Showing posts with label Trading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trading. Show all posts
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Forex automatic trading software works, and the reasons why it works.
The foreign exchange market is unique because of its:
* huge trading volume (The average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.98 trillion, as of April 2007), leading to high liquidity
* geographical dispersion
* operation 24 hours a day except weekends
In the past, forex traders used to outsource their trades to a full service brokerage. This, of course, costs money and you have to look for a broker that you can trust, which is not a easy task.
Nowadays with the evolution of the trading softwares we have access to a huge advantage and that is why close to 50% of all currency traders are now using forex robots to see significant returns on their investments in this market.
One of the biggest advantages is that the forex market runs 24/7, but humans don't. An automatic trading software is unaffected by a person's mental,physical and emotional circumstance, thus the trading operation is quicker and more diversified. This is where a forex robot comes in.
Since it applies advanced algorithms projected by extremely skilled professional traders and money managers, the operation of the automated software is increased based on the experience and expertise of the designers.
This software constantly scans and analyzes the market using real-time forex market information 24 hours/day, looking for reliable, high probability trading opportunities. When it detects them, it invests until the moment the trade becomes unprofitable. Very simple and very powerful.
You do not need to pay a commission to the brokers, and you can start trading in the forex market even if you are a complete beginner. By applying a forex software system, even the novice trader can achieve high economic success.
A great advantage about this trading software is that the risk is very low. You are able to run a practice account first before starting to trade with real money. In this way you can see the forex robot in action not risking a cent of your own money.
Another advantage is that the forex software system do not experience emotional influences,thus removing another big risk factor.
You can control the software if you want to be part of the trading decisions. But it is better to leave the forex robot to do its job unless you have a serious experience in forex trading. The automated forex system returns much higher profits when left alone to do its task.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
An increasing number of people are being attracted by foreign currency trading in preference to the variety of other forms of investment available today and it is not hard to see why.
The Forex market is the biggest trading market in the world and shows a growing trading volume which has risen from in the region of $500 billion dollars to $2 trillion in the last twenty years. It is also an amazingly liquid market which is not tied to any particular location and operates around the clock across the world making it in effect a permanently open market. As one market closes its doors another is opening and you can effectively follow the markets across the world as you trade and even more or less eliminate the fact that the market in your home country is closed at the weekend.
As a consequence it is not surprising that foreign currency trading appeals to a wide and growing variety of big and small traders each of whom enjoys a wide choice of trading strategies arising out of the large number of factors which affect foreign currency rates. Indeed for a lot of traders entering the market it is the fact that there are so many different factors that affect foreign currency exchange rates which they find particularly attractive as it allow them to use a large range of different tools when trading in this extraordinarily exciting market.
Possibly the biggest influence today however on the future growth of the market and its popularity is to be seen in automation which is easier than ever before to achieve and which brings with it many advantages.
Automatic foreign currency trading permits trades to be conducted anywhere in the world in real time and virtually eliminates the losses that are so often seen in manual systems which are trying to operate in such a fast moving and unpredictable environment. Anybody who has experienced trading using manual systems knows only too well the frustration brought on by a series of losses produced by nothing more than a simple time delay in buying or selling.
Automated Forex trading also permits you to operate in a number of different currency markets at the same time without any problems with the time zones of the markets in question. If you are in the USA at 1 o'clock in the morning then automated trading allows you to work with traders on the opposite side of the world in a variety of different countries all at the same time without any problem.
For a lot of traders one difficulty is that of the management of risk and this too is reduced as we move into automated trading. Manual systems often make traders nervous about whether payment will be forthcoming following the completion of a trade but because payments can now be matched in real time this is far less likely. Indeed, as automated systems continue to develop settlement systems will also be updated and any risks are likely to be all but eliminated before too much longer.
Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years and is going to continue to do so in the years ahead. Most importantly, access to this technology simply and cheaply from the comfort of our own homes, or today even when we are mobile, means that we can all now handle our investments with ease. For those of us working in the currency trading world automated foreign currency trading will undountedly come as a welcome addition to an already great form of investment.
LearningForexTradingOnline.com provides advice on everything from automated currency trading to using an online currency calculator
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Avoiding Forex-Related Frauds and Scams
Marquez, author of The Part-Time Currency Trader, wants you to take precautions when shopping around for forex brokers.
A lot of people have been ‘burnt' from scam operations on the Internet. Their sites may look so perfectly legitimate that you doubt whether they would have gone through all that trouble building a trading platform just to steal your money. Beware.
The first thing I look for is the geographical location of the broker. If I find that they are based in a country where the financial industry is, in my opinion, relatively unregulated and under-developed, I quickly forgo signing up. This is terrible news for honest brokers in those countries, but your job as a trader is to protect your capital. If you lose that, then you cannot trade. The onus is on them to convince you that they will do the right thing by you as an investor.
I started out with an Australian broker. Currently I am using an American one. I have not tried UK-based brokers but the British financial industry is one of the best. Companies that are based in countries such as Japan , Germany and France are probably just as good too, if their website speaks your language.
Notice any license numbers that they may have registered with regulatory bodies that act like government watchdogs who oversee the finance and investments industries. These are organisations that impose strict rules to safeguard your investment. Some of these rules may include the requirement that brokers segregate all customer funds from the operational funds of the business. Your money is required to be put in highly-reputable banks and the funds are only withdrawn from these accounts upon specific withdrawal requests.
Take note that there are some fake regulatory bodies being thrown around in cyber-space as well. Take a look at how long they have been operating for. Try and search out any reviews or comments made about them. See if you can find forums where traders have discussions about their brokers.
Below is a list of things to keep in mind to help you avoid being a victim of a scam:
• Stay Away From Opportunities That Sound Too Good To Be True
• Avoid Individuals Or Organizations Who Claim To Predict Or Guarantee Large Profits
• Be Wary Of Companies Who Downplay Investment Risks
• Be Wary Of Companies That Claim To Trade In The ‘Interbank Market'
• Ethnic Minorities Are Often Targeted
• Seek Out The Company's Background
• If You Are In Doubt, It Is Not Worth Risking Your Money
This is an excerpt, modified from the book: The Part-Time Currency Trader.
A lot of people have been ‘burnt' from scam operations on the Internet. Their sites may look so perfectly legitimate that you doubt whether they would have gone through all that trouble building a trading platform just to steal your money. Beware.
The first thing I look for is the geographical location of the broker. If I find that they are based in a country where the financial industry is, in my opinion, relatively unregulated and under-developed, I quickly forgo signing up. This is terrible news for honest brokers in those countries, but your job as a trader is to protect your capital. If you lose that, then you cannot trade. The onus is on them to convince you that they will do the right thing by you as an investor.
I started out with an Australian broker. Currently I am using an American one. I have not tried UK-based brokers but the British financial industry is one of the best. Companies that are based in countries such as Japan , Germany and France are probably just as good too, if their website speaks your language.
Notice any license numbers that they may have registered with regulatory bodies that act like government watchdogs who oversee the finance and investments industries. These are organisations that impose strict rules to safeguard your investment. Some of these rules may include the requirement that brokers segregate all customer funds from the operational funds of the business. Your money is required to be put in highly-reputable banks and the funds are only withdrawn from these accounts upon specific withdrawal requests.
Take note that there are some fake regulatory bodies being thrown around in cyber-space as well. Take a look at how long they have been operating for. Try and search out any reviews or comments made about them. See if you can find forums where traders have discussions about their brokers.
Below is a list of things to keep in mind to help you avoid being a victim of a scam:
• Stay Away From Opportunities That Sound Too Good To Be True
There are people who may have just acquired a large amount of money just and recently are the same and are shopping around for safe investment vehicles. These may include retirees who have access to their retirement funds. It is understandable why retirees would be drawn to ‘high-return, low-risk investments'. This is also what makes them very vulnerable. If you identify yourself to be one of these people, be careful. A lot of deceitful characters are after your money. Furthermore, only allocate a tiny amount of your money to trading until you can start growing it. Not all people can trade successfully, so it is a venture you should take on haphazardly. It is your life savings at risk.
• Avoid Individuals Or Organizations Who Claim To Predict Or Guarantee Large Profits
Any form of trading is hard. Trading currencies is no different. Be wary of statements that make it sound easy. Statements like:
• “Whether the market moves up or down, in the currency market you will make a profit”;
• “Make $1000 per week, every week”;
• “We are out-performing 90% of domestic investments”;
• “You'll make returns of 70% a year”;
• “Here is a no-risk strategy”.
If they could make such returns, why would they even bother letting you know about it.
• Be Wary Of Companies Who Downplay Investment Risks
Hold your wallet tight and zip up your purse when companies say that written risk disclosure agreements are routine formalities imposed by the government. Watch out for statements like:
• “With a $10,000 deposit, the maximum you can lose is $200 to $250 per day”;
• “ We promise to recover any losses you have ”.
• Be Wary Of Companies That Claim To Trade In The ‘Interbank Market'
Do not believe it when some people say that they have access to the ‘Interbank market' or that they can give you access to trade in that market because that's where bargain prices can be obtained. This is not true. The ‘interbank market' is not a place, it is not a physical building. It is simply a loose network of currency transactions that are negotiated between big financial institutions and other large companies.
• Ethnic Minorities Are Often Targeted
Ethnic newspapers and television ‘infomercials' are sometimes used to attract Russian, Chinese and Indian minorities. Sometimes these ads offer so-called ‘job opportunities for account executives to trade foreign currencies', whereby the recruited ‘account executive' is expected to use his own money to trade currencies and would often times be encouraged to recruit members like their friends and family to do the same.
• Seek Out The Company's Background
Check any information you receive to be sure that the company is who they claim to be. If at all possible, try and get the background of the people operating the company. Do not rely solely on oral statements and promises made by the company's employees.
• If You Are In Doubt, It Is Not Worth Risking Your Money
If after trying to solicit information and at the end of it all, you are still in doubt about the credentials of a particular company, my suggestion is to start looking elsewhere.
You may find further information by contacting government ‘watchdogs' because they keep up to date with trends and reports regarding scams and other fraudulent activities. Please check the resource section of this site for the information of organizations that regulate the securities industry, sorted by country. There is also a list of brokers that you may want to look at.
This is an excerpt, modified from the book: The Part-Time Currency Trader.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
A way of winning huge Profits
A way of winning huge profits. Currency exchange is the trading of one currency against another. Professionals refer to this as foreign exchange, but may also use the acronyms Forex or FX. Currency exchange is necessary in numerous circumstances. Consumers typically come into contact with currency exchange when they travel. They go to a bank or currency exchange bureau to convert their "home currency into , the currency of the country they intend to travel to. They may also purchase goods in a foreign country or via the Internet with their credit card, in which case they will find that the amount they paid in the foreign currency will have been converted to their home currency on their credit card statement. Although each such currency exchange is a relatively small transaction, the aggregate of all such transactions is significant. Businesses typically have to convert currencies when they conduct business outside their home country. They exportin goods to another country and receive payment in the currency of that foreign country, then the payment must often be converted back to the home currency. Similarly, if they have to import goods or services, then businesses will often have to pay in a foreign currency, requiring them to first convert their home currency into the foreign currency. Large companies convert huge amounts of currency each year. The timing of when they convert can have a large affect on their balance sheet and bottom line.Investors and speculators require currency exchange whenever they trade in any foreign investment, be that equities, bonds, bank deposits, or real estate. Investors and speculators also trade currencies directly in order to benefit from movements in the currency exchange markets. Commercial and Investment Banks trade currencies as a service for their commercial banking, deposit and lending customers. These institutions also generally participate in the currency market for hedging and proprietary trading purposes. Governments and central banks trade currencies to improve trading conditions or to intervene in an attempt to adjust economic or financial imbalances. Although they do not trade for speculative reasons --- they are a non-profit organization --- they often tend to be profitable, since they generally trade on a long-term basis. Currency exchange rates are determined by the currency exchange market.A currency exchange rate is typically given as a pair consisting of a bid price and an ask price. The ask price applies when buying a currency pair and represents what has to be paid in the quote currency to obtain one unit of the base currency. The bid price applies when selling and represents what will be obtained in the quote currency when selling one unit of the base currency. The bid price is always lower than the ask price. Buying the currency pair implies buying the first, base currency and selling (short) an equivalent amount of the second, quote currency (to pay for the base currency). (It is not necessary for the trader to own the quote currency prior to selling, as it is sold short.) A speculator buys a currency pair, if she believes the base currency will go up relative to the quote currency, or equivalently that the corresponding exchange rate will go up. Selling the currency pair implies selling the first, base currency (short), and buying the second, quote currency. A speculator sells a currency pair, if she believes the base currency will go down relative to the quote currency, or equivalently, that the quote currency will go up relative to the base currency. After buying a currency pair, the trader will have an open position in the currency pair. Right after such a transaction, the value of the position will be close to zero, because the value of the base currency is more or less equal to the value of the equivalent amount of the quote currency. In fact, the value will be slightly negative, because of the spread involved. For more information contact Currency Traders at www.mynetto.com
Thursday, May 3, 2012
An Introduction To Forex Trading
Most people have heard of trading, like the New York Stock Exchange, and Forex trading isn’t far off from that. The difference is, is that Forex trading is the trading of currencies, not stocks. It also has a larger volume than stock and bond markets combined! As with stocks, it is a high-risk investment, but it can also have an extremely high return, easily doubling investments in minutes. The best part about Forex trading, is that it is done using a margin. That is, you don’t need the full amount to buy a currency. A Forex trader can buy $100,000.00 with just $1,000.00. This allows traders to make huge profits with minimal investment. And the Forex market is open to all types of investors, not just big organizations, and banks. The best place for an investor to start when considering the Forex market, is the Forex community. Research is key to understanding Forex trading. Consulting Forex forums and community boards can be extremely beneficial. The next thing to do would be to choose a system. A system, is a specially designed method, software, or course developed by professional in Forex trading. There are many systems out there, so research must be dome to make sure the system fits your needs. Before purchasing a system, you should ask them a few questions like, how long have they been in this business, and and if there is a trial version available. Make sure that they have customer testimonials too. By going to Forex forums, and chat rooms, one might be able to find out what system others are using, or what systems are recommended most. Most professional traders believe that having a trading system is an important factor in establishing a stable revenue in the forex market. Systems tell investors when, and what, should be done in each trading situation. Another thing that an investor will need is a broker, to assist with transactions. There’s a wide variety of brokers, so be prepared with questions about their credentials. Ask them about their leverage, and their spread. As these are both determining factors in how much money the investor can make with each investment. The investor may also choose to handle transactions themselves. An investor also needs to master analysis, and form a strategy, to get a competitive edge, and improve their odds. They need to learn to recognize the different factors that affect the Forex market. A person has a much better chance of success at trading forex, if they do their research, and know what to look for. And, in conclusion, it doesn’t matter if a person is experienced or a beginner in the world of Forex!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Information about trading in your network.
This led to the invention of the Internet, we run our lives and our colleagues so many changes. We have to pay our debt, Internet, Internet-tienda, Bank and wire signature still online!
We buy and sell shares on the network. Merchants love the opportunity to see their accounts whenever you want to use server-side cursors may orders via the Internet, by telephone.
Most brokers and brokerage shops now offer online shopping. Another great thing about online trading and prices are generally lower. Internet marketing is great, but there are some disadvantages.
