Category Archives: Forex Basics

A swap is simply an exchange between two parties, by definition, and in trading, a swap involves an exchange of an underlying financial instrument. As such, swaps can be categorized as derivatives. The most common instruments that can be swapped incl...

The United States is usually touted as the leader of the free world for its beliefs in democracy and transparency in governance and even the economy. On the subject of financial transparency, I could show you how untrue this is as we saw during the 2...

Investors are always trying to come up with new and exotic means of making money, and carry trade is one such innovative financial instrument. It involves borrowing money from a country with low-interest rates and investing this borrowed money in a c...

There are a lot of people out there who claim that the Forex market is nothing but a huge scam by Forex trading brokers to rip off traders. Their claims are usually supported by the grim figures often quoted that only 5% of all retail traders make go...

The concept of fundamental analysis is pretty straightforward – wait for the news to be announced and act upon the news. However, it’s a bit more complicated than that and various concepts have to be kept in mind if you want to be success...

While coming up with a trading strategy, one of the most important questions you will have to ask yourself is how long you’re going to be holding your trades. Some traders can hold on to positions for weeks, even months, while others prefer to ...

We’re used to hearing stories about hedge fund managers, private equity managers, and investment bankers who are millionaires and even billionaires, but what about Forex? You might be surprised by the fact that there are a lot of Forex traders ...

All through the year, we’ve been getting plenty of questions on various aspects of Forex trading, and we’ve noticed there are some common questions we often get over and over. So, we sought to settle these common questions by answering th...

The Metatrader 4 (MT4) and Metatrader 5 (MT5) are leading Forex trading platforms dominating retail currency markets. With increasing individual trader participation, choosing the best platform is essential. This article compares the two to determine...

No one indeed knows what might happen tomorrow, or how every other trader in the world feels about a particular currency, and there are millions of traders. Yet Forex trading is all about making speculations about future trends in the financial world...
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