Dan Blystone

Dan Blystone is a writer living in Barcelona, Spain. He worked in the futures industry in Chicago as a floor clerk, trader and broker before founding TradersLog.com. Other interests include travel, photography and languages. Find Dan on Twitter @DanBlystone

Understanding Market Sentiment

In this article we’ll explore the meaning of market sentiment and how you can use it in your trading. Market sentiment reflects the mood of investors, showing whether they are optimistic or pessimistic – bullish or bearish. Sentiment analysis measures the psychology of the crowd of market participants. Emotion often drives markets and market sentiment … Read more

The Deep Pullback Strategy

When trading in the forex market, traders who wish to maximize their probability of success should pay close heed to several key principles and practices. This article discusses some of these principles and then provides a specific, step-by-step strategic method for putting them into effective practice.

TraderSync

The big problem with traders is that they rely on a strategy to follow. What they don’t know is that while strategy accounts for 10% of their performance, their psychology counts for 60%. Imagine this, you enter a trade, the trade was going your way, but perhaps you never closed it after reaching your goal … Read more

Andrei Knight: Trading the Forex Market

Why do bank traders win consistently and independent traders struggle consistently? Andrei Knight, former consultant to both UBS Switzerland and DeutscheBank, founder of fxKnight.com, and named by FXStreet.com one of the top currency traders in the world, explains his view in this special 1-hour presentation.