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RoboForex: changes in trading schedule (President’s Day in the USA)

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Dear Clients and Partners,

We’re informing you that due to the public holiday in the USA, President’s Day on February 17th, 2020, several instruments will be traded according to the changed schedule*.

RoboForex

Trading schedule on Metals (XAUUSD and XAGUSD), CFDs on US indices (US500Cash, USTECHCash, US30Cash) and oil (WTI, Brent)

• February 17th, 2020 – trading stops at 7:40 PM server time.
• February 18th, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Trading schedule on CFDs on US stocks

• February 17th, 2020 – no trading.
• February 18th, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

R Trader

Trading schedule on US stocks and ETFs

• February 17th, 2020 – no trading.
• February 18th, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Trading schedule on CFDs on US stocks

• February 17th, 2020 – no trading.
• February 18th, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Trading schedule on CFDs on US indices (US500, US30, NAS100)

• February 17th, 2020 – trading stops at 7:40 PM server time.
• February 18th, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Please, take into account these changes in schedule when planning your trading activity.

* – This schedule is for informational purposes only and may be changed by the provider.

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

CopyFX For Traders: How To Make Money On The Platform?

Author: Victor Gryazin

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Dear Traders,

In this article, we will discuss, how a trader can make extra money on a popular copy-trading platform CopyFX. The CopyFX platform allows demonstrating your expertise and attracting subscribers who copy your trades.

How to become a CopyFX trader?

If you are a successful trader who want to increase their income by attracting investors, the CopyFX platform will provide you such an opportunity. Investors will evaluate the statistics of your trading and the subscription conditions in the rating and decide if they want to copy your trades.

Having become a CopyFX trader, you will be able to keep trading by your chosen strategy, receiving extra fee or percent of the trades that your investors copy. Thanks to the built-in automatic cross-copying system, the trades will be copied correctly even if the trader and the investor have different account types.

To start working, the trader needs to open an account (or accounts) in the CopyFX system and trade, showing good results. The account is opened via your Personal Member’s Area: on the page for opening an account you choose a CopyFX account, For trading, the following account types are suitable (MT4 platform): Pro-Cent, Pro-Standard, ECN-Pro, Prime, Pro-Affiliate and ECN-Pro Affiliate. After the account is opened, it must be deposited for no less than $100 (or the same sum in another currency), and the subscription conditions must be set up.

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How to set up subscription conditions?

After the CopyFX trading account is opened and deposited, setting up subscription conditions follows.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

How Does the Fractals Indicator Work: Description, Settings

Author: Andrey Goilov

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Dear Traders,

The Fractals indicator was designed and popularized by Bill Williams, the author of one of the most popular trading systems and the book "Trading Chaos". This instrument is a technical indicator that allows to detect local extremums on the chart. A breakout of these levels may provoke a good future move in their direction. The author recommends using Fractals with the Alligator indicator; however, there are methods of trading with Fractals that are far from the classical author's ideas.

Description of Fractals

For the indicator, we use five candlesticks, the third candlestick in the combination should have the highest high or the lowest low. If there is such a formation on the chart, the indicator shows narrow either above the candlestick or below it.

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For example, if we are speaking about an ascending fractal, to define it, we need to see on the chart a minimum of five candlesticks following one another, with a lower candlestick at each side of the highest one. Conversely, for a descending fractal, here it is important to see a minimum that will be among four other candlesticks with higher minimums.

The author notes that for a fractal, we do not need five candlesticks exactly, there might be less. However, the five-candlestick combination has become most popular in modern trading.

One of the important advantages of the indicator is the possibility to mark important support and resistance levels. Many traders just add Fractals to the chart and work with breakouts of the levels or try to combine it with graphic patterns.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

RoboForex arranges all security settings into a single module

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Dear Clients and Partners,

RoboForex has updated the arrangement of Members Area security settings. From now on, our clients can manage security settings from the profile page, which displays all methods of securing their profiles. In addition to that, thanks to this innovation, changing security settings will be more convenient and less time-consuming.

On a new page, our clients can specify convenient settings and secure their Members Area by means of:

• Verification of their mobile phone number.
• Enabling two-factor authentication:
  1. Via application on their smartphones.
  2. Via SMS code (in this case, a mobile phone number must be verified).
• SMS notifications about logging in to Members Area each time it is attempted to be accessed. In this case, our clients will be able to take immediate measures in case their profiles are accessed behind their backs.

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Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

CopyFX for Investor: How to Use? How to Choose Traders?

