The Financial Times guide to foreign exchange trading
An introduction to the fast growing $1.5 billion foreign exchange trading marketplace, showing you how the markets work, how to trade them successfully and how to mitigate risk. The Financial Times Guide to Foreign Exchange Trading is the authoritative primer, the first port of call for anyone inter...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Harlow, England :
Pearson Education, Limited
[2012]
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Financial times guides.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628479806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- The Financial Times Guide to Foreign Exchange Trading
- Contents
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreign exchange trading: getting started
- What do we mean by foreign exchange trading?
- Of pips and ticks
- Do I need to be a financial professional to trade forex successfully?
- Finding a forex broker
- Can forex brokers be trusted?
- Other differentiating factors
- Accessing the markets: different types of FX trading account
- Spread betting
- Contracts for difference (CFDs)
- Margined foreign exchange
- Spot foreign exchange
- Futures contracts
- Options
- Forwards
- Currency ETFs
- Different types of trades
- Finding the right company to trade with
- What's in a price?
- Demo accounts
- Risk management for the forex trader
- Margin trading
- Stop losses
- Managing your exposure
- Position sizing
- Not all currency trades are created equal
- Make sure you have a back-up plan
- When trading companies fail
- Summary: core principles of forex risk management
- Currencies in brief
- The currency majors
- The minor league
- What is XAU/XAG?
- What to trade
- Trading emerging markets currencies
- The appeal of trading emerging markets
- Leading emerging markets currencies
- Emerging markets currency trading tips
- What moves the markets?
- Central banks
- Interest rates
- Economic growth
- Unemployment
- Inflation
- Business and consumer confidence
- Foreign trade
- National Sovereign debt
- Natural disasters and conflict
- Commodities prices
- Other important economic indicators
- A typical economic calendar (December 2011)
- Utilitarian considerations
- Developing a trading plan for currency markets
- How much can I afford to lose?
- How much time can I devote to trading?
- How do I behave under pressure?
- How disciplined am I as an individual?
- Writing a trading plan.
- Is FX trading going to be my career, my hobby, or a way of making money on the side?
- Am I a trader or an investor?
- Approaching the markets
- Technical analysis for the FX trader
- The background to technical analysis
- Japanese candlestick charts
- Moving averages
- MACD (moving average convergence/ divergence)
- Bollinger bands
- Head-and-shoulders indicators
- RSI (Relative Strength Index)
- ADX (Average Directional Index)
- Pivot points
- Triangles
- The theories behind technical analysis
- Summary
- Further resources for the forex trader
- From the brokerages
- Trading platforms
- Charting and technical analysis
- Magazines and newspapers
- Websites
- Television
- Trading coaches
- Systematic trading programs/expert advisers
- Reading list
- Careers in FX trading
- The changing world of trading
- Outside the financial industry
- Doing it yourself
- Glossary of forex trading and other financial market terms
- Appendix: Brokers comparison
- Index.
