Category: Traders’ Secrets

Traders’ Secrets is something that everyone would like to know, right?
How is it possible that some traders are successful all the time while others fail to make a profit all the time?
That is exactly what Traders’ Secrets will show you.
Traders-Paradise’s team reveal all trading and investing secrets to you, our visitors.

What will you find here?

How to find, buy, trade stocks, currencies, cryptos. You’ll find here what are the best strategies you can use, all with full explanation and examples.
Traders-Paradise gives you, our readers, this unique chance to uncover and fully understand everything and anything about trading and investing. The material presented here is originated from the experience of many executed trades, many mistakes made by traders and investors but written on the way that teaches you how to avoid these mistakes.

Moreover, here you’ll find some rare techniques and strategies that are successful forever, for any market condition. Also, how to trade with a little money and gain consistent returns. By following these posts you’ll e able to trade with greater success. You’ll increase your profits and your wealth, of course.

The main secret of Traders’ Secrets is that there shouldn’t be any secret for traders and investors. Rise up your trade by reading these posts, articles, and analyses!

You’ll enjoy every word written here. Moreover, after all, your trading and investing knowledge will be more extensive and effective.

Traders’ Secrets will arm you with those skills, so you’ll never have a losing trade again.

Investing Tips for Millennials

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Investing and millennials! If you were born between the early 1980s and late 1990s, you’re Millennials.

Do you know you’re millennial?

If you were born between the early 1980s and late 1990s, you’re.

And I’m sure odds are you aren’t investing your money in the stock market.

According to a recent study, 79% of your generation isn’t handing over hard-earned cash to Wall Street, 76 % of millennial women found investing confusing, 60 % believe the typical investor is an old, white man, almost half of millennial men agreed.

As a member of this generation, you’ve seen investors losing their money during market crashes.

It can be unsettling. It can also be discouraging to start investing if you’re uninformed about how to get started.
Before you begin investing, you should arm yourself with knowledge of what you can do, how to get started, and how much money you could earn with a long-term investment.

There are some tips.

You need to pay off what you owe. Contrary, the interest you’re paying out will eat greedily the interest you make on your investments.

Pay the minimum on your lowest-interest cards and sink your money into the card with the highest interest and get it paid off, that is always a good plan. After that work down the line until they’re all cleared.

It’s a good idea to keep an emergency fund, but a savings account isn’t doing much for you. The profits you earn by keeping your money in a savings account is minimal, generally speaking.

The advantage of being a millennial is that you’re young and you can make a risky investment because if it all comes crashing down, you’ll have enough time to aim your financial goals.

Those big risks in stocks can also eventually make you a lot of money in dividends. And you can continue to invest and make more money. A beautiful thing indeed. When you get older, it will become harder to explain to yourselves a big risk, because you will need that money for your retirements.

One-third of millennials surveyed say that $1,000 is needed to start investing, which isn’t true.

You can start with only $5.

Of course, you won’t make a fortune with micro-investing! You have to choose the companies you invest in, I won’t suggest which one. It’s up to you!

Anyone who wants to start investing must learn everything possible about investment.

You can start with some websites that are chock-full of investment information. You will feel more comfortable with the ins and outs of trading, and you can download an app with stock news and read news related to your own investments. Or you can easily and free of charge open some demo account.

You have many options for investment and maybe it’s time to start investing in your future.

Don’t let your money sit in the bank while inflation rates rise. You have to make your money work for you. If you take the risks now, you’ll get the most return on your investment, so you can retire later.

With peace in your mind.

Risk Disclosure (read carefully!)

19th July 2018
I made some profit on a demo account. Should I start trading for real?

Trading forex or any other market with a demo account isn’t the same as real trading.

by Guy Avtalyon

This is a great chance to explain why trading with a demo account seems fake in comparison to real trading. Let me start from the beginning.

I got a message:

”I’m very new to forex, been trading on a demo account from various brokers for 3 weeks and I’m consistently making the profit. Now I’d like to start doing real trades. I intend to register a real account once ready. My trades go over a period of 10-15 minutes usually. The problem I’m having is that it just doesn’t make sense that you make such easy profit with so little experience, there has to be something I’m overlooking. The question I’d like to ask is: what is going to be the difference between a demo account and real trading? Any tips are welcome.”

Yes, that’s the right question and many people with demo account experience only, have the same question. This article is for all of you who had experience with DEMO ACCOUNT and now you want to start with REAL.

To be clear in the beginning.

Trading Forex getting started

Several weeks is too short frame time to have experience on a demo account.

My opinion is that you need to test your skills at least several months and after that period you may be ready to trade with the REAL account.

Well, you are maybe a gifted, talented financial expert, I don’t know. But even then you need time to find all that would make you a good trader who knows how to react, what to do. I know there are some people who would say: Just don’t demo! Never use demo just because it’s too easy to follow your personal trading rules. It is better to trade with a mini account, so-called ”trading live” for over 18 months. But I would never share such an opinion.

