FX trading a guide to trading foreign exchange
Your total plain-English guide to trading Forex Open 24 hours a day, 5½ days per week, and trading nearly $4 trillion (US) per day, Forex is the biggest, fastest growing financial market in the world. Your complete A-to-Z guide, FX Trading gets you up to speed on everything you need to know to make...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mildton, Qld. :
Wrightbooks
c2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627978006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FX Trading: A Guide to Trading Foreign Exchange, 2nd Edition; Table of Contents; Preface; About the authors; Chapter 1: Money management - an overview; Chapter 2: What is foreign exchange?; Market segments: wholesale, clients (of wholesale) and brokers; Why different sources quote different highs and lows; Volume of data; Brief history of the FX market; Bringing Europe together and the birth of the euro; The rise of the Chinese yuan; The global financial crisis of 2008 and the currency markets; European stresses and the euro; Excellent sources of information on foreign exchange topics
- Chapter 3: Show me the money!Which currencies should you trade?; Chapter 4: Talking the talk; Price maker and price taker; Long and short; Pips; Big figure; Handle; Bid and ask; Spread; Quoting conventions - which currency comes first?; Direct and indirect quotes; Calculating profit or loss for an FX trade; Other influences on profitability; Bulls and bears; Inverted charts; Local media reporting; Chapter 5: Who's who at the FX marketplace; Why does foreign exchange trading exist?; Three broad groups of participants; Who else is in the FX 300?; Chapter 6: Trading platforms for retail traders
- Choosing an online margin FX providerQuestions to ask when choosing a broker; How do margin FX brokers make money?; The next step; Chapter 7: Factors influencing FX markets; Supply and demand; The balance of payments; Interest rates and money supply policy; Inflation and deflation; Asset prices; Commodity prices and terms of trade; Government budget and fiscal policy; Credit ratings; Currency controls; Politics and wars; Industrial relations, social unrest and nature; Market sentiment; Big trades; Data releases, speeches and minutes; Fundamentally, its only a beginning
- Chapter 8: Technical analysis for tradersWhat is technical analysis?; Assumptions made in technical analysis; Short-term chart analysis; Long-term bar chart analysis; Chart patterns; Trend following indicators; Momentum oscillator indicators; The moving average convergence divergence indicators (MACD); Bollinger Bands; Candlestick charts; Ichimoku Kinko Hyo charts; Currencies are often observed moving in unison; Trade the market, not your opinion of the market; Use of tools that require a figure for the daily close; Identify the current type of market activity; Start with the big picture
- VolumeKeep it simple; Chapter 9: FX fundamental analysis for traders; How do we determine exchange rates?; Theories of exchange rate determination; Economic indicators; Economic reports; Economic reports schedule; Sources of economic information; Chapter 10: FX trading at the big end of town; What is institutional FX?; The players; Market makers and price discovery; Currency arbitrage; The 21st century generation of FX broking and trading; Institutional online portals and the rise and rise of electronic brokers; The big guys are just like us - only bigger
- Chapter 11: Introduction to FX trading strategy