If you are new investments, ability to speak with very useful kerääjää. If you haven't found the Exchange can trade networks is very dangerous for you. If this happens, make sure that the information before you start trading stocks, trading online, you can learn.
Also, be aware that you do not have a computer connected to the Internet, you can attach. It is always possible to obtain on the market via the Internet. Don't forget to call and speak with kerääjää, if you use the line kerääjää. This applies whether you're a beginner or Pro Advanced.
It is also a good idea to proceed with the online brokerage company for a long time. Look for one that was 50 years in the industry, of course, but I can't find a company that has operations for a long time and now offers online trading.
Once again, the online trade is something beautiful-but not all. You should think carefully before you decide to purchase online and make sure you know what you really want to say you can do it!
We buy and sell shares on the network. Merchants love the opportunity to see their accounts whenever you want to use server-side cursors may orders via the Internet, by telephone.
Most brokers and brokerage shops now offer online shopping. Another great thing about online trading and prices are generally lower. Internet marketing is great, but there are some disadvantages.
If you are new investments, ability to speak with very useful kerääjää. If you haven't found the Exchange can trade networks is very dangerous for you. If this happens, make sure that the information before you start trading stocks, trading online, you can learn.
Also, be aware that you do not have a computer connected to the Internet, you can attach. It is always possible to obtain on the market via the Internet. Don't forget to call and speak with kerääjää, if you use the line kerääjää. This applies whether you're a beginner or Pro Advanced.
It is also a good idea to proceed with the online brokerage company for a long time. Look for one that was 50 years in the industry, of course, but I can't find a company that has operations for a long time and now offers online trading.
Once again, the online trade is something beautiful-but not all. You should think carefully before you decide to purchase online and make sure you know what you really want to say you can do it!
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Forex Signals - How to Instantly Trade Like You Have Decades of Forex Trading Experience
Seriously consider forex signals if you are not yet trading profitably, have limited experience, or just don't have much time to devote to your forex trading.
From the simple one email a day variety to the forex mentor who sits with you all day holding your hand as you trade, a portfolio of forex trade alerts can be virtually free and can transform you into a profitable trader instantly.
If like us you've ever analysed a chart and placed your own trades, you will almost certainly have also sat in front of your screen wondering if you were doing the right thing.
Questions like "have I entered this trade too late ?" and "am I trading in the right direction (long when I should be short)" will certainly have entered your mind.
How many times have you wished you had an expert trader with decades of experience guiding your trades, keeping you out of dangerous trades, and pointing you towards trades with a higher probability of success ?
We were certainly in that position many times in the early days, but always imagined the cost of having an expert on hand would far outweigh any extra profits we might make. It turns out we were quite wrong.
There are numerous services available, known variously as forex signals, forex alerts, or forex tips.
Trading signals come in a variety of formats, suited to how much of your day you can devote to trading. And yes beware, there are loads of scams out there too, but we'll show you how to avoid them, and we'll direct you towards the better ones.
Forex Trading Signals - many varieties
The main characteristics of forex trading signals to be aware of are as follows;
Cost: Free OR monthly subscription
Complexity: Simple "one email a day" OR Full-Service
Control: You keep full control OR the signal provider trades your a/c for you
Trading style: e.g. frequent scalper OR low volume swing trader
A free forex signal may at first seem like a fabulous idea, but as we will reveal here, you may very well prefer to pay for a free subscription service (yes, we know that doesn't make sense - but read on)
Most forex trade signals charge a very modest subscription fee, usually in the region of USD $80 - $400 per month (although happily most are at the lower end of this range), while there are also websites which provide forex signals for no charge.
In their simplest form a forex trading signal will send you a forex alert email once a day listing trade set ups for the next 24 hours.
Some of these are purely computer generated, some are computer generated and then audited by a human expert, and some are completely researched and generated exclusively by a human expert trader who may add some market commentary to their forex forecast.
Some forex trading signals are high volume scalpers, calling many trades in a day aiming to profit a handful of pips on each. Others only call a few trades a day, aiming to profit 20 - 80 pips on each single trade.
At the more full-service end of the market is the type of forex signal service which provides you with an almost 24 hour a day live online broadcast calling forex trading tips as they occur, explaining the logic of the proposed trade and backing it up with an email or even a video clip.
Some forex trading signals will even trade their signals in your own account for you, leaving you to just sit back and watch.
This is similar to what a robot does by using forex signal software, but with the added reassurance that it's being done by an experienced intelligent human trader rather than a dumb machine following an algorithm.
Think of full-service forex trading signals like a forex TV station, which you have running in the background on your pc or internet connected laptop throughout your day. The broadcast remains quiet when there is nothing to do, freeing your time for the other priorities in your day, then calls for your attention when there is a trade to place or manage.
You may be surprised, as we were, to discover that the prices charged by full-service providers are usually very similar to those charged by the one email a day providers.
This type of service usually also includes an interactive facility, enabling you to send a message to your forex mentor if you have a question.
Many forex signal services have very loyal memberships, and some even limit the number of members they will accept.
Free forex signals (virtually)
On the basis that time is money, in our opinion the amount of time we can now devote to other activities by not slaving over our charts for hours searching for the perfect trade set up, not to mention the improvement in our trading results, has more than paid for the very modest cost of the forex signal subscriptions.
Indeed if you apply this logic, subscription based services can effectively be free when you take into account the improvement in your trading profits, and the freeing of your time for other profitable activities.
If you think about it, a subscription based forex signal service has a built-in incentive to call profitable forex trading tips, as its subscriber base would soon evaporate if it failed to provide profitable currency trading tips. "Free" non subscription signals do not have this incentive.
Manage your risk
In any aspect of forex trading your primary goal is to manage your risk. Choosing, and trading a forex trade alert should be no different.
Even the best most experienced provider of forex signals will regularly have losing trades. However taken with all of their winning currency trade signals the overall result should still be profitable, but not all systems work all of the time. Some forex alerts may even have a completely losing week or month.
However, we have found through our own experience that the best way of making consistent profits with forex signals is to subscribe to several different currency trading signals and trade all of their signals. If one of them is having a particularly bad week, the others should compensate and still net you a profitable week, or break even at worst.
Always do your due diligence before trading a provider's forex alerts. Good forex signal services will publish their last 6 - 12 months results on their website. Some will even show you details of the actual trades they took. Expect to see losses as well as winners - that's just the nature of trading. Indeed, if the results show only winners, or the provider is unwilling to show you any results, or to provide contact details of some of their clients willing to give a reference be on your guard.
Most will offer you some sort of free trial or discounted special offer. Make sure that you clearly understand the terms of this offer and know the deadline by which you need to give notice to terminate if you're not happy with the service provided.
If you compare the last 6 month's results of all the forex signal service providers you intend to use, you should find that taken as a whole they delivered a profit.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but we have found that if you have a good combination of trading styles in your trading signals portfolio you are in with a fighting chance of consistent profits whatever the market conditions.
Again, think about the cashflow logic of what you will be doing here - the subscription costs of each forex signals service are already very modest, and by combining them you are increasing your probability of consistent profits. They can't all get it wrong all of the time, and remember they are all incentivised by their membership to get it right as often as possible.
Even with experienced traders calling your trades, it's prudent risk management to never ever risk more than 3% of your initial capital on any one trade, preferably only 1%. So, if for example your initial capital, (or to put it another way, the maximum you can afford to lose) is let's say 5,000, the position size you take on each trade should be such that if the trade hit your stop loss, your maximum loss would be no more than 1% x 5,000 = 50.
Using forex signals as trade ideas
Even if you prefer not to follow forex tips to the letter, you can still profit from their trade idea.
For example, if you receive a forex tip trading the GBP/USD long with a 40 pip stop loss, but on analysing the charts (following your attendance on a forex training course) you feel more comfortable placing the stop loss let's say 63 pips below entry, giving the stop protection below a visible area of recent and prior support, which happens also to be below the weekly pivot point, and in doing so are happy to have a longer range target - then go right ahead and do so.
We were surprised to find that when we did exactly this with one of our forex signals' tips our trades actually performed better than theirs did. Two heads better than one maybe.
The point is though, that without the forex market forecast drawing our attention to that particular chart at that particular time we would never have seen that trade idea.
This also makes the point that while it may at first seem temping to let a signal provider trade your account for you, if you have the time you may actually prefer to control it yourself.
If you have been through a good forex training course and understand the concepts of support, resistance, pivot points, trends etc you should always use this knowledge to perform your own due diligence on forex alerts. You may well find as we did that you can enhance the overall performance of your portfolio of forex trade recommendations.
Free forex signals
This section would not be complete without mention of forex signals providers who don't charge any subscription fee.
As we mentioned above even subscription charging services should be effectively free to you by virtue of calling enough profitable trades to more than cover the subscription cost.
In addition we prefer to use subscription based forex signals as they have an incentive to consistently call profitable trades, in that their subscribers won't stay with them for very long if they don't.
Free signals by comparison have no such incentive, so be warned and trade them at your own risk.
The [http://www.profitable-fx-trading.com] website provides access to free signals providers as well as details of some of the better subscription services, along with free training videos and many other free tools, strategies and useful contacts to make your forex trading as profitable as possible.
From the simple one email a day variety to the forex mentor who sits with you all day holding your hand as you trade, a portfolio of forex trade alerts can be virtually free and can transform you into a profitable trader instantly.
If like us you've ever analysed a chart and placed your own trades, you will almost certainly have also sat in front of your screen wondering if you were doing the right thing.
Questions like "have I entered this trade too late ?" and "am I trading in the right direction (long when I should be short)" will certainly have entered your mind.
How many times have you wished you had an expert trader with decades of experience guiding your trades, keeping you out of dangerous trades, and pointing you towards trades with a higher probability of success ?
We were certainly in that position many times in the early days, but always imagined the cost of having an expert on hand would far outweigh any extra profits we might make. It turns out we were quite wrong.
There are numerous services available, known variously as forex signals, forex alerts, or forex tips.
Trading signals come in a variety of formats, suited to how much of your day you can devote to trading. And yes beware, there are loads of scams out there too, but we'll show you how to avoid them, and we'll direct you towards the better ones.
Forex Trading Signals - many varieties
The main characteristics of forex trading signals to be aware of are as follows;
Cost: Free OR monthly subscription
Complexity: Simple "one email a day" OR Full-Service
Control: You keep full control OR the signal provider trades your a/c for you
Trading style: e.g. frequent scalper OR low volume swing trader
A free forex signal may at first seem like a fabulous idea, but as we will reveal here, you may very well prefer to pay for a free subscription service (yes, we know that doesn't make sense - but read on)
Most forex trade signals charge a very modest subscription fee, usually in the region of USD $80 - $400 per month (although happily most are at the lower end of this range), while there are also websites which provide forex signals for no charge.
In their simplest form a forex trading signal will send you a forex alert email once a day listing trade set ups for the next 24 hours.
Some of these are purely computer generated, some are computer generated and then audited by a human expert, and some are completely researched and generated exclusively by a human expert trader who may add some market commentary to their forex forecast.
Some forex trading signals are high volume scalpers, calling many trades in a day aiming to profit a handful of pips on each. Others only call a few trades a day, aiming to profit 20 - 80 pips on each single trade.
At the more full-service end of the market is the type of forex signal service which provides you with an almost 24 hour a day live online broadcast calling forex trading tips as they occur, explaining the logic of the proposed trade and backing it up with an email or even a video clip.
Some forex trading signals will even trade their signals in your own account for you, leaving you to just sit back and watch.
This is similar to what a robot does by using forex signal software, but with the added reassurance that it's being done by an experienced intelligent human trader rather than a dumb machine following an algorithm.
Think of full-service forex trading signals like a forex TV station, which you have running in the background on your pc or internet connected laptop throughout your day. The broadcast remains quiet when there is nothing to do, freeing your time for the other priorities in your day, then calls for your attention when there is a trade to place or manage.
You may be surprised, as we were, to discover that the prices charged by full-service providers are usually very similar to those charged by the one email a day providers.
This type of service usually also includes an interactive facility, enabling you to send a message to your forex mentor if you have a question.
Many forex signal services have very loyal memberships, and some even limit the number of members they will accept.
Free forex signals (virtually)
On the basis that time is money, in our opinion the amount of time we can now devote to other activities by not slaving over our charts for hours searching for the perfect trade set up, not to mention the improvement in our trading results, has more than paid for the very modest cost of the forex signal subscriptions.
Indeed if you apply this logic, subscription based services can effectively be free when you take into account the improvement in your trading profits, and the freeing of your time for other profitable activities.
If you think about it, a subscription based forex signal service has a built-in incentive to call profitable forex trading tips, as its subscriber base would soon evaporate if it failed to provide profitable currency trading tips. "Free" non subscription signals do not have this incentive.
Manage your risk
In any aspect of forex trading your primary goal is to manage your risk. Choosing, and trading a forex trade alert should be no different.
Even the best most experienced provider of forex signals will regularly have losing trades. However taken with all of their winning currency trade signals the overall result should still be profitable, but not all systems work all of the time. Some forex alerts may even have a completely losing week or month.
However, we have found through our own experience that the best way of making consistent profits with forex signals is to subscribe to several different currency trading signals and trade all of their signals. If one of them is having a particularly bad week, the others should compensate and still net you a profitable week, or break even at worst.
Always do your due diligence before trading a provider's forex alerts. Good forex signal services will publish their last 6 - 12 months results on their website. Some will even show you details of the actual trades they took. Expect to see losses as well as winners - that's just the nature of trading. Indeed, if the results show only winners, or the provider is unwilling to show you any results, or to provide contact details of some of their clients willing to give a reference be on your guard.
Most will offer you some sort of free trial or discounted special offer. Make sure that you clearly understand the terms of this offer and know the deadline by which you need to give notice to terminate if you're not happy with the service provided.
If you compare the last 6 month's results of all the forex signal service providers you intend to use, you should find that taken as a whole they delivered a profit.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but we have found that if you have a good combination of trading styles in your trading signals portfolio you are in with a fighting chance of consistent profits whatever the market conditions.
Again, think about the cashflow logic of what you will be doing here - the subscription costs of each forex signals service are already very modest, and by combining them you are increasing your probability of consistent profits. They can't all get it wrong all of the time, and remember they are all incentivised by their membership to get it right as often as possible.
Even with experienced traders calling your trades, it's prudent risk management to never ever risk more than 3% of your initial capital on any one trade, preferably only 1%. So, if for example your initial capital, (or to put it another way, the maximum you can afford to lose) is let's say 5,000, the position size you take on each trade should be such that if the trade hit your stop loss, your maximum loss would be no more than 1% x 5,000 = 50.
Using forex signals as trade ideas
Even if you prefer not to follow forex tips to the letter, you can still profit from their trade idea.
For example, if you receive a forex tip trading the GBP/USD long with a 40 pip stop loss, but on analysing the charts (following your attendance on a forex training course) you feel more comfortable placing the stop loss let's say 63 pips below entry, giving the stop protection below a visible area of recent and prior support, which happens also to be below the weekly pivot point, and in doing so are happy to have a longer range target - then go right ahead and do so.
We were surprised to find that when we did exactly this with one of our forex signals' tips our trades actually performed better than theirs did. Two heads better than one maybe.
