Author: misamaliraza94
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Quiz: Which Trading Style Is Best For You?
During Junior Year in the School of Pipsology, we learned that each forex trader is unique and that various trading styles fit different types of personalities. If your personality doesn’t match your style of trading, you could wind up hurting your account AND your ego. This quiz can help you find out whether you are better off…
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How To Protect Yourself From Forex Scams
So what have we learned? Scams ARE real! Yes! Really bad people are out there trying to make a dishonest living. However, unlucky for them, you are smart! You know that the only way to succeed in currency trading is to learn from square one and gain trading experience! Now say this three times out…
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Foreign Regulatory Agencies
UK: The FCA and PRA If you live in the U.K., the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are for you! On April 1, 2013, both of these agencies replaced the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as the financial industry’s regulatory bodies. The Financial Conduct Authority is a non-government agency funded by the firms they regulate, and…
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U.S. Regulatory Agencies
Despite the forex market is the largest financial market in the world, it remains largely unregulated. There is no international organization or global agency that monitors and oversees the currency trading occurring all over the world in the interbank. Due to the unregulated nature of the spot FX market, this opens up the opportunity for…
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Forex Broker Scams
Watch out for forex broker scams! Believe it or not, there are some brokers who “cheat” their clients. One way they do so is by manipulating bid/ask spreads. Normal spreads between brokers would be around 2-3 pips but scammers would have spreads around 7-8 pips. Seven pips might not seem like a lot, but it does…
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Forex Signals
Forex signal services do everything a robot does except the actual execution of trade entries. Besides possibly using an automated program, a “professional” trader may generate trading signals (for a fee, of course) for clients to act upon. However, you may be paying for a signal in which you do not know the rationale behind each…
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Forex Robots
Forex robot scams encompass Expert Advisors (also famously known as EAs) and other automated trading systems. What is a forex robot? In the forex world, a “robot” is a program that strictly uses technical signals to enter into trades and lets the human sleep in a hammock on a beach while he “makes” money. With a…
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Forex Scams
“Buy my ‘End of the Rainbow’ system and you’ll be able to make at least 100,000,000%!!!” It’s like finding the end of a real rainbow but easier!! Guaranteed profit worth a hundred pots of gold with absolutely no risk! Don’t be a sucker! You’ve probably heard or seen something similar on TV ads, online pop-ups,…
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What Makes a Good Trader?
What separates good traders from bad traders? A good trader realizes that trading is patience, discipline, and requires a trading approach adapted to their specific psychological profile. A good trader concentrates on the PROCESS of trading, and not just on the result. Here’s a list of other things that good traders do: What Good Traders Do A good trader knows if they…
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Tips for Forex Trading Beginners
As a beginner, you’ve taken your first steps towards learning the basics of forex trading. But it only gets harder from here. Just like learning how to walk, you have to take baby steps, and in between, you will fall, but you get back up and press forward. If you’re trying your hand at forex trading for the…