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  • How to Identify Counter Trend Trades

    The first trick to finding counter trend trades is to find a clear trend. This can be done on any of your favorite markets and time frames. You can use price action analysis and indicators such as the moving average to find when the price is trending higher or lower. After you have identified a…

  • What is a Counter Trend Trade?

    When making a counter trend trade, you are looking to profit from the swings higher or lower against the primary trend. Counter trend trading is so popular because you can do it in any market and time frame. You can also make short sharp trades and profit from going both long and short. Most counter trend traders…

  • Lastly – Gold Trading Tips

    Whilst there are many ways for you to make profitable trades in the Gold market, there are some tips to keep in mind;

  • Gold Scalping Trading Strategies

    The first thing to remember if you want to scalp the Gold market is don’t fall into the trap of only looking for long trades. When scalping on the smaller time frames you are going to see strong trends both higher and lower. You need to use these trends to your advantage and trade with…

  • Intraday Gold Trading Strategies

    Gold can be traded on all of your time frames from the monthly chart right down to the one minute chart. If you are looking to make intraday trades in the Gold market, then keep these things in mind; Watch the News News and economic events can often play a large role in how the…

  • Best Indicator for Gold Trading

    There are endless amounts of indicators you can use to start trading the Gold market. However, what you will often find is the best indicators are the simplest and the ones that give you the cleanest trade ideas. What you will also find is that as you start to add more and more indicators to…

  • XAUUSD (Gold) Trading Hours

    A very large reason that retail traders and speculators love trading the Gold market is because it is open 24 hours a day and five days a week. Unlike individual stock markets that are only available to trade during their set sessions, the Gold market is open all week. Important note: many brokers will close or…

  • How Gold Works Within the Forex Market

    Most of the Gold trading is done in a similar method to how Forex is traded. Instead of physically buying Gold bars, most investors and traders are using contracts such as CFD’s. With CFD’s you are not buying the physical asset, but instead you are purchasing a contract. This contract is a speculation on whether the…

  • Gold Trading Basics

    Gold is a very distinctive market and has some individual traits unlike other markets. Over the years Gold has been considered a safe haven market. When everything else like the USD or stock markets are going through extremes, traders have often flocked to the Gold market which has seen it’s price increase. For this reason…

  • EMA Crossover Screener

    This moving average crossover screener will scan your charts and send you alerts when certain moving averages have started crossing over. This is an advanced moving average crossover scanner that comes with some very useful features. This indicator is not free, but it does come with a free demo that you can try to see…

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