This article is taken from the Trader’s Journal magazine (May 2008 issue) The author, Joe DiNapoli, is a veteran trader with over 40 years of solid market trading experience. He is also a dogged and thorough researcher, an internationally recognized lecturer, and a widely acclaimed author. Joe, a registered C.T.A. for over 15 years, has taught his techniques in the major financial capitals of Europe, Asia, Russia, the Middle East and South Africa as well as in the United States. His articles

How to make money from money 1 .Practice before you start trading with real money. Could you imagine an athlete going to the Olympic Games without preparation and training? Make sure you have practised your trading on a demo platform and get comfortable with it and your trading style before committing real money. 2 .Know what moves currency markets. Like any asset class, there are a number of factors that drive currency performance. A country’s macroeconomic situation can have a major

Do you have a hunch about who will be the next U.S, president? Do you want to bet on it? It is very easy, go to the Wall Street Journal Political Market website and play. The WSJ Political Market is an exchange marketplace where traded “stocks” are political or economic outcomes and the currency is imaginary. There you can trade on political issues such as the next President or on economic ones, such as the U.S. going into recession or the Fed Funds rate being lower than 1% at the end of 2008.

It is known that various asset returns possess significant interrelations, and that financial returns and volatilities move together over time across assets and markets, since they are all part of a greater portfolio. In this manner, it is expected that there may be a correlation between the exchange rates, interest rates and the stock market in Turkey. Moreover, price movements in one market are also expected to spread to another. Therefore, the dynamic relationship between these three

This article is taken from the Forex Journal (June 2008 issue). The author, Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY and author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003). As Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC in Chicago, he has mentored numerous professional traders and coordinated a training program for traders. Brett N. Steenbarger helps us understand the

Southern Europe Although adoption is somewhat slower than other countries, Southern Europe is gradually starting to embrace eFX. Some of the reasons behind this include cultural, regulatory and economic challenges across the different countries in this area. Alberto Muñoz, chief analyst at FXstreet.com portal, comments: “e-FX trading has just started in southern Europe and we think it’s going to grow exponentially in the next two to three years, as there are more traders with better trading

This article is taken from the Forex Journal (May 2008 issue). The author, Sunil Mangwani is a Physics graduate with a Diploma in Financial Management. He has been trading the Forex market for the last 6 years and devises simple trading strategies based on his vast knowledge and in-depth study in the field of technical analysis. Sunil Mangwani will be key speaker at the FXstreet.com International Traders Conference in 2008 October 29-31 - Barcelona (Spain) Sunil Mangwani leads a discussion on

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is one of the most widely used technical indicators by traders. The RSI is an oscillator because it is an index whose value tends to swing between an upper limit value and a lower limit value. It is used primarily to help identify overbought or oversold conditions in a particular currency, as it is formulated to fluctuate between 0 and 100, enabling fixed overbought and oversold levels. It does this by confirming changes in momentum which signals an imminent

Keep those eggs out of the same basket There are two ways to look at asset allocation (the way you divide your investments) and diversification as it relates to the forex: Investing in multiple markets The first way to diversify is to make sure you are not exclusively invested in a single asset class. For example, being solely invested in the forex, or stocks, or bonds leaves you exposed to systemic risk. Systemic risk is the type of risk that you can’t get rid of. Systemic risk covers

Right-sized trades can be the difference between loss and gain Position sizing is the process of determining how much to invest, or risk, in any single trade. Position sizing is different for active trading, versus longer-term investing. In the case of short-term trading, it is usually a function of how much you could lose if the trade went bad. In longer-term investing strategies, position sizing is a bit more complicated and may depend on the strategy at play. In this section, we will focus