According to the data of the Brokernotes analytical agency for the year 2018, financial markets activated their development in the global scale. The number of traders has grown by 107% and in Oceania by 116% during one year. The rates of growth were not that fast in previous years. Who would have thought that there […]
Trading futures on S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, DAX and RTS indices is very popular. For example, only in one market E-mini ES is traded from 1 to 3 million contracts during one session. No wonder that CME introduced micro-contract trading with a very low entry threshold on the wave of popularity of futures on […]
Trading sessions are periods of time when trades can be executed on the exchange. We wrote in the article about the exchange organizational structure that trading on the New York Stock Exchange is opened with the Opening Bell. So, a time period from the opening bell to the closing bell is a trading session. If […]
From time to time we acquaint you with interesting analytical articles of foreign authors. Earlier we published a study of Jan Firich about breakouts of the initial balance and today we will discuss the meaning of round numbers in trading with currency pairs and futures. This article is based on materials of Carol Osler, a […]
“You can be a free man. You can live and work anywhere in the world, be independent from routine and not answer to anybody. This is the life of a successful trader. Many aspire to it but few succeed” (Alexander Elder)
Beginner traders often start trading on the exchange expecting fast and big money. They are blinded with glittering future (colourfully depicted in advertising booklets of brokers) and do not notice important and necessary things: discipline, absent-mindedness, psychology, lack of knowledge, etc. Or do not pay due attention to them. As a result – losses, nerves, […]
Natural gas futures (NG) is: the third world biggest commodity delivery futures contract by volume; widely used as a national natural gas benchmark price and the most important world energy source; allowing market participants carrying out hedging for risk management, connected with the natural gas price volatility, caused by the demand.
The oil futures market is one of the most significant world markets. The instrument volatility is explained by many influence factors – politics, industrial growth, ecology and others. The news analysis would, most probably, lead a beginner trader astray. What to do if you do not want to lose an opportunity and it is not […]
“Without a doubt, more people follow the price of gold than any other commodity in the world” Larry Williams