Author: Victor Gryazin

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Dear Traders,

In this article, we will discuss how to become an investor on the popular copy-trading platform CopyFX. The platform allows you to make a profit on trading on financial markets, using the experience and skills of professional traders who demonstrate high results in trading.

Opening a trading account

To invest on CopyFX, you need to open a trading account on MetaTrader4 via your Personal Members Area on the RoboForex website. The following account types suit for investing: Pro-Cent, Pro-Standard, ECN-Pro, Prime, and Pro-Affiliate. The system of cross-copying allows for the correct connection of various account types of traders and investors.

However, if the trader and the investor have different account types, the results of trading may vary slightly due to the difference in the conditions of trading. The size of the spread, the broker fee, the leverage or the number of available instruments may differ. If the trader's instrument is unavailable on the investor's account, the trades will not be copied.

For exacter copying, it is better to open a type of account with a maximal number of instruments available and the biggest leverage. If you are interested in investing only, you can avoid installing the MT4 terminal: with an active subscription, the trades are copied automatically, the statistics of the copied trades are reflected in the PMA. You can use copying in addition to your own trading on the account — the trader does not get any fees for the trades that the trader carries out themselves.

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Choosing a trader from the rating

To compare and evaluate the work of traders, there exists a special instrument called the rating of traders. In the rating, the main statistics of the traders' work is reflected, helping investors make their choice for the subscription. The rating is available in the PMA and on the CopyFX website.

Each trader has a personalized participant card accessible from the rating. To choose a trader, the following basic parameters are to be assessed:

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

How to Catch a Trend Reversal? 5 Detection Strategies

Author: Andrey Goilov

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Dear Traders,

Experienced traders think it much more efficient to trade the trend than against it. Many of you must have heard such expressions as "The trend is your friend" — such sayings are plenty. At the same time, the desire to reverse the market may be provoked by merely the possibility to enter the market at the very beginning of the trend with minimal risks. So the desire to buy at the low and sell at the high is also rather understandable.

Again, one of the set phrases of tech analysis goes: "The current trend will be developing until it reverses". It pushes us to the idea that every trend will finish and reverse sooner or later. In this article, we will learn to detect such reversals.

What is a trend and where does it reverse?

On financial markets, a trend is a directed price movement. In theory, when we see a movement with each next high being above the previous one, as well as each next low being above the previous one, we can speak about an uptrend. At such moments, traders try to buy as the current movement is likely to continue and thus change its direction.

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Hence, if we expect a bullish trend to reverse, it is important for us that the next high became below the previous one, as well as the next minimum. At such a moment, we may suppose a trend reversal downwards. Here, we may start thinking about selling the instrument.

On the contrary, if in a price movement we see each next low and high below the previous one, we call this a downtrend. As for the reversal of such a trend, it is important that the next low was not renewed, and the price broke the high; this is a simple signal of a trend reversal.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

Building Algorithmic Trading Systems: 2 Main Approaches, Testing, Tools

Author: Timofey Zuev

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Dear Traders,

The major components of an algorithmic trading system are research tools, performance, ease of development, resiliency, and testing, separation of concerns, familiarity, maintenance, source code availability, licensing costs, and maturity of libraries. Before deciding on the "best" tool, which to write an automated trading system with, it is necessary to define the requirements:

1. What will be the frequency of trading and the likely trading volume?
2. Will the system require risk management or portfolio construction module?
3. Will the system require a high-performance backtester?

Traders, who require more custom-built and complex systems, might need to look at using C#, Matlab or Python, but I would say for the other 95% of day traders Algorithmic Trading Software will suffice.

1 - Compute in Python, Matlab, C#

In this case, programming skill is an important factor in creating an automated algorithmic trading strategy. Being knowledgeable in a programming language, such as Python or R, will enable you to create the end-to-end data storage, backtest engine and execution system yourself. It allows you to explore the higher frequency strategies as you will be in full control of your "technology stack". While this means that you can test your software and eliminate bugs, it also means more time spent on coding up infrastructure and less on implementing strategies, at least in the earlier part of your algotrading career.

The basic workflow is the following:

• An algorithmic trading strategy feeds market data (historical or live) into a computer (backtest or automated execution) program.
• The program then submits orders to a broker through an API and receives order status notifications back from the broker.

MATLAB and Python have been my favorite backtesting platforms. It has a very comprehensive and user-friendly interface for developing and debugging programs, and it has a wide array of toolboxes that cover almost every arcane mathematical or computational technique you will likely encounter in trading strategy development.

