The United States Government Is Shutting down...April Fools???

There is one final week left in the deadline for Congress to compromise on the remaining 2011 budget. If they do not succeed, we will have a government shutdown on our hands. This would greatly affect the markets and has many traders treading lightly until April 8th passes.

How will you trade in the upcoming week?

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We would love to hear about your upcoming plans, so please share in our comments section.

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The MarketClub Team

It's that time again...

Time for another live episode of MarketClub TV tonight at 7pm EST and you're invited!

Join us tonight as we talk about the markets, helpful trading tips, and anything else you have a question about - related to trading of course. We will also be giving away free bonuses and a YEAR of MarketClub to one lucky viewer.

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As always, we take your questions and comments very seriously and we heard from many viewers that some of the charts were hard to see during the show and so our MarketClub TV producer, Jeremy "Hollywood" Lutz, spent lots of time working on the clarity of the charts for this week's show.

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose so we hope you will join us!

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Which would you rather buy right now, gold or silver?

From the digital studios of MarketClub

Here is a simple question for you: which would you rather buy right now, gold or silver?

Gold has incredible amounts of emotional baggage attached to it, while silver is in a different league - at least for the moment. This video will show you two indicators that can help you capture either market when and if the upward trend decides to resume.

With all of the world's troubles, there are plenty of reasons why one would think that both of these markets should be much higher. The question is, why aren't they? I think that the video you're about to watch will help answer some of those questions. Continue reading "Which would you rather buy right now, gold or silver?"

A basic guide to choosing technical indicators

Today's Guest Blog post comes courtesy of Kathleen Brooks who is a UK and EMEA research director at Forex.com based in London. She uses both fundamental and technical methods in her analysis. She provides daily research and market updates as well as a weekly webinar on market themes. She is a regular contributor to Yahoo Finance, Reuters Great Debate Blog as well as a host of other international publications. She is often quoted in the global financial press and is a regular contributor on business TV including CNBC, CNBC Arabia, the BBC and Bloomberg. She started her career in finance at BP where she worked first as a business analyst in its trading division and then as a trading analyst in its foreign exchange dealing room. Click here to find out more about Forex.com.

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Navigating your way through the forex market is a bit like trying to find your way out of a deep, dark cave with only a flicker of a match. To get out of the cave you need a torch, and luckily for the retail trader there are figurative torches in the foreign exchange markets too.

One such beacon is technical analysis, which can make life a lot easier. Moving averages, relative strength indicators, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci retracements, MACD's and Ichimoku Cloud charts are just some of the technical indicators that are widely used in the forex markets as buy and sell signals.

The Simple Moving Average Continue reading "A basic guide to choosing technical indicators"