Tips for Trading Descending Triangles Short

By Jeff Cartridge

The descending triangle can be traded very successfully on the short side entering the trade as the stock breaks out of the pattern to the downside. The pattern forms when the two boundary lines that contain the price movement converge to a point. The top line slopes down toward the bottom line which is horizontal.

Descending Triangles, One Of The Best

The descending triangle does break down more than it breaks up with this occurring in 57% of the patterns. A downside breakout is profitable 45% of the time delivering an average profit of 0.92% in 9 days. A large number of downside breakouts (12.1%) return in excess of 10% gain.

Specific Setups to Improve Profitability

A break to the downside works better in a falling market or sector environment. By using filters that require the market to be in a consolidation or an up trend you can improve the results. The sector should also be in a down trend for the best results. Strangely a sector that is in a down trend at the beginning of the pattern produces better results than a sector in a down trend when the breakout occurs.

Breakouts can occur anywhere along the length of the descending triangle pattern. Another key to picking successful short breakouts from descending triangles is to look for a turning point up from the lower boundary that fails to reach the upper boundary and then falls away.

Ensure that the volume is supportive of the breakout, i.e. volume as the share falls is greater than volume as the share rises.

Trading Descending Triangles Can Be Profitable

Incorporating these simple changes when selecting descending triangles to trade short, dramatically improves the results. With an average return per trade of 2.55% in 10 days and a hit rate of 48% descending triangles are one of the most profitable patterns to trade on the short side.

Statistics for this article have been provided by Patterns Trader after analyzing over 60,000 chart patterns on the Australian market from 2000 - 2008. - 23223

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Jeff Cartridge is a private trader and created the website LearnCFDs.com Discover Patterns of Success

Temporary Investor Visas

By Sam McDougall Turner

Relocation to the United States of America can be a very difficult process. However there are several ways that you can vastly improve your chances of being granted a visa. One of the most common of these is to opt for an investor visa. There are two basis types, temporary and permanent.

The temporary investor visa is called the E-2.

The E-2 visa is popularly known as the Temporary Green Card. The reason for this is that there is no upper limit to the visa term and therefore extensions to your stay and visa renewals can be granted on a limitless number of occasions, provided that the qualifying investment is still in existence and all other conditions for the E-2 visa are still being satisfied.

The purpose of this visa is to allow foreign people who have invested considerable amounts in the US to relocate there to further develop and run the business or businesses that they have invested in.

You may be eligible for this visa if you are the investor, or if you are an executive, manager or essential employee of the foreign company that made the investment and you and the major shareholders of the company are the nationals of a country that has an ongoing Treaty of Trade, Friendship and Commerce with the United States.

If you are an executive or a member of corporate personnel, then you must be a national of the same country as the corporation to qualify. An investment in the USA must have either already been made or that the investment is in progress. So if you posses substantial financial assets, then you could be entitled to the E-2 visa.

The E-2 visa may be suitable for those who wish to invest a significant sum of money in order to either purchase an existing business or to set up a new business. The E-2 visa is not suitable for silent investors as the investor is required to play an active role in the management and direction of the investment enterprise.

Because of the unique complexities of investing in a U.S. business, it is highly advisable to seek competent legal advice on the types of investment that may qualify for an E2. After receiving such advice, the next step is likely to be to contact a reputable business broker that has an awareness of the requisite criteria for making a qualifying E-2 investment. - 23223

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When you have decided to invest in a US business, our law firm will be able to assist you in the legal process of applying for the E-2 investor visa. Go to www.visas4america.com for advice on applying for an investor visa.

Determining the Better Type of Forex Analysis

By Brad Morgan

Two forms of foreign exchange market analysis are there:

1. Fundamental analysis takes into account economic, social and political elementsand how they sway the money markets.

2. Technical analysis engages charts to pinpoint trends and patterns in the change of prices.

So which is the superior analysis? If you check out forums and websites you will see many traders resolutely supporting one or the other. Those who like to depends on charts will tell you that the only way to make money with currency trading is to find out trends and jump onto them as soon as possible.

On the other hand the supporters of fundamental analysis will defend that it is the economic factors that drive the changes in currency prices and this is unquestionably true, at least most of the time. From that spot they will defend that any patterns you would find on a chart are nothing more than coincidental.

This though, is not a foregone conviction. While the vast impression on the forex market, of variations in the economic and politcal fields, cannot be denied, patterns or trends could possibly be identified from price movements especially in the wake of announcements or during periods with no consequential announcements.

But if you place all your conviction in technical analysis, quick announcements in crucial financial news will perhaps catch you off guard. Since you would be dependant on charts and not news, you may end up picking the unfavorable time to trade. Such an occasion could be calamitous.

So the crux is that there are economic happenings behind the larger scale rises and falls in the market, but there are also casual patterns that can be recognized in the short term. Discovering these patterns and trends, while keeping one eye on the economic and political news, is the best approach to predict future price movements. And predicting future price movements, obviously, is the way to make money with foreign exchange trading.

If we correlate the forex market to an elastic object, it can move in either direction and at times, return to the original position. Fundamentals stir the market. The extent of the movement and its return point is estimated by technical analysis.