Many users of demo accounts claim that they are using “fake” accounts and they haven’t the real possibility to explore everything they need before opening a real account. That is true and not true, at the same time. Demo platform sometimes uses a prototype and test on the user before having some of their features go live. Some brokerages or platforms use programs based on the experiences of other traders and this is not bad.

This gives you the ability to see how you should behave in a particular situation.

Differences between a demo account and real forex trading

So, let’s go to the point.

There are many differences. When you’re paper trading you don’t really pay attention to:

* Money management, and because it’s not real money, its ignored.
* Margins required to take positions which differ from position to position. This can affect money management.
* Risk management is also different. Risk management is not punctilious, not precise.
* Mark to market losses can make your portfolio looks bumpy, lopsided, and generally bad. In real-world trading, this is the first thing that is observed and it affects the total NAV of the portfolio. When you are trading with a demo account as the simulator, it doesn’t matter because you’re looking at the end result only.
* Stop losses are based on the past. Usually, stop losses are triggered because the order book is exposed to institutions and large traders and they get full access.

And you can see that simulators on a demo account can make you delusional.

Not only one brokerage encourage their clients to start small and trade in real markets.

But you have to know that not every brokerage is on your side. So, you have to be very careful if you decide to practice on a real account. Losses are possible because what you lack is knowledge.

When to trade, size of money allocated to the trade, fundamental analysis of the stock, what tech indicators will you use, what is the broad market, what is the sector market, what is the stock chart doing, can you read candlestick trading, can you read overall chart trading, which way is it trending up or down or sideways?

Trading forex how to do that?

So many unanswered questions and you still have guts to trade on real?

C’mon!

You should avoid to pay a “tax on stupidity” and lost money into bad trades. You should choose to educate yourself first, then trade with extreme caution. First education, then trading plan, then and only then you can go to trade with a real account.

Adore the trade, the process, your path, the ideas that are working, not money! The money will come, soon or later if you are good and know what to do. Put some passion in your tradings, a lot of caution, pay attention in every single moment of your trading, and be watchfulness.

Is demo account useful?

When you make the profit, should think about the real account.

Even it is just a demo account. It will be good practice for real trading. And never be a gambler. That can be the worst habit when you step into a real account. Gambling in RL will get you killed; you will lose your family, friends, money, your life.

Look to educate yourself as the first step.

Make a trading plan, plan your trade, and trade your plan. Knowledge,

Volition, Action are the 3 components of trading.

Some fresh forex traders in their first few months of real trading end up shocked that they are having difficulties. The majority of problems come from the failures to replicate the gained success in demo trading to a real account. Don’t be one of them. And remember, I’m not going to give you advice, I just want to share my and my friends’ experiences.

Trading is at your own risk.

Good luck!

18th July 2018
The golden rules for investing in the stock market for beginners

What rules every investor should follow if want to be successful? Read to the end.

By Guy Avtalyon

Every field has golden rules, so this one has too.

Fast money and easy earnings are mostly what young people want to succeed in the business world.
They are attracted by exchanges, money is invested in shares.

WOW!

However, there are many curves, curvatures, spirals, and twists that, and if you don’t know how to avoid them, your trip to the stock market can be very short-lived.

What are the golden rules for investing in the stock market, which should be known primarily to beginners in this business, but also to more experienced stock traders?

Create a portfolio one of the golden rules

You can do this in a simple way. There are many free portfolio managers on the Internet, so use some of them to make a free account.

Create a fictitious portfolio in which you would potentially invest and monitor the situation for a while, a minimum of one month. This will give you the best insight into market volatility.

Before you take the first step, the goal is to create a profitable fictitious portfolio as an investor on the stock market. This is really the golden rule.

Among other Golden rules: Read business magazines

In order to successfully start investing in the stock market, you need to be aware of the world’s stock market. Also, what are the social events that affect the rise or fall of the price of shares?

There are many respectable business magazines dealing with this topic (Forbes, The Economist, Kiplinger’s are some of the most famous ones).

Follow the events in the global economy and finance and you will be able to swim more easily in the very turbulent waters of the stock market.

Buy stock from a field you know well

Before investing money into something, you should understand the business the company is dealing with.

The first stock you will buy on the stock market should be from the sector you understand and it is familiar to you.

For example, if you know the banking sector, try to explore the market and find a bank whose stocks are good and worth investing.

Never invest in the action itself, but in the company. This is one of the best golden rules I ever got.

Have realistic expectations

There may be a problem if your financial goals are based on unrealistic presumption. Try to be realistic in your ambitions and goals. This will the most important golden rule for novices.

In this way, there are fewer chances to lose money or be disappointed in your stock market business.

Do your own research one of the most important golden rules

You will hear from people who are dealing with the stock exchange that they have bought some stocks. Just because the same was done by their friend or family member who understands this business.

Accept everything with reserve. Before buying a stock, do research. If some stocks brought in earnings in the past doesn’t necessarily mean that this trend will continue.

