September 23rd, 2008

BUSINESS INSURANCE… When Trading?

When you have a typical business you buy all kinds of insurance.  Examples might be:
1.    Workers compensation
2.    Property Insurance
3.    General Liability Coverage
4.    Business owners policies
5.    Vehicle insurance
6.    Employment Practice Liability Insurance
7.    Business Interruption Insurance
8.    Key man Insurance
9.    Errors and Omissions Insurance
10.    Directors and Officers Liability
Making a claim:
Here are some tips for making sure you come [...]

September 8th, 2008

Dealing With Your Broker

When we refer to our broker we are referring to the people we talk to when we contact that broker.  It may be someone in the funding department, the accounts department, the client services department, or a person placing a trade for us.  In any event they are people.
Yes the broker should be there to [...]

September 5th, 2008

Another Way To Stay In Control

I once heard a trader say that after he made some money in his account he would take out the original investment.  Then he was only playing with money he didn’t originally have making the losses not hurt as much.  It became easier to make money because he had taken the pressure off himself.
By doing [...]

August 21st, 2008

How The Currency Market Stacks Up

I was reading an article in e-FOREX magazine.  It was talking about a survey that was taken that highlights the activity of the foreign currency market.  It said “Did you know that the market in daily Foreign Exchange volume is bigger than those of OTC Interest Rates, Us Treasuries, Us Equities and Europe, Middle East [...]

August 18th, 2008

Best or Worst trader Or Be The Best You Can Be

When studying traders that seem to have it all together learn concepts do not try to copy exact.  We want to know what they did and exactly what happened.  That is good in trying to learn but do not compare yourself to other people; Just compare yourself to your own efforts.
Yoga students do not compare [...]

July 11th, 2008

Time Conversions

We get asked all the time about converting times, trading times, and market hours.
Here are two sites to help with GMT conversions and FX market hours:
www.timeanddate.com (see the ‘World Clock’ function)
www.forexmarkethours.com
Hope you enjoy and find a use for these two sites.
Jed

January 7th, 2008

How to Hit a Homerun (20 of 26)

This entry is part 20 of 26 in the series The Disciplined Forex TraderBy learning how to hit singles you will be able to hit a home run once in a while. I don’t know of any trader who gets into a trade expecting to hit a home run every time. You should never [...]

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