Interactive Brokers (known as IB) has recently raised their initial deposit from $5,000 to $10,000 (or the equivalent in several other currencies). The reason for this is that IB only ... Read More

I have received a very positive response to the day trading site's live trading room, with traders (and potential traders) from both Europe and the US interested in being part ... Read More

This week's news is spread quite evenly across all three regions (US, European, and Asian), but most of the high volatility news is going to come from the US, so ... Read More

Live trading rooms are online chat rooms where a professional day trader trades live, while other day traders watch, ask questions, and trade along with the professional trader. Trading rooms ... Read More

The Trin, Ticks, and Tiki are known as market internals, because they provide information about what is happening inside the markets. For example, the Ticks shows at a glance how ... Read More

Last week I introduced a slightly different format for the economic calendar (high volatility news releases shown in bold type). I received a couple of positive comments on the new ... Read More

All day trading markets (stocks, futures, options, etc.) have contract specifications that provide all of the information that is needed to trade that market. Contract specifications include information like the ... Read More

Last week's indicator poll asked which technical analysis indicators were your favorite indicators, and the results were quite surprising. A large majority (29 %) of traders prefer Moving Averages over all ... Read More

This week, I am going to try a slightly different format for the economic calendar. All of the news releases that are expected to cause high volatility (a strong market ... Read More

There are many different technical analysis indicators available to day traders and long term traders alike, but are they all being used to their full potential, or are the popular ... Read More

Trend lines are one of the most basic indicators available to day traders, but they are also one of the most powerful. Trend lines provide several useful pieces of information ... Read More

After the Christmas and New Year's holidays, trading is finally back to normal, and this week's economic calendar is a full week, with several news releases from each region (US, ... Read More

I have received several questions from a stock trader that is interested in trading the Forex markets, with the following being one of the questions : From your experience which is ... Read More

As this is the New Year's economic calendar, there are only three days of news releases (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), and not very much news from any particular region. The ... Read More