Always believe more to yourself than other people’s estimation.

The stock exchange is NOT a money-making machine

This is one of the Golden rules. Most of those who want to participate stock market, have an unrealistic desire to double or triple investment in the short time frame.

If you are one of them, then that’s not a job for you. For those who want to invest, 10 to 12% of the earnings for a long period is quite a good investment.

You need to realize that you are just a small fish in a big lake and that your success depends on many factors. Some traders became really successful when they realized this golden rule.

Follow the clues and make conclusions.

3 or 4 good stocks are enough

Don’t overplay is truly a golden rule. Especially because you are a beginner in this business. More than 10 stocks are a good portfolio, but for investment funds.

It is true that they make more profit. But if you make a smart and wise decision you will earn enough money. Golden rules should be known to beginners in this business.

Don’t try to predict the stock price

Not even the biggest billionaires and owners of the largest multinational companies in the world are doing this. No one is able to predict, at least for a longer period, several stock market cycles.

Ability to guess the moment when the stock will have the highest value is still a myth. Even for those who have an insight into the business of some companies. Therefore, for successful business and investing in the stock market, you need to acquire certain knowledge and skills.

According to many kinds of research, the risk of investing in the stock exchange is most often taken over by young people who have just finished college.

But, like in every other business, the experience you get, will help you to be wiser in making decisions in the future.

That’s how it works!

18th July 2018
Good And Bad Investment

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When you work hard to earn money and you earned a surplus that you can invest, you want to make sure it isn’t going to disappear on you. Take your time to carefully understand an investment prior to putting your money into it. It is a very important concept.

Sometimes it’s better to miss out on a great investment than it is to be involved in a bad one.

Of course, there are good and bad investments, but the question is how to tell if something is a good or bad investment.

The act of accumulating and investing wealth is a dangerous proposition.

The hardest part of the process isn’t picking the right investments, but rather, guarding our hearts from the greed of money.
We need to always be aware of the desires and possibilities, especially when money is involved.

While supposedly ”market-beating” brokers and advisors tend to profit in all market conditions. On the other side, we have the performance of the typical investor over the past 20 years. But we can precisely describe them as shockingly poor.

There is a lot of confusion surrounding investments, but truth is that investment is anything that you can buy and hold on to in order to gain value.

Literally, the investment can be anything you can buy and sell.

The key is to realize there is no such thing as a naturally good or bad investment.

What I mean is if you make right timing, you can be wrong about valuation and strategy, and still come out with a profit.
Or if your valuation is strong, you can be wrong about timing and strategy and still come out with a profit. You may have a

positive expectation with good risk management. In other words, your strategy is good.

But your profit is assured over time even though any single investment can fail on timing and valuation.

Successful investing is all in the process: risk management, strategy, and timing. It takes work and effort.

There is no one-stop solution. There is no magic pill. If you’re looking for instant solution and asking what is a good investment, your thinking is in the wrong direction.

Everything, but literally everything can be a bad or good investment, depending on the moment you enter, the strategy, the trading plan, investment plan.

For someone who is trying to identify solid investment opportunities from among various available choices, it would be helpful if you are able to identify financial opportunities as distinctively good or bad.

However, it’s not always a black-and-white task.

Some of the processes depend on your own good perception. There are some red marks that forewarn of a potential losing bet. However, as well as some positive signs that could lead to a profitable investment.

The average investor’s investments underperformed the returns of almost every asset class. Part of the reason for this is the tendency of investors to buy high and sell low.

In times of market volatility, many investors panic and dump their stocks. They often make poor investment choices. They are seduced by the promise of high returns from investment products. That is difficult to understand and hampered with high fees.

A good investment is one that meets your goals and objectives.

A bad investment is one that doesn’t meet your goals and objectives.

To find good investments you must have an understanding of what is realistic. What kind of return should you expect on an investment? If you have a good sense of what is and is not possible you are less likely to get scammed.

You must be able to keep your eye on your chosen investment, and this is something that can be hard to do. Not all investments are easy to track in this way. The best thing to do is to make sure that your focus is primarily on material assets, as these are the kinds of things you can easily see, and they are more likely to be easily tracked too. As long as you can keep an eye on your investments, you can be sure that you are doing with it what you should be doing in order to make money.

I presented you a few essential rules you can use to avoid bad investments and recognize good.

Those are not must-follow rules. You can think of them more as guidelines. Especially if you’re a new investor, using these rules to stay away from bad investments can help you to make better choices.
And never look for the big, fast wins. You’ll be crushed.

Risk Disclosure (read carefully!)

17th July 2018
How To Use Trading Platforms To Trade Or Invest

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You are interested in investing but don’t know where to start?

Online stock trading sites make it easier than ever to learn and invest in the comfort of your own home.

Online trading is the process of buying and selling financial instruments over the Internet.

