I’m not sure if what I’m about to say is entirely true, but from what I have read, Trend Trading is one of the most popular and long lived trading system around.

I really like Trend Trading and use it as the basis of my trading system. It has always seemed to make sense to me - A kind of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it’ approach to calculating the future price of something.

However, I also understand that it is not the only trading system that words, but I have success with and so do many others. I am also a Technical Trader, and Trend Trading probably lends itself more to the technically inclined.

What follows is a brief introduction to the world of Trading the Trend. Let’s take a look at what it is, how it works and who uses it. (Read More…)

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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is one of the worlds larget options exchanges. It was formed in 1973 by the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

It served as the first formal and standardised place for the trade of stock options in a fair and orderly manner, and on the 26th of April 1973, 911 contracts were traded upon 16 underlying stocks.

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The FTSE100 is the leading Share Index on the London Stock Exchange, and is comprised of its largest 100 stocks.

It serves as a leading indicator for the state of the UK Financial Market and is also considered to be one of the leading share indexes in Europe.

It is generally referred to as the footsie - and has been around since 1982 and came about from the a joint venture between the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange with their formation of the FTSE All Share-Index in 1962. The FSTE100 was then formed in 1982.

Some of the companies that are included in the FTSE100 are British Petroleum (BP), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Rolls-Royce Group (RR), and Vodafone (VOD).

The 100 companies of the FTSE100 account for 80% of their market and the requirements for being included in the index is a market capitalization of about 2 billions pounds sterling.

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) was founded in 1801 and has grown to be one of the largest in the world with over 2,800 companies listed upon it.

The exchange itself actually comprises of the Main Market - listing the larger and more prestigious companies with a market capitalisation of more than £3,500bn - and the Alternative Investments Market (AIM) - which functions to represent the small cap growth market.

The LSE’s former building was located on Threadneadle Street in the heart of the City of London or the Square Mile (Londons financial district) and was opened in 1972. It consisted of a formal trading floor where stocks were exchanged face to face. This became largely redundant however in October 1987 when the Big Bang shook up the UK’s financial industry by deregulating many of the LSE’s activities.

The LSE was to move again in 2004 to Paternoster Square which is still in the Cities Square Mile.

The NASDAQ stock exchange is popularly known as the exchange where the high tech stocks of the dot-com boom are traded. The Exchange gets its name from formerly being an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations and when founded in 1971 was the worlds first electronic stock market - and continues to be the largest electronic exchange in the USA.

NASDAQ is able to boast about 3,300 listed companies and, on average, more trades per day than any other USA market. The companies that are listed on the NASDAQ represent a wide range of industries including retail, communications, technology and financial services.

The primary index on the NASDAQ stock exchange is the NASDAQ-100 Index which represent the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the exchange by market capalization.

Market hours on the NASDAQ are 9.30am to 4.00pm (EST), Monday to Friday.

The Forex (Foreign Exchange) is the worlds largest financial market turning over more than $1.5 trillion a day. It is unique in that it has no physical location. Instead of traders buying and selling in a formal marketplace, it takes place through an electronic network of banks. These banks operate around the world and therefore around the clock. The Forex is open from when the bankers arrive at work on Monday morning in New Zealand until they finish work at 5pm in the West Coast of the USA. However the greatest trading volume generally occurs during the European and USA working day.
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was first formed back in 1792 when a group of 24 New York City stockbrokers signed the Buttenwood Agreement (because it was signed under a buttonwood tree) outside number 68 Wall Street.

Despite these humble beginnings, the NYSE has grown to be the largest stock exchange in the world. An average day sees 1.46 billion shares at a value of $46.1 billion traded on the NYSE. It is home to about 2,800 listed companies carrying an estimated market capitalization of $20 trillion.

Although trading on the NYSE is carried out face to face, the NYSE claims to be world’s largest and most technologically advanced equities market
. All orders are delivered electronically with about 10% being carried out automatically.

The NYSE is also home to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) - a stock market index of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the USA.

Market hours on the NYSE are currently 9.30am to 4.00pm (EST), Monday to Friday.