The Financial Times guide to foreign exchange trading / Stuart Fieldhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fieldhouse, Stuart, author.

Series:

Financial times guides.

Financial times guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign exchange market.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Foreign exchange trading

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England : Pearson Education, Limited, [2012]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An introduction to the fast growing $1.5 billion foreign exchange trading marketplace, showing you how the markets work, how to trade them successfully and how to mitigate risk. The Financial Times Guide to Foreign Exchange Trading is the authoritative primer, the first port of call for anyone interested in foreign exchange trading and wants to know what it is all about before taking the plunge.

Contents:

Cover

The Financial Times Guide to Foreign Exchange Trading

Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

Foreign exchange trading: getting started

What do we mean by foreign exchange trading?

Of pips and ticks

Do I need to be a financial professional to trade forex successfully?

Finding a forex broker

Can forex brokers be trusted?

Other differentiating factors

Accessing the markets: different types of FX trading account

Spread betting

Contracts for difference (CFDs)

Margined foreign exchange

Spot foreign exchange

Futures contracts

Options

Forwards

Currency ETFs

Different types of trades

Finding the right company to trade with

What's in a price?

Demo accounts

Risk management for the forex trader

Margin trading

Stop losses

Managing your exposure

Position sizing

Not all currency trades are created equal

Make sure you have a back-up plan

When trading companies fail

Summary: core principles of forex risk management

Currencies in brief

The currency majors

The minor league

What is XAU/XAG?

What to trade

Trading emerging markets currencies

The appeal of trading emerging markets

Leading emerging markets currencies

Emerging markets currency trading tips

What moves the markets?

Central banks

Interest rates

Economic growth

Unemployment

Inflation

Business and consumer confidence

Foreign trade

National Sovereign debt

Natural disasters and conflict

Commodities prices

Other important economic indicators

A typical economic calendar (December 2011)

Utilitarian considerations

Developing a trading plan for currency markets

How much can I afford to lose?

How much time can I devote to trading?

How do I behave under pressure?

How disciplined am I as an individual?

Writing a trading plan.

Is FX trading going to be my career, my hobby, or a way of making money on the side?

Am I a trader or an investor?

Approaching the markets

Technical analysis for the FX trader

The background to technical analysis

Japanese candlestick charts

Moving averages

MACD (moving average convergence/ divergence)

Bollinger bands

Head-and-shoulders indicators

RSI (Relative Strength Index)

ADX (Average Directional Index)

Pivot points

Triangles

The theories behind technical analysis

Summary

Further resources for the forex trader

From the brokerages

Trading platforms

Charting and technical analysis

Magazines and newspapers

Websites

Television

Trading coaches

Systematic trading programs/expert advisers

Reading list

Careers in FX trading

The changing world of trading

Outside the financial industry

Doing it yourself

Glossary of forex trading and other financial market terms

Appendix: Brokers comparison

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780273751847

0273751840

OCLC:

1024272867