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This is a vital step in becoming a Forex trader. Successful people never put off until tomorrow something they can do today. This is even more important when trading Forex...

Foreign exchange trading was born shortly after President Nixon pulled the United States from the Gold Standard to let the value of a U.S. Dollar float. This was in August of 1971- over 40 years ago...

Political shocks such as Brexit and the U.S. election of Donald Trump jolted the foreign exchange markets in 2016, fuelling more trading activity for hedge funds and bank trading rooms...

The main factors to consider when choosing the best currency to trade include volatility, spread, trading strategy and the level of difficulty of forecasting the course.

The benefits of a good book for traders are endless - new knowledge, experience of battle seasoned colleagues, and innovative ideas. The best trading books by itself can't make you rich and successful, it contributes to determination...

Choosing a broker is an important and sometimes very difficult question, not only for beginners but also for professionals of Forex. Between Forex brokers, a large-scale competition is observed.

Banks performance comes against a backdrop of intensifying regulation, writes The Boston Consulting Group. As the BCG had forecast in 2016, the seas of regulatory...

Whether you are new to trading Forex or an old hand at the currency markets, you are likely to share one key aspiration. One way to improve is to learn by example and to look...

Here today at iFX EXPO Asia 2017, taking place in Hong Kong, FX industry experts are gathered to answer burning questions. How to market electronic brokerage and succeed in China? What are the hottest trends in todays Forex trading when it comes to technology? How to deal with new regulatory demands imposed on forex brokers? What new opportunities does MetaTrader 5 give to FX business operation? These and many other hottest issues are now being discussed by forex industry professionals at the Hong Kong Exhibition...

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course, not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat politician - 2010 to 2015 in the David Cameron coalition ministry. A special report on the current state of the EU and what could be in store, for the EU in 2017 - post Brexit and Trump and the rise of the EU populist movements, by Victor Romain, for Invest Ratings....

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one. - Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience. A lot of crazy things have happened this year and I believe that I could be right in saying that many years down the road from now - many people are going to be talking about 2016. The history books will surely be looking back at 2016 in awe. This year also saw in some of the most surprising and, at the same time disruptive and seismic changes in the world of politics...

EFTS - Exchange Traded Funds are quickly becoming the darlings of the financial world and are, in fact, even coming to dominate it. What used to be a relatively niche sector, is now rapidly becoming one of the biggest games in town - they now even have Warren Buffet blessing and seal of approval. Trading in Apple shares is worth over 3 billion pounds a day. However, that pales into insignificance with the 14 billion pounds, which is traded daily in the shares of State Street SPDR 500 fund. Today, the buying and selling of ETF accounts for almost 90%...

Right now, the future for the UK is so uncertain that no one government minister can seem to form a consensus on exactly what to do and how to chart the passage of the UK exit from the EU. There seems to have been a general malaise, which has set in - in the halls of Westminster. For my part, I often try and understand what Boris Johnson, who led the Brexit campaign, is now doing daily, in his new role of Foreign Secretary. From what little I have seen and heard about him in the UK press, of late...

In the Daily Telegraph, there is an excellent article, written by Alan Tovey on a book review entitled, Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis, which reminded me of a TED Talk video I had once watched on how the Internet is changing the world of financial dealings and how high frequency traders are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain this speed advantage. The TED Talk was all about a length of fibre optic cable which was being laid - except that this, of course, was no ordinary piece of fibre optic cable, which was being laid and the distance to be covered...

A quick look at HSBC advertising webpage makes for an interesting and informative read, about this rather iconic banking brand name, stating the huge successes of their airport marketing campaign. The underlying theme of the campaign, which was launched in 2011, is to reflect the forces that will shape commerce and the world of the future. The creative themes are drawn from the core business lines of our Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets and Wealth Management businesses, their marketing narrative goes on to say...

Ladies and gentlemen, in the right-hand corner of the ring we have Alexis Tsipras and his Syriza party, who have just swept into power in Greece and in the left-hand corner, we have the EU and its Troika. Syriza, which having fallen short of an overall majority has formed a coalition government with rightwing populists also opposed to austerity, has made debt reduction and renegotiation of the bailout agreement a priority. Alexis Tsipras, who seems to be the political equivalent of a young...

In a move, which has angered many politicians and financial pundits in Germany, the European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has announced that the ECB is going to pump 60bn euro per month into the financial markets until, at least, September 2016, in what market pundits have dubbed the Shock and Awe treatment.And, on the face of things, he has certainly managed to do just that, shock and awe the financial markets, in an effort to try and rout the deflation of the eurozone...

The Pound Tumbles in Delayed Reaction, as May gets Green Light from Parliament to Trigger Article 50. This has, so far, been a mixed week of good and bad news for Theresa May. The good news was that on Monday of this week she received the green light from parliament to trigger Article 50. The bad news was, however, very bad news indeed, after Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon signalled the start of a legal process for an independence referendum. This quickly resulted in the pound tumbling against all of its Group-of-10 peer currencies...