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CFD Traders Guide: Tell-tale Trading Patterns

Pattern recognition is a simple yet invaluable strategy that could transform the way you trade and make your portfolio work harder, but not enough traders know how to use it effectively. This free guide will help you recognise the signs that can make the difference between success and failure. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Understanding the RSI

If you’re on the lookout for ways to fine-tune entry and exit points and trade more effectively, you’ll want solid indicators in a trading toolkit. One of them, available on our CFD trading platform, is the Relative Strength Index, or RSI. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Harnessing Volatility with Bollinger Bands

As a trader, you need to have a good understanding of the nature of market volatility and the way it impacts your positions. One of the most popular – and one of the most reliable – tools that traders have at their disposal is Bollinger Bands. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Dealing with Risk

It is natural for new CFD traders to concentrate on strategies to select profitable positions but, while this is essential, it is just as important to plan how to deal with losses. The objective of most traders is to make consistent profits over the long term. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Intraday Trading Challenges

Day trading is the aspiration of many traders, because they believe that if they can get it right then this is where the highest profits can be delivered. But there are rules worth observing and pitfalls to be avoided, especially for novice traders. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Technical Divergence

Technical traders love tools like the oscillators. They reveal a lot about whether markets are overbought or undersold. But the oscillators can be misleading. Placing them in context using divergence setups makes them a more powerful trading tool. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Long Tail Strategy

The sudden triggering of supply or demand can provide clues as to where we should take our own strategy. Looking for long tails can add a whole new level of meaning to your candlestick charts by providing insight into the psychology of the market. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Price Gap Opportunities

Of course you need strategies to deal with any negative impact arising from inevitable gapping, but it’s also worth learning to recognise trading opportunities it may offer, including additional confirmation of the strength of other classic signals. Click here to download.

CFD Traders Guide: Planning for Profit

Trading success is not just a matter of having more winners than losers. It is about achieving a winning combination of two different ratios: the percentage of winning trades and the average size of profits compared to losses. Click here to download.