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Picture: import of historical data from Yahoo Finance to Python

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Picture: the process of algorithmic trading

2 - Algorithmic Trading Software. No coding skills

The second approach is algorithmic tools, such as Multicharts, StrategyQuant, or R Trader Strategy Builder (free and easy to use, cloud-based), and many more.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

RoboForex: changes in trading schedule (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

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Dear Clients and Partners,

We’re informing you that due to the public holiday in the USA, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on January 20th 2020, several instruments will be traded according to the changed schedule*.

RoboForex

Trading schedule on CFDs on US indices (US30Cash, US500Cash, USTECHCash), Metals (XAUUSD, XAGUSD), CFDs on oil (Brent, WTI)

• January 20th, 2020 – trading stops at 7:45 PM server time.
• January 21st, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Trading schedule on CFDs on US stocks

• January 20th, 2020 – no trading.
• January 21st, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

R Trader

Trading schedule on US stocks and US ETFs

• January 20th, 2020 – no trading.
• January 21st, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Trading schedule on CFDs on US stocks

• January 20th, 2020 – no trading.
• January 21st, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Trading schedule on CFDs on US indices (US30, US500, NAS100)

• January 20th, 2020 – trading stops at 7:45 PM server time.
• January 21st, 2020 – trading starts as usual.

Please, take into account these changes in schedule when planning your trading activity.

* – This schedule is for informational purposes only and may be changed by the provider.

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

Trader's Checklist for Successful Trading

Author: Andrey Goilov

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Dear Traders,

For successful work on financial markets, it is important to collect a set of rules that will help think soberly in any situation and stick to one's trading system. Most often, traders draft a plan on paper for no steep movements on the market to make them turn away from their goal. What is more, experienced investors advise to make a sort of a checklist with several questions, the answers to which will show if the time is good for opening a position or the trade is better skipped.

Why should I plan my trading?

It has been proved in practice that most mistakes and losing positions emerge in situations when the trader tries to act intuitively and avoid stocking to their own rules.

For example, the trader has chosen the Head and Shoulders pattern for trading but it does not appear on the market for a long time, and they decide to enter a trade on a breakout of the support line. As long as they used to trade only one pattern, the trade might be compromised.

Of course, such a loss depends only on the trader and their devotedness to their rules. That is why planning and sticking to the plan is so important.

How to create the checklist?

For example, if we return to our Head and Shoulders pattern, we have several rules for the pattern to form.

The neck must head along with the movement, the right shoulder must be no higher than the left one, which will signify the weakness of the current trend. Then, we may pay attention to the fact of whether the pattern complies with the trend from D1; and finally, we must evaluate the risks for the deposit.

Based on the data above, we can create a checklist for trading Head and Shoulders patterns; the answers will help decide upon the fate of your open positions. You should remember that questions can be created for any system you work with.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

Crypto Market Is Ready to Burst in 2020

Author: Anna Rostova

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Dear Traders,

2020 for the crypto market is a time of a quality breakout, or at least this is what the users and market participants are expecting. Below, we will discuss some of the expected events and changes.

What will happen to the Bitcoin (BTC)?

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The year 2020 will be crucial for the leading cryptocurrency. In May, the reward for mining will be decreased by 50% at once, amounting to 6.25 BTC instead of 12.5 BTC now per mined verified block. This event can change the whole picture of mining.

In 202, the BTC will go on spreading among users. Its market share will amount to 60-70%, which will make it stronger and more expensive. In our case, this is a positive factor for the BTC price.

Another supporting driver of the BTC price is the extension of the Lightning Network system. This system optimizes the decentralization process, letting introduce it in applications and the principles of payment execution. Automatically, this will free the Bitcoin from the long-time market claim that the BTC has no more room for development.

Forecasting the BTC price for a year is useless: the market is too volatile and prone to fluctuations. However, it must remain between $7,500-$15,000.

Libra: how will it settle?

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In 2019, Facebook caused a lot of worries to the crypto world, but its crypto project was not launched after all. No one is sure that in 2020 Libra will appear on the crypto market, because Facebook is aiming, in fact, at rivalry with the US dollar. The US government got scared and hindered the launching process.

In the first half of 2020, Facebook will discuss the future of Libra with the regulator. The project will function if the government allows it. The potential of the project is huge, so the caution of the politicians and the greed of the users is understandable. Libra is a new phenomenon on the crypto market, and its appearance may be earthshaking.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

RoboForex wins prestigious awards of the financial industry

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Dear Clients and Partners,

RoboForex has once again gained recognition from the professional trading community and won prestigious awards, “Best Stock Broker Asia” from International Business Magazine Awards and “Best Investment Products, Global” from Global Brands Awards.

