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Overnight Funding Charges: The Cost of Holding Spread Bets and CFDs
Overnight funding charges explained: how spread bet and CFD financing is calculated, why shorts can be credited, and what holding a trade…
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Interest Rates and Forex: How Central Banks Move Currencies
Interest rates and forex explained: why central bank decisions move currencies, why a rate rise can still sink the pound, and how…
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Carry Trade Explained: Interest Differentials and Their Risks
Carry trade explained in plain English: how the interest rate differential is earned, why retail funding charges often swallow it, and why…
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Hedging in Forex Trading: What It Does and What It Costs
Hedging in forex trading explained: direct and correlated hedges, why a hedge freezes risk rather than removing it, and the spreads and…
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Pyramiding in Trading: How to Add to a Winning Position
Pyramiding in trading means adding to a winning position. The rules, a worked example that keeps total risk within the first stake,…
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Anchoring Bias in Trading: When a Number Holds You Back
Anchoring bias in trading explained: how entry prices, old highs and round numbers bend decisions, with a worked example and rules to…
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Harami Candlestick Pattern: The Inside Candle Reversal
The harami candlestick pattern explained: bullish and bearish harami, the harami cross, how it differs from an inside bar, and a trade…
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VWAP Trading Strategy: Using the Day’s Average Price
A VWAP trading strategy explained: how the line is calculated, pullbacks and rejections, anchored VWAP, the forex tick volume caveat and a…
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Stochastic Oscillator Strategy: Reading Momentum at Levels
A stochastic oscillator strategy that reads momentum at price levels: what the two lines measure, why overbought is not a sell, and…
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Fair Value Gap Trading: What FVGs Are and How to Use Them
Fair value gap trading explained without the hype: how to mark an FVG, how it links to imbalance and supply and demand,…