The Forex Trading Manual: The Rules-Based Approach to Making Money Trading Currencies (Javier H. Paz, 2012)

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Popular chart pattern
  • Ascending triangle
  • Descending triangle
  • Triangle
  • Channel down
  • Channel up
  • Rising wedge
  • Rectangle
  • Head and shoulders
  • Inverse head and shoulders
  • Triple top
  • Triple bottom
  • Continuation
  • Reversal
  • Continuation and reversal
Basic technical indicators
  • Fibonacci
    • Golden ratio of 61.8%, 1:1.618, 0.618:1
  • VT Pivot point indicator
    • Finding potential support and resistance level
Major economic announcement
  • Election and referendum results
  • Corporate earnings of major companies (Apple, Cisco, banks)
  • Major political events: wars, military or terrorist attacks, warlike rhetoric
  • Bankruptcy of major market participants
  • Sovereign debt auction results
  • Natural or human-made disasters
  • Prices of commodities
  • Government policies: deficit spending, trade restrictions
Currency weaken factors
  • Borrow too much
  • Have large trade deficits
  • Pay low interest rates on deposits
  • Have low rates of economic growth
  • High unemployment rates
  • Engage in wars
Main economic announcement
  • Nonfarm payroll (NFP)/employment data
    • 10, US
  • Federal open market (FOMC) announcement
    • 10, US
  • Minimum bid rate/ECB press conference
    • 7, EU
  • Consumer price index (CPI)
    • 6, US
  • Speech by central bank president
    • 5, US, EU, UK
  • Trade balance
    • 5, US
  • Gross domestic product
    • 4, US, EU, UK
  • Retail sales
    • 4, US, UK
  • Official bank rate
    • 3, UK, AU, CA, CH
  • Tankan large manufacturing index
    • 3, JP
  • Consumer prices index (CPI)
    • 3, EU, UK, AU, CA, CH
  • Overnight call rate/Bank of Japan press conference
    • 2, JP
  • German IFO business climate
    • 2, EU
Key market personalities
  • President, US
  • Federal reserve chairman, US
  • Secretary of the treasury, US
  • Chancellor, DE
  • European central bank (ECB) president, EU
  • Prime minister, UK
  • Bank of England (BOE) governor, UK
  • Reserve bank of Australia (RBA) governor, AU
  • Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor, JP
  • President, CN
  • Vice president, CN
Sentiment indicators
  • Libor-Ois spread
  • CBOE volatility index (VIX index)
  • S&P 500
  • Crude oil
Trading resources
  • High Candlestick Patterns (Stephen Bigalow, 2005)
  • Bollinger on Bollinger Bands (John Bollinger, 2002)
  • Getting Started in Chart Patters (Thomas Bulkowski, 2006)
  • Beyond Technical Analysis (Tushar S. Chande, 2001)
  • Trading in the Zone (Mark Douglas, 2001)
  • Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets (John Murphy, 1999)
  • Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques (Steve Nison, 2001)
  • The Candlestick Course (Steve Nison, 2003)
  • Technical Analysis Explained (Martin Pring, 2001)

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