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Throughout the year of 2019, we paid special attention to the Company growth in Asia, that’s why receiving “Best Stock Broker Asia” award was an expected result of our systematic development in this field. Another area of our improvement this year was our investment products and we’re very pleased that our efforts weren’t ignored by professionals in the industry.

The sky is the limit, that’s why we intend to do our best to make each of the services and programs provided by RoboForex worthy of the highest possible grades from traders and experts.

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Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

RoboForex adds a new server, ProCent-4

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Dear Clients and Partners,

Due to the client base growth, RoboForex has launched a new server, ProCent-4.

Month after month, the number of our clients grows and hence does the Company. It’s very important for us that trading at RoboForex remains stable and comfortable for traders, and the new server will allow us to reduce the load on the other three servers, thus improving their overall performance.

Cent accounts are a very viable option for both beginners and professional traders. After depositing 10 USD, you will get 1,000 US cents. Using this money, you may start trading or testing your trading strategy with minimum investments.

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Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

RoboForex adds real stocks to R Trader platform

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Dear Clients and Partners,

R Trader, a new-generation terminal, now offers more than 3,000 real stocks of US companies and more than 8 400 CFDs on US stocks. In addition to that, we’ve implemented several other significant updates to the platform.

Trade stocks at RoboForex

Number of instruments	3,000+ real stocks
Trading platform	R Trader
Leverage	Up to 1:20
Spread	From 0.01 USD
Commission	0.0045 USD per stock

What’s new with R Trader terminal?

• We’ve optimized the terminal operation for mobile devices.
• We’ve maximized the platform speed on smartphones and tablets.
• We’ve improved the updating system of our mobile terminal, which no longer interferes with the client’s work in the platform.

We’re systematically working to improve the terminal and will continue optimizing it in the nearest future to make R Trader more comfortable and convenient for our clients.

Follow our updates!

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Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

Copy trading: What Is It? Comparing PAMM and RAMM

Author: Victor Gryazin

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Dear Traders,

In this review, we will get acquainted with a popular way of trading that allows you to earn on copying the trades of professional traders, which is called copy trading. It suits those who are not ready to devote themselves to trading fully but who want to make a profit using the experience of successful managers.

What is copy trading? How to make money on it?

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Copy trading is one of the ways of investing that implies copying on your account the trades of experienced traders. The mechanism is quite simple and easy to master.

First thing, you need to make up your mind about the service you will be using. Most services are based on well-known broker companies. In the article “How to Choose your Broker: Guide for Beginner Trader” you can find the criteria for deciding upon the company.

Upon registering in the chosen system, you need to study trading in detail and choose one or more trustworthy traders and launch copying their trades on your account. You also must set the parameters of copying, limit the risks and specify the fee for the manager.

You must choose the trader with great accuracy. Make sure they have a good trading history (the longer, the better), the profit level satisfies you, the maximal drawdown is acceptable, and the deposit increase is stable. To diversify risks, you can join several successful managers with different strategies.

Later, you will be able to follow the copying of trades to your account in real-time. If with trading your deposit grows, congratulations: you have made the right choice. If the balance shrinks, and the statistics of the trader’s work worsens, you will have to think about changing the trader.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team

[Vlad RF]

How to Buy Apple, Uber, Facebook Stocks from a Broker: Simple Guide

Author: Victor Gryazin

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Dear Traders,

A stock is a security representing a share of the company that has issued it. Stocks give their owner (the stockholder) the right for a share of the company's income in the form of dividends; the right to participate in managing the company; the right for a part of the company's property in the case of its liquidation.

Why we buy stocks?

Stocks are one of the most popular investment instruments. Apart from the small dividend income, they also allow the owner to make money on the changes in their price. If the company is developing and the economic situation is good, the stock will be growing in price, bringing a decent income to its owner.

Stocks are normally bought on the stock market via a broker. A broker is a company, a professional market player, that is licensed to make operations on the stock market for its clients. At a broker, the client opens a trading account where they buy and sell stocks.

How much can be earned on the stock growth?

For successful investing, you should learn to evaluate the perspectives of the company the stocks of which you are going to buy. For this, there exist certain economic indicators, which the companies publish in their regular reports. Also, the overall political and economic situation in the world is to be assessed whether stock markets are growing or correcting.

As an example, let us take buying of the stocks of a world-famous company Apple. The corporation regularly demonstrates good economic results, and its stocks have been growing stably for years.

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This January, the stocks were trading at $150.00 per stock. Today, the price is $266.70. So, this year the growth has been around $117 per stock. In percent, the result is even more impressing: if we had bought the stocks in January, the profit by now would have been 78%! Plus, some dividends.

Read more at R Blog - RoboForex

Sincerely,
RoboForex team