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Risk:Reward Ratio and Probability

A risk:reward ratio can play an essential part in your trading strategy, and ensure that you're not risking too much of your capital. This lesson teaches you how to use ratios effectively.

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Everything You Need to Know About Rollovers!

A rollover is a purely technical operation that ensures the Contracts For Differences (CFDs) that you can trade on XTB's platforms always reflect market conditions in the best way possible.

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How to Take Advantage from Falling Prices

Is it possible to earn money when the markets are falling? Learn how to make money on betting against the market in this article.

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Investing During a Recession

Is investing during a recession a good idea? In this article, we explain how to invest during a recession, which stocks are recession proof and more.

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How to Choose the Best Forex and CFD Broker

Forex brokers are institutions that give their clients the opportunity to invest in the currency exchange market. Find out how to choose the best one for your needs in this article.

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Portfolio Diversification – How to diversify your trading portfolio?

Every investor has probably heard of portfolio diversification at a certain stage of their investing career. It is perceived as an absolutely essential part of institutional investors’ strategies. However, the importance of diversification among retail investors often tends to be overlooked. Many might wonder - what exactly does diversification mean and how do you diversify your portfolio? In this article, we try to answer those and similar questions.

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Exploring the UK and US Trading Scenes: How Do They Differ?

The UK and US are incredibly influential in global trade, but how do they differ? Here is our breakdown of the differences between the UK and US trading scenes.

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Global Trading Sessions

One of the most exciting and interesting things about the financial markets is the fact that they are open 24 hours a day. This allows traders from all over the world - no matter what time-zone they’re in - to trade during work hours, after work or even throughout the night.

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Intermarket Correlation

Find out what intermarket correlation is and how you can use it to inform your trading.

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Pip Value & Margin

One of the first decisions you’ll need to make as a trader when initiating your investment process is choosing a trading volume you can apply to your positions. The choice of trading volume will depend on many psychological factors such as emotional comfort and risk aversion, but the choice of trading volume will also be highly connected with the risk management that you plan to apply.

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Being short on the market means that you are selling some marketable assets, expecting the financial instruments to lose value. The reverse of a short position is a long position.

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The spread is the difference between the buy (ask) and the sell (bid) price of an instrument.

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What Is a Stop-Loss Order?

In this article, we take a look at what is a stop-loss order, how stop-loss orders work, and why it’s a good idea to implement them in your trading strategy.

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Swaps and Charges

Trades placed on a Standard account are free from commission. The cost of trading is already built into the spread.

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Trading Options in Time of Volatility

When trading options in times of volatility, the directionality of the price ceases to have so much prominence in favour of the magnitude of the movement in the price.

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Types of Charts

Learn all about the different types of charts, their respective strengths and weaknesses, and how you can use them to improve your trading experience.

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Types of Trends in Trading

If you've ever taken a course in Technical Analysis, it's very likely that one of the first things you were taught is that there are three important types of trends: primary, secondary and tertiary trends. Learn more about them in this article.

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Vanilla Options

Vanilla-type options are the classic options par excellence. They are the type of option that investors with experience in options will know or have worked with.

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What is Volatility?

Volatility refers to the amount of uncertainty, risk and fluctuations that occur on the market and, most often, to the amount of price changes over a given period on the financial markets.

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What Is a Carry Trade?

A carry trade is a technique used in international markets that seeks to take advantage of the differences between the interest rates of two currencies.

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