Recent content by John Forman

My Background Let’s see. Where to begin… Well, to start, I’m from the States. Grew up and lived the vast majority of my life in the Northeast – Rhode Island and Massachusetts specifically. As a teenager I was heavily into computers, and had originally planned on earning a college degree in...

PM: = Paul Mullen (Interviewer) JF: = John Forman (Forex Analyst) You can listen or download this interview by clicking this link: Forex Analyst Interview mp3 PM: Hello to everyone, from Trade2Win. Today I have John Forman with me, who is a professional Forex analyst. John is also an author...

What are the major pitfalls that every new trader faces? And how can you avoid them? So you want to trade, eh? Or have you already started? What drew you to it? Was it the huge profit potential? Maybe it was the excitement. Or perhaps you love the challenge of solving a big, multi-dimensional...

Trader education has become a hot topic in recent years. Everywhere you look there is someone offering some course, seminar, training program, or whatever. Many are very pricey, and we can certainly debate the real value of quite a few. The proliferation of the products and such can't help but...

The Average True Range (ATR) indicator is one which falls in the general category of volatility-based technical analysis tools. It is so because like Bollinger Bands, another volatility-based study, it does not focus on direction in any way, but rather how much raw movement there is in price. To...

As is the case with other markets such as commodities, forex demonstrates patterns of "seasonal" behavior which can be traded. These calendar patterns vary from pair to pair due to the dynamics of the currencies involved. In this article, the Yen (JPY) is the focal point, though there are...

Bollinger Bands are among the most commonly found technical indicators these days. Even the most basic of charting applications include them among the available offerings. There are many ways the Bands can be incorporated in to one's market analysis and trading methods (see Bollinger Bands -...

This article is a basic introduction to the fixed income market. It covers the primary facets and features of fixed income as they relate to trading from the individual, as opposed to institutional, perspective. The term "fixed income" is used to describe a collection of securities which have...

There has long been debate about price data and what kind of data are most appropriate for market analysis and reference. Much of that discussion revolves around traded price vs. indicative price. The former is the actual price at which a transaction is executed, while the latter uses the...