The point is though, that without the forex market forecast drawing our attention to that particular chart at that particular time we would never have seen that trade idea.
This also makes the point that while it may at first seem temping to let a signal provider trade your account for you, if you have the time you may actually prefer to control it yourself.
If you have been through a good forex training course and understand the concepts of support, resistance, pivot points, trends etc you should always use this knowledge to perform your own due diligence on forex alerts. You may well find as we did that you can enhance the overall performance of your portfolio of forex trade recommendations.
Free forex signals
This section would not be complete without mention of forex signals providers who don't charge any subscription fee.
As we mentioned above even subscription charging services should be effectively free to you by virtue of calling enough profitable trades to more than cover the subscription cost.
In addition we prefer to use subscription based forex signals as they have an incentive to consistently call profitable trades, in that their subscribers won't stay with them for very long if they don't.
Free signals by comparison have no such incentive, so be warned and trade them at your own risk.
The [http://www.profitable-fx-trading.com] website provides access to free signals providers as well as details of some of the better subscription services, along with free training videos and many other free tools, strategies and useful contacts to make your forex trading as profitable as possible.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Forex Guide: Things That Every Beginner Traders Should Know Before They Start Trading in Forex
It's a fact that forex trading became a highly preferable investment method in the last decade. Combined with the internet as a global 24/7 network forex is reachable to everyone. I'll not give you about the basic explanation of forex trading in this article. I'm sure that i don't have to tell what forex trading is. People which familiar or have an interest in an investment know forex already. Don't they?
Forex trading is basically just an investment
As any other investment, there are always benefits and risks beyond forex trading. Many people/organization, especially forex brokers, its affiliate and those who earn their income by providing some forex related services says that forex trading have so much advantages compared to other investments; Forex is easy, with its non-stop 24 hours market, its wide range adjustable leverage, its automated trading platform, its offered better opportunity for income resource, and many more -- you name it as much as you want to...
Blinded by its 'beautiful dream imagination', many small/personal traders, especially for the new ones forgot that forex trading is basically still an investment program. Traders should never have a thought that forex trading is an income resource.
Common Beginner Traders Scenario
Beginner forex traders are usually follow the trend of forex trading without preparing and providing them self with an adequate understanding about what's inside forex trading. Their common scenarios are:
1. Know about forex trading
2. Have an interest in forex trading
3. Looking for an easy and profitable forex services
(Usually by looking for some services with less margin, high leverage, automated trading platform, and less risk? - which is too good to be true)
4. Start gambling with their trades
5. Unable to achieve profits as what their imagination
6. Repeating scenarios 3, 4 and 5
7. Repeating scenarios 3, 4 and 5 again... and again...
8. Realizing that they are loosing too much or that their imagination along these days/weeks/months is wrong (i doubt that it would reach years)
9. Give up and quit their trading for good.
Where did they do wrong in above scenario? Is that wrong to always searching for a better service to back up our trade? In my point of view, there are no mistakes in that scenario at all. But it's just incomplete, and that's the most dangerous mistakes made by most beginner traders.
How to Overcome Traders Mistakes and Begin to Make Some Profits in Forex
The facts are, there are just 5% of forex traders which successes with their trading. To become as they are, we should insert step 2.5 in scenario above. This step will simplify above scenarios by eliminating the fourth and eighth and changing ninth step became TRADERS GOAL ACHIEVED.
2.5 Preparing yourself with a solid basic knowledge of forex trading
- Know about the fundamental of forex trading
- Learn about what and how forex market really is
- Train yourself to getting familiar with the technical analysis in forex trading
- Learn how psychological factor affecting in the trading and define our best trading personality
- Be aware in our risk and money management
- Develop your most effective unique trading system based on your knowledge.
We should keep in mind deeply that forex trading is an investment. There is no way that we could be a master in some investment that we've just dive in to for days or weeks. We have to do it by the right way, and don't forget to eliminate your rush in the goal achievement. You will surely find your best trading system that suits you, I guarantee that. But it would cost you some time for several trial and error system testing while you developing your experience in forex trading.
By using an analogical approach as a computer, forex broker is the application programs and operating system. We do need them to make sure that all we need its done, served and executed properly. But, how good the computerization execution speed and its performance are depends on the basic computer specification, which analogically as you.
How to Get Yourself Completely Forex Prepared
Learning and education materials are world widely spreading around us.
1. The first and the most value added a resource of forex trading is through book reading. Forex and investing categorized books are availabe in countless numbers in many bookstore and online bookstore. You should pick some of them to educate yourself with valuable knowledge of the theory beyond forex trading.
2. Try to get into some traders forum to know more about forex trading and the markets. Forex forum also a place to give you an information for forecasting the crowd psychological factor to forecast the currency price movement by examining on how do other traders react in some financial forex related world events.
3. Get a forex course. An expert forex traders or forex broker are offering this kind of forex educational method. The course are usually about the basic knowledge of forex, technical analysis technique usage and its tools, an expert trading advice or maybe in how to develop a particular tested forex trading system which profitable (if done right and backed by your forex basic knowledge).
4. Forex magazine subscription. Some forex magazines are published weekly, monthly and others might be yearly. These materials usually give you information about the updated forex market behavior overview and analysis which can be use for the input of the fundamental analysis of your forex trading.
Octa is a private investor, an online writer and the owner of a forex trading blog [http://forexocta.blogspot.com]. She owns an online bookstore with a numerous collection of investment related books. Octa also a contributor in some finance categorized blogs.
Forex trading is basically just an investment
As any other investment, there are always benefits and risks beyond forex trading. Many people/organization, especially forex brokers, its affiliate and those who earn their income by providing some forex related services says that forex trading have so much advantages compared to other investments; Forex is easy, with its non-stop 24 hours market, its wide range adjustable leverage, its automated trading platform, its offered better opportunity for income resource, and many more -- you name it as much as you want to...
Blinded by its 'beautiful dream imagination', many small/personal traders, especially for the new ones forgot that forex trading is basically still an investment program. Traders should never have a thought that forex trading is an income resource.
Common Beginner Traders Scenario
Beginner forex traders are usually follow the trend of forex trading without preparing and providing them self with an adequate understanding about what's inside forex trading. Their common scenarios are:
1. Know about forex trading
2. Have an interest in forex trading
3. Looking for an easy and profitable forex services
(Usually by looking for some services with less margin, high leverage, automated trading platform, and less risk? - which is too good to be true)
4. Start gambling with their trades
5. Unable to achieve profits as what their imagination
6. Repeating scenarios 3, 4 and 5
7. Repeating scenarios 3, 4 and 5 again... and again...
8. Realizing that they are loosing too much or that their imagination along these days/weeks/months is wrong (i doubt that it would reach years)
9. Give up and quit their trading for good.
Where did they do wrong in above scenario? Is that wrong to always searching for a better service to back up our trade? In my point of view, there are no mistakes in that scenario at all. But it's just incomplete, and that's the most dangerous mistakes made by most beginner traders.
How to Overcome Traders Mistakes and Begin to Make Some Profits in Forex
The facts are, there are just 5% of forex traders which successes with their trading. To become as they are, we should insert step 2.5 in scenario above. This step will simplify above scenarios by eliminating the fourth and eighth and changing ninth step became TRADERS GOAL ACHIEVED.
2.5 Preparing yourself with a solid basic knowledge of forex trading
- Know about the fundamental of forex trading
- Learn about what and how forex market really is
- Train yourself to getting familiar with the technical analysis in forex trading
- Learn how psychological factor affecting in the trading and define our best trading personality
- Be aware in our risk and money management
- Develop your most effective unique trading system based on your knowledge.
We should keep in mind deeply that forex trading is an investment. There is no way that we could be a master in some investment that we've just dive in to for days or weeks. We have to do it by the right way, and don't forget to eliminate your rush in the goal achievement. You will surely find your best trading system that suits you, I guarantee that. But it would cost you some time for several trial and error system testing while you developing your experience in forex trading.
By using an analogical approach as a computer, forex broker is the application programs and operating system. We do need them to make sure that all we need its done, served and executed properly. But, how good the computerization execution speed and its performance are depends on the basic computer specification, which analogically as you.
How to Get Yourself Completely Forex Prepared
Learning and education materials are world widely spreading around us.
1. The first and the most value added a resource of forex trading is through book reading. Forex and investing categorized books are availabe in countless numbers in many bookstore and online bookstore. You should pick some of them to educate yourself with valuable knowledge of the theory beyond forex trading.
2. Try to get into some traders forum to know more about forex trading and the markets. Forex forum also a place to give you an information for forecasting the crowd psychological factor to forecast the currency price movement by examining on how do other traders react in some financial forex related world events.
3. Get a forex course. An expert forex traders or forex broker are offering this kind of forex educational method. The course are usually about the basic knowledge of forex, technical analysis technique usage and its tools, an expert trading advice or maybe in how to develop a particular tested forex trading system which profitable (if done right and backed by your forex basic knowledge).
4. Forex magazine subscription. Some forex magazines are published weekly, monthly and others might be yearly. These materials usually give you information about the updated forex market behavior overview and analysis which can be use for the input of the fundamental analysis of your forex trading.
Octa is a private investor, an online writer and the owner of a forex trading blog [http://forexocta.blogspot.com]. She owns an online bookstore with a numerous collection of investment related books. Octa also a contributor in some finance categorized blogs.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Forex Nitty Gritty - Finally, a Forex Trading Course For Beginners!
Forex trading in the trading and investing world has become what Texas Holdem is to the poker world. It has exploded, with over $3.5 trillion being traded every day. Forex is a zero sum market. That means there are winners, and an equal number of losers. Generally, retail Forex traders like you and I are on the losing side. But educated investors CAN and ARE on the winning side.
The truth is, 95% of retail traders lose money in the Forex market. They get frustrated, try system after system, and still lose money. The market is full of gimmicks and "unbeatable" robots that will trade for you making you thousands overnight while you sleep. To be successful in Forex Trading, we have to become independent traders. We can't depend on some forex robot to trade our money for us in the hopes that we make thousands of dollars. We can't depend on other people to trade our money for us, like managed broker accounts. They get paid on the number of trades they make, not whether we are profitable or not. Bottom line is that nobody cares about our forex trading success and our financial well being as much as we do ourselves. Become an educated investor and trader, and you will be more successful.
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREX
People are flocking to Forex trading with the dream of the old California gold rush. Billions of dollars can be made, all you need to do is get your hands on some of it, right? But if it is so easy, and you can plug in a robot, or give somebody your money to trade for you, how come you are the only one to keep losing your money? You're not. Forex trading has become an industry for predators in search of prey. They sell you on gimmicks and get rich quick schemes. It all sounds great, especially for the low price of $97 - $247 on average. And you don't even have to work at it, or educate yourself, or spend any time at all on trading forex! Woooo hoooo!
One of the latest crazes to hit the Forex Market lately are these so called Forex Robots, or Automated Trading Systems. In a nutshell, you buy this program, install it, turn it on, and it makes you money without you having to know anything about forex trading at all. You can "double your account in 30 days" even while you sleep. No education. No work. You don't even need to know what Forex IS, much less how to trade it. Just buy this or that robot that will trade for you and make you thousands of dollars every month. A dream come true.
Well, robots don't work. If they did, those top banks and financial institutions certainly would be using them and not have fallen to financial woes. Beyond that, just so we can say this with authority, we have tested one of the biggest money making robots on the market today, FAP Turbo. It makes a LOT of money... for the guys selling it, not for the people buying it. Sure, some people make money with it. A blind horse is bound to find water ONCE in a WHILE, right?
However, if you want to do a little work, and educate yourself a little bit, and learn the proper way to trade Forex, then there is a new course on the market just for you. Forex Nitty Gritty is just that course.
30+ Year Trading Expert and Mentor Bill Poulos Creates Forex Nitty Gritty
Bill Poulos is a veteran trader with over 30 years of practical experience. He has helped and mentored thousands of investors make even more money in the market by teaching solid methods based on sound fundamental trading principles and methods.
All of his courses cost several hundred to several thousands of dollars, and WELL WORTH every penny. I myself have used his Forex Profit Accelerator course and obtained returns of 58% per month on average for the past 7 months. Yes, I can show you the actual broker trade data and prove it.
But he wants to help the beginning traders now. And he is mentoring Forex Nitty Gritty for only $97 at the time of this writing. In a personal phone discussion with him, he did tell me that one of the reasons was so that he can help teach people that are new to forex, or that haven't succeeded in forex, because he wanted to later sell them the more expensive advanced courses. (Hows that for honesty?). But I'll be honest here, his main goal is to keep people from making the basic mistakes that wipe out their trading account. Bill Poulos is passionate about helping people to learn and understand the Forex market, and to be able to trade it successfully. Yes, he likes the money his students give him. But he really doesn't need it. He has made a great deal of money trading, and mentoring people, and really has no need for more. He could retire this minute, very well off and never look back. But he WANTS to help people learn to trade successfully. So why does he charge so much for his courses? Because it gives the people learning them value and desire to learn. If he mentored people for free, those people just wouldn't care to learn as much. It's a fact. Scientifically proven. Not to mention that his time IS valuable, and he deserves a little something for giving 30+ years of knowledge to his students.
But Forex Nitty Gritty is different. It is an entry level course for new forex traders, or people that have been in the forex market and not been successful. People that have gotten ripped off by the gimmicks and robots and the unscrupulous "trainers" that really have no business taking peoples money. Bill knows exactly what causes failure in the markets, and he is teaching people that, and much more.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN FOREX TRADING WITH FOREX NITTY GRITTY AND BILL POULOS
There are many things you must do, and many more you must avoid, in order to succeed in Forex trading. Bill Poulos teaches you them in Forex Nitty Gritty.
One of them is that you must focus on high probability, low-risk trades. Nothing more. This means you only take the trades that have the highest probability of being profitable, and the lowest risk of losing your trading account value. Generally this will cause you to have fewer trades, but they will be quality trades and generally more profitable. You will stop trading the less desirable trades that have a higher degree of moving against you. And that means you will win trades with higher profits than the losses you sustain. And yes, you will have losses. But the wins more than make up for that, making you profitable.
With Forex Nitty Gritty, you will only have to spend about 20 minutes a day trading. You will identify any new trades, and manage current trades. You will set entry prices, stop losses, and take profit orders. You will practise good money management rules that will increase your potential profit and lower your overall risk. And yes, it will only take you about 20 minutes a night.
Forex Nitty Gritty also includes optional daily videos that show various trade setups, to help you learn the market the right way. And videos teaching you the basics of forex, and forex trading. The Forex Nitty Gritty Insiders website has a lot of core information and training to help the new traders, or those of us that want to learn how to be more profitable.
Like I said, we tested FAP Turbo, and several other robots as well. And what we found out through our testing is that it doesn't work. Go ahead and review our testing of Fap Turbo, but don't buy it or any other robot unless you want to risk losing your account balance. Forex Nitty Gritty is not some lame automated trading system. It is a solid course with a great trading method that will help you learn Forex trading and be potentially profitable.
FOREX NITTY GRITTY SUMMARY
If you are new to trading in the Forex Market, or you've had problems being profitable, or you've ever had your account wiped out by those "Holy Grail" forex robots and automated trading systems, then Forex Nitty Gritty is for YOU. Learn Forex Nitty Gritty and you too can potentially generate consistent profits while learning how to be among the 5% of retail forex traders that are successful.
