What Happens to Forex Liquidity When Major Banks Reduce Market Activity
Forex is often described as the world’s most liquid financial market, but liquidity is not a permanent pool of orders sitting at every…
Why Gold Can React Differently to Falling Nominal Yields and Falling Real Yields
Learn why gold can react differently when nominal Treasury yields fall versus when real yields fall, and how inflation expectations and DXY…
How Oil Prices Can Influence Gold Trading Without Directly Moving XAU/USD
Learn how oil prices can influence gold trading indirectly through inflation expectations, Treasury yields, real rates, the US dollar, growth…
Why Traders Take More Risk After Recovering From a Drawdown
Recovering from a drawdown feels like a major victory. The account is back near its previous high, the losing period is behind you, and…
Why Traders Break Their Rules After a Series of Winning Trades
A series of winning trades feels like proof that you have finally figured the market out. Your setups are working, entries look cleaner, and…
How to Separate a Bad Trading Strategy From a Bad Trading Sample
Learn how to tell whether a losing trading strategy is genuinely broken or simply being judged from a small or unusual sample using…
Why Historical Forex Charts Can Change After Data Updates
Why do old forex candles change after a data update? Learn how missing ticks, broker feeds, chart synchronization, lower-timeframe…
How Tick Data Can Change the Shape of a Forex Candle
Learn how tick data forms forex candles, why different tick streams can change wicks and highs, and how Bid, Ask, broker feeds and real ticks…
How Broker Server Latency Can Affect Short-Term Trading
Learn how broker server latency affects short-term forex trading, including slippage, execution speed, ping, VPS hosting, news trading and scalping.
How Market Depth Can Affect Forex Order Execution
Learn how forex market depth affects order execution, slippage, price impact and fills, and why a broker's depth is not the entire FX market.