How to break bad trading habits
All traders should have a good trading plan. One of the worst bad habits a trader can have is trading impulsively and without any guidelines. Traders who take the time to make a trading plan are much more likely to succeed, but even with a plan in place we can stgelop bad habits. A trader…
How this CFD trader made $20,000 in one week
A 9 percent jump in India’s ‘Nifty 50′ Index in the week following July’s pull-back saw part-time, twenty-something CFD trader Karthik Ganesh make over $20,000. Having initially dabbled in options four years ago, Ganesh quickly gravitated to trading indices with IG Markets where 24-hour markets offer the flexibility to ‘trade out’ whenever he wants. Choosing…
Buy low, sell high – but what is low?
The ultimate key to success in all trading, both long-term investment and short-term speculation, is simple. Buy low, sell high. Excel in this, and trading the financial markets will eventually make you wealthy. But implementing this well-known proverb into your own trading certainly isn’t easy. As always, the stgil is in the details. To paraphrase…
When junior miners catch a bid, gains will be fast & furious
Every so often I’m asked to describe the role of juniors in the commodities industry. And I simply reply, “They’re like rabbits”. Rabbits are seemingly insignificant and useless animals. But in actuality they serve a critical role in the food chain as a valuable source of nourishment for larger animals. Like rabbits, juniors are seemingly…
Pairs trading the No.1 strategy for CFD traders
Most stock market investors buy shares, and want the market to rise. A smaller group take short positions, and want the market to fall. Pairs traders don’t mind what the market does, as long as they choose the stronger of a pair of related securities. Pairs trading seeks to profit from relative performance. The trader…
Why volume is an important clue for traders – part 2
You can read part 1 of “Why volumer is an important clue for traders” by clicking here. By Will Kraa Volume of shares traded tends to vary in a fairly random fashion without too much significance most of the time but there are occasions when volume can be a great help in finding very good…
Professional trader reveals system that has worked for 25 years
If you’ve ever entertained the idea of being a full-time trader then you’ve probably spent time looking for the holy grail of trading – the perfect system that will guarantee making big bucks on the market. Well, professional trader Kerry Johnston has, in his own way, found it – although he doesn’t like to call…
Why volume is an important clue for traders
As you might have noticed, it’s been some time since I have contributed. I have just simply been very busy, including stints of intraday trading when the market was so volatile that I was not prepared to have positions open overnight. That sort of trading was very profitable but also very demanding. Now that I…
How to evaluate gold stocks
In my tenure as an analyst on the gold stock circuit, I’ve been blessed to have experienced some pretty neat things that have given me an inside look at the gold mining industry. And by far the most exciting of my adventures have been tours of actual gold mines. I’ve descended deep into the bowels…
Why commodities will remain the best-performing sector
Out of their dismal lows in early March, the stock markets rocketed 27% higher in a single month! After such fast gains, Wall Street remained skeptical. Was this a typical bear rally that would soon collapse? But as the last couple weeks have shown, it didn’t. Stocks not only held their rally gains, but they…
