Alan’s Forex Blog

Hello fellow forex traders. A buddy of mine on the Forex Nirvana forum posted a link to a free forex news calendar program for windows that I think you’d all find very useful.
What I like about this program is that I no longer have to visit any website(s) to keep up-to-date on the latest economic [...]

Greetings Zulutraders! The geeks at Zulutrade have released a new version of their ultra cool iPhone app. This makes me wish I had an iPhone. Come to think of it, I’m really tempted to get one. Trading forex from a cellphone is uber cool in my opinion.

Here is a list of all the new features [...]

Hi!
What do you think of the capital growth app I blogged about in my previous post?
You can’t argue with the cost – it’s completely affordable with the
$0.00 price tag!  But I’m sure some of you thought since it didn’t cost
anything it wasn’t worth much…
How pleasantly surprised were you when you found out that this
application and [...]

Hello,
Capital growth…
Isn’t that why we’re traders in the first place?  So, why is it
hard to learn the truth about growing your account?
I guess it’s because the truth isn’t always pretty.  If you’ve been
a trader for many years, as I have, then you know you have to treat
trading like any other serious business. And that means [...]

You know, traders struggle with a thing or two or ten throughout their
trading careers. I’m no exception to that statement. It took a long time
and tons of hard work for me to get where I am today.
With all the ups and downs of my career, I’ve come to truly value and
recognize helpful [...]

With all the movements in the market recently, traders and investors are focusing more and more on protecting capital. I’ve found that by properly knowing the trend of the symbols in my portfolio and keeping on top of those moves, I’m able to protect capital and pull profits out of the market when I can.
But [...]

I just learned a few minutes ago that ForexHoster, a popular forex VPS (virtual private server) provider is offering a pretty sweet discount. You can now get VPS hosting for your Metatrader expert advisors with a 37% discount for your first month payment, which is available for all new customers from August 3 – [...]

Greetings traders. This post is for all you MT4 forex traders (and I’m sure there are TONS of you out there.)
One frequent question I hear on forums is “how do I close all opened positions in MT4?” or “is there an easy way to close all my open positions, without having to manually close each [...]