In this 30 minute session, Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses some of the week's key themes impacting financial markets and provides real - time analysis
of the major currency pairs.
Long - Short Ratios — Shows the ratio of long vs. short positions for
each of the major currency pairs.
This website additionally provides daily analysis
of all major currency pairs and different assets, which allows traders to get the complete sense of market before placing their positions.
This forex trading tool includes an impressive array
of major currency pairs, exotics, and even metals.
Professional traders trade only a small basket
of major currency pairs and only a few reliable setups.
Not exact matches
The externals have been mixed so far this week with the global equity markets in a light round
of profit taking selling while the U.S. dollar is correcting to the downside after hitting new highs against most
major currency pairs.
As
of today, the unemployment level maintains to the lowest levels since 2009, but any increase in unemployment may weaken the European
currency against
major pairs, including Yen.
As mentioned, the USD is present in all the
major currency pairs because it has the status
of world reserve
currency.
Please note that OANDA offers a maximum leverage
of 50:1 for
major currency pairs (and 20:1 for minor
currency pairs).
Set aside a regular time each day that you spend looking at the daily charts
of a few
major currency pairs, any price action setup that is at a confluent level and well - formed will likely stick out like a sore thumb.
If at any time the account equity reaches or falls below the Liquidation Margin Level (typically 1 % for
major currency pairs and 2.5 % for exotic
pairs), the Smart Margin feature will automatically trigger the liquidation
of all open positions.
While there are dozens
of currency pairs that can be traded, most
of the market is concentrated on the four
major pairs.
As a result
of relatively low bid - ask spreads and enticing liquidity, trading the USD / JPY is a popular
major currency pair.
In the forex day trading world, the vast majority
of people focus on the seven most liquid
currency pairs on earth, which are firstly the four «
majors»:
Firstly, it allows bringing in a high volume
of activity in the market and secondly right after the opening enormous moves can be seen on the
major currency pairs (and also other securities).
Overall trading conditions with AAAFx are pretty good, a typical spread
of 1.9 pips on all four
major currency pairings is particularly good for a brokerage which offers fixed spreads.
In the first part
of this article we discussed which
currency pairs are the best to trade and explained the differences between the
majors, crosses, and exotics.
Prior to 2009, the EURGBP was also known to be a range - bound
currency, but this has largely unravelled and this
currency pair now trends like any
of the other
major currencies.
Gatecoin offer fiat
currency trading
pairs with most
of the
major cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens, such as bitcoin and ether.
We offer fiat
currency trading
pairs with most
of the
major cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens, such as bitcoin and ether.
GDAX offers a wide variety
of digital
currency trading
pairs, including bitcoin, Ethereum, and other
major cryptocurrencies over popular fiat
currencies like the USD, GBP and EUR.