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News Releases to Bank With: The US Core Retail Sales Report
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 MoreNews Releases to Bank With: The US GDP Report
The 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 MoreHow To Approach Your Trading Day
Today, we will go through the processes that constitute the correct approach to a typical trading day for a forex trader. The most important component of a typical day in the trading business is to first understand the sentiment of the market. A trader who understands what the prevailing market sentiment or feeling is will […]
Read Some MoreThe Correct Approach to a News Trade
The 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 […]
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Strategies for Profiting from News Trades: Colocation
Many 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 MoreElements Of Fundamental Analysis – 3
In this concluding piece on fundamental analysis, we will look at the elements of an actual trade. Fundamental Analysis: What, When and How to Trade The news releases that constitute “what to trade” in fundamental analysis are all contained in a calendar format for a full year. This is known as the Economic News Calendar. […]
Read Some MoreElements Of Fundamental Analysis – 2
In a previous article, we identified the elements that make news trading tick and why traders should include fundamental analysis as part of their trading. We also identified what tools a trader needs to assemble in order to trade the news. Now we will go to the core aspects of fundamental analysis. Fundamental Analysis: How […]
Read Some MoreElements Of Fundamental Analysis – 1
Fundamental analysis is the process of analyzing the economic and socio-political news headlines released to the markets as part of the Economic Calendar, with the aim of trading currencies based on the prevailing market sentiment derived from the news that is released. So we can refer to fundamental analysis as all the processes that you […]
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