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Plan the Trade and Trade the Plan

Successful stock market trading begins with a winning trading plan. It’s as simple as that. If you develop a well-conceived trading plan to guide your actions in the stock market you will already have the advantage over most of your market competition. Put simply, it gives you the edge you need to win over the long haul when trading the stock market or forex market.  Read more... (1090 words, estimated 4:22 mins reading time)

A well fact amongst the trading community is that 90 percent of investors lose money in futures and Forex tradin! This leaves 10%, which is then broken down to 4-6 percent break even and only 4-6 percent make money.

What Group Are YOU in?

Given the high numbers of clients that are unsuccessful, it is all the more important for investors to approach futures and forex trading in the right manner. So we have put together some rules that hopefully help you become a more successful trader.

Secret 1: Trade with Money you can afford to Lose  Read more... (1117 words, estimated 4:28 mins reading time)

Online brokers take an important role to play when you open an online trading account. Every broker can offer different services and features. You primary research all the online brokers to find the optimum broker to meet your needs. I have listed a large number of online brokers and placed their information for you to read in one easy-to-read webpage. This is a free, “no-cost to you” service for our valued reviewers and can be found on this link: Best Online Brokers or you can email support@cfdfxreport.com

What to search for in an online broker.  Read more... (544 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

This is the decision that can quiet often get overlooked, the entry decision. The other big decisions in trading and investing, such as how much to trade, or what your exit plan is, is the timing right etc.

But the truth is that whether you’re a trader the entry decision is crucial as without this decisions the other decisions cannot take place.

It is quiet often seen that new traders often worry about their first entry point, trying to make it perfect and there are some important points to be considered when you’re entering into a trade. It is therefore crucial to take a glance at this often overlooked subject.  Read more... (612 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

What did we learn from 2008? If there’s one that we have all learnt from 2008 is that the unexpected can happen. Who would have predicted a 40% fall on most major indexes? Now well most people, but at the start of the year? Not Many

The unexpected happens more than people think? No matter if we are in a raging bull market, or the bears have come out of the woods, we are in the stock market and the unexpected happens. Maybe that’s what we love about the stock market.  Read more... (490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

What is the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX?)

The SGX is Asia-Pacific’s first demutualised and integrated securities and derivatives exchange. The SGX was inaugurated on 1 December 1999, following the merger of two established and well-respected financial institutions – the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX).

On 23 November 2000, SGX became the first exchange in Asia-Pacific to be listed via a public offer and a private placement. Listed on our own bourse, the SGX stock is a component of benchmark indices such as the MSCI Singapore Free Index and the Straits Times Index.  Read more... (375 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Once new traders reach a certain level of proficiency in market analysis and trade execution the majority of their trading mistakes generally fall into two categories: trading psychology and trend-relativity errors. The first is an issue of self-control. The latter refers to an equally common problem: often a trade will look beautiful on one chart (in one time frame), but ill-advised at best on another chart (another time frame).  Read more... (970 words, estimated 3:53 mins reading time)

The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided to conduct an experiment to illustrate to his students the value of money management, or position-sizing – that is, determining how much money you will risk on any single given trade – to the overall success of any trader’s trading plan.  Read more... (896 words, estimated 3:35 mins reading time)