The first weekend of May 2010 brings the long anticipated financial bailout for Greece, but judged by the price action on the currency trading markets, investors don’t really put renewed trust in the Euro... Continue reading »
Getting involved in online foreign currency trading is not complicated. There are a few things you need to learn, a couple of choices that you need to be make, but all in all, it’s not as difficult as it used to be.
The main choice you need to make is whether you want to get into currency futures trading or whether you would rather concentrate on FX-trading (ie. trading the Forex spot market). Read on to learn what it takes to get involved. Continue reading »
Forex Trading Robots have made an inroad in retail online forex trading. Generally it is a good idea to have your best forex trading system run automatically, as this removes a lot of psychological pressure off traders that otherwise would need to manage their open positions manually.
However, using a trading robot software leads to a whole new set of issues, which is something that is easily overlooked. Continue reading »
The last couple of months I have been heavily involved in developing and backtesting an automatic trading system for an institutional investor. To protect the innocent, I’m not going to disclose what derivative instrument this new automatic trading system is targetting. What I do want to share are some of the finer points of trading system backtesting. Read on…! Continue reading »
Moving Averages hold the promise of showing the trend part of price action. They do this by removing high frequency signal content from your noisy price action data series (i.e. Moving Averages remove ‘noise’), hoping that what is left will indeed show trend information more clearly… Continue reading »