My recommended tools
Brokers
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Interactive Brokers: If you are in the US I recommend opening an account with them. they are the Leading online trading solutions for traders, investors and advisors, with direct global access to stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds. Combine it with a proper investing course and this broker will do the rest.
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IG: Trade and Invest with the UK's No.1 trading provider. IG is the home of trading in the UK. You can take your position on over 17000 markets. They offer spread betting, CFDs, stock broking, forex and US options and futures. Personally, I have an ISA stocks and stock account with them and they have pretty low commissions.
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Vantage: One of the world's leading CFD brokers with over 12 years of market experience. Vantage provides traders with access to 1000+ CFD products, including forex, indices, commodities, shares, ETFs and even bonds. I also have a CFD account with them where I trade FX and Commodities. See my complete review here.
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Pepperstone: Australian online broker that provides CFDs, Indices and commodities. With headquarters in Melbourne, Australia pepperstone is one of the top brokers I recommend. Really fast execution and reliability of trading transactions. They also have a very low slippage and they offer the best platforms like Trading View and CTrader. ​​​​​​​
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Stock screeners
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These tools have to be in your jackknife arsenal because they allow you to find stocks by simply entering some filter parameters. You can find stocks by company fundamentals such as ROE, P/E and EPS. Check out my article where I talk about the best stock screeners to use
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Proprietary Trading firms
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FundedNext: In my opinion the best prop firm out there right now. With headquarters in UAE, this firm offers really good conditions to trade. It also gives you very reasonable trading rules and what is most important it has been paying profitable traders every time.
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Alpha Capital: This prop firm, with headquarters in the UK, is one of my favourite prop firms. They offer really good trading conditions and you have the option to choose from a no-commission trading account or a commission raw spreads trading account. They have a very powerful analytics dashboard where you can track your stats and check all your trades
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FTMO: This prop firm is the leader in the industry and it has provided traders with funding since 2010. Do not rely on other prop firms, FTMO has been in the industry for years. With slightly harder challenge passing percentages (10%, 5%) than FundedNext and Alpha Capital, is still one of my recommended firms to go for.
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Trading platforms
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Trading View: This is without a doubt the best charting trading platform out there. It is used by thousands of traders and investors around the world. It was founded in 2011 and has offices in New York and London. I do all my technical analysis on this platform and it is well worth paying for the premium subscription, which gives you the ability to place more than 2 indicators in the chart and my best functionality: being able to do bar replay in intraday charts for backtesting.
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CTrader: This is another excellent trading platform. cTrader is a leading multi-asset forex and CFD trading platform, offering rich charting tools, advanced order types, level II pricing and fast entry and execution. With a stunning user interface, it is connected to the most sophisticated backend technology and is available on desktop, web and mobile devices.
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MT4/MT5:​ This trading platform is one of the fastest and most reliable platforms out there. What I like is the customization that you can do through EAs, Indicators and scripts. MQL4 and MQL5 are programming languages that you can easily learn and create your own algorithms, indicators and EAs. Vantage markets offer MT4 and MT5.
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VPS Services:
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ForexVPS: This is another leader in the market for dedicated VPS for trading. Offers a good response time. low latency and instant execution. Excellent customer service as well. I use ForexVPS to host all my MT4 accounts and so far they have a pretty low latency and customer support is incredible.
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NYCServers: This VPS company offers you high-performance forex VPS and dedicated servers for serious traders. You can elevate your trading with near-instant execution, low latency, and 100% uptime. You can choose your VPS to be located in different locations for maximum performance and minimum latency.
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Trading Journal Software
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If you want to be ahead and one step ahead of this industry. You need to definitively use a trading journal. It is really important to record your trades and adjust anything from your trading plan based on data. One of the best option is using a spreadsheet so you can customize whichever you like. I provide a trading journal Template for a low price. But if you want you can invest in a more complete software. I recommend these:
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Tradezilla
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Edgewonk​​​​​​​
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Myfxbook
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CopyTraders
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FXBlue: A personal trade copier, that works very efficiently in MT4 and MT5 platforms. This trade copier allows you to copy trades from one account to multiple accounts. It is completely free and you can install it right away in your MT4 or MT5 platform.
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Economic Calendars
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Forex Factory: Shows an elaborate explanation of the indicator, a link to the official source page and the report itself, historic data and chart, related news articles, the next release date, an explanation of why it is important, and the indicator's full name and alternative names
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DailyFX: Partner with IG this calendar provides historical data, related news links, and a textual description.
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Myfxbook: This calendar provides a link to the source page, a textual description of the event, the date of the next release, how many days to the next release are left, a historic chart of the data vs. forecast values, and historic data.
Investing.com: Offers a description of the indicator, a link to the official source page, and very detailed historical data/chart spanning decades into the past.
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