Term of the Day

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Noise Trader

A noise trader is a currency trader who makes trades purely on technical signals or market activity. The term noise trader comes from the stock trading world and is usually used to describe an investor who buys a stock without looking at the fundamentals. In forex trading, however, the majority of traders are noise traders in that they trade using technical analysis and trend reading tools.

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