Back when I first started learning about investing, I decided to start from the beginning and read basic books on personal finance as well as "guides" for understanding all of the investment world in a nut shell. Most of these authors were very knowledgeable and informative, but their investment advice was far too conservative for my taste.

In Europe governments are crying foul, or more specifically protectionism, now that Boeing Co. has emerged as the sole contender for the Pentagon’s disputed $35 billion contract for a new generation of flying gas stations.

The vast majority of Forex education organizations fail to address the only true characteristic of a market place, the human nature.

You can easily find loads of charts, pivot points, moving averages, trend lines and all sorts of Fibonacci ratios, together with the latest in trading automation. Any Forex website publishes some or all of these data, along with myriads of other details, interviews and opinions.

In order for you to start to make money with currency trading, you first have to understand the terms used. FOREX or Foreign Exchange is used in reference to the international currency exchange market. Value of currency is traded against the other for a profit.

How Did the Dollar Trade in 2008? It has been an exceptionally active year in the foreign exchange market as currency volatilities hit record highs.  In the first half of the year, everyone was worried about how much further the dollar would fall but in the second half of the year the concern became how much further the dollar would rise.  After hitting a record low against the Euro in the second quarter, in the beginning of the fourth quarter, the US dollar actually surged to a 2 year high.  From trough to peak, the dollar index rose more than 23 percent in 2008. 

In this lesson, I will talk about the different ways how you can trade forex during key economic news events.
Most common used news strategies:

• Trading the Numbers
• Straddle the News
• Hedging the News

Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)

What is it?

The MACD is one of the most popular oscillator used by currency traders. This is a momentum indicator can be used to confirm trends, while also indicating reversals, or overbought/oversold conditions. The MACD is calculated by taking the difference between the 2 exponential moving averages. The two that is usually used are the 26-day and 12-day moving averages.

he FX-market oscillates on a regular basis between range bound and trending markets. In range bound market conditions, traders typically adopt a simple buy low, sell high approach, where as trending market climates call for traders to trade with the trend.