My Top 3 Trading Apps
In a world where everyone is constantly on the move, I have found that apps on smart phones are a great way to constantly keep up to date with rates, charts and even the local currency rates when you’re overseas. Here are my top 3 trading apps at the moment: 1. XE Currency – This is extremely user friendly and easy to use. It offers the user live information on market rates as well as daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly charts on currency pairs. It’s extremely popular with over 20 million downloads worldwide. 2. Citi Foreign Exchange Rates – This another easy to...
Read MoreMy Experience with the Forex Market by Olivia Rust
The forex market is something that has always held my interest and, as the New Year came, I decided that I would actively try to gain more knowledge about the foreign exchange market. My understanding of the industry has been very limited until recently. I attended a very interesting seminar with Mark Walas from Plan B Trading. I had done a lot of research about the industry via the internet and with every website informing me that they had the right strategy for me, being a complete novice, I can see how easy it would be to fall into these traps. I decided to attend a seminar to see how...
Read MoreHow I Started Trading by Mark Walas
The first time I bought shares in a company was in 1978, in a business in the IT industry. Six months later, I sold these shares and had a profit of more than 60% on my original investment. With an experience like that, it’s hardly any wonder that I continued investing in companies to profit from share price movements. I traded firstly in stocks and shares and then, as my confidence grew, in foreign exchange. It was most certainly exciting, Forex often moved more in a minute than a share did in a week. It also proved costly as, like many traders starting out, I made many mistakes. It looked...
Read MoreTrading in progress for 2014
The first full week of 2014 has seen trading activity resume in full. Yesterday, we had the Bank of England and European Central Bank setting interest rate policies for their economies. The UK rates were held, with UK economic news generally continuing to support sterling. With the US economic growth powering ahead, it has to be reckoned that the Eurozone will eventually arrive at the party and benefit from this growth, in turn returning to growth. However, the Euro was under pressure yesterday as growth is lacklustre to say the least. Probably more accurate to say lacking instead. That was...
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