With the introduction of the World Wide Web, almost all transactions can be carried out. Just with using a computer, including stocks, currencies, options, and futures.

The best way to start trading or investing is to use some of the platforms.

First of all, what is a ”trading platform”?

It is a software thanks which investors and traders can open, close, place trades, monitor accounts. And manage market positions through a financial intermediary.

Online trading platforms are often offered by brokers. Either for free or at a discount rate in exchange for keeping a funded account and/or making a specified number of trades per month.

Trading platforms come packed with real-time quotes, charting tools, news feeds, and even premium research.

Platforms may also be particularly created for specific markets, such as stocks, currencies, options, or futures markets.

When deciding between trading platforms, traders and investors should consider both the fees involved and features available.

So, you have to check a lot to find which one suits you the best.

Criteria for the best online trading platforms

There is no one best online stock broker because each one has different strengths and weaknesses.
It’s a thunderous time for online brokers. The players are mainly the same, but between significant cuts in commissions and a few major acquisitions, the competition is fierce.

Our mission is not to spotlight one or two or maybe five. We want to help you to learn how to use the chosen one.
And how to find the best one for your investing style.

New age platforms offer you advanced, unique features that can actually change the way of use to realize online trading.

The best online platform offers a mixture of functional usage combined with ease of use. It is here to help the investor in executing trading or investing. And to do it most effectively by utilizing strategies to maximize the return.

Most of the platforms have the equipment to analysis. And strategy and testing feature to test all buy and sell rules.

With a click of your mouse, you can access strategy reports with simulated results like profit versus loss, the annual rate of return, etc.

On them, you can modify your trading strategies without making losses.

The best trading platform should provide strong support to handle the transaction of heavy data and information traffic.

The trading platform connects your monitor to the markets. And ensures that you get the execution prices on every order type available without any slippage.

The trading platform always comes with fully automated real-time online streaming data from the market. In order to take advantage of the liquidity of the market.

A trading platform must offer more than one type of account either standard, institutional or mini.

The platform should come with different operating packages. It must have software to provide firewall protection. Of course, to preserve the security and integrity of your trading.

So you can perform your trading from home, office, laptop on the go or even from an internet cafe with equal simplicity.

The best online forex trading platform will make possible you to use the system without downloading any program. That kind of platform offers perfect mobility to the traders or investors.

The best platform should offer:

– Performance, Security, Simplicity, and Transparency
– Without slippages and without requites
– Prompt execution with the unlimited transaction amount
– The flexibility of placing complex orders including emergency orders
– Technical analysis for all accounts, demo or live
– Real-time margin and position monitoring
– Valid market news and an economic calendar
– Permanent margin requirements in all volatile market condition
– Spread on all major currency pairs with new trading technology
– Real-time charts and technical analysis based predictions with great visual representation
– Trading history and print out any reports

Mobile platforms

With advanced mobile platforms, you can operate even when you are away from your computer. It enables you to access and trade your forex account from anywhere with your mobile phone.

These platforms have easy to use interface and you can easily move from one screen to the next. You can place market and orders with simple steps and can have full reports including execution and open order.

Take care about costs.

So you have to spend a lot of time balancing price with what each platform offered.

Cost per transaction – Commissions are typically an investor’s biggest cost base. Many trades for as low as $4.95.

No matter what the price, transparency is key. You would like to see affordable pricing structures that were locked in for the long haul.

Costs for data, research, and tools – The best trading platforms have built quality market data like real-time quotes, educational resources, and stock-screening tools.

Some totally free of charge.

Account minimums – It isn’t fun to see your capital is getting smaller due to a tough market or bad strategy.
Even worse if you’re dinged by your broker’s minimum account balance requirement.

The bottom line

Put your trading skills to the test with some free demo account.

Submit trades in a virtual environment before you start risking your own money. Practice trading strategies before you’re ready to enter the real market.

Compete with thousands of traders and trade your way to the top!

Risk Disclosure (read carefully!)

17th July 2018
Which Altcoins Look Good in The Near Future?

Altcoins are cryptocurrencies also like Bitcoin. But most of them are forks of Bitcoin with small changes.

By Guy Avtalyon

Altcoins represent all coins that are not Bitcoin. Altcoins are usually under the radar. Still, altcoins can generate fantastic gains if you are lucky enough to find the particular one that skyrockets soon.

But be aware. The risk involved is really high.

You may end up holding a bunch of useless projects that never go anywhere.

The current cryptocurrency market is very hot. And everyone wants to make a lot of money there. Well, as first, count on the risk because here it is very big.

When you want to invest but you don’t know which crypto to purchase, you should find more and more information about cryptocurrencies. And look at their white papers.

What altcoins to choose?

It would be arrogant of us to think that we can predict exactly which altcoin will be the best. And take this piece of advice. Never listen to anyone who pretends to know everything for sure in crypto.

We are not saying only these altcoins are good or they’re the best. They’re just altcoins that we can imagine are going to be worth looking at in more detail.

