Recent content by Bastian Rubben

The credit ranking agency, S&P, has downgraded the perfect rank of the US government’s bonds. Basically it should not have much impact on the financial markets, but yet they react aggressively. The reason is of course panics and hysteria. The concerns from going back to deep recession that the...

Reversing from positions is a fatal mistake I am glad that you brought up this important issue. On my first steps in trading, 7 years ago, I faced the same problem. I had lucky to realize that it is not useful and stopped reversing from a loosing position to another. Reversing positions...

When you set rules for managing a position, you need to separate between two different situations: A. the trade is winning. B. the trade is losing. In this post I will discuss about situation A- the trade is winning. I usually take partial profits, meaning that I don’t close the whole...

Knowing how to manage your money makes the difference between a professional trader to an amateur. Money management skills are necessary for all kind of traders, whether the trader is using technical analysis, fundamental analysis, core trading etc. The ability to understand the meaning of...

I do no think that china can drop the USD. As you mentioned, China holds a huge amount of American dollars so China is kind of trapped between her will to get loose of the USD, and the fact that an extreme actions can hurt China as bad as they would do to the US. Bastian Rubben, Chief Analyst...

The Swiss might correct from this level Stochastic, which is my favorite indicator for determining a trend's strength, indicates for oversold. It has been like that for several months, but the more the CHF slides down, the more the chances for a correction to occur. In the long run, the...

Trading demo might gives you a wrong perspective I support trading demo for beginners. It would be unwisely to make your first steps in forex or any kind of trading, with real money. Even if you are an experienced trader and you change a trading platform, you have to control the platform before...