Can the Chinese Market Wade Through the Economic Murky Water Stirred By Brexit?

Recently, in the city of Tianjin, the Chinese PM Li Keqiang while addressing a World Economic Forum gathering said “It's hard to avoid short-term volatility in China's capital markets, but we won't allow roller-coaster rides and drastic changes in the capital markets".

He went ahead in the speech to wish the European Union and Britain a stable and prosperous future but not without ringing warning bells saying "against the backdrop of globalization, it's impossible for each country to talk about its own development discarding the world economic environment." (Reuters)

The interconnectedness of world economies today has been accelerated by the globalization of markets, goods, services and people more than any other time in human developmental history. The financial market turmoil continued into its second day after the historic Brexit vote last Thursday. 

The British pound hit all time low since 1985 to trade at 1.31230 against the greenback. Approximately $2T dollars have so far been wiped out of the market as investors repatriate their capital from risky assets in the wake of uncertainty created by the Brexit vote results.

Wall Street Journal headline reads “Next Fallout? ‘Brexit’ Tests China’s Precarious Balancing Act”.  Apparently, the Chinese Premier paid a short visit to the Central bank Policy makers bearing one message: “The Yuan must be kept stable”.

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How to Figure Out When is the Best Time to Trade Forex

When we observe the trend of trades, we see that timing is of essence to the success of a trade. Many traders have faced major losses in a trade due wrong timing. They have traded currency pairs at times when the price charts are against them. 

Study the Markets

It is a fact that not all hours of the day are suitable for trading. When the market is most active and when there is least fluctuation in the market, it is the safest to open a trade. When more than one market is open, then there is greater fluctuation in price movements. It can be more than 70 pips north. However, when only one market is open, the price gets locked into a static zone with a change of around the 30 pip range. Moreover, you need to study the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) because the US dollar is involved in 90 percent of all trades and it is the biggest trading platform in the world. You also need to have an in depth knowledge of the market you are going to trade in before making a trade or you’re just handing your fate to luck and that isn’t what experienced traders do.

Overlap timing

When the markets overlap then there is an equal chance of greater risks and profits. As mentioned earlier the markets move significantly when more than one market is open. The biggest overlap in the US/ London markets occurs from 8 am to noon and as we know that the dollar and euro are the hottest currencies to trade and  this is the optimal time when the volatility is really touching the roofs , this would be the time to start a trade. The 2am to 4am time in the Sydney and Tokyo market overlap isn’t as volatile as the above market but it still gives you a higher pip fluctuation and greater opportunity in the market. The London Tokyo overlap which happens between the 3am to 4 am mark sees the least volatility in the market and lower opportunities as compared to the above two markets.

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Electronic Communications Network (ECN) and Market Makers

Within the last couple of years Forex has emerged as the single biggest name in the world of online trading.

This immense success of the system has led to an influx of a large number of brokers, who have made the trading platforms accessible to almost everyone.

In the present market the brokers working to provide trading platforms can be clearly distinguished into two categories:

Brokers that are conventional market makers and brokers that use an ECN system. There are also some brokers that are operating both ways, depending upon the customer needs and the type of the account.

ECN

Electronic Communications Network (ECN) refers to the system that the broker employs to transfer orders and receive quotes.

A broker using ECN simply provides the trader with a trading platform and then acts as a middle man between the buying and selling parties.

This system simply presents the best quotes after collecting them from liquidity providers without considering the source.

Market Maker

A market maker is a completely different experience. . A market maker makes his own market.

The broker determines the buy and sells quotes before presenting them in the market maker platform. As the market fluctuates the quotes also change according to its flow.

The choice of a Forex broker is indeed a very important one. Hence, before choosing any broker it is important to get familiar with the ways on which each of the systems operate and also determine their pros and cons to be able to make the best choice.

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How to Use the Economic Calendar to Increase Profitability

A successful trader requires both, the traits of a market fighter and a keen trade analysis, which requires authentic market news. There is nothing more important for an analysis than continuous up-to-date news. And one of the best ways to grab this news is through the economic calendar of the forex market that allows the trader to collect all the important global financial news and all the up-to-date info, about the finance at the time of its publication.