Happy Trading!
The truth is, 95% of retail traders lose money in the Forex market. They get frustrated, try system after system, and still lose money. The market is full of gimmicks and "unbeatable" robots that will trade for you making you thousands overnight while you sleep. To be successful in Forex Trading, we have to become independent traders. We can't depend on some forex robot to trade our money for us in the hopes that we make thousands of dollars. We can't depend on other people to trade our money for us, like managed broker accounts. They get paid on the number of trades they make, not whether we are profitable or not. Bottom line is that nobody cares about our forex trading success and our financial well being as much as we do ourselves. Become an educated investor and trader, and you will be more successful.
THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREX
People are flocking to Forex trading with the dream of the old California gold rush. Billions of dollars can be made, all you need to do is get your hands on some of it, right? But if it is so easy, and you can plug in a robot, or give somebody your money to trade for you, how come you are the only one to keep losing your money? You're not. Forex trading has become an industry for predators in search of prey. They sell you on gimmicks and get rich quick schemes. It all sounds great, especially for the low price of $97 - $247 on average. And you don't even have to work at it, or educate yourself, or spend any time at all on trading forex! Woooo hoooo!
One of the latest crazes to hit the Forex Market lately are these so called Forex Robots, or Automated Trading Systems. In a nutshell, you buy this program, install it, turn it on, and it makes you money without you having to know anything about forex trading at all. You can "double your account in 30 days" even while you sleep. No education. No work. You don't even need to know what Forex IS, much less how to trade it. Just buy this or that robot that will trade for you and make you thousands of dollars every month. A dream come true.
Well, robots don't work. If they did, those top banks and financial institutions certainly would be using them and not have fallen to financial woes. Beyond that, just so we can say this with authority, we have tested one of the biggest money making robots on the market today, FAP Turbo. It makes a LOT of money... for the guys selling it, not for the people buying it. Sure, some people make money with it. A blind horse is bound to find water ONCE in a WHILE, right?
However, if you want to do a little work, and educate yourself a little bit, and learn the proper way to trade Forex, then there is a new course on the market just for you. Forex Nitty Gritty is just that course.
30+ Year Trading Expert and Mentor Bill Poulos Creates Forex Nitty Gritty
Bill Poulos is a veteran trader with over 30 years of practical experience. He has helped and mentored thousands of investors make even more money in the market by teaching solid methods based on sound fundamental trading principles and methods.
All of his courses cost several hundred to several thousands of dollars, and WELL WORTH every penny. I myself have used his Forex Profit Accelerator course and obtained returns of 58% per month on average for the past 7 months. Yes, I can show you the actual broker trade data and prove it.
But he wants to help the beginning traders now. And he is mentoring Forex Nitty Gritty for only $97 at the time of this writing. In a personal phone discussion with him, he did tell me that one of the reasons was so that he can help teach people that are new to forex, or that haven't succeeded in forex, because he wanted to later sell them the more expensive advanced courses. (Hows that for honesty?). But I'll be honest here, his main goal is to keep people from making the basic mistakes that wipe out their trading account. Bill Poulos is passionate about helping people to learn and understand the Forex market, and to be able to trade it successfully. Yes, he likes the money his students give him. But he really doesn't need it. He has made a great deal of money trading, and mentoring people, and really has no need for more. He could retire this minute, very well off and never look back. But he WANTS to help people learn to trade successfully. So why does he charge so much for his courses? Because it gives the people learning them value and desire to learn. If he mentored people for free, those people just wouldn't care to learn as much. It's a fact. Scientifically proven. Not to mention that his time IS valuable, and he deserves a little something for giving 30+ years of knowledge to his students.
But Forex Nitty Gritty is different. It is an entry level course for new forex traders, or people that have been in the forex market and not been successful. People that have gotten ripped off by the gimmicks and robots and the unscrupulous "trainers" that really have no business taking peoples money. Bill knows exactly what causes failure in the markets, and he is teaching people that, and much more.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN FOREX TRADING WITH FOREX NITTY GRITTY AND BILL POULOS
There are many things you must do, and many more you must avoid, in order to succeed in Forex trading. Bill Poulos teaches you them in Forex Nitty Gritty.
One of them is that you must focus on high probability, low-risk trades. Nothing more. This means you only take the trades that have the highest probability of being profitable, and the lowest risk of losing your trading account value. Generally this will cause you to have fewer trades, but they will be quality trades and generally more profitable. You will stop trading the less desirable trades that have a higher degree of moving against you. And that means you will win trades with higher profits than the losses you sustain. And yes, you will have losses. But the wins more than make up for that, making you profitable.
With Forex Nitty Gritty, you will only have to spend about 20 minutes a day trading. You will identify any new trades, and manage current trades. You will set entry prices, stop losses, and take profit orders. You will practise good money management rules that will increase your potential profit and lower your overall risk. And yes, it will only take you about 20 minutes a night.
Forex Nitty Gritty also includes optional daily videos that show various trade setups, to help you learn the market the right way. And videos teaching you the basics of forex, and forex trading. The Forex Nitty Gritty Insiders website has a lot of core information and training to help the new traders, or those of us that want to learn how to be more profitable.
Like I said, we tested FAP Turbo, and several other robots as well. And what we found out through our testing is that it doesn't work. Go ahead and review our testing of Fap Turbo, but don't buy it or any other robot unless you want to risk losing your account balance. Forex Nitty Gritty is not some lame automated trading system. It is a solid course with a great trading method that will help you learn Forex trading and be potentially profitable.
FOREX NITTY GRITTY SUMMARY
If you are new to trading in the Forex Market, or you've had problems being profitable, or you've ever had your account wiped out by those "Holy Grail" forex robots and automated trading systems, then Forex Nitty Gritty is for YOU. Learn Forex Nitty Gritty and you too can potentially generate consistent profits while learning how to be among the 5% of retail forex traders that are successful.
Happy Trading!
Monday, April 9, 2012
Don't worry-technical analysis will achieved with Automated Forex trading systems mark!
Forex (foreign exchange, Forex rates) means simply buying one currency and selling another at the same time. In other words, the currency of a country is exchanged for another. The currencies of the world is on a floating exchange rate, and dealt with everything in pairs euro/dollar, dollar/yen, etc. More than 85 percent of all daily transactions involve trading of the major currencies.
Forex trading requires continuous monitoring. You can win the forex market, if you can monitor the forex market is open all year and will be able to parse. Trade forex, you need a lot of research. Forex trading requires full-time effort. Not so easy to win the forex market only by being a trader at intervals.
If you are a full-time professional trader and intermittently, the forex market needs highly technical analysis and fundamental analysis. Do fundamental analysis is really much easier than doing the technical analysis.
A technical analysis is based on three assumptions:
1. the movement of the market considers everything
2. the movement of prices is determined,
3. history repeats.
Basic technical analysis should be considered as the study of historical market prices in order to forecast or even know with greater probability in what direction will move future values. Technical analysis requires various technical indicators, different types of charts, graphical methods and analytical methods.
Technical analysis takes a long time, concentration and patience. At the end of technical analysis, you have an idea when the forex market and when to sell forex in order to profit.
As a part time trader, you can't keep a lot of time for technical analysis. It is the job of full-time traders. But in that case, how could it ever part of winning trader forex market?
Forex market is growing faster and faster than any other market in the world. Many tools have been developed also for the forex market. The solution for merchants time part is to get the forex trading signals.
Trademarks are longitudinal indicators of trends in forex market. Breakouts, support and resistance levels, currency pairs, patterns folder near moving averages, Stochastics, construction lines, Fibonacci levels-application of these forex traders turn indicators make a profitable market entry. There are about 26 such indicators-reason for investors to rely on an experienced forex brokers.
In other words, Forex trade marks sale and purchase recommendations provided by any third party. The parties could be brokers, brokerage firms, analysts, traders, forex-related software tools, etc. Various places offer different brands, tips and trends for trading in the forex market. It is best to collect daily Forex signals from trusted sources. Combination of fundamental and technical analysis is the foundation of high precision signals Forex.
Another way, traders intermittently or must subscribe for alerts with each organisation expert forex or to have a software tool that will make technical analysis for them, and to give the signals.
If you subscribe to forex signals with any organization expert forex signals forex, cost anywhere from $ 50 to $ 200 per month. It is up to the individual trader to decide whether the cost is worth. I do not think that brands can take the position of trader training: tips, and if you don't have the expertise to analyze the tips, you should go back to books before using a service mark.
Coming now to the forex trading software tools, there are some tools that are available to you by the broker and also some independent tools (automated forex trading systems) which is independent on any of the brokers. These automated forex trading systems generate the signals for the day when they can buy the forex and when to sell the forex and place orders for your broker automatically without your presence
Comes with automated forex trading systems that create brands, it is more useful. Generally the tools provided by forex brokers will reduce only specific currencies, but this is not the case with independent forex automated trading systems. These tools will be marketed through the Internet and that very low and affordable price. There is no need to pay each month for these tools, it's just a one time purchase. There are tools usually do not cost more than $ 100.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Forex secrets-development of "Anti-Chaos" negotiation strategy and tactics in the Forex market (part II)
(See beginning of this article under name Forex Secrets - Developing the "anti-chaos" trading strategy and tactics at Forex market (Part I)
It is horrible to imagine what could happen to USD rate at the spontaneous market in this case. At the controllable market of Forex USD rate would fall down just by 1-2%.
I hope that my opponents, who deny the existence of a system controlling Forex market, do remember the elementary economical laws. The spontaneous market is a barometer that establishes the real price of goods on the basis of the demand and supply (in the given case, it is the real rate of exchange of any national currency).
The Episode #2 . The hurricane "Katrina" and the flood in USA on September 7, 2005. USD rate stably increases. Chronicle of events.
As the result of the dam (dike) debacle, several states in USA become submerged. The industry, agriculture and transport network were destroyed. There started panic not only among common inhabitants but among officials of various ranks as well. Hundreds and thousands of people perished. There were cases of looting. Many looters (and, maybe, just desperately hungry and thirsty people) were shot by soldiers of USA army. The government of USA declared this hurricane to be a disaster on a national scale. For the first time a new plan of civic defense was introduced (see "BBC. The total chronicle of events").
"Katrina" was bringing USA to ruin. Senators from Louisiana asked $250 milliards from the federal budget for getting over "Katrina" after-effects.
Thus, it is an illustrative example of the greatest natural cataclysms in USA in the last decades. Even the poorest country in the world - Haiti - provided the financial help for USA ($ 36 thousands). The help of Ukraine made 1 million of hrivnias , etc.
What did happen to USD rate at the controllable Forex market? Notwithstanding all economical laws and even against the common sense, USD rate increased!
Chart 8.7. EURO/USD pair movement (For view picture see notes in end of article)
Chart 8.8. GBP/USD pair movement (For view picture see notes in end of article)
Brief conclusions for traders .
As I think, the thesis that Forex has turned from the spontaneous market to the controllable one does not need further proofs. Hence, traders must introduce amendments into strategy and tactic of their work at Forex.
What are the conclusions, significant for traders, logically follow from these facts?
Under the new conditions of the controllable market, a trader must not follow the "crowd" (flock). As B. Williams, A. Elder and many other authors have fairly emphasized, the "crowd" pushes the price at any spontaneous market. On the contrary, at the organized Forex market orders must be opened in advance of Consortium's interests!
I try to find the core of a good sense in each technique of the successful work at Forex . Is it necessary to rediscover the well-known principles? There are many prosperous traders who openly and honestly present their methods of gaining profits at Forex . If their techniques are successful, it means that these authors have a thorough grasp of the problem in its essence.
However, in practice, each of the techniques sometimes brings profits, whereas in other cases it is disadvantageous. And it does not matter, whether this technique is developed by B. Williams or by a not celebrated but a successful trader.
Conclusion #1. It is necessary to clearly delineate the domains where a given technique does work and where it fails (as well as the corresponding reasons). In such a way we can clearly understand what of the method by a given trader is worthwhile to be used - as well as how and when to make advantage of it for our work at Forex .
Conclusion #2 . Your trading system must not be just a mixture (farrago) of various techniques. This rule is especially important for the beginners. After reading heaps of books on Forex , all of them make complaints about "such a mess in their heads instead of enlightenment".
Conclusion #3. A trader must develop his own trading system. In order to gain profit, the following steps must be taken:
a. you choose just any technique developed by any author-trader (e.g., mine or B. Williams's, or somebody's else);
b. you must get used to work with the demo account according to this technique to such extent of automatism that you "sense' it as your own initial (original) trading system of the work at Forex
c. Only after this you should start to study additional literature. You must clearly see what pointes, "borrowed" from other authors, can help you personally to work at Forex , to improve your trading system for getting extra profits.
Objectiveness of Forex turning from the spontaneous market into the controllable one. The pattern of this process
Any profitable business transits from the spontaneous to the controllable one. It is an objective stage in the evolution of business undertakings.
In each branch of a big and super profitable business the initial stage of the chaotic competitive straggle is already has been passed through (petroleum, gas, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, precious metals, arms traffic, etc.). At present all these areas are definitely divided between the principal participants. That is, there exist certain financially-industrial groupings, well-controllable and protected from intrusion of a concurrent.
The same concerns the biggest and most conservative area of business - i.e., its financial branch, the world market of currency exchange included. Can it be otherwise? Can "Chaos" rule the market where the turnover exceeds $1 trillion per day? Can the biggest banks and governments depend on "Chaos" - i.e., be dependable of the "off-floor" traders - such as me and you? Can these organizations be worried about the direction in which we (traders) could turn the trend of all national currencies at this or that second? It is ridiculous to imagine!
To realize the power of the grouping that has organized the "game" of Forex all over the world, we should refer to the thesis from the journal "Speculator". In June, 2001 the three biggest dealers at Forex market - Citibank, J.P. Morgan Chase и Deutsche Bank - together with Reuters Group PLC had started up the system Atriax . However, the latter did not meet competition and stopped operations in spring, 2002. The author of the paper just hinted that even the alliance of the 3 biggest world banks could not make any serious competition to Organizer of the "game" at Forex (to Consortium or somebody else).
In this connection, how one can take on trust the principal thesis by B. Williams concerning "Trading chaos" that rules Forex? What's important, all methods of this author issue from this postulate. The following conclusion by B. Williams's also raises doubts. He states that trends are created by traders, whereas brokers just realize these trends and place traders' orders. According to B. Williams, the fact that now trends are made rather "off-floor" than "on floor" (as it was earlier) permits detecting what next will happen at the market (see "Trading Chaos", Chapter 6).
So, to what extent can B. Williams's techniques be correct if their basis is principally erroneous? Let us enumerate the fundamental mistakes made in "Trading Chaos". It is necessary to facilitate understanding of the techniques and practical recommendations given by B. Williams concerning the work at Forex .
1. B. Williams sees Forex as a spontaneous market, uncontrollable by anybody. According to this author, it is chaos but not an organized system that would have its own strategy, tactic, techniques, goals, methods of fraud, etc.
2. B. Williams mentions the pair "trader + broker". However, unconsciously or deliberately, he has omitted the third participant of this very process. This is banks and the world financial system in general. Surely, this organization will not just take a detached view of the traders' arbitrary "game" with the basic world currencies (USD, EURO, GBP, CHF, etc.).
