The prop industry has been exploding in popularity in recent years as more and more traders attempt to earn a fully funded account and trade with another company's capital. However yesterday it was rocked by the news that one of the biggest prop … [Continue reading]
Introduction IG.com is a very popular site amongst traders and investors because it enables people to go long and short on thousands of different stocks through their spread betting and CFD platform. It is obviously important to be armed with … [Continue reading]
Introduction FOMC weeks are always a lot of fun for indices traders because you can pretty much guarantee that there will be a lot of volatility after the interest rate announcement and the subsequent comments from Jerome Powell, and this week was … [Continue reading]
A Profitable Week I will start off by saying that I had a fairly profitable week overall in terms of day trading. It was a shortened trading week because of the 4th July holiday and the half day on Monday, but there were still plenty of … [Continue reading]
Introduction Opening range breakouts can be some of the easiest and most profitable trades to execute when you get some good set-ups, and today we had a textbook set-up on the US crude oil market. I like to wake up and start scanning my charts … [Continue reading]