I'd say the biggest difference is the time. While day trading stocks you have a nice 8-5 job. With forex I find myself constantly waking up at odd hours of the night, wondering if it's just noise or if the fundamentals have changed when things ...

Biggest shift you had to made in trading fx vs stocks?

In America, I would think that if you're in a job where you get a year-end bonus, it's going to be a good salaried job you've had for at least a few years and its not something you'd just throw away to "start a new leaf". You would only leave it if ...

FOMC Jan 31

dang...how many pips up are you bodge?

Daily Cable Analysis

even on the daily's the trend is clearly broken...

Daily Cable Analysis

a trend is broken when a higher high is not reach and it then breaks through the bottom trend. this is exaclty what happened with thr gbp/usd last few days. It shot up to 19913, could not find support and fell as quickly as it rose, and then ...

Daily Cable Analysis

I was looking a while back and Golden Gate University in San Fransisco was the only school I could find offering a masters in finance in the country.

Education for Investing at a B.A. Level

so...you think thats the reason the usd weakened? there are many many factors,fundamental and technical, that influence a currencies value. Maybe that was a tiny reason or maybe it wasn't. But if it was, it was just one of many, not The Reason.

usd

exactly...seems like maybe the big push started as a leak?

Daily Cable Analysis

just because you have a standard finance degree doesn't mean you're great at trading. If I get a PHd in english does that make me a best-selling author?

Where does the money come from?

because of us consumer sentiment

GBP Retail Sales

or just dont trade news, or put your orders in 15 minutes before the news

another news-time broker complaint

no.

Metatrader mobile

I'm really confused...the price never got up to 1.9760. The highest it got was to around 1.9740....?

Low Risk, High Reward Trading Experiment

Close Trade #5 @ 1.9639 9:29 ET AM Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 P/L = -10 pips

Osama Part Two

5)BUY GBP/USD @1.9649 11:07 ET PM Monday, January 15th, 2006

Osama Part Two

In maybe 8 to 12 hours I'll post my next trade but this is how I see the week unfolding. I expect the price to descend to 1.9600 over the next 12 hours. The news for the next two days, including four major news items, is all US negative. So I expect ...

Osama Part Two

The price of one share of a company is the value of the company divided by the number of shares. The value of the company can go up either by the company's profits increasing and hence value, or more shares being bought, wherein you give your money ...

Forex: A Zero Sum Game?

why do you think a top is near?

Daily Cable Analysis

cool, I know maybe half of those...it seems a few of them require that you have backtested your strategy...and if your system is any bit discretionary then that becomes hard. Maybe we should get a section going defining all these techniques.

Money Management Percent?

10 mainstream position sizing algorithms? Since this thread is on money management and I have no idea what they are, could you show us? thanks

Money Management Percent?