One of the hardest concepts for beginners to understand is how stocks are valued. What is the driving force behind a stock price and what causes some stocks to be so volatile? When you buy a stock, you are buying a part of a company. However, that stock price of that company can go […]

Many people new to forex trading start by just trading one single timeframe, whether it’s 5 minute charts, 4 hour charts, or daily charts, for example. However is this really the best way to make money from forex trading?
Well in my opinion you’re much better off using two or three different timeframes to assist you […]

The price action in the gold bull market has probably caused a lot of nervous concern on the part of gold traders over the past few weeks.
After soaring to all time nominal highs above $1000 an ounce earlier this year the gold market pulled back about 25%, enough to shake out the weaker speculators and […]

Endowments are a dirty word amongst most homeowners! If you bought your home in the 80’s or early 90’s you probably took out an endowment policy as a way to repay the balance after 25 years. At the time, interest rates were in double figures and returns on most investments (including endowments) were spectacular, so […]

If investors want to buys stocks or bonds, they can call up their brokers and quickly make the purchase. They can also buy stocks online with the push of a button. Commodities such as gold and silver, however, are more difficult to buy because of the the complicated way in which they trade through futures […]

The mathematical models used by hedge funds, money center banks, and big investment banks, like even the smart boys at Goldman Sacks, seem to have the evaluation of risks and the frequency at which “rare” statistically almost impossible to occur events actually do occur all wrong.
A black swan is an event that is truly disastrous […]

Finding a profitable and established Forex trading system can be a difficult thing to do. This can be frustrating to many traders, because without a trading system that they can trust, without that time tested strategy, their chances of making solid profits consistently are next to nothing.
The Forex market is extremely volatile, and […]

Online Forex trading is really the only way to go when trading in Forex and is, in fact, the only way to get into currency trading in the Forex market. Unlike the stock market and local commodity markets, the world wide Forex market doesn’t have a market floor where you can go and put in […]

Finding the right Forex trading strategy can be difficult, as there is so much information out there on the web. Some of it is really good information, and some of it is thick complicated garbage that is actually designed to be confusing enough that you won’t be able to clearly see that it’s a […]

The widespread use of broadband Internet services has transformed forex trading from an activity limited to banks, hedge funds, and investors with deep pockets and good banking relationships, into an activity that almost anyone can undertake from their home or office computer.
Online forex dealing firms now offer the small retail trader free access to trading […]