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Interest rates have been creeping up and affecting mortgage rates since summer. Housing prices in many areas around the US have also been increasing since 2010. In those two scenarios, traders watch Existing Home Sales news closely. Home sales are a leading economic health indicator. When homes...

Canadian Wholesale Sales News will be released at 8:30 AM ET on Tuesday, December 20. This news event can be traded with Nadex spreads. Trading the news can be challenging. It is always an unknown how the markets will react and which direction they will go. However, it’s not impossible to...

Straddle strategies using Nadex spreads can be ideal when trading news events for several reasons. A straddle is low risk and does not require stops. It is prepared to profit if the market goes up or down. Spreads can be entered ahead of time for events that are released in the middle of the...

Right now, there are several good reasons to trade spreads over futures or binaries when trading the news. Spreads can be used in strategies, which can be entered before the news is released, making trading early morning news more convenient. Unlike futures, whose risk is unlimited, spreads have...

Nadex submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) its intent to amend its Market Maker fees to include a “Wide Spread Surcharge.” If approved, the amendment will take effect on December 19, 2016. Market makers would be assessed a monthly 50 percent surcharge on the...

With minimal volitility, trading at night can some times be tough. The best way to catch movement is to follow the news. On Tuesday, December 6, at 7:30 PM ET, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release Australia’s Gross Domestic Product. This report is the quarterly percent change in...

Every market has seen volatility lately. Because of this, the Commodity, Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) along with the National Futures Association (NFA), the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) have all increased margins. The effective date for many of...

IG Group is a global leader in online trading. It is the United Kingdom’s number one provider in the UK leverage trading industry. On December 4, 2016, Italy will be faced with a referendum that will decide whether the country will make amendments to its constitution. In preparation for...

The recent movements in the Stock Indices’ markets have caused many traders to want to jump in and trade. Typical thinking is often, since the market is going up, shouldn’t the cheapest binary be bought? What about spreads? Isn’t there more profit available there? Binary...

Considering trading the forex markets? There are many ways to trade the forex markets with Nadex. Trades can be directional, premium collection or news trades. Nadex offers 10 of the most popular spot forex pairs as limited risk binary options and spreads, which can be traded 23 hours a day, six...

Three reports for the UK are due out early Wednesday, November 16, at 4:30 a.m. ET. They include the Average Earnings Index, Claimant Count Change, and Unemployment Rate. These releases show the increase in cost of labor for amount of jobless claiming unemployment benefits, and unemployed in the...

In the early morning hours of November 9, as polls closed and the votes were tallied, questions began to surface. The question asked by most traders was, “What do you think is going to happen in the morning?” Trader A answered saying it could be worse than the big swings in 2008...

This year has seen much fluctuation across the markets in regards to the US presidential election. Bloomberg compiled a cross-asset guide to how Wall Street strategists predict the markets will react in the event that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. It is assumed a Trump...

As stated in a previous article, this year has seen its share of volatility on the markets in regards to the US Presidential Election. With every new headline, the markets seem to sway this way and that. Bloomberg strategists put together their predictions of what would happen should either...

Traders have been experiencing the swings of volatility in the markets recently. Every new piece of information released about one of the US Presidential candidates seems to cause the market to fluctuate. People are anxiously waiting to see what will happen the day after the election. Bloomberg...