We have to tell you this is not financial advice to invest in any crypto and please do your own homework and make the decision by yourself.

To do our homework, we followed 3 criteria for coins:

* Isn’t related to a Ponzi scheme or multi-level marketing
* can’t be in the current top ten
* must be tradable on a trusted market or exchange

Find answers before choose altcoin

Do they have a solid team? How is about their technology? Is it solid enough already or, maybe, their future technology could be unique? Also, is this company going to work 5 years or more?

We know that many of you may disagree with our choice, but feel free to express your opinion in comments.
The order on this list is random.

What altcoins to look at?

1) Ethereum – This list of the best altcoins must begin with Ethereum, which is the second most valuable cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. Ethereum was launched in July 2015 by the now-famous prodigy of the cryptocurrency world and it was done by Vitalik Buterin. This altcoin provides a platform to the developer on which they can build blockchain-based smart contracts and decentralized apps.

It was the first cryptocurrency to introduce smart contracts, which are now considered as the next big thing.

One of the biggest challenges being faced by Ethereum has been scalability. Ethereum’s network currently supports roughly 15 transactions per second.

This isn’t that great but we expect they will solve that in the near future.

2) Litecoin – One of the oldest altcoins, was created in 2011 by Charlie Lee. Like Bitcoin, Litecoin is also a digital currency but with improvements. In fact, the reason for launching Litecoin was to overcome some of the shortcomings of Bitcoin, especially its slow transaction speed.

The reason that it is called Litecoin is that it is 4 times faster than Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s transaction takes about 10 minutes to complete but a Litecoin transaction is completed in 2.5 minutes.

3) ICON – It is a project that has experienced huge gains. Currently, it’s not even traded on Korean exchanges, which is insane. Their vision is to allow many different blockchains ( private and public) to work together, like universities, banks, hospitals, schools and they can all share information together via Icon and other partners.

Further

4) Neo – It’s one of the best long-term altcoins. Neo has the potential to reach Ethereum’s market cap. Many people invest in Neo because they have confidence that sooner or later the Chinese government is going to legalize ICOs again. But only if Neo is the blockchain is used.

Neo’s CoFounder Da HongFei himself has denied this theory several times. The Neo project is much more than trying to be Chinese Ethereum. And it’s going to succeed anyway, without depending on what China does with ICO’s. Neo is going to help create the future of blockchain. You don’t need ICOs to be legalized in China for this to happen.5) DASH – Altcoin launched in 2014 by Evan Duffield. At the time of launch, it was called Xcoin and was then renamed to Darkcoin. In 2015 that it was rebranded to Dash. Dash has been forked from Litecoin, which is itself built on Bitcoin’s technology but it offers significant advantages over Bitcoin like better privacy and a higher transaction speed than Bitcoin.

6) Cardano (ADA) – Cardano is one of the newest cryptocurrencies and it not only offers a platform for Dapps and smart contracts but also offers many technological improvements over Ethereum and other blockchains.

This altcoin has not given as high returns as other top coins but it is still popular among investors because of its promise of building a highly robust blockchain that offers advantages over Ethereum. We will see!

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7) EOS – Relatively new altcoin whose Initial Coin Offering (ICO) was launched in June 2017. EOS and created by Dan Larimer. It is both a digital currency and a blockchain platform for DApps and smart contracts, more like Ethereum than like Bitcoin. This coin is much more scalable than Ethereum and EOS support multiple languages, including C++. This is a very convenient feature if you are the developer.

8) Wanchain – It is possibly even more hyped up cousin of Wanchain. The two projects are in the same category of projects but are complementary to one another.

Wanchain works on the ability of different chains to work together, like Icon. This is going to be of huge value as blockchain develops.

9) Filecoin – Filecoin is a decentralized storage solution. Filecoin allows for anyone, anywhere to get paid for storage and it is built on top of IPFS. It is a new peer-to-peer protocol. Filecoin broke a record while raising $257 million dollars at their ICO. It has all of the right things with worldwide implications.

These are just some of my thoughts that I share with you and you should not take them as the only and undeniable truth.

Should you be cautious about altcoins?

People are being very cautious with all these new forks and new versions of Bitcoin. There are alts that are booming right now it is just when new people join the market. They generally know only about BTC and once they do due diligence and learn about the market and with all the great alts that are out there, the money will shift.

What do you think? Which alts look good in the near future?

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17th July 2018
What Are The Best Days For Forex Trading And Why?

Trading time, the market is open for five days throughout the week.

By Guy Avtalyon

The best days for trading Forex… I’ll stop here and give to you some explanation. Most forex traders are more successful during the late US, Asian, or early European trading sessions – essentially 2 PM to 6 AM Eastern Time (New York), which is 7 PM to 11 AM UK time.

If you are a newcomer you would like to trade every second of every day. We know all about that. Our case: We figured the more active we were, the more money we would ultimately make. It so-called addiction to trading! (more about this kind of addiction you can find HERE) Frankly, we all are probably yet, but we know how to handle it. We hope.