So when you want to profit from foreign exchange trading it is better not to let your concentration to become fixed on either one. You ought to learn to balance the use of both forms of foreign exchange market analysis to make constant profits. - 23223

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Learn how to manage forex analysis when trading forex. Find out about forex trading software to be fully informed with your forex trading.

News Straddling Strategy (Part V)

By Ahmad Hassam

The risk of slippage is usually very high when trading the news. Currency prices tend to move very fast during such highly volatile market conditions. Slippage occurs when the price you intend to enter or exit the market is different from your actual transacted price.

Placing stop loss or market entry orders under fast moving market conditions do not guarantee anything. These orders do get filled but mostly at different prices than you had intended. Slippage is the biggest problem when the market moves fast. There is no way you can avoid it. Some of it is genuine. During times when too many orders are placed by the traders, most forex brokers cannot offset these orders in the interbank market due to the small amounts involved. They have to take the opposite positions themselves. This gives them the chance to take the excuse of slippage.

Many market makers will wait till after the big move is over. Then they will fill your entry order. Sometimes, these entry orders may even get filled past your stop loss or profit target. This means that you would be left with immediate net loss.

Slippage is a trick that many forex brokers use in order to make profit by filling your position with a negative spread. Before filling your entry order with wide slippage, many brokers will fill your stop loss or take profit order. The wider the slippage, the fatter the profits the broker is going to make. Imagine the number of orders placed with each forex broker and the amount of profits the broker makes from one such single event.

Lets take an example. Suppose you have placed your long entry stop for EUR/USD at 1.2564. Your profit limit is 1.2594. The forex broker may first fill your take profit at 1.2594 and then fill your long entry stop at 1.2604 with a 40 pips slippage.

If filled at the prices you wanted, your trade would have resulted in a profit. But now you have a net realized loss. If the trade goes against you, the forex broker may fill your stop loss order first and then fill your entry order with slippage after that so as to widen their profits.

Now imagine you had placed your stop loss at 1.2544 and your long entry stop at 1.2564. Your forex broker could first fill your stop loss at 1.2544 and then fill your long entry stop at 1.2594 with a slippage of 30 pips. You now have a net loss of 50 pips due to slippage instead of planned 20 pips loss. You could never imagine that you would end up with a loss of 50 pips.

You should know as an individual trader that your orders will be kept pending till you get stopped out or your profit limit is reached during the release of news when the market moves fast. The more you stand to lose and the more the forex broker stands to make a profit, the larger the slippage you experience. Some forex brokers add slippage to any of your orders to increase their profits during times of fast moving markets when the volatility is high.

Many traders readily accept the risk of slippage as one of the realities of trading the news. However, they should know that slippage can eat up a huge chunk of profits and in the end affect their overall profit/loss. You can overcome the problem of slippage through the use of stop-limit entry order. More on it in the next article! - 23223

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Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard University. He is interested in day trading stocks and currencies. Know These Forex Broker Games. Learn Forex Trading!

Forex Investment is Today's Ideal Online Investment Opportunity

By Bart Icles

The Internet offers many opportunities for investors to make money online. Most of these only afford trivial returns not enough to call a profit, and some are the exact opposites but require large funds to start. Doing business online is now seeing a steady rise of new investors that will continue into the years to come. One such ideal venture worth looking into is Forex investment. During the 70's, it was strictly participated in by the big players like banks and corporation. But with the computers invention and the creation of the Internet, the rules slowly changed.

Foreign currency online trading offers any prospective investor to enter the market with a minimum sum regardless of financial status or personal standing. Thus, investing in Forex is the only viable investment market that offers the opportunity to earn more with less capitalization. Although it may take awhile for one to earn really big profits, with a little patience and practice one can get there sooner than later. It is best then to employ a good Forex trading system that will sharpen one's trading skills and at the same time give a clear picture how everything works.

One way to improve one's chances of making it big in Forex trading is a mix of doing smart and cautious trading, as well as being daring once in a while if called for. To do this, one must find a tried and tested Forex trading system that will aid you on how to make trading in Forex in the best and convenient way possible. Forex investing is relatively easy once you have a better grasp of how everything works and connects, and of what particular tools to learn and use in trade transactions. One of these is leverage trading that lets one buy currencies even with limited funds at hand, allowing one to buy currencies 200 times than what is actually available on the account.

In case the trader suffers more losses than gains, and his account falls below the agreed safe mark, the account will be issued a margin call and be closed immediately. If the account is on the negative end, leverage is applied and the collateral that was established will be used to pay for the lost (loaned) amount. However, to keep from going overboard on risky deals, a stop-loss order can be used to minimize losses to manageable ones.

A Forex investment will always have its profits and losses, in small or large amounts. But the important thing to learn is to gain enough experience and know-how in the process so as to have more profits rather then losses. - 23223

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Finding a good forex broker starts with a desire to learn and a drive to become a great trader. But learning online forex takes dedication and a good teacher. But once you learn how to trade and do so successfully your life will change and you have options and financial resources you never had before.