This news item is also known as the Retail Sales ex-Autos Report, because the input from sales of automobiles is taken away from the Retail Sales report. The reason for this is that automobile sales have very wild swings from month to month which tends to distort the underlying data, and so the Core Retail […]
Read Some MoreThe US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report is a measure of the change in the value of goods and services produced by the US economy after adjustments have been made for inflation. In simple terms, this is an indicator of the rate of growth of the US economy. The US GDP report is classified as […]
Read Some MoreThe reason why we have placed so much emphasis on trading the news in some of our previous articles is because the news moves the markets. A high-impact news release will not wait for a rounded top or a head and shoulders pattern to play out and perhaps lead the market; the news will dictate […]
Read Some MoreMany traders have lost money from news trades. I remember my first experience trading the Non-Farm Payrolls report back in 2006, when I lost some good money after being entered on the retracement by my broker. I look back at those early days of foolishness when I constantly went to war against an army with […]
Read Some MoreThis strategy was devised by [highlighter color=”yellow-mute” ]Trader Jay[/highlighter] as a way of helping traders overcome a major obstacle encountered when trying to catch the right moment to enter a trade on an asset that is undergoing a pullback or retracement. Retracements are an integral part of trading the Forex markets. Prices do not move in a straight line, […]
Read Some MoreThis article is written to give retail traders who are new to the market an understanding of some of the issues involved in the pricing of currencies in the forex market. At the end of this article, you should be able to answer the following questions: a) How are price quotes on a forex trading […]
Read Some MoreIn the first part of this article, we answered two of the six questions presented around the pricing of currencies in the forex market. Now we know how the price quotes displayed on the forex trading platforms are derived. We have also been able to determine that the liquidity providers (banks) set prices in an […]
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