Lets start with the obvious – ensure you do proper research into your trade, practice using a demo account, ensure correct risk management (stop losses) and as importantly, ensure that you are trading with a reputable broker who wil treat you with the respect you deserve and wont fool around with you when it comes to execution or even worse, withdrawals!

These are well known. However I wanted to introduce a relatively new concept to this business - the world of forex rebates and CFD rebates in the forms of … Read more

For the first time since September of 2007, the crude oil (NYME_CL) market has flashed a positive signal that it is headed higher. This is the first buy signal that we have seen in over 18 months in the energy markets.

The big question is, if crude oil is headed higher, how much of a price increase can the US economy afford and withstand? … Read more

WIth the markets closing on or close to their lows on Friday, this news is like pouring water on a drowing man. In other words, this is not the sort of news that is going to bolster the market.

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…

This from our business news partner AP.

AIG to get up to $30B more in Fed aid … Read more

Today, we are dissecting and examining one of my favorite markets … the Forex market. The Forex market is the biggest in the world and is traded on a 24/7 basis.

What makes these markets so exciting is the fact that they have a very strong tendency to trend, that is, once they get started in one direction they tend to continue in that direction for some time. … Read more

Do recession proof stocks exist? The answer to that question is very complicated, but they undoubtedly do. What we know is that they do not exist in a market crash. We also know there are companies in sectors, primarily healthcare and technology, that create revenue more consistently than companies in other sectors during a recession. There are also companies with a large enough market share that when the economy does recover, they are well positioned to enjoy … Read more

OK, that headline may be slightly misleading. There are plenty of jobs that the credit crunch has given us – but they largely involve clasping your hands and smiling in a disarming veneer of politeness as you recite “I’m sorry you’re application for a —- has been denied due to the credit crunch”, while trying to remember to fill in the blanks.

Either that or you could work in the government, which requires a knowledge of buying stuff without any knowledge about what you’re buying. That doesn’t sound too hard. But for the balls-out, old school banker there’s only one job left: distressed debt. … Read more

When they are not fiddling with their golf scores or stuffing small-denomination notes down a coked-up strippers G-string, bankers are a busy bunch. Far too busy to be surfing YouTube between porn downloads, aimlessly hoping for a solution to their problems. But that is exactly what they should be doing!* YouTube, that online celebration of inane Americana, occasionally throws up some pretty jaw-dropping solutions to the world’s woes. … Read more

The People’s Bank of China keeps a tight grip on money flowing into the country, leaving many stock market investors who have long wanted to join the party turned away at the door.

Those who were denied access to the Chinese market must now be counting their blessings. It has been on a nosedive since late last year, when the credit crunch bully started crashing parties around the world. … Read more

The ailing US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going to be bailed out by the Treasury. That much seems certain. But Henry Paulson should act now – while there is still something to save besides the US housing market.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were designed to inject liquidity into the US mortgage market. They do this by buying mortgages from banks and using them as collateral to fund through mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

With their government backing – once implicit but now about as explicit as a snuff movie from Jeffrey Dahmer’s private collection – they have been able to fund at very cheap levels in the MBS market. … Read more

The following topics are covered in this lesson:

1. Picking a trading style to reflect your personality
2. What is fundamental analysis? What is technical analysis?
3. Technical analysis 101: Support and resistance lines.

There are a million different ways to trade the financial markets. Maybe more. Swing traders, data players, Elliot Wave analysts, momentum traders, Gann theorists, spread traders, arbitrageurs – not to be confused with risk arbitrageurs – and correlation players all help to price and misprice assets. The music of the market reflects the instruments these traders use.

Yet any two traders using the same strategy could be taking wildly different trades – even taking opposites sides of the same trade. This is because, while sharing the…Read the rest of this article at CFDSpy.com, Spy school.

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