has approached Forex, out of pure curiosity, or to try to get their bearings before deciding whether or not to engage in trading, knows that the Forex market is a particular type of OTC (ov…
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Pips and Spreads in Forex Trading: A Concise Guide

September 7, 2016
Forex Spot contracts can be traded using different nominal values, expressed in the currency placed in the denominator. For example, if I buy 100,000 EUR/USD, the profit or loss will be expressed in U…
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What Is Forex Trading? The World's Most Liquid Market

September 5, 2016
Forex (Foreign Exchange Market) is the market where currencies from around the world are exchanged through an exchange rate, which is the mechanism that allows knowing the value of one currency in ter…
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