Educational articles on trading the forex market. Available in ActionForex.com http://www.actionforex.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:09:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.actionforex.com/images/M_images/aflogo.jpg http://www.actionforex.com Educational articles on trading the forex market. Available in ActionForex.com http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/trading-the-cad-2008092962053/ The Cad has a unique trading style, moving only one third of the trading day, during the U.S. session. For the rest of the time, the pair tends to hover around a price level, be it the neutral pivot point, a moving average or a support/resistance level. Lately, however, the... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:43:49 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/looking-at-the-inter%11banking-liquidity-2008092561515/ Usually, when a bank wants to make a loan for liquidity needs it has two options: either borrow money from the central-bank, through the open market operations, or call another bank to lend money at the LIBOR rate. The London Inter-bank Offered Rate or LIBOR is the reference rate at... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:04:38 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/getting-to-know-the-majors-2008090258473/ The U.S. economy is now in the Trough phase of the business cycle, after it experienced a steep decline in the last quarter of 2007 and in the first quarter of 2008. The economy was helped in finding a bottom in the second quarter of 2008 by the rebate checks... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:22:07 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/central-banking%3a-the-forex-influence-and-how-to-read-it-2008082858020/ Central banks are at the heart of the financial system of any given country in that they are the authorities controlling the supply of money, and therefore control how a regions economy functions. They evolved from the lack of stability in financial market that ruined a lot of economies during... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:12:25 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/an-introduction-to-bonds-%11-their-impact-on-the-dollar-index-2008082457415/ There have been a lot of headlines recently in regard to Treasury debt and how it will be financed over the coming years. The Federal Reserve has a mandate of full employment and inflation control, and they use Treasury notes as their tool to deliver that mandate. In this article... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:06:07 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/buy-the-strongest,-sell-the-weakest-2007102930849/ One of the best technical tools we can use in our analysis is the status other currency pairs. If you are of the opinion that because of fundamental reasons the US Dollar will weaken, your next step would be to find the currency pair that gives you the best chance... Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:46:34 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/stop-loss??-i-don%27t-want-to-use-it-2007102930810/ Last week I was reviewing a website which has a trading signal program for those investors who prefer to not being involved in confusing market analysis and I respect them because such services normally will bring them more time to do other important things in their daily life. But the... Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:53:17 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/canadian-dollar%3a-end-of-month-trading-anomaly-2007082327072/ Did you know that the Canadian dollar has a very unique trading characteristic at the end of every month? According to our statistical analysis, we found that over the past 10 years, USD/CAD tends to fall in the last week of the month with a 95 percent confidence level. A... Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:15:36 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/central-banks-interventions-in-the-new-millennia-2007082126897/ The universe of foreign exchange has expanded dramatically since entering the new millennium and its future remains golden. Fresh from the pruning dictated by the introduction of the euro, the wave of banks mergers, and the emerging market crisis of 1998, currency trading benefited greatly from the equity crisis in... Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:59:26 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/trading-with-the-trend-and-consolidation-patterns-2007060122602/ The FX-market will develop distinctive trends from time to time, as a result of the underlying fundamental factors which make up each currency within the pair traded. Often times these trends occur as one currency offers a significant higher interest rate, which continues to draw investment capital out of another... Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:41:01 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/bollinger-bands-and-breaks-2007052222042/ The (FX) market follows a steady cycle of oscillating between a range bound and trending environment, on a long and short term basis. During range bound markets, the buying and selling forces remain more or less equal, and therefore compress the market into a sideways trading pattern such as the... Tue, 22 May 2007 10:28:38 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/getting-creative-with-support-and-resistance-2007051421620/ When the basic applications of technical indicator fail to explain the current market climate, we can experiment with a new and fresh look at the charts. The following (1-hour) chart shows a steady downtrend, with its expected support and resistance levels. Since the trend is to the downside, we should... Mon, 14 May 2007 10:27:31 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/an-introduction-to-an-exciting-market-%11-forex-2007050421189/ The largest traded "market" in the world is not the U.S., Japanese or European stock markets. It's the foreign exchange market. It's also called FOREX for short, or called the cash currency or spot currency market. Speculators can and do trade this huge market, in which over 1 trillion dollars... Fri, 04 May 2007 10:34:08 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/trending-markets-and-the-ideal-entry-price-2007043020934/ From time to time, the FX-market will create a trending market environment, perhaps as the result of a disparity in interest rates among the two currencies within the pair traded. When this trend occurs, it may be in our best interest to simply align our own trading account in the... Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:12:05 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/large-round-figures-2006122615182/ Many traders, from the individual speculator to the large fund will focus on the large round figures or round numbers when applying their analysis to the FX-market for a number of reasons. Option traders tend to select these price levels whether their exercising American, European, or Exotic options, as well... Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:33:24 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/do-candlestick-charts-work-on-forex-charts?-2006101111970/ In general Candlestick charting developed in the futures and stock markets and thus many of the patterns or techniques are suited more to these markets. Many still claim that Candlestick charting can be applied to the Forex market but there are limitations when the technique is used in Forex charts. Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:54:16 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/the-market-is-always-technical-2006092911409/ Let's get this straight. Technical analysis is a wide ranging group of techniques which obtain information from price action or derivatives of price action and provide indications to the analyst on the expected direction of price. The basic concept that is often said is that it is based on the... Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:49:34 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/is-it-possible-to-forecast-future-forex-movements?-2006092511156/ I often hear traders claim that it is impossible to forecast price movement. I can categorically claim that it is possible, and have considerable success and good accuracy in the process utilizing technical analysis in 100% of my forecasting. Economists of course laugh at the idea that there can be... Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:14:48 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/how-a-drop-in-natural-gas-may-lead-to-a-rally-in-yen-2006092010989/ Typically, when multi-strategy hedge funds head to the currency markets to raise funds they will liquidate their most profitable positions first. Over the past six months this has inevitable meant carry trades. For example since its short term bottom on May 17th, USD/JPY with its 500 basis point positive interest... Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:44:35 +0100 http://www.actionforex.com/articles-library/forex-articles/how-to-increase-forex-profits-100%25-in-10-minutes-2006090810483/ This simple exercise will increase Forex profits 100% and works for 99% of all short-term FX traders - stop trading so much - widen out your stops - widen out your profit targets - and only trade in the direction of the trend indicated by 4 hour chart. Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:52:13 +0100