FOREX TRADING

Easy Fibonacci Trading Guide – 4 Simple Steps to Trading with Fibonacci

If you’re just like anybody else who’s got demanding lifestyle, I am sure you don’t want to spend most of your time sitting and waiting for the market to move for you. Years of experience has taught me some techniques that allowed me to cut my sitting and waiting time to a minimum. I found that I don’t need to watch the markets hour in hour out. Would you like to know these techniques so you can also do your trading in just a short period, leaving you time to do things that the money from trading allow you to do? Then, read on!

1. Keep your trading technique simple and understandable. It’s important for you to decide right away that you’re going to make trading work for you, not you working for the markets.

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News and Events:

The fx markets main focus continues to be the Greek sovereign debt issue and the potential of something concrete materializing from the ECOFIN meeting today. However, we are doubtful we will hear anything new. The Eurozone members are expected to pressure Greece into endorsing further austerity measures and will be given until mid March to prove it will be able to reach its forecasted deficit targets (we are not sure what an extra few weeks will do but…). As of yet, there has been no official bailout plan reported, only a softly worded statement on EU ‘solidarity’ and we don’t think a detail strategy is coming any time soon. So, now FX traders can look forward to 30 days of nervousness and in our mind EUR weakness. Overnight, there has been some harshly worded comments that suggest that members might not be a cohesive as last weeks statement advocated. Finland ‘s Finance Minister stated that EU rules were ‘against a bailout’ and any aid would have to be a bilateral agreement between Greece and members. He also suggested that Finland would not help and ‘Greece must get the money it needs from the market,’ and that Finland has already help enough by supporting Latvia and Iceland . The Austrian Finance Minister said that the fuzzy economic data produced by Greek should not be allowed to undermine the credibility of the EUR. Worryingly, Eurostat, which is already bringing Greece to court for statistical irregularities, today issued a statement that they were unaware that Greece used currency swaps to disguise gaps in there balance sheet. The statistical agency of the European commission has now set an end of February deadline for disclosure on these transactions. Because of the EUs own disclosure and accounting rules, members were not required to report these deals, so markets are completely in the dark to the size and scope of these swaps. And given the familiar names and structures being mentioned, it has eerier similarity to past crisis in the US at the state and country level. Separately, The RBA minutes of Feb 2nd policy meeting provided no real insight into the timing of the next hike.

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By Ahmad A Hassam

Did you find the Holy Grail in trading? If you know when to enter the market and when to exit the market at the right time, you have found the Holy Grail in trading. Fibonacci Retracement and Extensions is the Holy Grail for many traders. They trade by these Fibonacci Levels. Fibonacci sequence is a famous sequence that appears quite frequently in nature. Fibonacci sequence is obtained by adding the last two number to obtain the next number. The first two numbers are 0,1. After that just add the last two numbers to obtain the next number. Fibonacci sequence just develops like 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55,89,144,233,377 and so on.

Ratios obtained by dividing a number in the Fibonacci sequence with the number before it and with two numbers before it are always the same. These two numbers 1.27, 0.618 and 0.382 are very important and occur frequently in nature. These three ratios are used to construct Fibonacci Retracements and Extension Levels.

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