Tag Archive for: Tips for beginner traders

Pre-market. Specific features of trading stocks on the American exchange

Pre-market. Specific features of trading USA stocks

American company stock novice traders know that the US stock market is open from 9:30 until 16:00 Monday-Friday Eastern Time (holidays excluded). But they may not know that stocks are also traded before the main session opening at 9:30. This period of time is called ‘pre-market’. The present article aims at getting acquainted with this […]

Hedging currency-related risks

Hedging currency-related risks

What does hedging currency risks mean? In simple words, this is when a financial market participant performs an operation to insure himself against a possible negative influence, which can be exerted on his other operations by the currency exchange rate change. For example, when a US investor buys stock of an American company, denominated in […]

What is a continuous futures contract

What is a continuous futures contract?

How to analyse the market and develop a trading plan in a couple of minutes

How to analyse the market and develop a trading plan

Why to analyse the market structure? Very often traders are in a hurry to start trading. Besides, the existing variety of trading systems and indicators will always give a signal for trading. However, you shouldn’t hurry in this business because opening a trade against the current market moods will, most probably, be loss-making or have […]

Review of the ATAS platform functionality

HOW TO USE CONTANGO AND BACKWARDATION FOR ARBITRAGE TRADING

Spread trading: contango and backwardation in trading