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Hello, Tradernomics is pleased to announce a new range of self-study trading courses, aimed at beginners and those with some trading knowledge. We have already launched our CFD course and Forex course (FX course), with a Futures course and a Stocks course (Shares course) soon to be released...

For those who are interested, the survey prize of a £50 Amazon voucher was won by Glen Anderson from the UK. Again, thanks to everyone who took part. Ian.

Thanks for those comments, I'm glad you like the site. We're going to be finalising our prices later this month, before launching in August. Ian.

Hello, My company, Faculty of Trading, will soon release a new range of CFD and Forex trading courses, and we’d like to get your opinions on a few things first. So for a chance of winning a £50 / $100 Amazon voucher, please take our short trading survey...

We're releasing a further module on position sizing and risk management in about a week's time, since you rightly point out that this is an important requirement for successful trading. Thanks for the comment regarding volume, it is indeed something that we are considering adding. Ian...

Some people argue that footballers (or soccer players if you’re American) may as well not bother to practice taking penalties, since the training ground can’t replicate the pressure of a real match. After England’s dismal exit from the World Cup I bet they’re wishing they practiced a few more...

Did you look at modules 2 and 3? These show charts in sequence, one day after the next, and so more than just the next bar becomes important. This is exactly what I'm saying! But for somebody new to trading, or somebody who is trading but is suffering net losses, they need to build this...

I don’t speak directly for Stephan or his business Key Reversal Ltd, but Key Reversal is a business targeted at professional hedge funds, not at private investors or active traders. It should therefore come as no surprise that sales at Key Reversal are not done over the web, since quality...

Most evidence points to the average concentration span being way less than an hour. Oxford University medical school advises in its lecturers handbook that the students “concentration span is certainly going to be nothing like 50 minutes — more like 20.”...

Of course, a live environment (using either real or dummy money) could be set up in the way that you suggest, since markets are generally considered to be fractal, meaning that similar patterns will appear in any timescale. However, there are several disadvantages with this method that the...

Making students bored doesn’t seem like a sensible teaching strategy to me. Making them take only one decision a day is not an efficient learning environment. I agree with you that “students waiting and waiting is no bad thing to learn in trading”. The difficulty is teaching this skill without...

As the CEO of Faculty Of Trading Ltd, which offers the IntuitionMaster product at www.facultyoftrading.com, I agree that putting live money on the line will build your intuition, at precisely the same rate that it destroys your account balance! Let me illustrate this with a poker analogy. In...

Regarding the post above by Chump: As the CEO of Faculty Of Trading Ltd, which offers the IntuitionMaster product at www.facultyoftrading.com, I thought I would offer some insight as to how we have designed the course. You are correct when you state that "in this sense intuition is no more...