Forex Basics

What is Forex ?                                                                

• What is Traded?
• Currencies Are Traded in Pairs
• Market Size And Liquidity
• Different Ways to Trade Forex

Advantages of Forex 

• Forex VS Stocks 
• Forex VS Futures 

Who Trades Forex? 

• Forex Market Players
• Know Your History

When Can You Trade Forex? 

• Tokyo Session
• London Session
• New York Session
• Session Overlaps
• Best Days of  the Week To Trade

How Do You Trade Forex?

• Time To Make Some Dough
• Pips and Pipettes
• Lots, Leverage, and Profit and Loss
• Impress Your Date with Forex Lingo
• Types of Orders
• Demo Your Way to Success
• Protect Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self

Three Types of Analysis

• Technical Analysis
• Fundalmental Analysis
• Sentimental Analysis
• Which Type of Analysis is Best?

Types of Chart

• Support and Resistance
• Trend Lines
• Channels
• Trading the Lines
• Summary: Support and Resistance

What is Japanese Candlestick?

• Basic Candlestick Patterns
• Lone Rangers - Single Candlestick Patterns
• Double Trouble - Dual Candlestick Patterns
• Three is Not A Crowd - Triple Candlestick Patterns
• Japanese Candlesticks Sheet
• Summary: Japanese Candlesticks

Who is Fibonacci?

• Fibonacci Retracement
• When Fibonacci Fails
• Combining Fibs with Support and Resistance
• Combining Fibs with Trend Lines
• Combining Fibs with Candlesticks
• Fibonacci Extensions
• Placing Stops with Fibs
• Summary: Fibonacci

Silky Smooth Moving Averages

• Simple Moving Averages
• Exponential Moving Average
• SMA vs. EMA
• Using Moving Averages
• Moving Average Crossover Trading
• Dynamic Support and Resistance
• Summary: Moving Averages

Bollinger Bands

• Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
• Parabolic SAR
• Stochastic
• Relative Strength Index
• Average Directional Index
• Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
• Putting It All Together
• Summary: Common Chart Indicators

Leading vs. Lagging Indicators

• Leading Indicators (Oscillators)
• Lagging Indicators (Momentum Indicators)
• Summary: Leading and Lagging Indicators

Chart Patterns

• Doubles
• Head and Shoulders
• Wedges
• Rectangles
• Pennants
• Triangles
• How to Trade Chart Patterns
• Chart Patterns Sheet

Forex Pivot Points

• How to Calculate Pivot Points
• Range Trading with Pivot Points
• Playing the Breaks with Pivot Points
• Using Pivot Points to Determine Market Sentiment
• Other Pivot Point Calculation Methods
• Summary: Pivot Points

Elliott Wave Theory

• The 5 - 3 Wave Patterns
• ABC Correction
• Waves Within a Wave
• The 3 Cardinal Rules and Some Guidelines
• Riding Elliott's Waves
• Summary: Elliott Wave Theory

Harmonic Price Patterns

• The ABCD and the Three-Drive
• The Gartley and the Animals
• 3 Steps in Trading Harmonic Price Patterns
• Summary: Harmonic Price Patterns

Divergence Trading

• Regular Divergence
• Hidden Divergence
• How To Trade Divergences
• Momentum Tricks
• 9 Rules for Trading Divergences
• Divergence Sheet
• Summary: Divergences

Market Environment

• What is a Trending Market?
• What is a Ranging Market?
• Retracement or Reversal?
• Identifying Reversals
• Protect YourSelf From Reversals

Trading Breakouts

• Ways to Measure Volatility
• Types of Breakouts
• Spotting Breakouts
• Measuring the Strength of the Breakout
• Trading Fakeouts
• Fade the Breakout
• How to Trade Fakeouts
• Summary: Trading Breakouts and Fakeouts

What is Fundamental Analysis?

• Interest Rates
• Who's the Central Bank ?
• Long-term Market Movers
• News and Market Data
• Market Reaction

What is a Currency Cross Pair?

