
What does hawkish and dovish mean? Here’s a cheat sheet that summarizes the difference between hawkish and dovish monetary policies: Hawkish Dovish Objective Decrease inflation Stimulate […]

Hawkish vs. Dovish Central Banks. Yes, you’re in the right place. Tonight’s match puts the L.A. Hawks up against the N.Y. Doves. You’re in for a […]

Hawkish vs Dovish: Differences Between Monetary Policies. We just learned that currency prices are affected a great deal by changes in a country’s interest rates. We […]

Round and Round with Monetary Policy Cycles. For those of you that follow the U.S. dollar and economy (and that should be all of you!), remember […]

How Monetary Policy Affects the Forex Market. As we mentioned earlier, national governments and their corresponding central banking authorities formulate monetary policy to achieve certain economic […]

Interest Rate Differentials. Pick a pair, any pair. Many forex traders use the technique of comparing one currency’s interest rate to another currency’s interest rate as […]

Interest Rate Expectations. Markets are ever-changing with the anticipation of different events and situations. Interest rates do the same thing – they change – but they […]

Why Interest Rates Matter to Forex Traders. Interest rates make the forex world go ’round! In other words, the forex market is ruled by global interest rates. A currency’s […]

Here’s an Economic Report, Now What? The market has a tendency to react based on how people feel. These feelings can be based on their reaction […]

Fundamental Data and Its Many Forms. Fundamental analysis involves studying data known as economic indicators. Economic indicators are statistical data points or metrics that provide insights into the […]

What is Fundamental Analysis? Along your travels, you’ve undoubtedly come across Gulliver, Frodo, and the topic of fundamental analysis. Wait a minute… We’ve already given you […]

Trading Fakeouts. Institutional traders like to fade breakouts. So we must like to fade breakouts also. Are you going to follow the crowd, or are you […]

Trading Breakouts. With breakout trades, the goal is to enter the market right when the price makes a breakout and then continue to ride the trade […]

Chart Patterns. Chart patterns are physical groupings of the price you can actually see with your own eyes. They are an important part of technical analysis […]

How to Trade Fakeouts. In order to fade breakouts, you need to know where potential fakeouts can occur. Potential fakeouts are usually found at support and resistance […]

Fade the Breakout. Fade the breakout you say? Was that just a typo? Did you mean to say, “trade the breakout”? Nope! Fading breakouts simply means […]

Support and Resistance Levels Are Tricky. One thing you should remember to note about support and resistance levels is that they are areas in which a predictable price […]

How to Detect Fakeouts. Breakouts are popular among forex traders. It makes sense, right? When the price finally “breaks” out of that support or resistance level, one […]

Measuring the Strength of a Breakout. Let’s take a look at more on measuring the strength of a breakout with the relative strength index. Relative Strength […]

How to Measure the Strength of a Breakout. As you learned earlier, when a trend moves for an extended period of time and it starts to consolidate, […]

More on Different Triangles. Descending Triangles Descending triangles are basically the opposite of ascending triangles. Sellers are continuing to put pressure on the buyers, and as a […]