Trading strategies

September 11, 2023

Forex risk management trading strategies

Learn how to manage forex risks, use risk management tools, create a trading plan, and evaluate performance with our guide, for all traders.

August 31, 2023

Useful tips on how to trade online

We outline useful tips on how you can learn to trade based on how experienced traders trade. From the ebook ‘7 traits of successful financial traders'.

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December 15, 2022

Year-end market holidays 2022 — what to expect

As the holidays are rapidly approaching, you'll likely want to ensure you’re on top of your trades. Seasonality greatly impacts how financial markets perform. Before the holidays, there is a seasonal market trend called the pre-holiday effect, when the markets usually experience higher volatility than on regular trading days.

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September 8, 2022

Avoid common trading mistakes with these 4 steps

Beginner traders tend to find trading intimidating and worry about making mistakes. But did you know common trading mistakes aren't specific to beginners? Even seasoned traders make mistakes. The solution to avoiding them lies in developing a structured and disciplined approach to trading, and this blog explains how to do it in 4 steps.

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August 25, 2022

How to protect your online trading account

In this digital era, cybercrimes are widespread and easily committed. According to cybercrime statistics, an average of 2,244 cybercrimes happen daily. Hackers and scammers use social engineering to manipulate and exploit the emotions of unsuspecting victims into sharing confidential data about themselves. These data breaches could cause significant losses to the victims. In this blog post, we will explain the different types of social engineering and how to protect yourself against them.

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July 21, 2022

4 features for better risk management on Deriv multipliers

Trading with multipliers is a great way to increase your potential profit. On Deriv’s trading platforms, you can also avoid increased losses when the market moves against you. In this blog post, we explain how the risk-management features on Deriv’s platforms make them excellent choices for trading multipliers.

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June 23, 2022

Keep your coins safe: Crypto exchange vs crypto wallet

Security is one of the most important aspects of crypto trading. However, if you trade crypto on Deriv, you don’t need to worry about it at all because you don’t buy the actual cryptocurrency. You open your trades with fiat money.

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June 9, 2022

Most common chart patterns in technical analysis

While trying to understand how prices move in different markets, technical analysis pioneers have discovered that the price often moves in a certain direction after forming a certain pattern. This discovery has soon turned into a trading discipline, commonly used by traders nowadays.

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June 2, 2022

The 4 most common types of technical indicators

Using technical indicators is an efficient way to analyse markets and predict price movements. In this blog, we review the 4 most common groups of indicators.