• Crosses Present More Trading Opportunities
• Cleaner Trends and Ranges
• Taking Advantage of Interest Rate Differential
• Obscure Crosses
• Planning Around News and Fundamentals
• Creating Synthetic Pairs
• Euro and Yen Crosses
• How to Use Crosses to Trade the Majors
• How Cross Currency Pairs Affect Dollar Pairs
• Summary: Currency Crosses

Multiple Time Frame Analysis

• What Time Frame Should I Trade?
• Time Frame Breakdown
• Long or Short? 
• Time Frame Mashup
• Time Frame Combinations
• Summary: Multiple Time Frame Analysis

What is Market Sentiment

• Commitment of Traders Report
• 3 Simple Steps to Access the COT Report 
• Understanding the Three Groups
• The COT Trading Strategy
• Picking Tops and Bottoms
• Your Very Own COT Indicator
• Getting Down and Dirty with the Numbers
• Summary: Market Sentiment

Trading The News

• Why Trade the News
• Which News Reports are Trade-Worthy?
• Directional Bias vs. Non-Directional Bias
• Trading with a Directional Bias
• Letting the Market Decide Which Direction to Take
• Summary: Trading the News

What is Carry Trade?

• How Do Carry Trades Work for Forex?
• To Carry or Not to Carry 
• Carry Trade Criteria and Risk
• Summary: Carry Trade 

How to Read the Dollar Index

• Trade-Weighted Dollar Index
• Using the USDX for Forex
• The Dollar Smile Theory

Intermarket Correlations

• Black Crack
• Bonds 
• Bond Spreads
• Bond Markets, Fixed Income Securities, and the Forex Market
• Using Equities to Trade FX
• The Relationship Between Stocks and Forex
• Correlations Between Stocks and Currencies
• EUR/JPY: Your Very Own Barometer of Risk
• Intermarket Analysis Sheet           

Forex Traders' Guide to Major Economies

• United States of America
• Euro Zone
• United Kingdom
• Japan 
• Canada
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Switzerland

What is a Trading Plan?

• Why Do you Need a Trading Plan?
• Justified vs. Unjustified
• Getting to Know Yourself
• Motivation and Goal Setting
• Risk Capital
• Lifestyle Considerations
• Expecataions
• Daily Pre-Market Routine
• Weapons of Choice
• Stick to the plan
• Summary: Developing a Trading Plan

What Types of Trader are you?

• Time is Money
• Scalping
• Day Trading
• Swing Trading
• Position Trader
• Summary: What type of Trader are you?

Create Your Own Trading Systems

• Design Your Trading System in Six Steps
• Build Your Trading System in Six Steps
• The 'So Easy It's Ridiculous' System
• Summary: Creating Your Own Mechanical Trading System

Why Keep a Trade Journal?

• Benefits of Keeping a Journal
• What Should You Record in Your Journal?
• Potential Trading Area
• Entry Trigger
• Position Sizing
• Trade Management Rules
• Trade Retrospective
• Trading Journal Statistics
• Reviewing Your Trading Journal
• Difficulties of Keeping a Trade Journal
• Summary: Keeping a Trade Journal

What is Risk Management?

• Capitalization
• Don't Lose Your Shirt
• Drawdown and Maximum Drawdown
• Reward-to-Risk Ratio
• Summary: Risk Management

The Number 1 Cause of Death of Forex Traders

• What is leverage?
• Margin Call Exemplified
• Margin + Leverage = Possible Deadly Combination
• Negative Effects of Leverage
• More on Leverage
• How Leverage Affects Transaction Costs
• Don't Underestimate Leverage

The Importance of Correct Position Sizes

• Calculating Position Sizes
• Complex Position Sizing
• Summary: Position Sizing

Setting Stop Losses

• Equity Stop
• Chart Stop
• Volatility Stop
• Time Stop
• Top Usage Mistakes
• How to Execute Stops
• Summary: Setting Stops

What is Scaling?

• Scaling Out
• Scaling Into Losing Positions
• Adding to an Open Winning Position
• Summary: Scaling In and Out

What is Currency Correlation?

• How to Read Currency Correlation Tables
• Always Know Your Risk Exposure
• How to Use Currency Correlation in Your Trading
• Know that Currency Correlations Change
• Calculating Currency Correlations using Excel
• Summary: Currency Correlations

Different Types of Brokers

• Which Type of Broker Should I Choose?
• The Retail Forex Brokers
• Be Aware of Bucket Shops
• Defending Yourself

Opening a Forex Trading Account

• Forex Account Managers
• Don't Be a Sucker!
• Automated Robots and Systems
• Signal Services
• Some Brokers are Scammers Too!
• Regulatory Agencies
• Foreign Regulatory Agencies
• Scam Frequently Asked Questions