The sensible guide to Forex safer, smarter ways to survive and prosper from the start

FXstreet.Com's 2013 Best Book Award! The Sensible Guide to Forex: Safer, Smarter Ways to Survive and Prosper from the Start is written for the risk averse, mainstream retail investor or trader seeking a more effective way to tap forex markets to improve returns and hedge currency risk. As the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wachtel, Cliff, 1959- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley 2012.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Wiley Trading
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  • The Sensible Guide to Forex; Contents; Read This First; Currency Risk: Every Investor's Dilemma; Currency Risk and How to Fight It; The Solution; Some Background; Why Any Trader or Investor Needs This Book; What This Book Offers; Why Listen to You, Cliff?; Visit thesensibleguidetoforex.com for Additional Online Content; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Three Must-Know Forex Facts; Fact 1: Everyone Needs Forex Diversification Even if You Don't Trade Actively; You're Exposed: Cover Your Assets; Even Long-Term Buy-and-Hold Investors Need Forex Diversification
  • Fact 2: Potential for Better Risk-Adjusted ReturnsForex Markets Often Provide Advanced Warnings of Changes in Other Markets; Forex Needn't Be Any Riskier Than Other Markets; No Uptick Rule: Just as Easy to Profit in a Falling Market as in a Rising One; Low Correlation to Other Financial Markets; The Most Flexible Hours; Forex Markets Offer the Best Liquidity; No Centralized Exchange with Specialists Holding Monopoly Power to Regulate Prices; Less Slippage; The Best Risk/Reward Potential; The Lowest Startup and Trading Costs; Fact 3: You Can Do This
  • How Can I Compete against the Pros and Big Institutions?How David Beats Goliath: More on What This Book Will and Won't Do; What's the Catch?; Most Traders Fail within Their First Two Years; CHAPTER 2 Forex Basics; Basics of Currencies and Currency Pairs; Trade Only the Most Liquid Currencies; The Major Currencies; Risk versus Safe Haven Currencies: Definition and Ranking; Currencies Trade in Pairs and Why That Matters; Price Movements Are Always Relative to Another Currency; It's Just as Easy to Profit in Bear Markets as in Bull Markets; How to Read a Forex Pair Price Quote
  • Summary of Currency Pair BasicsWhy It's Just as Easy to Profit from Falling Prices; Size Matters: Types of Currency Pairs; The Major Currency Pairs: The Most Liquid; More on Risk and Safe Haven Currencies; The Signs of the Crosses: Divine Revelations about Currency Strength; Walk on the Wild Side: The Exotics; Pips: The Universal Currency of Currencies; Calculating Pip Values; Three Ways to Limit Risk: Lot Size Usually the Easiest; Leverage and Margin: Their Relationship and Impact on Risk; Leverage: Greater Risk and Reward; Permitted Leverage Varies with Place and Time
  • How Margin, Lot Size, and Leverage InteractThe Importance of Adequate Capital; Margin Calls: Your account's Circuit Breaker; Order Types; Exit Orders: Ways to Close a Position; The Three Facets of Risk and Risk Control; Example; The Core Four: The Most Important Skills for Success; Trader Psychology; Risk and Money Management (RAMM); Technical and Fundamental Analysis; CHAPTER 3 Technical Analysis (TA) Basics; Candle Chart Basics; Candle Anatomy and Meaning; Relationship between Body, Wick, and Its Significance; Support and Resistance (S/R) Basics; Candle Chart Time Frames: Length Matters
  • Different Time Frames, Different Trading Techniques, and Styles