But after many years we figured that making money in this business isn’t about quantity, it’s about quality. So, you must find the best days for trading Forex.

Well, you decided to become involved in Forex trading.

Good!

But you must have taken to attention the fact that market volatility does not remain constant during the day. Proper timing may be the crucial aspect of successful short-term trading.

You have to be sure when are you going to trade. When is the best trading time? Because engaging the marketplace during periods of maximum participation increases the efficiency of trade execution. As well as the probability of recognizing the opportunity.

The market is open for five days throughout the week. But volatility is subject to change during any given time span: a month, a week, or a day. If you are aware of patterns, according to which this volatility changes, you can modulate your trading strategy. And you’ll be able to take the maximum profits from trading are gained.

OFC, if you know which trading time is producing favorable setups, you’ll know whether to stay on the sideline or begin searching for new opportunities.

That’s the goal!

If you trade the 5 or 15-minute charts, it is important to have many varied parts of sessions throughout the day. But if you want the switch to a higher time frame such as daily time frames, these sessions become less important.

But instead of concerning intraday sessions, let be more focused on the day of the week because the Forex market never closes, and the currency pair can open on Monday at a different price from where it closed on Friday. It is called the weekend gap. If you aren’t cautious, you can get grasped on the wrong side and not even your stop loss will save you.

But let’s go to the object of this post, what is the best trading time.

The most quality setups realize between Tuesday and Thursday. The middle of the week is the “sweet spot” for finding profitable ideas because this is the time when most action happens.

Why the best days for trading Forex is the middle of the week?

On Tuesday, volatility is 20 to 30% higher than on Monday. But it is followed by Wednesday’s moderate decrease, which occurs due to swaps. This can be described as an exchange of assets between traders. What happens at a certain predefined trading time.

During the swaps, traders who keep holding their positions agree to exchange their investments or financial instruments at a preset price. Sometimes, a triple swap is collected, as Wednesday evolves into Thursday, and traders keep their day’s positions open. Traders are getting back to work on Monday, after the weekend, so things move a bit slower. When the market opens on Monday, there’s a high level of uncertainty about what direction each pair will go on that week.

For this reason, try not to trade on Mondays. The only exception is if there is a highly favorable opportunity that you just can’t let pass up. Fridays are when traders begin to pack up for the weekend, they exit positions in preparation for their two days of rest.

The best days for trading Forex: Mondays and Fridays aren’t a time to relax.

It is the best time to analyze the market, update the watch list, and make yourselves ready for new opportunities.
Positions last from a few days to a few weeks, but they almost always include at least one weekend in the process. And it can cause a dilemma for most traders.

You must hear many tips on how you have to avoid holding positions over weekends due to gaps that can form on Monday. But if you place a trade on Wednesday or Thursday, that’s difficult.

What are the best days for trading Forex?

You can do two things to protect your capital when heading during a weekend.

The first is to make yourselves aware of any events on the calendar. If you have Euro exposure on Friday and you see, for instance, it will be some referendum in Spain or elections in Italy over the weekend. It’s probably a good idea to exit the position. You have to be aware of when certain events are taking place. Even political.

The second thing you have to do is to make a decision based on where the trade is in its lifecycle. Is it trading near your entry or are you up 150 pips by Friday’s close?

What is smart to do?

In the first example, you have a 100 pip buffer between current prices and your entry. Sticking with the position could be the right move.

In the second example, you don’t have a buffer. If the pair opens next week near Friday’s close, chances are you’ll be able to secure the same entry

Optimal time in which to enter or exit a given market is the exercise for traders. For some traders periods of enhanced liquidity and volatility may be desirable, others may see plenty of risks.

Individual capital resources, risk tolerance, and style of trading must be taken into consideration when deciding on the best time of day or week to trade

13th July 2018
Stock Market Is Going To Crash? Where Could You Put Your Money?

Do you believe that the market will crash or you know? There is a big difference between what you believe and what you know.

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Market crash or market not crash. If you truly believe the market is going to crash, there are a lot of sorts of places where you can put your money.

You could buy gold or real estate or you could take an aggressive approach. And try to capitalize on stocks’ by loading up on investments designed to rise when the market falls or you could move it all into cash.
But be honest.

Do you really believe in such a scenario? Market, crash!

There is a big difference between what you believe and what you know. Do you know that the market crash is close? When? Tomorrow? Next week?

On the other hand, I can understand that someone can recognize market crash in this uproaring and uncertain times.

We all remember, OK most of us, March 2009 and market crash.

Everyone was extremely agitated about the falls in the stock market. And people were feared that the stock market might continue falling. Many people wanted to sell the holdings in his investment portfolio, move the proceeds to cash and sit out the market turbulence.

And you know that emotions have an important influence on investor behavior and how do they make decisions.

This can often lead to investors failing to capture the returns that are there for the taking. And as a result, suffering poor financial outcomes and according to some research, we are twice as sensitive to financial losses as we are to making gains.

