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  People always want to find the best type of trade to invest in. This particularly holds true for short-term and long-term trading. This decision, however, varies from person to person. Ideally, the trader must decide on a trading type that best suits his/her personality. Let’s us take a closer look at short and long-term trading to gain some insight. Short-term trading When the duration between buying and selling ranges from a few days to a few weeks, it is considered as short-term trading. Pros of short-term trading Faster means of making money : The benefits of a trade can be realized in a short period through this method. You can earn profits within a day by investing in intraday trading. Short-term risk : If you discover that a wrong decision was taken on a trade, you can free up the capital invested and reinvest it in fresh stocks. This is because capital is at risk for a shorter period. Cons of short-term trading Volatile market : There are chances that yo...

Forex Spread: The foreign exchange spread (or bid-ask spread) refers to the difference in the bid and ask prices for a given currency. The bid price refers to the maximum amount that a  foreign exchange trader  is willing to pay to buy a certain currency, and the ask price is the minimum price that the currency dealer is willing to accept for the currency. The Bid-Ask Spread Defined The forex spread represents two prices: the buying (bid) price for a given currency pair, and the selling (ask) price. Traders pay a certain price to buy the currency and have to sell it for less if they want to sell back it right away. Example: consider that when you purchase a brand-new car, you pay the market price for it. The minute you drive it off the lot, the car depreciates, and if you wanted to turn around and sell it right back to the dealer, you would have to take less money for it. Depreciation accounts for the difference in the car example, while the dealer's profit accou...

Breakouts are a common phenomenon in the Forex market  and occur across different chart intervals. It is therefore no surprise that break out  trading strategies  have become one of the most popular ways of  trading Forex , besides other strategies such as trend following methods. What is Breakout in Forex? A  breakout  is a price movement of a security through an identified level of resistance, which is usually followed by heavy volume and an increased amount of volatility. Traders buy the underlying asset when the price breaks above a level of resistance or when it breaks below a level of support. A breakout is the point at which the  market price  breaks away, or moves out of a  trading range . The trading range can be for any length of time but once prices exceeds the high or low of the range, a breakout has occurred. The accepted market wisdom is “buy low sell high”. What is False Breakout in Forex? A  false breakout  ...