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- FX Articles replied May 25, 2007
What markets are traded? Depending on the methods being traded, professional traders operate in most all of the worlds futures markets. UK traders might typically follow strategies in the interest rate STIR futures - such as Euribor, or Eurex traded ...
- FX Articles replied May 25, 2007
What are liquidity provider rebates for Arcade traders? Due to the huge amounts of volume an arcade will execute, the firm will be registered as a liquidity provider with the exchanges that it trades with. Individual traders can benefit from what ...
- FX Articles replied May 25, 2007
* Infrastructure: A commitment to full-time trading also requires a commitment to invest in the best hardware and software that are available. A trader needs every advantage in a fast moving market and with more traders competing against each other ...
- FX Articles replied May 18, 2007
The spread in the table above is the 90 day average. Basically, if the spread is 0.46 basis points, there is a 15% probability of a recession four quarters later. And that is roughly where we are today. The 90 day average is 0.52%. But that level of ...
- FX Articles replied May 18, 2007
Yet, as we will see below, the inversion is not without interest to investors. So what can meaning can we draw? Estimated Recession Probabilities Estrella and Mishkin developed a probability table about how likely a recession would be 4 quarters ...
- FX Articles replied May 18, 2007
So, the fact that the two year and the ten year inverted this week does not mean we will see a recession next year. In fact, it may not mean anything other than it was a slow week in the bond pits. We saw the spread on the yield curve roughly where ...
- FX Articles replied May 18, 2007
This is of course highly unusual. Most of the time the curve or graph will start in the lower left and rise to the upper right. Today it sags in the middle, which means that yields on the two year note is paying more than the ten year bond. When a ...
- FX Articles replied May 11, 2007
As an example, please refer to the chart below, which depicts an opening gap trading opportunity in the Dow Jones Mini contract. The indicator in the top left screen reports gap size, direction, and accompanying statistics prior to and at the moment ...
- FX Articles replied May 11, 2007
There are no hard-and-fast rules that determine one gap a Breakaway and another Common, but a few general guidelines can be used to help differentiate between the two. The fist is time-based. If the opening price on a gap to the upside stands as the ...
- FX Articles replied Mar 10, 2007
There are additional opportunities in spread trading, including spreads that require full margin. You can trade spreads with stock indexes, sector funds, and single stock futures. Did you know you can daytrade stock index spreads? These are topics ...
- FX Articles replied Mar 10, 2007
Opportunities: Because spreads tend to trend more often and more dramatically than do outright futures contracts, they offer more opportunities for earning money, and they do so without the interference and noise caused by computerized trading, ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
About the author — image I trade for a living. There is no better way to make a living. I am a currency nerd. This is what I love. I also train others to trade for a living. I have worked with traders on nearly every continent, in nearly ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Untested System #2: Using Indicators — We’ve provided the MACD-Histogram (12, 26,9) and the Slow Stochastic (9,3,3) on each chart, so that we could later glance at two common indicators to see if they would help us plan or take trades. You ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Untested System #1: Using the Expected vs. Actual Numbers — I believe there is a strong correlation between the length/strength of a post-NFP move and the relative shock that comes from getting an unexpected number. For instance, on December ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Example #2: Sell Trade on Second System — This is an example of a sell trade taken with the second system. This chart is from the April, 04, 2003 Non Farm Payroll release. In position #1, we mark Friday’s lowest point (approximately 1.0700). ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Example #1: Buy Trade on Second System — This is an example of a buy trade taken with the second system. You’ll notice that it has a really wide stop loss, but that’s the way we tested it. This chart is from the August 01, 2003 Non Farm ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
The Second System: The No-Friday System — We used the 1 hour charts to test this system. Here are the details: 1. No trades were taken on NFP Friday; 2. Trade entered after a close above/below the high of NFP Friday, meaning if on a day after ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Looking at the 1 Hour Chart — The image below is not going to be completely legible for you, so you’ll need to access either the www.robbooker.com/NFP Web site or the CD in order to get a better view of it. This is a bigger picture view of the ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Example #3: The Reversal Trade — The image below is not going to be completely legible for you, so you’ll need to access either the url Web site or the CD in order to get a better view of it. This is a bigger picture view of the EUR/USD for ...
- FX Articles replied Dec 6, 2006
Example #2: Taking a Buy Trade — In the example below, you can see blue horizontal lines, our New York Box. Between 12:00am (midnight) and 7:00am, Eastern Time, on September 5, 2003 the highest point the GBP/USD reached was 1.5861. The lowest ...