But is it so today?

Is this the same situation? Will the market crash? Or it may not be. Think about it.

The ones who like to predict disasters pointed to any numbers of reasons why they believe the market is headed to a crash.

You have the choice to pick. From the growth-slowdown scare in China that sent stock prices down 12% in the summer of 2015; Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Anything is supposed to be catalysts for a market rout. Obviously, some prediction of the market’s downfall is going to turn out to be right. But after the turnaround began in March 2009, it’s not as if investors knew the bear had run its course.

While we believe we know where stocks are headed, we actually don’t.

The same goes for market pros who may speculate and prognosticate (sometimes even provide valuable insights into what’s driving the market).

But they don’t really know what the financial markets are going to do in the near term. They don’t know will the market crash.

I don’t think it makes sense to shift your money around in an attempt to outguess the markets, whether that means going to cash to avoid a setback or moving to an investment you think will thrive while the market drop.
That doesn’t mean you should sit back and do nothing.

You can do the following things:

The most important thing you want to confirm is your asset allocation or the percentage of your holdings that are invested in stocks.

That will determine how your portfolio holds up if the market takes a major dive.

Take this time to go over your holdings and tally up how much you have in stocks and how much in bonds and you’ll see how your portfolio is divided up between stocks, bonds, and cash.

Second, figure out where your asset allocation should be.

I’m sure you want a blend of stocks and bonds that will generate high enough returns so you can reach your financial goals but at the same time isn’t so risky that you’ll sell stocks in a panic during a major stock rout.

Think back about how you handled past downturns or how you reacted when stocks began to dip and dive. You want to come as close as you can to a blend of stocks and bonds that you’ll be okay holding in a variety of market conditions. And then make all necessary adjustments.

Then you feel you’ve got a portfolio that will provide sufficient gains during rising markets and enough protection during routes.

You’ll be able to hang on until the eventual recovery, regardless of what’s going on in the market. The idea is to make sure your portfolio doesn’t become too aggressive during market upswings. Or too conservative when stocks take a hit.

Making dramatic changes such as fleeing to cash or switching to different investments altogether, may be challenging at times when every news story or TV show you see seems to suggest that the market is on the edge of Armageddon.

But you don’t want to let fear and emotions dictate your investing strategy and lead you to make impulsive decisions.

Can I guarantee that this approach can provide you with the best results during the long – term? Of course not.
This is just another ”what would be if it were” scenario.

Risk Disclosure (read carefully!)

13th July 2018
Is It Possible to Lose Money Trading BTC and Crypto?

Never trade Bitcoin or any other crypto without a strategy.

By Guy Avtalyon

Yes, it is possible to lose money trading BTC and crypto. It is, at the same time, one of the prettiest ways to be rich or poor.

First of all, trading cryptocurrencies is not an easy task – it is a CHALLENGE and FIGHT!
That’s the point!

Frankly, you are not the only one who loses money right now. But remember like in a war: the Lost battle is not lost war.

It shouldn’t be the question of WHY people lose money in crypto trading (it’s almost the same in every trading), the challenge is how people manage it in general.

Crypto trading is one of the best “money-making” methods today. If done right you can’t lose money. If not it so easy to lose money trading BTC.

In order to avoid failure, Traders Paradise will introduce several reasons why people are losing money by trading crypto.

Is there a reason to get panic?

Well, actually there is no reason.

One of the biggest and most important tools that traders have is technical analysis.

But there are so many and plenty of ways to lose money! Trust me!

For example, you can use social media predictions. Or you follow someone in the hope that he/she knows what to do.

And there can be the first catch.

You can lose money if you can become a victim of fake news. Because naturally, marketing always goes through these channels to keep up with the current information highway traffic. It wouldn’t be a good idea to buy coins by following “Tips” given by ICO’s or people that are trying to sell their coins to increase the value of what they have.

Right? They’re trying to create a fake “hype” that can end up in disaster.

That’s why you should always do your own researches. Clear?

FOMO or “Fear of Missing Out” is something that most people are actually feeling today. The Bitcoin train left the station a long time ago leaving people with doubts which altcoin could be the next rocket star. When Bitcoin has soared up to heights that no one has ever dreamed, a lot of people were in awe and dismayed that they didn’t buy BTC earlier.

This sense of lost opportunity again triggers, always when a price of a coin goes up making people buy at the wrong time (the price is high, damn) with the fear of it not going back down.

Strategy!!!

Of course, you MUST have a strategy! Crypto trading is very severe. Before entering the crypto trading you have to be well prepared. Otherwise, you can lose money trading bitcoin. Entering into the space of crypto trading without having any strategy ready for use is just like putting a hand into the basket full of dangerous snakes.

You will not survive! You should buy some books about trading strategies.

