I know that many Maven readers are keen to start using Ichimoku signals on their charts following my email two weeks ago. You can still catch my explanation on the website HERE. And here’s a brief recap of what you need to know… So, the red and blue lines on the...
Thanks for the amazing response to Ichimoku charts last week. It seems that plenty of you are fired up and ready to start trading this way. Given the huge volume of emails and questions I’ve had about Ichimoku, I thought I’d follow up next week with some more info. Of...
Today I want to show you a technical indicator that is guaranteed to impress. Tell people you’re using this, and they’ll bow down to your advanced technical know-how. Show them your charts and they’ll squint a bit, and probably worship you as some kind of trading...
I’m in the market for a new winter coat. Nothing fancy – the sort of thing you can walk the dog in, that’ll keep me dry-ish, but won’t get me mistaken for the local scarecrow. While trawling through online sales, Mrs Maven reckoned she’d found just the thing… “But...
I hope you caught my message on Tuesday about the GKFX trading platform. If you haven’t yet set this up, now is the perfect time to get your fresh trading account ready to go in the New Year. GKFX are ideal if you want to trade on low stakes; or if you’re interested...
Hi It never ceases to amaze me at how great we are at deceiving ourselves about our motivations… Did you start trading because you believed you’d have a natural aptitude for it? Or was it because you hated the structure of the office work you were doing and...
Try these eight tricks… Are you sick of hearing about people making £5k a week trading some amazing low-risk strategy? For that to be possible, you’d have to have a trading fund running to tens or even hundreds of thousands. But what if you’re like most normal...
How do you rate yourself as a trader? Good? Bad? Mixed? And what’s the best yardstick to measure our performance with? The obvious answer would be how much money we’re making. And sure, that’s the reason most of us are doing this. There’s not much point in trading if...
The reason candlestick trading is so powerful is that – while it appears that you’re looking at some lines on a graph – you’re actually looking at raw human experience. Each tiny move on a candlestick shows people making money… and people losing money… By recognizing...
There’s a definite tendency among traders to chop and change between indicators: when one’s let us down, we just swing on to the next, desperately seeking perfection. I generally advise against this – the problem usually lies with the application of an indicator,...
Thanks for all the feedback on my emails last week about brokers. I know how easy it is to get stuck in a rut with a broker you’ve been using long term, but I strongly recommend that you check out what else is out there – if for no other reason than you’ll...
(*Don’t worry, it’s not a complicated as it sounds!) I love watching my little boys play football for the local village team on a Saturday morning. I’m awed by the patience of their coach, who sits them down each week to talk to them about not being drawn...
One of the questions I’m asked most often by Maven readers is: ‘Which is the best spread-bet broker to use?’ Over the coming weeks, I’ll be showing you my preferred brokers – and telling you why I like them. I’m not going to restrict myself to one ‘favourite’, because...
First off, I owe you an apology. I promised you a full report this week on a new scalping technique that I’ve been following… There’s been a slight delay on this, as I wanted give it a bit more testing before I was prepared to put my neck out. But, I’m confident...
First up, I wanted to show you something that happened on Wednesday evening… Mrs Maven was away, which meant that I was on family duty: collecting kids from school; hockey; locating lost shin-pads; taking them to swimming; fixing goggles; burning the baked beans… …...
This week, I’d like to take a look at some very simple fixes… These are basic behind-the-scenes errors that are all too easy to miss in your own trading. But they could be having a devastating effect on your results… 1. Sloppy money management I can almost hear...
Today I want to talk about something that makes the world go round… It’s gooey… It’s volatile… But no, it’s not love. This stuff is needed for fertilizers to grow our food… for distribution to bring that food to the shops… to heat our homes… to drive...
There’s a lot to think about when you’re a trader… How much you’re going to invest… How much to risk on a trade… Which timeframe to trade… Which markets to trade… Whether it’s time to have another cup of tea while you mull over those decisions… And, when your money is...
Today’s Market Maven is brought to you by the letter ‘R’. It’s a letter that raises strong opinions and hot debates among traders. The ‘R’ stands for risk. And you should know if your ‘R number’ is 0.5… 1… 3 or whatever… In a moment I’ll show you how to calculate...
There’s an old Chinese saying: ‘Fall down seven times, but stand up eight’. But there’s another saying that tells us insanity is repeating the same thing again and again, expecting different results. Traders need to be resilient. We need to take the knocks and keep...
Look out for a message tomorrow about Martin Carter’s MRP Strategy. There’s a lot of sense in trading hedged positions – as Martin says, this is the safest way to trade, and how all the big players make money from the market. Personally, I never believed that hedged...
First off, a quick word about an important video I’ll be sending you tomorrow. Please watch out for this – it shows a technique that made in jaw-dropping £23k in just 9 weeks. AND I’ll show you how you can get access to this on very easy payment terms....
My Uncle Chris was an old-school buy-and-hold investor. A few years back, when the value of a stock he was holding suddenly fell by 50%, he was left in deep water. A good portion of his retirement plans were tied up in that investment. Should he cut his losses? Or...
There are a number of things that stand in people’s way when they want to make money from the financial markets… But one of the biggest hurdles is the belief that trading should be left to the ‘experts’. To the people who know the difference between a re-hypothecated...
