Trading Insights
Practical observations on how markets actually behave - sessions, sentiment, liquidity and the way news is priced.
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How to Build a Consistent Trading Routine
How to build a trading routine: what belongs before the session, during it and after, the weekly review that makes the rest useful, and why matching the routine to your...
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What to Check Before Entering a Trade
A seven-point pre-trade checklist: the setup, the level, the stop, the size, the calendar, the conditions and the open book — with what each check prevents and how long the...
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Technical vs Fundamental Analysis: What Is the Difference?
Technical vs fundamental analysis: the different questions each answers, what each is good at and where each fails, why the time horizon decides which one applies, and the division of...
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How Markets Price In Expectations and Future Events
How markets price in expectations: the mechanism by which a price contains a probability distribution of future events, where those probabilities can be read, why 'fully priced' still moves, and...
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How to Use an Economic Calendar in Trading
How to use an economic calendar in trading: reading the columns, which events actually move markets, matching events to the instrument you hold, and a pre-trade routine that turns the...
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How to Read Market Sentiment: A Guide for Traders
How to read market sentiment: the difference between what traders say and what they have bought, the five indicators worth using, why the crowd is right for most of a...
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Why the London and New York Sessions Behave Differently
How the Asian, London and New York forex sessions differ in behaviour — not just hours: what drives each, where the volume is, what the London fix does at 16:00,...
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Volatility and Liquidity: How Market Conditions Change Trading Costs
Volatility and liquidity explained as trading conditions: how each changes the spread, slippage and the distance a stop needs, why they move together under stress, and how to read them...
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Why Good Economic News Can Cause Markets to Fall
Why good economic news can cause markets to fall: the discount rate mechanism explained with one calculation, the two regimes that decide the reaction, and how to read which one...
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Why Markets Move Before Economic Data Is Released
Why markets move before economic data is released: what 'priced in' actually means, what the consensus forecast is, why the surprise moves the price and not the number, and what...