“Hold on for dear life.” HODL, damn! Crypto trading platforms or websites have a feature known as “Stop Loss”. There you will be able to control the loss of your assets by setting a “safety net” that would stop your loss on time and not drag you down to limbo. Limbo is not a good place!

Leverage! Too much of it is bad.

Leverage can be devastating if not used properly. It is when a trader uses borrowed money to increase trading position beyond what such could from existing cash balance on the trading account. The broker allows leverage through margin trading and borrows missing funds

If you are trading with a 20:1 leverage you can earn $20 if the price of your trade goes up by $2.

But if your investment loses and it goes down $2 you also lose $20 instead of earning when the price goes down.

A leverage trade is always expressed as a ratio: for a 20:1 leverage, you will be able to buy $20 assets with only $1. Old trading saying is “Do not ever trade more than you can afford to lose!”

The most popular adage in the trading world refers to a making margin trading or the use of leverage to go beyond the line of trading more than you can afford.

Since you are already in debt the minute you took the leverage.

And now you have the right reason to invest some time in learning.

You don’t need a degree! All you need is to read and to make a decision or you will face all ways of successfully losing money in trading Bitcoin and crypto.

Good luck!

12th July 2018
What Is better: Trading or Investing and what are the differences?

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Let us explain the differences between traders and investors, at first.

Stock traders are individuals (or entities) engaged in the trading of equity securities, or the transfer of other financial assets.

They work either for themselves or on behalf of someone else.

They may operate as agents, hedgers, arbitrageurs, speculators, or investors.

Stock investors are individuals (or entities) who use their own money to buy equity securities. The goal of the stock investor is to gain returns, which come in the form of income, interest, or appreciation in value also known as capital gains.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADING AND INVESTING

Investing and trading may often be classified together.

But, they are both different ways of attempting to profit from the financial markets.

The goal of making investments is to progressively increase wealth over a long period of time by using the buying and holding of a portfolio of stocks, mutual funds, bonds and other methods of investment.

Trading involves short-term buying and selling of stock and commodities such as currency pairs and other instruments. The goal is earning profitable returns which outperform a traditional buy and hold investing.

For example, while most investors may be satisfied with a 10% annual return, traders may seek to achieve this per month.

Period of acting

Return on investment and payback period seem to be the two most commonly used financial metrics for making sustainability investment.

Trading is a method of holding stocks for a short period of time. It could be for a week or more often a day! The trader holds stocks until the short term high performance.

On the other hand, investing is an approach that works on buy and holds a principle.

Investors invest their money for some years, decades or for the even longer period. Short-term market fluctuations are irrelevant in the long-running investing.

Growth of capital

Traders look at the price movement of stocks in the market. If the price goes higher, traders may sell the stocks.
So we can say, trading is the skill of timing the market but investing is an art.

The real art of creating wealth by compounding interest and dividend over the years by holding quality stocks in the market.

Risk of both fields

Both, trading and investing, include risk on your capital.

But trading involves higher risk and higher potential returns. The price might go high or low in a short while.

Investing takes a while to develop. It involves comparatively lower risk and lower returns in the short run. But might deliver higher returns by putting together interests and dividends if held for a longer period of time.

Daily market cycles do not affect much on quality stock investments for a longer time.

Essentially differences

Trading is a one day match while investing is a championship.

Similarly, traders are skilled, technical individuals, they learn market trends to hit higher profits in the stipulated time. It is related to the psychology of the market.

Investors, on the other hand, analyze the stocks they want to invest in. Investing also includes learning business fundamentals and commitment to stay invested for a longer-term.

It is related to the philosophy that runs the business.

Traders put money in a stock for a short-term, buy and sell fast to hit the higher profits in the market. Missing the right time may lead to the loss.

They look at the present performance to hit the higher price and book profits in the very short term.

Investors keep themselves away from the trends and invest in value.

They invest for a longer period of time keeping the attention of the stocks they hold. They wait till the stock reaches its potential.

You are the one to decide is your goal trading at a higher price making a smaller profit in a short time. Or holding/investing on and sell at much higher price in the long run is what you aim for.

A key rule of trading is to only do so when you are certain that there is an upcoming future event which is predicted to drive the stock value of an organization or entity higher.

When trading, there are certain strategies which must be put in place.

Traders should take note of the news and use it to make an educated decision which will hopefully enable them to make a profit afterward. This shows the difference between trading as a short-term investment and investing as a long-term method of gaining wealth.

When investing, the goal is to bank profits over the long term.

With dips in value simply providing the opportunity to buy more of the commodity in question. Investing means sitting it out when the commodity rises in value as there will likely be more good news ahead for the company and more profits to be made.

If you are new to the world of investing and trading, it’s important to know which you are going to choose.

The imperative to increase your financial gain is what defines it.

Knowledge of the subject is important.

If you are knowledgeable about the stock market but have little idea about how to trade Forex, for example, you will naturally head over to the stock market for your first investment.

General advice: Don’t get investing and trading confused – it could seriously hurt your portfolio!

12th July 2018