Certainly being new to forex trading is tough. The first thing we get is the impression that we can easily find financial freedom and that in no-time we will be able to get to those five or six figure incomes from a small investment of 200 or 500 dollars. To tell you the truth, the […]
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February 2011
October 2010
September 2010
- Are You Backtesting Correctly ? : Six Common Technical Mistake That Will Make Your Simulations Useless
- Are You Up for a Challenge ? A Likely Daily Long Term Profitable System That Takes 5 Minutes a Day to Trade. Part Two -System Performance
- Elegant Automated Trading Systems : A Key to Success in Mechanical Trading
- Confused by Your Charts ? How About Trying a Simple Line Chart for Trading ?
- Five Steps to Build a Forex Trading Plan : What Every Trader Should Now
August 2010
- Preserving Your Capital : Five Signals You are Taking Too Much Risk with Your Forex Trading
- It’s Really Much More than Staring at the Screen : Become a Trader the Active Way
- Three Way (Triangular) Arbitrage in Forex : Does it Work ?
- Yes, You ARE Looking for the Holy Grail : A Message for People New to Trading
- Six Steps to Become a Successful Forex Trader : A Short Guide for the Inexperienced Trader
- To Trade or Not to Trade : A Little Bit About Friday Trading
- Trading the Noodle Soup : Discovering the Power of Guppy MA trading
- Experience, Mathematics and Discretionary Trading : Why a Mentor is Vital When Doing Manual Trading
- To Look or Not to Look ? : Setting and Forgetting in Automated Trading.
- Why People Do Not Take Advice : Five Reasons Why Learning From Others is SO Hard in Forex Trading
- Volume Based Forex Systems. Can it be Done ?
- Liquidity in Forex, Part No.2 : Analyzing the Liquidity of Different Pairs
- Liquidity in Forex, Part No.1 : What it Means and Why it is Important
July 2010
- The Dangerous Illusions of Short Term Profits in Forex Trading : An Obstacle Towards Long Term Success
- Why Catastrophic Losses in Forex are Always Possible : A Look at the Forex Worst-Case Scenario
- Five Automated Trading Myths : Clearing Up Some General Misconceptions
- The Greatest Advantage of Automated Trading, at Least for Me !
- Does Hedging (on the same currency pair) Really Exist ? A Look at Position Holding in Forex Trading
- The Daily Time Frame : Five Reason to Love This Time Chart
- Staying Single : How to Avoid Falling in Love with Trades
- When the Expected Draw Downs Come – Dealing With Loses When you Live from Trading
June 2010
- Targetting the JPY Crosses : Why it is so Hard to Develop Long Term Profitable Systems for These Instruments
- Five Common Mistakes in System Optimization
- Trading Reality and Automated Trading : Realistic Profit Expectations, Looking at the Barclay Currency Traders Index
- The Three Commandments of the Successful Forex System Trader
- My Currency Trader Magazine June Article, Check it Out !
- The Indicator Series : Understanding Bollinger Bands
May 2010
- Some Trading Advice : Trade What you See
- Protecting Your Account Against Inflation – A Concern For Long Term Forex Investors
April 2010
- Trading or Gaming ?
- Mathematical Expectancy… A Basic Powerful Concept in System Design and Development
- The Road to Financial Freedom Series… Part No.4 – The Beginning of My Experience
- Messing with an Expert Advisor… Five Reasons Why you Should NOT Intervene
- The Indicator Series : The ADX, beyond a trend/range filter
- Technical Indicators : What They Tell You and What They Don’t
March 2010
- Reversing Strategies… It Almost Never Works !
- Support and Resistance, Predictable A Priori ?
- Calculating Support and Resistance, My First Solution
- Defining Support & Resistance Levels Mathematically, A True Challenge for Automated Systems
- Complexity Vs Understanding… The Battle in Automated Trading
- Volume in Forex… Does it Mean Anything ?
- Carrying Trades in Forex : Trading For Interest
- Ten Reason why using Scalping systems is NOT a Good Idea
- Profiting in the Long Run… How Compounding Builds Wealth in Forex (taxes included !)
February 2010
- Dollar Cost Averaging in Forex Trading… Is this a Sound Approach ?
- Profits for Today or Profits for a Lifetime… Think Differently
- Indicators or No Indicators, What is Better ?
- The Indicator Series : The Momentum Indicator
- Trader Psychology : Being a Loser... Knowing How to Deal with Losing Periods
- Plan Your Trade… Trade Your Plan
- Confidence Vs Faith
January 2010
- Trading Psychology... The Need for Confirmation a Trader's Curse
- Trading S&R , a Guide to my Trading Methodology
- The TradingBuddy, an EA to Assist Manual Trading Methodologies
- The Road To Financial Freedom… Part No.2…Is this Right for You ?
