DailyFX Tips & Picks: Searching for volatility: What traders should look for June 30, 2014 THE DAYS when we would experience broad-based US dollar gains or sell-offs are long gone. With forex volatility reaching new lows, traders need to adapt and turn picky when choosing which currencies to trade. So what has been (and will likely continue to be) a good leading indicator of volatility? RELATIVE YIELD SPREADS With the [...]
DailyFX Tips & Picks: Short-term and long-term trading: The pros and cons June 23, 2014 ONE great thing about the FX market is choice. You can trade a multitude of time-frames, with short-term trading the most popular. In fact, the average trader trades three times per day. Short-term trading can be anything from “scalping” to “intraday” trading. Scalping means entering and exiting a trade over a very short period, usually [...]