Let us now evolve B. Williams's idea by ourselves. Our aim is to demonstrate absurdity of his "chaos theory" applied to the up-to-date market of Forex.
· How brokers and banks market-makers can pay off profits from traders' deposits if the traders' total earnings would be bigger than the market-maker's profit in this period?
· Being in shoes of market-makers, National Banks, governments of leading countries of the world, etc., how will you conduct yourself on the eve of the news issue? For instance, after the publication of Michigan University Index, USD can "go up" by 150-200 points with respect to all national currencies. That is, in several hours dozens of milliards of USD will be redistributed. Somebody will earn the money, whereas somebody will lose it because of the difference in rates of exchange (quotations).
What will you do in the place of the biggest financial groupings? Would you just be sitting and taking sedative pills? Would you just be trying to guess what steps will be taken by professors of a Michigan University? Will 0.3% be added to the index previous value (91.4) or subtracted from it? What's important, this "difference" makes milliards of USD - for somebody! Possessing such capitals, would you just be sitting idly and waiting for God knows what? More probably, you will try to make this process controllable and predictable. Rather you will do your best to gain profit with the help of such indices and news. I think you will try to let the others lose their money.
· What does the theory of "chaos" at Forex represent by itself if Organizer of the "game" has trained all traders to act according to the stereotype?
a). To place stop-losses and postponed orders at the same places.
b). If the issued news are better than the prognostication, one must stake on "buy". Otherwise (if the news are worse than the prognostication), it is necessary to stake on "sell".
c). If a quicker moving average crosses the slower one upwards, the order must be opened on "buy". In the case of the downward crossover, the order must be opened on "sell".
d). In the case of divergence, one must try to work against the trend. B. Williams and other "classics" at least had to mention that it was basically absurd to work like this at the beginning of the trend and in the middle of it.
This is why the given chapter is named "Anti-trading chaos" - to be more precise, it is the anti-trading system.
Further I'll not dwell on absurdity of the chaos theory by B. Williams when applied to Forex . I hope it is quite clear. Any trader can find a lot of evidences of the fact that Forex is a controllable market. There are also many examples that prove fallacy of B. Williams's conclusion that traders form a trend and "push" it.
As I get it, the "game" of Forex and its rules in their essence are the following.
1. There is Organizer of the financial game (the Alligator) and participants (victims).
2. Organizer always tries to demonstrate: a). objectivity and honesty of the rules established by himself; b). simplicity of the analysis, predictability of the situations and the possibility of earning money easily and regularly by one of the numerous methods of the analysis (FA, TA, etc.).
3. All participants of the "game" are subjected to the same psychological treatment by Brokers, authors of numerical "classical" works on Forex and analysts via their sites and prognoses. That is, such specialists teach every trader to work as all others in the world do.
As the result, Organizer beforehand knows the traders' line of conduct in these or those situations. The percentage of "players"-losers is stable - about 90%.
4. A rapid growth in the number of fraudulent machinations developed by Brokers has become a logical continuation of the above-enumerated rules of the given game. Economists from Brokers have quickly grasped that the number 90% of traders-loses is very close to the figure 100%. What for will they send clients' transactions to the foreign market (the market-maker bank)? In fact, traders will lose all the same! Besides, it is possible to slightly "help" traders in their losing by "knocking down" stop-losses - all traders keep their stop-losses approximately at the same place. In addition, the following tricks can be done as well: the "slippage" (opening of transactions at a price much worse than the price at which the trader wanted to open the deal); computer "pending" at the beginning of the heavy movement in currency pairs. One can give many analogous examples - up to the undisguised fraudulent nonpayment of earned profits to traders.
These centers are also protected from the viewpoint of finances. If in flats the sums of orders of the traders who open transactions on "buy" and "sell" are approximately equal, Brokers can always hedge the difference between "buy" and "sell" with a market-maker under the condition of a heavy trend.
The only thing that cheats from Brokers are afraid of is the unmasking of methods of their work. Really, this will put an end to the afflux of new "victims"!
There are several sure signs of a fraudulent Brokers. In my educational course I enumerate some of such indications. However, here I give only one characteristic (traders should think about it well). If Brokers has one point of spread, you should calculate expenses on the marginal trade, in detail described in all "classical" manuals of Forex . For instance, let it be thought that you open the order for one lot. Forex Brokers supposedly buys EURO to the sum of $ 100 thousands for you. When you close the order, Forex Brokers supposedly transfer EURO to USD again. Thus, if you open 10 deals with EURO/USD pair during a day, your Forex Brokers is supposed to send money abroad and get it back 10 times, buying EURO for USD and v.v. All these transactions must be made exceptionally for you! Is it realistic?
In a next-door bank you should ask the conditions for the transfer of $100 thousands abroad and back. You will learn the cost of the commission for such services and the time required for this transaction (in half a day, the next day, etc.). Here I do not mention the papers that must be prepared for each transfer. I also say nothing about the time required for collecting all signatures.
I wonder, during this period of time what changes will occur in EURO/USD rate as the latter is altering every second?
5. To earn regularly at Forex, you have to master yourself. That is, a trading scheme must be developed. According to this scheme you will work against "generally accepted" rules. As it is already mentioned, these rules are popularized by Organizer of the game at Forex . Sticking to these rules, more than 90% of traders all over the world lose their money.
6. Developing my trading system, I have made use of numerous generally-recognized techniques of the work at Forex (by B. Williams, etc.). Surely, there is a kernel of good sense in any technique that enables earning money - even if in 50% of cases. Therefore, the trader's task is to differentiate the conditions, under which a given technique can provide profit. It is also necessary to understand where, when and why this technique yields a loss to the trader. Naturally, a trader must use only this first part of the system, where one can gain profit.
7. For the development of your own trading system, you must do your best to organically integrate different techniques, profitable at Forex. Various methods of giving analysis to Forex from different viewpoints do help us to more thoroughly and profoundly understand this market and, consequently, to gain profit regularly.
8. The game of Forex is widely spread all over the world. In addition to speculators, there are other participants in Forex - e.g., individuals who need to exchange currency for their business. All these factors provide an objective opportunity to gain profits bigger (and more regularly) than in any other financial game of the world.
9. Therefore, Forex gives a real opportunity to get into the principally new financial market and to become a really independent. Anybody can be engaged in trading at any point in the world. For sure, a State, much as it would want it, cannot deprive a trader of his production facilities because in this area gaining of profit depends just on one's techniques and skill.
10. Forex gives you just a chance to earn money. However, not everybody can learn how to gain real profit. Even after having mastered the fundamentals of making money at Forex , a trader needs to learn a lot of additional factors in order to transform his potential abilities into real money. In this connection the following aspects are very important.
a). the psychological stability (the absence of fear and hazard, the ability to work automatically at the subconscious level, etc);
b). a reliable broker (the trader's profits, being virtual, materialize only if you can convert it into real money at any second);
c). self-perfection via mastering new techniques of gaining profit, learning from an experienced instructor and due to exchanging opinions with other traders;
d). the possibility of obtaining money from the investor for the asset management. This gives the opportunity to proceed from the level of one's own deposit of several hundreds or thousands of USD to the principally new level of the work at Forex. In this way one can simultaneously reinvest a part of one's profits into the deposit and to spend money on heightening of one's own well-being. There is a simple example. At mini- Forex , many traders do not earn a lot of money: even if a trader has doubled his deposit in a month, his profit is small (e. g., by making $100 out of $50). Besides, a part of it he must take off from the deposit for the daily needs. I'll not give examples of large deposits because the tactics of work with them are principally different - as well as the percentage of profit.
11. Not everybody can cover a distance from the chance (the dream) to its realization - i.e., to making real money at Forex . As a trader, here you work against Organizer of this game, who is the professional. That is, to earn money regularly by taking it away from Organizer, one must become the professional himself. Do not hurry to open a real account at least till the time when you will learn to do the following:
a). As B. Williams himself, in several minutes to clearly see two possible alternatives of currency pair movement at the beginning of each session. Correspondingly, you must develop two business plans, where points of input into the market and output from it must be clearly designated.
b). To work out one's own tactic of the work with the demo account at Forex to perfection. The aim is to augment the demo account at least 2.5-3 times in a month.
c). To develop the long-term and intermediate strategies (not less than a month and a week, respectively) - as well as the short-term tactic (the intra-day trading session). Acquisition of this knowledge will help you to gain profit.
d). After opening of the real account, at the beginning you must work only with trends (under the conditions of flats you must deal with demo accounts). It is necessary to clearly distinguish one from another at the beginning of trading.
e). You must choose two ally currency pairs and work with them continuously, accumulating experience.
12. There can be reasons why your demo account does not augment regularly (in particular, maybe you are too busy at your main job). In this case, you better forget about Forex ! You must not open a real account there. It means that Forex is not intended for you.
By the way, there is completely nothing humiliating in the inability to make money at Forex . Some people do not understand technology, or literature. Others do not come to know fine arts, politics or sports, etc. Does anybody consider oneself inferior because of this reason? Surely, not at all!
Analogously, I perfectly well realize that the reaction to the last two items of my vision of the game at Forex can be inadequate. It will stimulate an immediate tide of slander and lies concerning me and my book. The reason is that I'm not an employee of BROKER but a trader. I try to understand recent rules of the game at Forex, its mechanisms and to explain them to others.
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It is horrible to imagine what could happen to USD rate at the spontaneous market in this case. At the controllable market of Forex USD rate would fall down just by 1-2%.
I hope that my opponents, who deny the existence of a system controlling Forex market, do remember the elementary economical laws. The spontaneous market is a barometer that establishes the real price of goods on the basis of the demand and supply (in the given case, it is the real rate of exchange of any national currency).
The Episode #2 . The hurricane "Katrina" and the flood in USA on September 7, 2005. USD rate stably increases. Chronicle of events.
As the result of the dam (dike) debacle, several states in USA become submerged. The industry, agriculture and transport network were destroyed. There started panic not only among common inhabitants but among officials of various ranks as well. Hundreds and thousands of people perished. There were cases of looting. Many looters (and, maybe, just desperately hungry and thirsty people) were shot by soldiers of USA army. The government of USA declared this hurricane to be a disaster on a national scale. For the first time a new plan of civic defense was introduced (see "BBC. The total chronicle of events").
"Katrina" was bringing USA to ruin. Senators from Louisiana asked $250 milliards from the federal budget for getting over "Katrina" after-effects.
Thus, it is an illustrative example of the greatest natural cataclysms in USA in the last decades. Even the poorest country in the world - Haiti - provided the financial help for USA ($ 36 thousands). The help of Ukraine made 1 million of hrivnias , etc.
What did happen to USD rate at the controllable Forex market? Notwithstanding all economical laws and even against the common sense, USD rate increased!
Chart 8.7. EURO/USD pair movement (For view picture see notes in end of article)
Chart 8.8. GBP/USD pair movement (For view picture see notes in end of article)
Brief conclusions for traders .
As I think, the thesis that Forex has turned from the spontaneous market to the controllable one does not need further proofs. Hence, traders must introduce amendments into strategy and tactic of their work at Forex.
What are the conclusions, significant for traders, logically follow from these facts?
Under the new conditions of the controllable market, a trader must not follow the "crowd" (flock). As B. Williams, A. Elder and many other authors have fairly emphasized, the "crowd" pushes the price at any spontaneous market. On the contrary, at the organized Forex market orders must be opened in advance of Consortium's interests!
I try to find the core of a good sense in each technique of the successful work at Forex . Is it necessary to rediscover the well-known principles? There are many prosperous traders who openly and honestly present their methods of gaining profits at Forex . If their techniques are successful, it means that these authors have a thorough grasp of the problem in its essence.
However, in practice, each of the techniques sometimes brings profits, whereas in other cases it is disadvantageous. And it does not matter, whether this technique is developed by B. Williams or by a not celebrated but a successful trader.
Conclusion #1. It is necessary to clearly delineate the domains where a given technique does work and where it fails (as well as the corresponding reasons). In such a way we can clearly understand what of the method by a given trader is worthwhile to be used - as well as how and when to make advantage of it for our work at Forex .
Conclusion #2 . Your trading system must not be just a mixture (farrago) of various techniques. This rule is especially important for the beginners. After reading heaps of books on Forex , all of them make complaints about "such a mess in their heads instead of enlightenment".
Conclusion #3. A trader must develop his own trading system. In order to gain profit, the following steps must be taken:
a. you choose just any technique developed by any author-trader (e.g., mine or B. Williams's, or somebody's else);
b. you must get used to work with the demo account according to this technique to such extent of automatism that you "sense' it as your own initial (original) trading system of the work at Forex
c. Only after this you should start to study additional literature. You must clearly see what pointes, "borrowed" from other authors, can help you personally to work at Forex , to improve your trading system for getting extra profits.
Objectiveness of Forex turning from the spontaneous market into the controllable one. The pattern of this process
Any profitable business transits from the spontaneous to the controllable one. It is an objective stage in the evolution of business undertakings.
In each branch of a big and super profitable business the initial stage of the chaotic competitive straggle is already has been passed through (petroleum, gas, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, precious metals, arms traffic, etc.). At present all these areas are definitely divided between the principal participants. That is, there exist certain financially-industrial groupings, well-controllable and protected from intrusion of a concurrent.
The same concerns the biggest and most conservative area of business - i.e., its financial branch, the world market of currency exchange included. Can it be otherwise? Can "Chaos" rule the market where the turnover exceeds $1 trillion per day? Can the biggest banks and governments depend on "Chaos" - i.e., be dependable of the "off-floor" traders - such as me and you? Can these organizations be worried about the direction in which we (traders) could turn the trend of all national currencies at this or that second? It is ridiculous to imagine!
To realize the power of the grouping that has organized the "game" of Forex all over the world, we should refer to the thesis from the journal "Speculator". In June, 2001 the three biggest dealers at Forex market - Citibank, J.P. Morgan Chase и Deutsche Bank - together with Reuters Group PLC had started up the system Atriax . However, the latter did not meet competition and stopped operations in spring, 2002. The author of the paper just hinted that even the alliance of the 3 biggest world banks could not make any serious competition to Organizer of the "game" at Forex (to Consortium or somebody else).
In this connection, how one can take on trust the principal thesis by B. Williams concerning "Trading chaos" that rules Forex? What's important, all methods of this author issue from this postulate. The following conclusion by B. Williams's also raises doubts. He states that trends are created by traders, whereas brokers just realize these trends and place traders' orders. According to B. Williams, the fact that now trends are made rather "off-floor" than "on floor" (as it was earlier) permits detecting what next will happen at the market (see "Trading Chaos", Chapter 6).
So, to what extent can B. Williams's techniques be correct if their basis is principally erroneous? Let us enumerate the fundamental mistakes made in "Trading Chaos". It is necessary to facilitate understanding of the techniques and practical recommendations given by B. Williams concerning the work at Forex .
1. B. Williams sees Forex as a spontaneous market, uncontrollable by anybody. According to this author, it is chaos but not an organized system that would have its own strategy, tactic, techniques, goals, methods of fraud, etc.
2. B. Williams mentions the pair "trader + broker". However, unconsciously or deliberately, he has omitted the third participant of this very process. This is banks and the world financial system in general. Surely, this organization will not just take a detached view of the traders' arbitrary "game" with the basic world currencies (USD, EURO, GBP, CHF, etc.).