- The Testing Time Problem… For How Long Should I Demo Test ?
- The Indicators Series : The MACD, the Market’s Speedometer
- Trading the Full Turtle System… The Ayotl Trading System
- The Forex Robot World Cup... Don't Fall for This !!
- Trading Gaps in Forex... Is there even an Inefficiency Present ?
December 2009
- Filtering Everything… A Wrong Approach Towards System Design
- The Break-even Dilemma
- Jumping the Gun… The Fear of Being Left Out : a Post on Manual Trading Psychology
- Lessons in Trading Psychology... Removing Intuition
- On the Problems Of Automated Trading System Design… Why a Broader Vision is Necessary
- Manual Trading With S&R... Some Pointers for Manual Traders
- Can You Figure Out the Chaos ? The Problems of Neural Networks in Trading...
- December is Here... :-)
November 2009
- Trading like a Couple, Correlation in Trading.
- The Dynamics of Change, Understanding the Spread
- My Sorry Excuse for a Trading Journal...
- My Experience Teaching the Trade... Some Initial Perceptions
- Forex Trading... Is this really for you ?
- Deepest Pocket Wins … Argumenting for Once and for ALL why Martingales CANNOT be traded Profitably in the Long Term
- Measuring System Vulnerability : The Market Exposure Index
- Forexhelp.com, Helping You With Your Daily Trading
- Stopping Your Loses in Trading... Why you Need a Trading Journal.
- Indicator Series : The Fractal Indicator
- Trading on the Edge of the Charts...Why Visual Backtesting Does Not Work
October 2009
- Support and Resistance Trading... Starting a Journal...
- Backtesting with 90% quality and Getting it Right… A Video Tutorial
- Greed Trading Towards a Wipeout… A Review about Grid Trading Systems
- Testing without Analisys, the Dangerous Ways of Independent Testing
- Forex Strategies : Trading Dynamically for Success, a Trading Strategy for Successful Manual Trading
- Why Does Everyone Want a Scalping Strategy ?
- The Asian Session and Market Efficiency
- Money Management. The most important, most neglected aspect of automated trading.
- The True Cost of Automated System Trading... The REAL minimum trading capital
- Can Ranging Markets be Exploited with an EA ?
September 2009
- You don't have anything to lose... What a fallacy !
- The Indicator Series… The Stochastic Oscillator
- Why your losing so much money… Characteristics of most people who buy an EA
August 2009
- The Indicator Series… The Moving Averages
- The indicator series… Going back to the basics !
- Backtesting and getting it right ! How to correctly backtest an MT4 expert advisor.
July 2009
June 2009
- Commercial Experts, Stealing from the Free Zone ?
- The God’s Gift ATR, Turning a Good EA into a bad one !
- Trading more or trading less ?
- So... What is your edge in forex trading ?
- Testing Every Expert Advisor, The WRONG Strategy !
May 2009
- Forex Expert Advisor Programming/Knowledge Course
- The Vicious Cycle of Expert Advisor Testing
- Living From Automated Trading System - How Much Money do you Need ?
- Expert Advisor Piracy, It Will Cost you Money
- Short verus Long Term Profit Expectations : Why Expert Advisors are So Deceitful
April 2009
- Forex Trading, The Hardest Easy Money You Will Ever Make
- Constant Volume Charts (Tick Charts) Using Metatrader 4
- Why Scalping and Scalpers Do NOT Work
- The Effect of Spreads on Expert Advisors
- Simple Moving Average Crosses as Profitable Trading Systems
- Trusting An Automated Trading System
- The 4 Week Breakout Strategy EA, a Very Simple Profitable Trading System
- Expert Advisor Seller Responsability the H.S.R Criteria
- Why Forex Forums Cannot be Trusted
March 2009
- Tick Volume Charts, The Story They Never Told You !
- Why You Should Move Away From Metatrader 4
- If We All Used The Same Forex EA ...
- Forex Automated Trading : Using Common Sense
- Why Trading With Expert Advisors Requires More Education Than Trading Manually
- The Risk to Reward Ratio, Randomness vs Logical Thinking
February 2009
- Linear Equity Growth, Which one is Good, and Which one is NOT
- Don't Trade Alone ! - Making Profits in the Forex Market
- Better Expert Advisors : Volatility Adjusted Take Profit and Stop Loss Values
- Coin Tossing in the Forex Market, Random Trading for Learning
November 2008
October 2008
- Forex Money Managment Strategies, the Difference Between Success and Failure
- Trading Forex, It's all about the Exits !
September 2008
- Forex automated trading : Why you need a VPS !
- Why 95% of forex traders fail and you are one of them !