Forex and Crypto for Beginners
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A bull is a trader who believes that prices will rise.
Bulls are speculators who are optimistic that a market, instrument, or sector is going on an upward trajectory.
This belief puts them at odds with bears, who take a pessimistic view on a market’s direction.
A bull trap is a situation when traders put on a long position when the price of a currency pair is rising, only for the price to reverse and move lower. A bull trap is also known as a “sucker’s...
The Commitment of Traders (COT) report is a weekly publication that shows the aggregate holdings of different participants in the U.S. futures market. Each Friday, the CFTC (US Commodity Futures...
The term “bullish” means a trader is optimistic that the price will go higher from where it currently is. If you are bullish on a market, you believe that the market is going to rise. A “bullish...
A bull flag is a bullish chart pattern formed by two rallies separated by a brief consolidating retracement period. The flagpole forms on an almost vertical price spike as sellers get blindsided...
A chart pattern is a graphical presentation of price movement by using a series of trend lines or curves. Chart patterns can be described as a natural phenomenon of fluctuations in the price of a...
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