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RoboForex: important information relating to the .DE30Cash (GER30) instrument

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Dear Clients and Partners,

We’re informing you that the formation principle of the German stock index, which is represented in our platforms as .DE30Cash and GER30, will be changed. Starting from September 20th, it will consist of 40 assets instead of 30 assets earlier.

Changes in MetaTrader 4/5 platforms

On September 18th-19th, .DE30Cash and DE30Cash will be switched to the "Close Only" mode in MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms. All pending orders in these instruments will be deleted. At the same time, "Stop Loss" and "Take Profit" levels in open positions will remain intact.

If you have open positions in these instruments, you need to close them before December 30th, 2021. All positions that remain open at the end of the trading session on December 30th, 2021, will be closed during the trading session on December 31st, 2021, at the quotes valid at that moment.

Starting from September 20th, 2021, instead of .DE30Cash and DE30Cash, you will be able to trade .DE40Cash and DE40Cash respectively. Please consider this information when planning your trading activity and reconfigure trading algorithms affected by the above-mentioned changes.

Changes in the R StocksTrader platform

In the R StocksTrader platform, the existing instrument, GER30 will be renamed to GER40 on September 18th-19th and it will affect both new and open positions. Starting from September 20th, the instrument will be available for trading as usual.

Sincerely,
RoboForex team
 
Best Short-term Strategies: GBP/JPY Range

Author: Andrey Goilov

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Dear Clients and Partners,

Trading GBP/JPY might be quite tricky because it is so volatile: its average volatility range exceeds 100 points. However, closer to the Asian trading session the market calms down and sometimes forms a range, pushing the pair out of it by the main trend.

A short-term strategy called GBP/JPY Range uses no indicators; it includes pending orders which shortens your time in front of the terminal. Moreover, working by the strategy, the trader does not choose or forecast the market direction but simply follows the price.

The article is devoted to the idea of this strategy, its trading principles, and to generally checking whether the authors of the strategy have managed to pacify such a volatile pair.

Description of GBP/JPY Range

For trading by the strategy, we use the M15 chart of the GBP/JPY pair. Stick to the closing time of the American and opening time of the Asian sessions. This is 23:00-02:00 terminal time.

Draw horizontal lines through the high and lows of the price in the mentioned timeframe. Then place pending orders for breakaways a bit higher and lower than the drawn levels. If one order gets triggered, delete the second one. If none is triggered over 4 hours, delete both and try again on the next day.

Note that the narrower the corridor, the less it is possible that a strong movement will develop. If the range is quite wide, it is unlikely that the movement will continue after the breakaway. In practice, higher volatility changes for lower, then for higher, and over and over again. It is important that we notice low volatility to catch higher volatility later.

If the channel is wide, volatility is high, hence, there will be no movement after the breakaway. By the rules of the strategy, if the channel is over 70 points wide, you should not trade.

Selling by the GBP/JPY Range

As an example of a selling trade, let us take a breakaway of the channel downwards. We mark the beginning of the channel at 23:00 (11 p.m.); the low of the channel is at 152.74, the high is around 152.86. At 03:00 (3 a.m.) the lower border of the channel was broken, and the price went down. Place a Take Profit at the level of two ranges. This time, the movement was strong and triggered the TP at 152.50.

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In this strategy, we need a Sell Stop pending order as it opens a selling position below the current market price. By the strategy, we must place it 2 points below the low of the range. In our case, it is 152.72.

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Place a Stop Loss behind the high of our range to avoid random price movements against our position. Hence, we place it at 151.95.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team
 
You could make a Graph like this to show how you manipulate the prices and spreads!! I have it ready here if you want!!
 
Dear traders!

This week, RoboForex's project called ContestFX will traditionally offer to your attention these following competitions:

The 126th competition of "Demo Forex" has crossed its "Equator".
The 329th competition of "Week with CFD" has just started.
462nd competition of "Trade Day" will start on 29.09.2021 at 12:00.
378th competition of "KingSize MT5" will start on 30.09.2021 at 20:00.

It doesn't take much time to register on our website and upon the completion of the registration procedure, you will be able to join any of the chosen competitions in just a couple of mouse clicks.

We wish you success!

Sincerely,
RoboForex Contest
 
How to Trade Morning Star and Evening Star?

Author: Maks Artemov

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Dear Clients and Partners,

This overview is devoted to two reversal candlestick patterns: Morning Star and Evening Star.

These two are definitely rare visitors to charts, yet they remain quite popular. Like other reversal patterns, the Morning and Evening Stars form at the highs and lows of the price and contain three candlesticks each.

How does a Morning Star form?

This pattern forms at the lows of the price chart. When a descending impulse is going to subside, the price makes a minor surge upwards, so that the candlestick opens and closes with a gap.