The economic calendar also ranks the news in the order of importance and capacity of its influence on the market - for the ease of the traders. The economic calendar acts as a helpful guide for the trader on his road to profit. Forecasts and economic history is also taken into account. The economic calendar is published online, right before the opening of the trading week, and its data plan is constantly adjusted in accordance with the current situation.

The use of economic calendar for trading involves at least the following three meanings of the announced economic events:
1. The actual event
2. The consensus (forecast/prediction)
3. The previous meaning.


In case, the forecast by the calendar is justified i.e.  It is in accordance with the calculated values, and then the market reaction will often be small or be completely absent.

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How to Use the Economic Calendar to Increase Profitability

A successful trader requires both, the traits of a market fighter and a keen trade analysis, which requires authentic market news. There is nothing more important for an analysis than continuous up-to-date news. And one of the best ways to grab this news is through the economic calendar of the forex market that allows the trader to collect all the important global financial news and all the up-to-date info, about the finance at the time of its publication.

The economic calendar also ranks the news in the order of importance and capacity of its influence on the market - for the ease of the traders. The economic calendar acts as a helpful guide for the trader on his road to profit. Forecasts and economic history is also taken into account. The economic calendar is published online, right before the opening of the trading week, and its data plan is constantly adjusted in accordance with the current situation.

The use of economic calendar for trading involves at least the following three meanings of the announced economic events:

1. The actual event

2. The consensus (forecast/prediction)

3. The previous meaning.

In case, the forecast by the calendar is justified i.e.  It is in accordance with the calculated values, and then the market reaction will often be small or be completely absent.

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Top 6 Forex Trading Lessons

The only best way one can learn about trading is by exploiting the knowledge from the professionals in the field. No school or college is going to teach you about the trading market, you have got to self-educate yourself and get as much knowledge as you can from effective sources.

For example, this article. I’m going to share some of the important things I learned in my 15 years of experience in the trading world.

Develop a Consistent Trading Plan

The first thing you need to understand is that it’s easier to over-trade than one can imagine. I didn’t even know I was over-trading in my rookie years, it’s a very, very easy mistake to make, especially for beginners, and it’s also a very costly one. You need to have a trading strategy and trading plan criteria so that you can develop some structure and routine into your trading processes, so that way you can tell whether or not you’re over-trading.

Don’t Overuse Indicators

The next thing you need to remember is that indicators are a bootless errand. Yes, indicators may seem quite attractive and fancy but all they do is add extra burden for you to deal with. There is no use of analysing them, I started reducing variables instead of adding them and that had a huge impact on my trading outcomes.

Let Trades Play Out Themselves for you

However, if someone asks me to give them an advice on trading, this ones the first that’ll come to my mind; give your trades time and space to play out themselves for you. One has to be patient with the market and give the trade some space, this means to place wider stop-loss orders. Don’t react at every fluctuation in the market, let it prove you wrong.

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Why you Need to be a Gutsier Forex Trader

As a forex trader like in most other fields of life, courage is essential to progress and make a name for yourself; without being gutsy no one will ever take notice of you or try to get to know who you are. Being brave is an admirable quality to possess as a trader because it enables you to take on opportunities you might not have in normally, such as going for a trade with more risks involved than other trade you might have done before. Courage matters for quite obvious reasons, the prominent one being, that you cannot expect to do anything in any field (not only forex trading) without being courageous.

Courage doesn’t just enable you to take on new opportunities and step out of your comfort zone, courage can also help you get over a streak of losses. If you are brave enough, every time you lose, you won’t decide to quit and try and make thing better by holing up in your room or avoiding all trade related activities, you will actually pick yourself up and hold your head high while you enter new trades. In the forex business it’s usually the gutsiness of the trader that makes him hopeful and as most traders know, being hopeful is the key to success while trading. Courage is a very important aspect of one’s personality and it can help lead you to the path that ends at the goal you aim to accomplish.

Courage enables traders to express themselves in the right way so as to face the tough time- and there will always be a tough time in the career of a trader- effectively without going into loss, courage is very much required so that you can hold your confidence even after facing losses.

A trader should not ever lose courage- as a principle because lack of bravery often leads to self doubt and self doubt might force him to face many losses, not only trading but also in the practical life. A courageous man will surely be able to get good amount of money from forex than the other traders due to their positive attitude and gutsiness and ability to recognize a good opportunity when they see one.

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