Forex vs. Currency Futures

By Carley Garner The Forex market has quickly become a popular playground for speculative trading; but is it the best arena to be trading currencies?  Those looking to profit from fluctuations in currency valuations have two primary trading forums, the spot market often referred to Forex or simply FX, or currency futures which are primarily

Forex Trading Strategies

Successfully trading the forex market on an intraday basis requires precision and a very careful selection of trades. The enormous scope of the trillion dollar, 24 hour, globe spanning fx market presents a miriad of opportunities for the short term trader – however a day trader in this market must be aware of certain inherent

Sir John Templeton

Sir John Marks Templeton was born in the small farming town of Winchester, Tennessee in 1912. The first person from his hometown to attend college, Templeton worked his way through Yale University along with the help of scholarships and graduated at the top of his class with a degree in economics. He then attended Oxford

J. Peter Steidlmayer

J. Peter Steidlmayer is an independent trader who joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1963. Steidlmayer served on the CBOT Board of Directors from 1981-1983. While a director, he developed Market Profile in conjunction with the CBOT. Market Profile is a technical tool that uses a graphical organization of price, volume and time information.

Blair Hull

Blair Hull received a BA in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, went on to receive an MBA from Santa Clara University. He also graduated from the Harvard OPM Program. After graduating University, Hull spent 6 years in the military. Having read Edward O. Thorp’s Beat the Dealer, Hull headed for Las Vegas and