Trading for beginners

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Beginner's Trading Guides



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What is Forex?



What is MetaTrader?



What is a pip?



How to read a forex chart?



Trading platforms comparison



Currency trading



How to trade stocks?



Technical analysis



What are CFDs?



How To Trade Cryptocurrency?

At Avatrade you can trade a range of popular cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin & Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Ethereum. Learn how to trade cryptocurrency without the need for maintaining e-wallets and without the exposure to cyber threats associated with cryptocurrency exchanges. Read on about cryptocurrency CFD trading.


What is Short Selling?



What is Copy Trading?

Both new and advanced traders can benefit from copy trading where trades are executed by seasoned professional traders with top track records. AvaTrade offers copy trading platforms enabling traders to take advantage of this breakthrough offering.


What is paper trading?



What Are Options?



What is Leverage Trading?



Trading styles



Derivatives trading



What is a trading plan?



Money Management



What is the Stock Market?



How to Trade Online?



Trading Psychology



Trading budget


What is Volatility?

Financial market volatility is defined as the rate at which the price of an asset rises, or falls, given a particular set of returns. It is often measured by looking at the standard deviation of annual returns over a set period of time.

What is Carry Trade?


What is Arbitrage?


What is Currency Peg?

Currency pegging is when a country attaches, or pegs, its exchange rate to another currency, or basket of currencies, or another measure of value, such as gold. Pegging is sometimes referred to as a fixed exchange rate.

What is a Currency Swap?

In finance, a currency swap, also known as cross-currency swap, is a legal contract between two parties to exchange two currencies at a later date, but at a predetermined exchange rate.

What Is Correlation?

In the world of financial trading, asset correlation establishes how and when the prices of different financial instruments move in relation to each other. With regards to currencies and forex trading, correlation is the behaviour that certain currency pairs exhibit where they either move in one direction or in different directions, simultaneously

What is Slippage?


What is a Market Cycle?

While asset prices may appear to move randomly up and down, technical analysis shows that there are distinct repetitive cycles that occur.ese are predominantly driven by the market moves made by large institutional investors, and in order to trade successfully, individual traders should watch these market moves, or market cycles, closely.

What Types of Traders Are There?


What is Liquidity?


What are Forex Signals?



How Do Cryptocurrencies Work?



Cryptocurrencies in FinTech



Cryptocurrencies is The Future of Money?

In 2009, when the Bitcoin whitepaper came out, the idea was clear: there was a need to create a decentralised currency system that would free the ‘masses’ from the firm grip of central banks and other financial institutions.


Cryptocurrency Regulation

Regulators around the world are divided on how to control this industry. Since these digital currencies do not have the backing of any central government, each country has been forced to devise their own codes and legal frameworks for the industry.

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