Currency Carry Trade Example. Let’s take a look at a generic example to show how awesome this can be. For this example, we’ll take a look at Joe […]
What is a Currency Carry Trade? In the forex market, currencies are traded in pairs (for example, if you buy USD/CHF, you are actually buying the U.S. dollar […]
What is the Carry Trade? Did you know there is a trading strategy that can make money if the price stayed exactly the same for long […]
Summary: Trading the News. When trading the news, you can either have a directional bias or a non-directional bias. Here are some other things to keep […]
Trading News. Straddle Trade This is known as a straddle trade. You are looking to play BOTH sides of the trade. It doesn’t matter which direction the […]
How to Trade the News Using the Straddle Trade Strategy. What if there was a way to make money quickly even if you had no idea whether […]
More on How to Trade the News with a Directional Bias. Continuing yesterday’s discussion, since you have a bearish outlook on the dollar (your directional bias), […]
How to Trade the News With a Directional Bias. Let’s stick with our unemployment rate example to keep it simple. The first thing you would want […]
How to Trade the News With a Directional Bias. Let’s now see how to trade the news with a directional bias in a trading scenario. Let’s […]
Trading News. Non-Directional Bias A more common news trading strategy is the non-directional bias approach. This method disregards a directional bias and simply plays on the fact that a […]
2 Ways to Trade the News. There’s no single strategy for trading the news. When the news hits, the price tends to spike in one direction […]
How to Choose Currency Pairs to Trade the News. After identifying the event to monitor, you now want to trade the currency associated with that event’s economy. […]
Pay Special Attention to News from the U.S. While the markets react to most economic news from various countries, the biggest movers and most watched news […]
How to Find News Events that Produce Volatility. Forex Factory highlights the important events and economic data that are being released by the countries with the […]
How to Trade Forex on News Releases. Before developing a ‘Trade the News” strategy, we have to look at which news events are even worth trading. […]
Trading News. Price Slippage. You could also experience SLIPPAGE. Slippage occurs when you wish to enter the market at a certain price, but due to the extreme volatility […]
Beginner’s Guide to Forex News Trading. As forex traders, it’s important to pay attention to major economic data releases, speeches from government officials, and geopolitical events. […]
News Makes the Forex Market Move. It’s not enough to only know technical analysis when you trade. It’s just as important to know what makes the […]
Summary: Market Sentiment. Did those thousand-pip moves excite you? Before we start betting the farm based on our analysis of the COT report, remember that those […]
How to Interpret the COT Report. Now that we know how to determine sentiment extremes, what’s next? Recall that not every sentiment extreme results in a […]
How to Create Your Own COT Trading Indicator. Having your very own COT indicator is like having your own pony. Using the COT report can be […]