Conditions required for the pattern to appear:
  1. A support or resistance level;
  2. The first candlestick has a long body of the same color that the current trend is – and small shadows.
  3. The second candlestick opens with a gap, has a small body and short shadows. It may be of the opposite color that the current trend is; in most cases, it has little significance anyway.
  4. The third candlestick opens with a gap and closes above the opening price. It must be of different color than the first candlestick.
Open a position after the third candlestick closes. Place a Stop Loss at the low of the pattern. If you are trading an instrument with a large spread and on a small timeframe, you may add the average spread to the low to compensate for the error.

You may place a Take Profit at the nearest resistance level or as 1:4 to the SL.

A Morning Star looks as follows:

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How does an Evening Star form?

An Evening Star appears at the highs of the price chart, and its structure is totally opposite to that of the Morning Star.

Conditions required for the pattern to appear:
  1. A support or resistance level
  2. The first candlestick is ascending; it has a long body of the same color that the current trend is.
  3. The second candlestick has a small body and opens with a gap. The color of the candlestick is irrelevant.
  4. The third candlestick also opens with a gap; its color is opposite to that of the first one, and the closing price is below the opening price.
Place an SL at the high of the pattern. As with the Morning Star, you may compensate for the error by placing the SL plus the average spread. The TP belongs to the nearest support level or is at 1:4 ratio with the SL.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team
 
What Is Stock Split and How Does It Influence Stock Price?

Author: Victor Gryazin

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Dear Clients and Partners,

This article is devoted to such an idea as a split of stocks, its influence on the stock price and on how attractive they are for investors

What is a stock split

A stock split is an increase in the number of stocks of the issuer in circulation that entails a decrease in the stock price but not in the general capitalization. This is a wide-spread market practice, naturally supported by the company's desire to make their expensive shares more affordable to a wide range of investors.

Many actively developing companies are interested in an in-flow of extra money that new investors can bring. However, not every investor can afford promising and expensive stocks.

Hence, to make stocks cheaper and more affordable, the split procedure is run to. As a result, the number of stocks increases and their price drops proportionally. This makes the stocks more affordable to investors.

For example, if a company increases the number of its shares five times, i.e. carries out a split of 5:1, investors can have 4 extra shares per each they already have.

At the same time, the price of one share decreases proportionally: if initially a share cost $1,000, after the split it will cost $200. Hence, each shareholder of this issuer will have 5 times as many shares but their total price will not change.

Critical points of stock splits

The split coefficient that shows how much the number of stocks changes after the procedure, is normally anything between 2:1 and 10:1. In the split procedure, there are three main dates:
  • The day of announcement. To get started, the company makes a public announcement of its plans for a stock split and all the details that investors need to know. This information usually includes the split coefficient and the day when the split is to happen.
  • Register closing day: this is an important day when the list of the company's shareholders is settled. These people will get extra shares after the split.
  • The split day is the day when new stocks appear on the investors' broker accounts and start trading at the new price.
What is a reverse split?

There is another procedure known as the reverse split that also changes the number if stocks in portfolios. It is also called stock consolidation.

By this procedure, the stocks that investors hold are changed by a proportionally smaller number of stocks. For example, a reverse split of 1:3 makes every three shares into one. This means that if you used to hold 30 shares of the company, after a stock consolidation you will have only 10 but the price of each share will grow three times.

For example, if the stocks did horrible, trading low under a dollar, a reversed split can raise their price.

How does a split influence the stocks and investors?

On the whole, a stock split is interpreted as a good event for the issuing company, though it does not influence its capitalization directly. A split means that the company is developing, doing well, and the growth of its shares confirms it. Carrying out a split, the company signals that it wants to make its shares more attractive and affordable to private investors.

A decrease in the price makes the shares more affordable to investors and more liquid. The history of splits shows that the growth of stocks after a split usually exceeds the growth of major stock indices. Hence, after a split, the portfolio of an investor can have a significant profit, if the shares keep growing.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team
 
Dear traders!

This week, the ContestFX project will continue with the following competitions on demo accounts:

The 127th competition of "Demo Forex" and 330th competition of "Week with CFD" have just started.
463rd competition of "Trade Day" will start on 06.10.2021 at 12:00.
379th competition of "KingSize MT5" will start on 07.10.2021 at 20:00.

We remind you that for winning our competitions, all awardees receive prizes to their real trading accounts, which they can use for performing trading operations on the Forex market.

Don't miss your chance to be one of them. Good luck!!

Sincerely,
RoboForex Contest
 
RoboForex wins prestigious awards in the financial sector

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Dear Clients and Partners,

We’ve always tried to maintain the high level of the services we provide and introduce pioneer products. Our efforts were not for nothing – they were recognised with prestigious awards of the financial industry: "Best Investment Products (Global)" at Global Brands Magazine Awards, "Most Trusted Broker – Global" according to International Business Magazine Awards, "Best Multi-Asset Trading Platform (LatAm)" and "Best Prime Trading Account (Asia)" at Global Banking & Finance Awards.

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Counting these awards, the total number of titles received by RoboForex has reached 30. However, the most valuable and precious award for us is the trust of our clients and partners, who has been choosing our company for cooperation for 11 years now. We truly appreciate your trust and are very thankful for the choice you made.


Sincerely,
RoboForex team
 
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