How to Trade a Systems Equity Curve to Boost Your Trading Returns

November 6, 2012

One question we get asked a lot at Forex Trading-Pips is “how much risk to allocate to trades?” A feature common to all robust trading systems is that they go through ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ periods. When a system is ‘in sync’ with the market we make money and life feels good. When systems go ‘out […]

Read the full article…

Powerful Trade Filter that Reduces Risk and Helps you Produce Outstanding Returns in Your Trading

September 10, 2012

How to Use a Trade Filter to Improve Risk Adjusted Returns in the Forex Markets Last week we discussed Volatility Breakouts which are an incredible strategy for catching wide range weekly moves off the Monday ‘open’ long and / or short. The silver setup discussed in our last update triggered trade entry @ 32.281 on […]

Read the full article…

How to Gain Rapid Entry into Volatility Breakouts and Transform Yourself into the Best Trader You Can be

September 4, 2012

How to Trade Volatility Breakouts in the Forex Markets Over the forthcoming days and weeks we will take a  look at some of the most effective and powerful ways to capitalize on huge outsized moves in the financial markets… and we would like to tell you upfront: it does NOT involve day trading! Today we […]

Read the full article…

Bulletproof Strategies to Profit from Friday – Monday Breakouts: The Amazing One Night Stand

August 27, 2012

Last Friday we pointed out to our followers on Twitter that GBP, EUR, XAU and XAG were all potential One Night Stand breakout candidates. Of these four setups one trade in XAG/USD filled on a break of the 10 day high going into Friday US session close. Trade entry @ 30.83 and trade exit @ […]

Read the full article…

How to Profit from Outsized Moves in the Forex Markets Using Weekly Volatility Breakouts

August 23, 2012

It has been an incredible week of profits so far for Volatility Breakout traders in the Forex Markets (see euro chart above). On Monday we pointed out in our live update that euro and Swiss franc had formed weekly inside bars and that a big range breakout move was likely to follow. Weekly Volatility breakouts […]

Read the full article…

Discover how to Attack the Forex Markets for Killer Outsized Returns

August 22, 2012

Euro currency traded sharply higher on Tuesday sending many leveraged short players running for cover. On Monday we pointed out that both euro and Swiss franc had formed weekly inside bars versus the US dollar, raising the possibility of breakout moves on both markets this week. One of the most profitable ways to play inside […]

Read the full article…

Explosive Downside Break in the Gold Silver Ratio… How to Capitalise on the move

August 21, 2012

Gold Silver Ratio Collapsing… At Forex Trading-Pips we watch the Gold Silver ratio closely. Gold-silver ratio represents the number of troy ounces of silver it takes to buy a single troy ounce of gold and yesterday this ratio collapsed through an important line of support. A break ‘down’ in the ratio means that silver is […]

Read the full article…

Weekly Inside Bars on Euro & Swiss Franc… Preparing for a BIG move!

August 20, 2012

The Euro currency declined Monday morning after Bundesbank said in its monthly report that “Government bond purchases by the Euro-system are to be seen critically and entail significant stability risks”. Euro and Swiss franc both formed weekly inside bars versus the US dollar last week raising the possibility of breakout moves on both currencies this […]

Read the full article…

Forex Strategy: How to Profit from Trading Inside Bar Breakouts in the Forex Markets

August 17, 2012

Forex Strategy: Inside Bar Breakouts Inside bar breakout strategies are one of the most robust strategies to trade in strongly trending ‘runaway’ markets. An inside bar is a bar that forms totally within the trading range of the preceding bar and indicates market uncertainty before the next volatility expansion move higher or lower.   The best […]

Read the full article…

How to Gain Diversification by Trading Multiple TimeFrames

August 14, 2012

Gain Diversification Through Multi-TimeFrames Trading multi-timeframe is one of the best ways to achieve diversification in the highly correlated world of Forex trading. Most traders focus on just one market or time frame in their search for the  winning trading system which makes the achievement of superior risk adjusted returns difficult. The key correlation metric […]

Read the full article…

A Simple Exercise to Make Sure Your Trading Strategy is Still on Track

August 7, 2012

If you want to become a successful trader, you need to study the best traders, understand exactly which strategies, markets, and edges they are exploiting to reap their trading profits, and how they do that. How do they enter trades, how do they exit, and how much risk do they allocate per trade… Once you […]

Read the full article…

The Ten Best Trades of All Time

July 31, 2012

   Source http://www.greshams-law.com/

Read the full article…

Forex Strategy: Playing the BIG figures

July 24, 2012

Forex Strategy: Playing the BIG figures Nimble Forex traders use big figures to book fast gains in the Forex markets. One recent such setup on GBP.USD is as follows: 1. Limit order to buy at 1.5500, Stop loss at 1.5480, Profit Target at 1.5505 2. Limit order to buy at 1.5495, Stop Loss at 1.5480, […]

Read the full article…

How to catch breakout moves in the Forex Markets using the Squeeze Indicator

July 10, 2012

The Squeeze Indicator measures market volatility and momentum and works across multiple markets and time frames. Markets spend a lot of time trading in ranges, building up energy for the next large move higher or lower. Volatility in the markets is cyclical: by paying attention to which phase of the cycle we are in, we […]

Read the full article…

Market Wizard Michael Marcus Trader Insights

July 4, 2012

Michael Marcus Trader Insights Michael Marcus “They started me out with $30,000 in August 1974. After about ten years, I had turned that account into $80 million. Those were some very good years” – Market Wizards interview with Jack Schwager Michael Marcus is one of the most successful traders interviewed in Jack Schwager’s Market Wizard series. […]

Read the full article…

Forex Strategy: Profiting From the Friday Breakout Phenomenon

July 2, 2012

In 1983, by the time he was thirty-seven years old, Richard Dennis had made hundreds of millions of dollars out of an initial sum of just a few hundred dollars trading the markets. Dennis setup the hugely successful Turtle Trading program with William Eckhardt 1983 – 1984 and is credited with inspiring some of the […]

Read the full article…

Stop Losses… More risky than you might think

June 26, 2012

Stop Loss or Not? Whenever you go to a trading seminar the speakers will invariably highlight the importance of trading with stop loss orders…  ‘never place a trade without a stop protection exit order’. Shortly thereafter follows advice that you should  ‘only take risk / reward trades of at least 3 or 4 times upside […]

Read the full article…

Trading Insights from Hedge Fund Market Wizard, Ed Thorp

June 18, 2012

Hedge Fund Market Wizard Ed Thorp Jack Schwager recently released his new book Hedge Fund Market Wizards an excellent series of interviews with some of the worlds greatest hedge fund managers. If you haven’t yet read the book, we seriously recommend getting hold of a copy through Amazon. One interview that stands out above the […]

Read the full article…

Why Most Traders Fail

June 12, 2012

The 5 Reasons Why Most Traders Fail in the Forex Markets Why Most Traders Fail Reason 1: Trading without an edge There is a famous saying in poker: “if you sit down at a poker table and don’t recognize who the sucker is, then it is you that is the sucker”, and so too in […]

Read the full article…

Forex Intermarket trading in choppy trending markets

June 10, 2012

Using Intermarket Analysis to Profit in the Forex Markets The Intermarket component of our Forex Signals Program has been performing exceptionally well over the past few months. At a time when many long term trend following traders have been experiencing problems due to unfavorable whipsaw volatility, our program has been booking profits. Intermarket trading makes […]

Read the full article…