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Stop Loss order
Stop loss, or safety order, is an order placed with a broker to automatically close a position when the price reaches a certain level. You can set the safety order to minimize losses in case of unexpected market moves.Stop loss is an order...
Pipsing
This trading approach is used for gaining profit from intraday currency fluctuations. Some traders open more than 200 deals a day while holding a position open for just several minutes. Of course, the profit from each position is rather sma...
Long-term trading
Long-term trading is considered the most predictable trading strategy from the technical point of view. The thing is that long-term trends tend to continue and remain stable over a long period of time. The absence of noise (frequent small p...
Medium-term trading
The medium-term trading strategy is a method based on medium-term time frames that range from several days to 1-2 months. The advantage of medium-term trading is that you can trade successfully doing other things at the same time. This stra...
Chaos Theory
The sky is the limit for traders when it comes to financial speculations. They either use casino methods or neglect risk management. Sometimes they delve into mathematics in search for patterns in the obviously chaotic behaviour of the mark...
Mirror theory
The Elliott Wave Theory was once quite popular and remains widely-used to this day. However, every popular theory undergoes various modifications and additions. A good example of this is a complex mixture of the Chaos Theory and the Wave th...
Terms of affiliate programs
Whatever type of affiliate program you choose, you will always have the following advantages:1. You make a profit on every client’s trade of 1.5 pips from the spread or 0.015% from each deal’s volume (depending on a client’s trading account...
Trend reversal patterns
The charts of any currency price movement with any units of time measurement form periodical and identical patterns of different type. Some of these figures are always formed on the charts before the trend ends, when the operation volume in...
Trend continuation patterns
In technical analysis, there is a possibility to observe graphical figures which confirm the current trend. They are known as figures of the trend continuation. They depict a relatively short period of market consolidation after which break...
Average daily trading strategy for EUR/JPY
The average daily trading strategy consists of certain steps, including analysis, setting certain targets, placing orders, and executing a deal. The main idea of such a strategy is that the trade depends on the analysis that you have carrie...
Long-term trading strategy for EUR/JPY
When you develop a long-term trading strategy for EUR/JPY, it will be useful to look at the trading history of this currency pair in the past few years.So, if you look at the weekly chart of the EUR/JPY, you will notice continuous growth fr...
EUR/JPY pipsing
Pipsing involves daily work in front of your computer, minimum of news and maximum of luck. There is no need to know the financial mechanism of global economy regulation and countries’ GDP. Even the bullish market has a lot of pullbacks dur...
Support, resistance and trend types
The primary task of technical analysis of financial markets in general and the Forex market in particular is finding a trend on a plotted chart. The Dow theory discerns three types of trends: long-term, medium-terms and short-term trends. T...
Support, resistance and trend types
Moving average – the simplest type of technical indicators on the financial markets. Since these indicators of technical analysis represent the oldest type of analysis, they are frequently used by professionals and, consequently, are...
Simple moving average
The plain form of the [[Moving Averages|moving average (MA)]] is a simple moving average, SMA. This type of technical analysis indicators is depicted as a curve on the price chart, the main task of which is to even (or filter) price changes...
Bollinger bands
The idea of Bollinger Bands Technical Indicator (BB) is similar to MA envelopes, which were discussed in the previous chapter, and are used to identify the optimal points of opening position on Forex and other financial markets. Unlike MA e...
DMI (Directional Movement Index)
The index is developed by J. Welles Wilder, Jr.CharacteristicsThe indicator spots the trend and its strength, as well as points at the possible price reversals. The scale from 0 to 100% is used to measure the trend. The positive line is def...
Moving average convergence divergence
Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) is a technical indicator that follows the trend of a dynamic indicator. It shows the relationship between two moving averages of an asset price.The MACD technical indicator is calculated by subtr...
Support and resistance levels
Support level – is the prices level which has a rather big potential for buying with the purpose to stop and upturn the price fall. Support level is shown on the chart by a horizontal or almost horizontal line, which connects a few bottoms....
Trend and range fluctuations
The trend exists as long as prices maintain the tendency to rise and to fall through time. When the trend is uprising, every following support and resistance level exceeds the preceding. During the downtrend every following level of low and...
Trend lines
A straight line, connecting two neighboring lows, shows the minimal strength denominator of bulls; and the line, connecting two neighbouring tops, shows the lowest strength denominator of bears. These lines are called trend lines. Trend lin...
Andrew's pitchfork
Dr A. Andrews suggested the method of plotting the probable trend and channel lines using the median of triangle, made by the recent three lows and highs. Thus, to estimate the upmoving trend, the chain of low A, high B, and low C is taken,...
Trendline correcntion, the fan principle
As time goes by, the speed of price movement within a trend can change. It can increase which corresponds to the bigger angle of the [[Trend Lines|trend line]], or decrease and make the [[Trend Lines|trend line]] not that steep. In these ca...
Tic-Tac-Toe chart
Point and Figure charts differ from the bar charts in two significant ways. At first, bar charts are constructed on time intervals regardless of whether there is any change in price. A new plot on a Point and Figure chart is made only if th...
Determining a winner
1. The winners of the Contest are determined by a transparent internet voting carried out among the visitors of the contest`s website.2. The voting starts when a profile appears on the website of the Contest and continues till the end of th...
Voting in the Miss Insta Asia contest
1. The voting starts when a profile appears on the website of the Contest and continues till the end of the Contest. The website users, having a live trading account with InstaTrade attached to the user's profile, have a right to vote for a...
Great Race prize fund
The prize fund in Great Race InstaTrade 2020 is 55,000 USD.The prize funds for the four steps of the contest are distributed among the winners in the following way- 1 prize – 3,000 USD- 2 prize – 2,000 USD- 3 prize – 1,500 USD- 4 prize – 80...
Determination of the Lucky Trader winners
To determine the winners of the Lucky Trader contests, the Company uses a rating, which is calculated by summing up profits for all positive trades and subtracting losses for all negative trades. However, there is only one limitation: a con...
Chapter 7. Cross currency pairs
The trading operations on Forex are carried out not only against the US dollar. We intentionally have not touched on these operations until now to make the content more intelligible. The currency rates, which do not include the US dollar, a...
Chapter 9. Forex market and exchange offices
Forex trading is aimed at making money on currency speculations. We have been describing the currency market above but avoided such topics as what starting capital is needed to work on Forex and what profit can be expected. In this chapter...
Chapter 11. Margin requirement
Each time a trader opens a position through an online broker (dealing company), the part of funds on his account becomes frozen. This part is called a security deposit and used for a guarantee that a trader will never lose more than he has...
Rebate Service
The InstaTrade Rebate Service is a unique program that refunds a portion of the spread* for every transaction made, regardless of its outcome. With this service, you can receive 1.5 points from each transaction, trading in your usual mode....