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My Binary Options Trades This Week

Jan. 17, 2014

Binary Options Trading for January 16, 2014 As I’ve mentioned to some extent in recent posts, one of the best things you can do to help your trading is to focus on a specific asset. Choose a specific asset, a particular charting timeframe, a time during the day to trade it, and a certain trade […]

My Approach to Forex Trading #4: Trades on the GBP/JPY

Jan. 13, 2014

In this post I’d like to talk about some forex trades I made on the GBP/JPY in 2013 for those of you interested in further examples of how I approach spot forex trading. The GBP/JPY is well known as a volatile pair. There is a lot of movement of all timeframes, which I experienced when […]

Five things that you must do to become a successful trader

Jan. 12, 2014

Here is a list of essential things that I feel a trader needs to have in order to become successful. 1. Stop overtrading!  Overtrading is the one thing that will destroy your account like nothing else. Obviously if you don’t trade or trade minimally it’s difficult to make money. Some newer traders are almost afraid […]

Trades for January 9 and 10, 2014

During the latter two days of this week I looked at the markets for over twelve hours and found a grand total of zero trades to take. Thursday Thursday provided some potential areas that could have possibly been worthy of trading. The pivot point and support 1 level came into play multiple times in addition […]

EURUSD Day Trades – Front-Running Breakouts

Jan. 08, 2014

January 6 was an interesting day, as it directly related to several articles written recently. As the US session began today the EURUSD was moving within a triangle pattern, following a trending move down. The expectation based on the trend was that the price would break lower out of the triangle. Therefore, using the strategy […]

How do I become good at trading in a very short period of time?

Jan. 06, 2014

I wanted to address something I get asked probably the most often, which I can generally summarize as “How do I become good at trading in a very short period of time?” The truth is that the very best traders (and investors) are those that have put in the most time to become successful at […]

My Approach to Forex Trading: #3 (Breakout trades)

Those familiar with my blog here know that I tend to pretty much always stick with an overarching trading strategy centered around support and resistance levels. For binaries, that continues to be true. I have tried breakout strategies in the past for binary options, but I’m simply not very good at it to be perfectly […]

3 Currency Pairs to Watch as We Enter 2014

Jan. 05, 2014

USDCAD: heading for a Bearish Reversal into 2014 2013 saw the USDCAD currency pair soaring over 900 pips. Will bulls continue charging into 2014? Maybe not, as we think there is a good chance this pair is heading for a bearish reversal. The chart below paints the USDCAD MT4 daily chart, using Ichimoku analysis, with […]

EURUSD Day Trades – January 2

Jan. 04, 2014

It was a few hours into the London session before a strong trend began. That is way I prefer not to range trade in the EURUSD. There is a high likelihood that the range won’t last very long, and what many traders view as ranges are just consolidations in a longer-term term trend (not always, […]