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All that is Gold Does not Glitter

Over the past few years, gold has received a great deal of attention from both new and seasoned players in the financial markets. Jargon such as ‘inflation hedge’, ‘store of value’ and ‘fiat currency’ are constantly thro
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Is the Future the Past for the Peso?

In the foreign exchange market, there is one currency with an unparalleled reputation for never-ending declines in its value: the national currency of Argentina, the Argentine Peso. It is a curious case, inextricably lin
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Fortune Favours the Fast

By Vikas Arkalgud- 21 March 2021 Speed. What would you give to do something quicker? Perhaps you would spend a couple of extra dollars on a quicker route to campus. Maybe you would spend a few hundred on a quicker, faste
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Position Sizing

Position sizing is important to understand in order to prevent over-exposing/over-leveraging your account, position sizing is very important to ensure trading consistency. About 77% of retail traders lose their whole acc
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Trading with Multiple Indicators

So far, we have introduced almost all of the most popular technical indicators; this article will group these indicators into four major categories and present possible strategies to profit from signals given by a combin
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Parabolic Stop and Reverse (Parabolic SAR)

Definition The Parabolic Stop and Reverse signal abbreviated as SAR, is a technical indicator used to predict short-term trend direction, potential reversals in price and provide signals for exit and entry points. On a c
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Average True Range

Definition of Average True Range (ATR) The average true range (ATR) is a technical analysis indicator that measures market volatility by decomposing the entire range of an asset price for that period. The true range indi
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Fibonacci Retracement

What are Fibonacci Retracement? Fibonacci Retracement utilises Fibonacci sequences to identify potential reversal levels. In technical analysis, a Fibonacci Retracement is created by taking the two extreme points (major
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Ichimoku Kinko Hyo

The Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a versatile technical indicator that is commonly used to gauge future price momentum and direction, along with future areas of support and resistance. This indicator is most commonly used on JPY
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Average Directional Index

Definition of Average Directional Index (ADX) Traders use the average directional index (ADX) as a technical analysis indicator to determine the strength of a trend. The trend can be up or down, which can be represented
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Bond Yield Curve

First and foremost, the bond yield curve has a close relationship with the term structure of interest rates, to be more specific, the yield curve in some sense indicates how interest rates vary over investment horizons.
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Support and Resistance

Support and resistance are the most commonly used tool when undergoing technical analysis. Support levels and resistance levels are used by traders to refer to price levels on charts that tend to act as barriers, prevent
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Bulls and Bears

What are the Bulls and Bears in Forex? Often traders characterise trends as bullish or bearish, although there isn’t much correlation between the two. The term bullish represents an upward trend, while bearish represents
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Triangles

A triangle is a chart pattern formed by drawing trendlines on a converging price range. There are three different types of triangle patterns, ascending, descending and symmetrical. Triangles are very useful to determine
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Bollinger Bands

Bollinger bands are a technical analysis indicator with a set of lines plotted two standard deviations above and below the simple moving average (SMA). The band can be changed by adjusting the SMA settings to a different
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RSI, Stochastic and Stochastic RSI

RSI: Overview The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum based oscillator which measures both the speed (Velocity) and the change (Magnitude) of directional price movements. Momentum based oscillators essentially me
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Technical Analysis: Moving Averages

Introduction Moving average is a very popular indicator used in technical analysis. It is considered as a lagging indicator due to the nature of it using previous price action to provide an average price even when there
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Metcalfe’s Law and Bitcoin

What is Metcalfe’s law? Metcalfe’s law states that the bigger the network of users, the greater the network’s value becomes. More specifically, it is proportional to the square of the number of connected users in the sys
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London Hammer Trade

Introduction London stands as the financial centre of UK, and represents one of the largest, if not the largest, forex markets in the world. Consequently, the start of trading in the London forex exchange (7:00 or 8:00 G
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