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Fundamentals of Market Structure: For Noobs (and Experienced Traders Without Proper Footing)

One thing I can bet on 100% is that the majority of traders approach markets improperly because many times, they don't understand them at their root. There are a lot of online learning initiatives available,
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Should I Focus On One Instrument, or Monitor Several?

A question I have been asked many times over the years, and it just came up again today. The simple answer is that it depends on how you're trading. First, the cliff note answer: For daytraders,
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Getting a Trading Job: Types of Firms, Positions Available and What It Really Takes

When people think of trading firms, their mind tends to shoot in one direct: wall street mayhem, images of people sitting on a long desk, ticker symbols all over the room, etc. and people yelling
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Stop Getting Crushed by Misuse of Trading Strategy

Pretend you were planning a drive from New York to Los Angeles. You have to be there in 6 days, and with the expectation of driving 10 hours/day, it will take you 4 days to
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Trading is Not a “Way Out” of ^%$*ing Anything

This is year #8 of yours truly maintaining a blog. And that's about all I have been doing, quite frankly. Maintaining. I wasn't sure how to start writing this post today because I realize the
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56 Simple Lessons on How To Trade Anything

“Busy” is an overused word for “average life in 2016” and as I too, am “busy”, can find an easy-to-follow list of advice therapeutic at times. There are cliches, and there are ideas that spawn
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Persistent and Motivated: Obtaining High Productivity in Any Market

It seems difficult to understand the true meaning of “rabbit hole” until you enter an activity such as trading. While it is true that we have close to 100,000,000 articles floating the internet explaining the key differences, or
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Currency, Equity and Commodity Trends in Plain English

For those of you relatively new to the world of intermarket analysis, or simply looking for a brush up / obtain more information on current markets, Blackrock features a very much 101 series dedicated to doing just
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Should You Be Using a Futures Platform to Trade Currencies?

For most retail Forex traders, quality software options are scarce. At least on the retail side, there has been a severe gap that hasn't appeared to close itself since the boom of FX trading back in the
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