Let us now evolve B. Williams's idea by ourselves. Our aim is to demonstrate absurdity of his "chaos theory" applied to the up-to-date market of Forex.
· How brokers and banks market-makers can pay off profits from traders' deposits if the traders' total earnings would be bigger than the market-maker's profit in this period?
· Being in shoes of market-makers, National Banks, governments of leading countries of the world, etc., how will you conduct yourself on the eve of the news issue? For instance, after the publication of Michigan University Index, USD can "go up" by 150-200 points with respect to all national currencies. That is, in several hours dozens of milliards of USD will be redistributed. Somebody will earn the money, whereas somebody will lose it because of the difference in rates of exchange (quotations).
What will you do in the place of the biggest financial groupings? Would you just be sitting and taking sedative pills? Would you just be trying to guess what steps will be taken by professors of a Michigan University? Will 0.3% be added to the index previous value (91.4) or subtracted from it? What's important, this "difference" makes milliards of USD - for somebody! Possessing such capitals, would you just be sitting idly and waiting for God knows what? More probably, you will try to make this process controllable and predictable. Rather you will do your best to gain profit with the help of such indices and news. I think you will try to let the others lose their money.
· What does the theory of "chaos" at Forex represent by itself if Organizer of the "game" has trained all traders to act according to the stereotype?
a). To place stop-losses and postponed orders at the same places.
b). If the issued news are better than the prognostication, one must stake on "buy". Otherwise (if the news are worse than the prognostication), it is necessary to stake on "sell".
c). If a quicker moving average crosses the slower one upwards, the order must be opened on "buy". In the case of the downward crossover, the order must be opened on "sell".
d). In the case of divergence, one must try to work against the trend. B. Williams and other "classics" at least had to mention that it was basically absurd to work like this at the beginning of the trend and in the middle of it.
This is why the given chapter is named "Anti-trading chaos" - to be more precise, it is the anti-trading system.
Further I'll not dwell on absurdity of the chaos theory by B. Williams when applied to Forex . I hope it is quite clear. Any trader can find a lot of evidences of the fact that Forex is a controllable market. There are also many examples that prove fallacy of B. Williams's conclusion that traders form a trend and "push" it.
As I get it, the "game" of Forex and its rules in their essence are the following.
1. There is Organizer of the financial game (the Alligator) and participants (victims).
2. Organizer always tries to demonstrate: a). objectivity and honesty of the rules established by himself; b). simplicity of the analysis, predictability of the situations and the possibility of earning money easily and regularly by one of the numerous methods of the analysis (FA, TA, etc.).
3. All participants of the "game" are subjected to the same psychological treatment by Brokers, authors of numerical "classical" works on Forex and analysts via their sites and prognoses. That is, such specialists teach every trader to work as all others in the world do.
As the result, Organizer beforehand knows the traders' line of conduct in these or those situations. The percentage of "players"-losers is stable - about 90%.
4. A rapid growth in the number of fraudulent machinations developed by Brokers has become a logical continuation of the above-enumerated rules of the given game. Economists from Brokers have quickly grasped that the number 90% of traders-loses is very close to the figure 100%. What for will they send clients' transactions to the foreign market (the market-maker bank)? In fact, traders will lose all the same! Besides, it is possible to slightly "help" traders in their losing by "knocking down" stop-losses - all traders keep their stop-losses approximately at the same place. In addition, the following tricks can be done as well: the "slippage" (opening of transactions at a price much worse than the price at which the trader wanted to open the deal); computer "pending" at the beginning of the heavy movement in currency pairs. One can give many analogous examples - up to the undisguised fraudulent nonpayment of earned profits to traders.
These centers are also protected from the viewpoint of finances. If in flats the sums of orders of the traders who open transactions on "buy" and "sell" are approximately equal, Brokers can always hedge the difference between "buy" and "sell" with a market-maker under the condition of a heavy trend.
The only thing that cheats from Brokers are afraid of is the unmasking of methods of their work. Really, this will put an end to the afflux of new "victims"!
There are several sure signs of a fraudulent Brokers. In my educational course I enumerate some of such indications. However, here I give only one characteristic (traders should think about it well). If Brokers has one point of spread, you should calculate expenses on the marginal trade, in detail described in all "classical" manuals of Forex . For instance, let it be thought that you open the order for one lot. Forex Brokers supposedly buys EURO to the sum of $ 100 thousands for you. When you close the order, Forex Brokers supposedly transfer EURO to USD again. Thus, if you open 10 deals with EURO/USD pair during a day, your Forex Brokers is supposed to send money abroad and get it back 10 times, buying EURO for USD and v.v. All these transactions must be made exceptionally for you! Is it realistic?
In a next-door bank you should ask the conditions for the transfer of $100 thousands abroad and back. You will learn the cost of the commission for such services and the time required for this transaction (in half a day, the next day, etc.). Here I do not mention the papers that must be prepared for each transfer. I also say nothing about the time required for collecting all signatures.
I wonder, during this period of time what changes will occur in EURO/USD rate as the latter is altering every second?
5. To earn regularly at Forex, you have to master yourself. That is, a trading scheme must be developed. According to this scheme you will work against "generally accepted" rules. As it is already mentioned, these rules are popularized by Organizer of the game at Forex . Sticking to these rules, more than 90% of traders all over the world lose their money.
6. Developing my trading system, I have made use of numerous generally-recognized techniques of the work at Forex (by B. Williams, etc.). Surely, there is a kernel of good sense in any technique that enables earning money - even if in 50% of cases. Therefore, the trader's task is to differentiate the conditions, under which a given technique can provide profit. It is also necessary to understand where, when and why this technique yields a loss to the trader. Naturally, a trader must use only this first part of the system, where one can gain profit.
7. For the development of your own trading system, you must do your best to organically integrate different techniques, profitable at Forex. Various methods of giving analysis to Forex from different viewpoints do help us to more thoroughly and profoundly understand this market and, consequently, to gain profit regularly.
8. The game of Forex is widely spread all over the world. In addition to speculators, there are other participants in Forex - e.g., individuals who need to exchange currency for their business. All these factors provide an objective opportunity to gain profits bigger (and more regularly) than in any other financial game of the world.
9. Therefore, Forex gives a real opportunity to get into the principally new financial market and to become a really independent. Anybody can be engaged in trading at any point in the world. For sure, a State, much as it would want it, cannot deprive a trader of his production facilities because in this area gaining of profit depends just on one's techniques and skill.
10. Forex gives you just a chance to earn money. However, not everybody can learn how to gain real profit. Even after having mastered the fundamentals of making money at Forex , a trader needs to learn a lot of additional factors in order to transform his potential abilities into real money. In this connection the following aspects are very important.
a). the psychological stability (the absence of fear and hazard, the ability to work automatically at the subconscious level, etc);
b). a reliable broker (the trader's profits, being virtual, materialize only if you can convert it into real money at any second);
c). self-perfection via mastering new techniques of gaining profit, learning from an experienced instructor and due to exchanging opinions with other traders;
d). the possibility of obtaining money from the investor for the asset management. This gives the opportunity to proceed from the level of one's own deposit of several hundreds or thousands of USD to the principally new level of the work at Forex. In this way one can simultaneously reinvest a part of one's profits into the deposit and to spend money on heightening of one's own well-being. There is a simple example. At mini- Forex , many traders do not earn a lot of money: even if a trader has doubled his deposit in a month, his profit is small (e. g., by making $100 out of $50). Besides, a part of it he must take off from the deposit for the daily needs. I'll not give examples of large deposits because the tactics of work with them are principally different - as well as the percentage of profit.
11. Not everybody can cover a distance from the chance (the dream) to its realization - i.e., to making real money at Forex . As a trader, here you work against Organizer of this game, who is the professional. That is, to earn money regularly by taking it away from Organizer, one must become the professional himself. Do not hurry to open a real account at least till the time when you will learn to do the following:
a). As B. Williams himself, in several minutes to clearly see two possible alternatives of currency pair movement at the beginning of each session. Correspondingly, you must develop two business plans, where points of input into the market and output from it must be clearly designated.
b). To work out one's own tactic of the work with the demo account at Forex to perfection. The aim is to augment the demo account at least 2.5-3 times in a month.
c). To develop the long-term and intermediate strategies (not less than a month and a week, respectively) - as well as the short-term tactic (the intra-day trading session). Acquisition of this knowledge will help you to gain profit.
d). After opening of the real account, at the beginning you must work only with trends (under the conditions of flats you must deal with demo accounts). It is necessary to clearly distinguish one from another at the beginning of trading.
e). You must choose two ally currency pairs and work with them continuously, accumulating experience.
12. There can be reasons why your demo account does not augment regularly (in particular, maybe you are too busy at your main job). In this case, you better forget about Forex ! You must not open a real account there. It means that Forex is not intended for you.
By the way, there is completely nothing humiliating in the inability to make money at Forex . Some people do not understand technology, or literature. Others do not come to know fine arts, politics or sports, etc. Does anybody consider oneself inferior because of this reason? Surely, not at all!
Analogously, I perfectly well realize that the reaction to the last two items of my vision of the game at Forex can be inadequate. It will stimulate an immediate tide of slander and lies concerning me and my book. The reason is that I'm not an employee of BROKER but a trader. I try to understand recent rules of the game at Forex, its mechanisms and to explain them to others.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Why you need a trading system to succeed-a story of two traders Forex Forex starts now
With whatever field or investment you'd like to take on, there are always tools and resources available to assist you. And this is especially true when it comes to Forex trading. The currency market can be quite overwhelming, and becoming a successful Forex trader does not come from pure luck. There are simply too many factors that can affect the direction that currency prices will move toward.
Here are two important realities to consider:
1. Most newbies try to take on Forex using no assistance or tools. (Most newbies lose all of their money).
2. Most successful traders use a Forex trading system to help them (Successful traders make VERY good money in Forex).
But even with these realities commonly known, still try to attack newbies Forex blind, basing their buying and selling decisions on limited knowledge and experience. It is not until they have lost all of their trading funds that they consider that it probably would have been smarter to invest in a Forex trading system and software from the beginning. Don't make the same mistake. If you want to be successful with currency trading (ie. making consistent profitable trades) then it is highly recommended that you investigate the many Forex trading systems and software on the market.
Let me illustrate further with a story of about two Forex traders:
Tom and Jim have been reading about Forex a lot recently. Both have been spending hours online trying to understand what currency trading is and how (and if) they can make some quick profits. All of the marketing ads that they read say that you can increase your money very, very quickly. Sure, there's some risk involved, but the potential rewards are just too good to pass up. So they both decide to try out Forex and see if they can make a go of it.
Both guys are highly motivated and want to give their best chance in Forex. So each of them is going to invest $ 1000 of their savings into currency trading. If they lose the $ 1000, then they will quit Forex and re-evaluate whether or not to try again in the future. By investing a thousand bucks, both have shown that they are fully committed to making Forex work for them.
Starting Out:
Tom takes his entire $ 1000 and transfers it into a retail online Forex broker. Tom will be making all of his trading decisions on his own. He will be doing his own research and will lurking on Forex forums and blogs to see if he can get some much needed tips.
Jim goes a different route. Although he is just as motivated as Tom, he is also aware of the complexity of the Forex market and realizes that he just doesn't have much experience at this point. So he takes $ 900 and transfers it to the same retail Forex broker as Tom. He saves the remaining $ 100 in order to get access to tools and resources (ie. Forex trading systems and software) to help him make better trades. He used to day trade stocks and knows first hand the edge that these tools and resources can have (especially if you are just learning the ropes).
Month 1:
Tom jumped right into currency trading. His first trade started off in the positive, but quickly went south. Before he could post his sell request, he had lost $ 100. Although he did have some minor profitable trades, overall his trading history was very similar to his first trade. Many trades started off good, but for some reason (that he just didn't have the experience or knowledge to understand), then would eventually trend down. At the end of his first month trading currencies, Tom's trading account was down to $ 400.
Jim, did a little bit of research and found Forex Ambush. This was a membership website that provided its members winning signals. What really caught his eye was that they boldly stated that their trading signals were 99.9% accurate. How could they make such a bold statement? Jim did some more digging and found lots of positive feedback from current members. And there was one more thing that finally swayed Jim into giving Forex Ambush a try: they offered a 7-day trial at a fraction of their normal price.
For less than twenty bucks, Jim had seven days to try out Forex Ambush and their 99.9% accurate trading signals. He was really excited. He had $ 900 in Forex trading account and his still had $ 80 + to use in case Forex Ambush didn't help.
The next day Jim received an email with a trading signal from Forex Ambush. He was still very new to Forex, but with the bold accuracy statement still in his mind, Jim put in his order just as the trading signal specified. When his transaction closed later that day, Jim had made a $ 145 profit. He was very excited! After his 7-day trial ended, Jim went ahead and signed up to be a permanent member of Forex Ambush. Although not every trading signal resulted in profits, almost all of them did. And the losses that he did have were very small. After a month, Jim had $ 1750 in his Forex trading account.
Month 2:
Tom was feeling deflated. Within a month, he had gone from $ 1000 to $ 400. In order to try to make back his money, he did higher valued trades that were risky Versie. The end result: he was down to $ 0 before the month had even ended. Tom was angry and frustrated. He swore off ever doing Forex again, telling anyone that would listen that it was a scam and that they should save their money.
Jim, on the other hand, was on cloud nine. He had turned his initial $ 900 and turned it into $ 1750. He was still getting the daily email from Ambush with the Forex trading signals, but he was also testing out a few other Forex trading systems. After a month of profitable trades, he had a fantastic understand on the Forex market and was full of confidence. By the end of month 2, Jim's trading account was now at $ 2355.
And the most remarkable thing was that Jim was doing all of this in his spare time. He still had a full-time job to cover his living expenses. Everything he made in Forex was extra. He has been contemplating quitting his job and trading Forex on a full-time basis. But for now, he's happy for the stability his current job brings him and is enjoying the benefits that his "side" money in Forex is providing him.
The moral of the story: if you want to succeed at anything that you have very little knowledge and experience with, it is highly recommended that you invest in the tools and resources to maximize your chances of success.
You need to ask yourself: do you want to be like Tom, poor, angry, and swearing that Forex is just a scam? Or would you rather be like Jim, investing in tools to help you succeed and enjoying the profits that those tools will help you make? If you are serious about making money with Forex, then you owe it to yourself to find a Forex trading system that will give you the winning edge.
Want to learn more about a Forex trading system Forex Ambush like?
Click Here to visit my Forex Trading Systems For Beginners blog to get more info on the importance of using Forex tools in order to SKYROCKET your chances of making money with currency trading. You can also read my "No-Holds Barred" review of three of the best Forex products that help traders make money with Forex.
Here are two important realities to consider:
1. Most newbies try to take on Forex using no assistance or tools. (Most newbies lose all of their money).
2. Most successful traders use a Forex trading system to help them (Successful traders make VERY good money in Forex).
But even with these realities commonly known, still try to attack newbies Forex blind, basing their buying and selling decisions on limited knowledge and experience. It is not until they have lost all of their trading funds that they consider that it probably would have been smarter to invest in a Forex trading system and software from the beginning. Don't make the same mistake. If you want to be successful with currency trading (ie. making consistent profitable trades) then it is highly recommended that you investigate the many Forex trading systems and software on the market.
