Technical Traders Should Still Examine Fundamentals

Those who have read my features know I base the vast majority of my trading decisions on technical indicators and chart analysis–and also on market psychology. However, I do not ignore certain fundamentals that could impact the markets I’m trading. Neither should you.

Tax Strategies for Forex Traders

Forex, the foreign currency exchange market, can be a lucrative one indeed for traders skilled in its dynamics. This worldwide network of government central banks, commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, international corporations and brokerage firms enables traders to capitalize on the rise and fall of a currency dollar volume that exceeds $1.4 trillion every

Swing Trading: Rules and Philosophy

My style is based on the “Taylor Trading Technique”, a short-term method for trading daily price movements that relies entirely on odds and percentages . It is a method as opposed to a system. Very few people can blindly follow a system, though many find it easier to be discretionary in a systematic way.

Swing Trading: Making $$$ in a Sideways Market

By Jim Wyckoff “The Trend is Your Friend” is a tried and true market adage that is indeed one of the most valuable futures trading tenets. However, history shows that most markets tend to move in a non-trending, or “sideways” fashion more of the time than they are in a trending mode. There are several methods

Stochastics Tutorial

By Joseph Skibinski George Lane found another way to track market momentum by following the relationship between a market’s closing price and the extremes of its recent range. A bull market should consistently see closes near the high it’s recent range. A bear market should see closes near the range’s lows. A market’s momentum wanes