Let me illustrate further with a story of about two Forex traders:
Tom and Jim have been reading about Forex a lot recently. Both have been spending hours online trying to understand what currency trading is and how (and if) they can make some quick profits. All of the marketing ads that they read say that you can increase your money very, very quickly. Sure, there's some risk involved, but the potential rewards are just too good to pass up. So they both decide to try out Forex and see if they can make a go of it.
Both guys are highly motivated and want to give their best chance in Forex. So each of them is going to invest $ 1000 of their savings into currency trading. If they lose the $ 1000, then they will quit Forex and re-evaluate whether or not to try again in the future. By investing a thousand bucks, both have shown that they are fully committed to making Forex work for them.
Starting Out:
Tom takes his entire $ 1000 and transfers it into a retail online Forex broker. Tom will be making all of his trading decisions on his own. He will be doing his own research and will lurking on Forex forums and blogs to see if he can get some much needed tips.
Jim goes a different route. Although he is just as motivated as Tom, he is also aware of the complexity of the Forex market and realizes that he just doesn't have much experience at this point. So he takes $ 900 and transfers it to the same retail Forex broker as Tom. He saves the remaining $ 100 in order to get access to tools and resources (ie. Forex trading systems and software) to help him make better trades. He used to day trade stocks and knows first hand the edge that these tools and resources can have (especially if you are just learning the ropes).
Month 1:
Tom jumped right into currency trading. His first trade started off in the positive, but quickly went south. Before he could post his sell request, he had lost $ 100. Although he did have some minor profitable trades, overall his trading history was very similar to his first trade. Many trades started off good, but for some reason (that he just didn't have the experience or knowledge to understand), then would eventually trend down. At the end of his first month trading currencies, Tom's trading account was down to $ 400.
Jim, did a little bit of research and found Forex Ambush. This was a membership website that provided its members winning signals. What really caught his eye was that they boldly stated that their trading signals were 99.9% accurate. How could they make such a bold statement? Jim did some more digging and found lots of positive feedback from current members. And there was one more thing that finally swayed Jim into giving Forex Ambush a try: they offered a 7-day trial at a fraction of their normal price.
For less than twenty bucks, Jim had seven days to try out Forex Ambush and their 99.9% accurate trading signals. He was really excited. He had $ 900 in Forex trading account and his still had $ 80 + to use in case Forex Ambush didn't help.
The next day Jim received an email with a trading signal from Forex Ambush. He was still very new to Forex, but with the bold accuracy statement still in his mind, Jim put in his order just as the trading signal specified. When his transaction closed later that day, Jim had made a $ 145 profit. He was very excited! After his 7-day trial ended, Jim went ahead and signed up to be a permanent member of Forex Ambush. Although not every trading signal resulted in profits, almost all of them did. And the losses that he did have were very small. After a month, Jim had $ 1750 in his Forex trading account.
Month 2:
Tom was feeling deflated. Within a month, he had gone from $ 1000 to $ 400. In order to try to make back his money, he did higher valued trades that were risky Versie. The end result: he was down to $ 0 before the month had even ended. Tom was angry and frustrated. He swore off ever doing Forex again, telling anyone that would listen that it was a scam and that they should save their money.
Jim, on the other hand, was on cloud nine. He had turned his initial $ 900 and turned it into $ 1750. He was still getting the daily email from Ambush with the Forex trading signals, but he was also testing out a few other Forex trading systems. After a month of profitable trades, he had a fantastic understand on the Forex market and was full of confidence. By the end of month 2, Jim's trading account was now at $ 2355.
And the most remarkable thing was that Jim was doing all of this in his spare time. He still had a full-time job to cover his living expenses. Everything he made in Forex was extra. He has been contemplating quitting his job and trading Forex on a full-time basis. But for now, he's happy for the stability his current job brings him and is enjoying the benefits that his "side" money in Forex is providing him.
The moral of the story: if you want to succeed at anything that you have very little knowledge and experience with, it is highly recommended that you invest in the tools and resources to maximize your chances of success.
You need to ask yourself: do you want to be like Tom, poor, angry, and swearing that Forex is just a scam? Or would you rather be like Jim, investing in tools to help you succeed and enjoying the profits that those tools will help you make? If you are serious about making money with Forex, then you owe it to yourself to find a Forex trading system that will give you the winning edge.
Want to learn more about a Forex trading system Forex Ambush like?
Click Here to visit my Forex Trading Systems For Beginners blog to get more info on the importance of using Forex tools in order to SKYROCKET your chances of making money with currency trading. You can also read my "No-Holds Barred" review of three of the best Forex products that help traders make money with Forex.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Forex Trading - Getting Started
Forex Trading: a Beginner's Guide
The forex market is the world's largest international currency trading market operating non-stop during the working week. Most forex trading is done by professionals such as bankers. Generally forex trading is done through a forex broker - but there is nothing to stop anyone trading currencies. Forex currency trading allows buyers and sellers to buy the currency they need for their business and sellers who have earned currency to exchange what they have for a more convenient currency. The world's largest banks dominate forex and according to a survey in The Wall Street Journal Europe, the ten most active traders who are engaged in forex trading account for almost 73% of trading volume.
However, a sizeable proportion of the remainder of forex trading is speculative with traders building up an investment which they wish to liquidate at some stage for profit. While a currency may increase or decrease in value relative to a wide range of currencies, all forex trading transactions are based upon currency pairs. So, although the Euro may be 'strong' against a basket of currencies, traders will be trading in just one currency pair and may simply concern themselves with the Euro/US Dollar ( EUR/USD) ratio. Changes in relative values of currencies may be gradual or triggered by specific events such as are unfolding at the time of writing this - the toxic debt crisis.
Because the markets for currencies are global, the volumes traded every day are vast. For the large corporate investors, the great benefits of trading on Forex are:
Enormous liquidity - over $4 trillion per day, that's $4,000,000,000. This means that there's always someone ready to trade with you
Every one of the world's free currencies are traded - this means that you may trade the currency you want at any time
Twenty four - hour trading during the 5-day working week
Operations are global which mean that you can trade with any part of the world at any time
From the point of view of the smaller trader there's lots of benefits too, such as:
A rapidly-changing market - that's one which is always changing and offering the chance to make money
Very well developed mechanisms for controlling risk
Ability to go long or short - this means that you can make money either in rising or falling markets
Leverage trading - meaning that you can benefit from large-volume trading while having a relatively-low capital base
Lots of options for zero-commission trading
How the forex Market Works
As forex is all about foreign exchange, all transactions are made up from a currency pair - say, for instance, the Euro and the US Dollar. The basic tool for trading forex is the exchange rate which is expressed as a ratio between the values of the two currencies such as EUR/USD = 1.4086. This value, which is referred to as the 'forex rate' means that, at that particular time, one Euro would be worth 1.4086 US Dollars. This ratio is always expressed to 4 decimal places which means that you could see a forex rate of EUR/USD = 1.4086 or EUR/USD = 1.4087 but never EUR/USD = 1.40865. The rightmost digit of this ratio is referred to as a 'pip'. So, a change from EUR/USD = 1.4086 to EUR/USD = 1.4088 would be referred to as a change of 2 pips. One pip, therefore is the smallest unit of trade.
With the forex rate at EUR/USD = 1.4086, an investor purchasing 1000 Euros using dollars would pay $1,408.60. If the forex rate then changed to EUR/USD = 1.5020, the investor could sell their 1000 Euros for $1,502.00 and bank the $93.40 as profit. If this doesn't seem to be large amount to you, you have to put the sum into context. With a rising or falling market, the forex rate does not simply change in a uniform way but oscillates and profits can be taken many times per day as a rate oscillates around a trend.
When you're expecting the value EUR/USD to fall, you might trade the other way by selling Euros for dollars and buying then back when the forex rate has changed to your advantage.
Is forex Risky?
When you trade on forex as in any form of currency trading, you're in the business of currency speculation and it is just that - speculation. This means that there is some risk involved in forex currency trading as in any business but you might and should, take steps to minimise this. You can always set a limit to the downside of any trade, that means to define the maximum loss that you are prepared to accept if the market goes against you - and it will on occasions.
The best insurance against losing your shirt on the forex market is to set out to understand what you're doing totally. Search the internet for a good forex trading tutorial and study it in detail- a bit of good forex education can go a long way!. When there's bits you don't understand, look for a good forex trading forum and ask lots and lots of questions. Many of the people who habitually answer your queries on this will have a good forex trading blog and this will probably not only give you answers to your questions but also provide lots of links to good sites. Be vigilant, however, watch out for forex trading scams. Don't be too quick to part with your money and investigate anything very well before you shell out any hard-earned!
The forex Trading Systems
While you may be right in being cautious about any forex trading system that's advertised, there are some good ones around. Most of them either utilise forex charts and by means of these, identify forex trading signals which tell the trader when to buy or sell. These signals will be made up of a particular change in a forex rate or a trend and these will have been devised by a forex trader who has studied long-term trends in the market so as to identify valid signals when they occur. Many of the systems will use forex trading software which identifies such signals from data inputs which are gathered automatically from market information sources. Some utilise automated forex trading software which can trigger trades automatically when the signals tell it to do so. If these sound too good to be true to you, look around for online forex trading systems which will allow you undertake some dummy trading to test them out. by doing this you can get some forex trading training by giving them a spin before you put real money on the table.
How Much do you Need to Start off with?
This is a bit of a 'How long is a piece of string?' question but there are ways for to be beginner to dip a toe into the water without needing a fortune to start with. The minimum trading size for most trades on forex is usually 100,000 units of any currency and this volume is referred to as a standard "lot". However, there are many firms which offer the facility to purchase in dramatically-smaller lots than this and a bit of internet searching will soon locate these. There's many adverts quoting only a couple of hundred dollars to get going! You will often see the term acciones trading forex and this is just a general term which covers the small guy trading forex. Small-scale trading facilities such as these are often called as forex mini trading.
Where do You Start?
The single most obvious answer is of course - on the internet! Online forex trading gives you direct access to the forex market and there's lots and lots of companies out there who are in business just to deal with you online. Be vigilant, do spend the time to get some good forex trading education, again this can be provided online and set up your dummy account to trade before you attempt to go live. If you take care and take your time, there's no reason why you shouldn't be successful in forex trading so, have patience and stick at it!
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Hi, I'm Philippa Holmes (Pippa to my friends) and I have been involved in education and training and the forex market for a considerable time. I have written extensively on the subject and can count a considerable number of successful business people among my many past students. My many reviews all emphasize the clarity of my writing and the ease with which absolute beginners can get to grips with the subjects I present.
My web site http://www.master-forex-trading.com carries thousands of articles on forex trading and a very large number of videos on the subject. As these are constantly changed it's well-worth a regular visit - just to see what's new.
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Happy Trading,
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The forex market is the world's largest international currency trading market operating non-stop during the working week. Most forex trading is done by professionals such as bankers. Generally forex trading is done through a forex broker - but there is nothing to stop anyone trading currencies. Forex currency trading allows buyers and sellers to buy the currency they need for their business and sellers who have earned currency to exchange what they have for a more convenient currency. The world's largest banks dominate forex and according to a survey in The Wall Street Journal Europe, the ten most active traders who are engaged in forex trading account for almost 73% of trading volume.
However, a sizeable proportion of the remainder of forex trading is speculative with traders building up an investment which they wish to liquidate at some stage for profit. While a currency may increase or decrease in value relative to a wide range of currencies, all forex trading transactions are based upon currency pairs. So, although the Euro may be 'strong' against a basket of currencies, traders will be trading in just one currency pair and may simply concern themselves with the Euro/US Dollar ( EUR/USD) ratio. Changes in relative values of currencies may be gradual or triggered by specific events such as are unfolding at the time of writing this - the toxic debt crisis.
Because the markets for currencies are global, the volumes traded every day are vast. For the large corporate investors, the great benefits of trading on Forex are:
Enormous liquidity - over $4 trillion per day, that's $4,000,000,000. This means that there's always someone ready to trade with you
Every one of the world's free currencies are traded - this means that you may trade the currency you want at any time
Twenty four - hour trading during the 5-day working week
Operations are global which mean that you can trade with any part of the world at any time
From the point of view of the smaller trader there's lots of benefits too, such as:
A rapidly-changing market - that's one which is always changing and offering the chance to make money
Very well developed mechanisms for controlling risk
Ability to go long or short - this means that you can make money either in rising or falling markets
Leverage trading - meaning that you can benefit from large-volume trading while having a relatively-low capital base
Lots of options for zero-commission trading
How the forex Market Works
As forex is all about foreign exchange, all transactions are made up from a currency pair - say, for instance, the Euro and the US Dollar. The basic tool for trading forex is the exchange rate which is expressed as a ratio between the values of the two currencies such as EUR/USD = 1.4086. This value, which is referred to as the 'forex rate' means that, at that particular time, one Euro would be worth 1.4086 US Dollars. This ratio is always expressed to 4 decimal places which means that you could see a forex rate of EUR/USD = 1.4086 or EUR/USD = 1.4087 but never EUR/USD = 1.40865. The rightmost digit of this ratio is referred to as a 'pip'. So, a change from EUR/USD = 1.4086 to EUR/USD = 1.4088 would be referred to as a change of 2 pips. One pip, therefore is the smallest unit of trade.
With the forex rate at EUR/USD = 1.4086, an investor purchasing 1000 Euros using dollars would pay $1,408.60. If the forex rate then changed to EUR/USD = 1.5020, the investor could sell their 1000 Euros for $1,502.00 and bank the $93.40 as profit. If this doesn't seem to be large amount to you, you have to put the sum into context. With a rising or falling market, the forex rate does not simply change in a uniform way but oscillates and profits can be taken many times per day as a rate oscillates around a trend.
When you're expecting the value EUR/USD to fall, you might trade the other way by selling Euros for dollars and buying then back when the forex rate has changed to your advantage.
Is forex Risky?
When you trade on forex as in any form of currency trading, you're in the business of currency speculation and it is just that - speculation. This means that there is some risk involved in forex currency trading as in any business but you might and should, take steps to minimise this. You can always set a limit to the downside of any trade, that means to define the maximum loss that you are prepared to accept if the market goes against you - and it will on occasions.
The best insurance against losing your shirt on the forex market is to set out to understand what you're doing totally. Search the internet for a good forex trading tutorial and study it in detail- a bit of good forex education can go a long way!. When there's bits you don't understand, look for a good forex trading forum and ask lots and lots of questions. Many of the people who habitually answer your queries on this will have a good forex trading blog and this will probably not only give you answers to your questions but also provide lots of links to good sites. Be vigilant, however, watch out for forex trading scams. Don't be too quick to part with your money and investigate anything very well before you shell out any hard-earned!
The forex Trading Systems
While you may be right in being cautious about any forex trading system that's advertised, there are some good ones around. Most of them either utilise forex charts and by means of these, identify forex trading signals which tell the trader when to buy or sell. These signals will be made up of a particular change in a forex rate or a trend and these will have been devised by a forex trader who has studied long-term trends in the market so as to identify valid signals when they occur. Many of the systems will use forex trading software which identifies such signals from data inputs which are gathered automatically from market information sources. Some utilise automated forex trading software which can trigger trades automatically when the signals tell it to do so. If these sound too good to be true to you, look around for online forex trading systems which will allow you undertake some dummy trading to test them out. by doing this you can get some forex trading training by giving them a spin before you put real money on the table.
How Much do you Need to Start off with?
This is a bit of a 'How long is a piece of string?' question but there are ways for to be beginner to dip a toe into the water without needing a fortune to start with. The minimum trading size for most trades on forex is usually 100,000 units of any currency and this volume is referred to as a standard "lot". However, there are many firms which offer the facility to purchase in dramatically-smaller lots than this and a bit of internet searching will soon locate these. There's many adverts quoting only a couple of hundred dollars to get going! You will often see the term acciones trading forex and this is just a general term which covers the small guy trading forex. Small-scale trading facilities such as these are often called as forex mini trading.
Where do You Start?
The single most obvious answer is of course - on the internet! Online forex trading gives you direct access to the forex market and there's lots and lots of companies out there who are in business just to deal with you online. Be vigilant, do spend the time to get some good forex trading education, again this can be provided online and set up your dummy account to trade before you attempt to go live. If you take care and take your time, there's no reason why you shouldn't be successful in forex trading so, have patience and stick at it!
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Hi, I'm Philippa Holmes (Pippa to my friends) and I have been involved in education and training and the forex market for a considerable time. I have written extensively on the subject and can count a considerable number of successful business people among my many past students. My many reviews all emphasize the clarity of my writing and the ease with which absolute beginners can get to grips with the subjects I present.
My web site http://www.master-forex-trading.com carries thousands of articles on forex trading and a very large number of videos on the subject. As these are constantly changed it's well-worth a regular visit - just to see what's new.
Remember, your success is my success so please do drop in and take a look.
Happy Trading,
Pippa
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Forex Trading System - What to Know
FOREX is a virtual network of currency dealers connected among themselves by means of telecommunications. FOREX currency dealers are connected to leading world financial centres, and round the clock workers. Forex is a true 24-hour market, open continuously from 5:00pm ET on Sunday to 5:00 pm on Friday. With three distinct trading sessions in the US, Europe and Asia, you can trade on your own schedule and immediately respond to breaking financial news, whether it will be morning, noon or night. Forex is an inter-bank market that took shape in 1971 when global trade shifted from fixed exchange rates to floating ones. This is a set of transactions among forex market agents involving exchange of specified sums of money in a currency unit of any given nation for currency of another nation at an agreed rate as of any specified date.
Forex currency trading is conducted around the clock, 5 days a week, and daily currency trades are worth in the region of $1.9 trillion US dollars. This means that the Forex the largest market in the world and puts the major stock markets very firmly into second place. Forex trading opportunities are a reality for more and more people everyday -- people just like you and me.
FOREX is a very unique market because it is not based in any particular place, and it also has very few qualifications for investing. FOREX is also free of external controls, and the investors (participants in the market) largely determine how much a currency is worth based on demand. Forex is a 24-hour market, so 24-hour support is a must! Can you contact the firm by phone, email, chat, etc. Forex is not affected by any one bear market. Forex traders buy and sell foreign currency pairs from around the world, simultaneously buying one and selling the other.
It isn't sincerely complicated. However, there are stuff that you expect to ponder in order to victoryfully make some profit out of this very liquid monetary push. Forex is giving you a 40% return on your investment. Forex is by far the most liquid market in the world. There is NEVER a problem buying or selling a position as in the stock market.
Forex trading system is not just a big deal: it is the biggest deal. The largest amounts of money traded in the world today are not for goods, or services; not for stocks or shares, but for currency. Forex is a very risky and unpredictable business. You can lose large sums of money by taking the risk of trading in the live market. Forex is a market were participant cannot indulge in any kind of malpractices. Any single participants cannot influence the activity of Forex market.
Technical analysts in the FOREX market evaluate price trends. The only real difference between Technical Analysis in FOREX and Technical Analysis in equity markets is the time frame: FOREX markets are open around the clock,24 hours a day. Technical analysis presupposes that all the information about the market and its further fluctuations is contained in the price chain. Any factor, that has some influence on the price, be it economic, political or psychological, has already been considered by the market and included in the price.
Forex is an inter-bank market that took shape in 1971 when global trade shifted from fixed exchange rates to floating ones. This is a set of transactions among forex market agents involving exchange of specified sums of money in a currency unit of any given nation for currency of another nation at an agreed rate as of any specified date. Forex is made up of 5000 trading institutions like international banks, commercial companies, government banks and brokers for all types of foreign currency exchange. Forex is probably the only market that remains open 24 hours a day! Therefore, if you are actively involved in trading then this is the perfect playing ground for you.
It is a type of trading that allows you to buy and sell currency from one country to the next. This market is actually one of the largest in the world. Forex is maximum liquidity, FOREX is real trade, in term of business. Basically, Forex is transaction of monetary funds from one government to another or business associates of different countries.
FOREX is a more objective market, because if some of its participants would like to change prices, for some manipulative purpose, they would have to operate with tens of billions dollars. That is why any influence by a single participant in the market is practically out of the question. Forex is a fascinating industry with roughly 3 trillion dollars being exchanged each day around the world. Forex trading is exciting yes, but it is crucial that you become knowledgeable about Forex trading, or you will lose your money. Forex is made up of 5000 trading institutions like international banks, commercial companies, government banks and brokers for all types of foreign currency exchange.
Forex trading is a trading 'method' also known as FX or and foreign market exchange. Those involved in the foreign exchange markets are some of the largest companies and banks from around the world, trading in currencies from various countries to create a balance as some are going to gain money and others are going to lose money. Forex is a relative new market. The Forex market is developing fast, yet it already is the largest financial market in the world. Forex is the one stabilizing factor in the world's system of monetary exchange, yet it is not answerable to any extrinsic stabilizing influence. There are "no restrictions" in this market.
Forex is quoted on a "bid" and "offer" price system. This means you can buy a currency from a dealer for their "offer" price. Forex market is definitely not a game for newbie and you need to brush up your skills before getting your hands wet. Forex trading is a high-risk investment and as such, it can lead to substantial losses and is not meant for every investor. Risk capital is the amount of capital that you dedicate to speculative investments and that you can afford to lose.
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Forex currency trading is conducted around the clock, 5 days a week, and daily currency trades are worth in the region of $1.9 trillion US dollars. This means that the Forex the largest market in the world and puts the major stock markets very firmly into second place. Forex trading opportunities are a reality for more and more people everyday -- people just like you and me.
FOREX is a very unique market because it is not based in any particular place, and it also has very few qualifications for investing. FOREX is also free of external controls, and the investors (participants in the market) largely determine how much a currency is worth based on demand. Forex is a 24-hour market, so 24-hour support is a must! Can you contact the firm by phone, email, chat, etc. Forex is not affected by any one bear market. Forex traders buy and sell foreign currency pairs from around the world, simultaneously buying one and selling the other.
It isn't sincerely complicated. However, there are stuff that you expect to ponder in order to victoryfully make some profit out of this very liquid monetary push. Forex is giving you a 40% return on your investment. Forex is by far the most liquid market in the world. There is NEVER a problem buying or selling a position as in the stock market.
Forex trading system is not just a big deal: it is the biggest deal. The largest amounts of money traded in the world today are not for goods, or services; not for stocks or shares, but for currency. Forex is a very risky and unpredictable business. You can lose large sums of money by taking the risk of trading in the live market. Forex is a market were participant cannot indulge in any kind of malpractices. Any single participants cannot influence the activity of Forex market.
Technical analysts in the FOREX market evaluate price trends. The only real difference between Technical Analysis in FOREX and Technical Analysis in equity markets is the time frame: FOREX markets are open around the clock,24 hours a day. Technical analysis presupposes that all the information about the market and its further fluctuations is contained in the price chain. Any factor, that has some influence on the price, be it economic, political or psychological, has already been considered by the market and included in the price.
Forex is an inter-bank market that took shape in 1971 when global trade shifted from fixed exchange rates to floating ones. This is a set of transactions among forex market agents involving exchange of specified sums of money in a currency unit of any given nation for currency of another nation at an agreed rate as of any specified date. Forex is made up of 5000 trading institutions like international banks, commercial companies, government banks and brokers for all types of foreign currency exchange. Forex is probably the only market that remains open 24 hours a day! Therefore, if you are actively involved in trading then this is the perfect playing ground for you.
It is a type of trading that allows you to buy and sell currency from one country to the next. This market is actually one of the largest in the world. Forex is maximum liquidity, FOREX is real trade, in term of business. Basically, Forex is transaction of monetary funds from one government to another or business associates of different countries.
FOREX is a more objective market, because if some of its participants would like to change prices, for some manipulative purpose, they would have to operate with tens of billions dollars. That is why any influence by a single participant in the market is practically out of the question. Forex is a fascinating industry with roughly 3 trillion dollars being exchanged each day around the world. Forex trading is exciting yes, but it is crucial that you become knowledgeable about Forex trading, or you will lose your money. Forex is made up of 5000 trading institutions like international banks, commercial companies, government banks and brokers for all types of foreign currency exchange.
Forex trading is a trading 'method' also known as FX or and foreign market exchange. Those involved in the foreign exchange markets are some of the largest companies and banks from around the world, trading in currencies from various countries to create a balance as some are going to gain money and others are going to lose money. Forex is a relative new market. The Forex market is developing fast, yet it already is the largest financial market in the world. Forex is the one stabilizing factor in the world's system of monetary exchange, yet it is not answerable to any extrinsic stabilizing influence. There are "no restrictions" in this market.
Forex is quoted on a "bid" and "offer" price system. This means you can buy a currency from a dealer for their "offer" price. Forex market is definitely not a game for newbie and you need to brush up your skills before getting your hands wet. Forex trading is a high-risk investment and as such, it can lead to substantial losses and is not meant for every investor. Risk capital is the amount of capital that you dedicate to speculative investments and that you can afford to lose.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Forex Trading Success
Self control and discipline can be nurtured and strengthened over time and are extremely valuable qualities to on. In this article the Directorate talk about how these qualities relate to current and projected future developments in the Forex industry.
Manual Forex trading is a time-tested and market proven method for Forex trading. There is no doubt that manual Forex trading is here to stay. Many of the most skilled full-time Forex traders prefer this method. The key words here are skilled full-time traders.
You see, manual Forex trading can be time consuming. While the process of Forex technical analysis gets a bit easier and more efficient with practice in manual Forex trading it can never be completely eliminated. Manual Forex traders will always need to complete their technical and perhaps even fundamental analysis prior to executing their Forex trades.
As you know, fundamental Forex analysis has to do with looking at economic indicators within and between nations. Fundamental Forex indicators such as Consumer Price Index, Non-Farm Payroll, Gross National Product, Industrial Production, Producer Price Index, Retail Sales, Balance of Payments and Interest Rates are many of the most common fundamental indicators Forex traders seek to incorporate in their analysis.
Needless to say using both fundamental and technical analysis is quite complex and can be a very time consuming challenge. Except for "news" traders many Forex traders default to primarily using Forex technical analysis.
A prime example of "news" is the Non Farm Payroll announcement. This announcement normally takes place on the first Friday of each month at 8: 30am Eastern Time. Forex traders who trade the news position themselves in the market to capture as many PIP's as possible during the market corrections that take place just after a "news" release. Forex traders who trade the news rely quite a bit on fundamental indicators in making their trade decisions.
New Forex software programs that gather and interpret Forex fundamental indicators have been around for a while and they will continue to improve their accuracy with time.
Speaking of Forex software programs, one of the most rapidly developing forms of Forex software are "Expert Advisors". Forex Expert Advisors (EA's for short) are software programs that operate within your Forex trading platform. So far, the industry leading Forex trading platform for EA's is the Metatrader 4 Trading Platform designed by Securities OBJECT DESCRIPTION.
There are several advantages to using an EA. Perhaps chief among these advantages is the fact that the "on-board" programming of the EA eliminates the need for the Forex trader to spend a lot of time doing technical analysis. Once an EA is properly initiated, it will automatically trade a Forex pair specified, or pairs, using a predetermined strategy or Forex trading approach.
This can be a huge time-saver.
With an EA the Forex technical analysis is handled by the Forex trading logic programmed into the EA. The EA functions off of a predetermined set of "rules" which guide its operation. The EA enters the Forex trade when the entry conditions are met and exits the Forex trade when the exit conditions are met. Each EA has a different set of predetermined rules. Each rule is typically controlled by one or more user adjustable "switches". These switches are optimized at the time the EA is delivered to the user and can be saved as a switch settings profile. Once the default switch settings are saved, the user can make changes to the switch settings if they wish. It is important to remember that the best way to determine EA switch settings is through the back testing process.
Back testing is a process by which each switch or set of switches are methodically tested using actual past market data from your Forex trading platform. While back testing takes much less time than forward testing it is still a painstaking and time consuming process but the results can be very revealing and informative. This process will tell you such things as, for example, which time frame (s) and currency pair (s) are the most profitable to trade.
Back testing is not necessary in order to optimize the settings for an EA and as such it is very valuable process but the process is not perfect. Data mismatches can occur during the back test process which can degrade, the results used. The source of these data mismatches is not known at this time but it is an industry wide problem and the solution to the mismatch problem is being vigorously pursued.
Even with its flaws the back test process improvement with regard of utmost importance when it comes to optimizing the performance of any EA.
The time saving nature of using an EA coupled with the stress reducing effect that it has on the Forex trader has boosted the popularity of this kind of Forex trade automation.
It is just this kind of Forex trade automation that is helping to fuel the explosive growth of the retail Forex market. It is no longer necessary to stay glued to your computer monitor and "baby sit" your Forex trades. Not only that but a properly designed EA can perform functions that even the most skilled and experienced Forex traders find difficult. For example, there are EA's on the market today that can trade multiple currency pairs simultaneously. Other EA's can trade multiple Forex hedge trades at the same time!
We are in the midst of a quiet revolution toward increased trade Forex automation. It is safe to say that the trend toward Forex trade atomization is likely to continue and strengthen over the next several years. Because the advantages of using an EA outweigh the disadvantages, the popularity of using EA's is at an all time high and likely to set new records in the near future.
Even though EA's are reducing the need for Forex technical analysis they are not reducing the importance of self-control and discipline. It is common for Forex traders who are new to EA trading to have an urge to "manual" trade using the EAS. This is a mistake, first of all it defeats the purpose of the EA and second it can result in preventable loses.
With the trading EA EA is your Forex trading method. The EA trader is well advised to allow EA to do its work without trying to manually over-ride it (Plan your trade-trade your plan).
If possible, examine the back testing and forward testing results of an EA before you purchase it. Always demo trade with a new EA to confirm its operation before using it in a live account.
EA trading is gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds. EA trading is part of a major trend toward increased automation in the world of Forex. This trend is expected to expand and strengthen in the years ahead.
Being skilled in Forex technical analysis is always an asset but EA trading relies more on the logic of the Forex trading EA than it does the technical skill of the trader.
Self control and discipline are equally important whether you are trading or manual Forex EA
trading. Combine the personal qualities self control and discipline with using a well designed EA and you are on your way to profiting in Forex-the world's largest market.
Manual Forex trading is a time-tested and market proven method for Forex trading. There is no doubt that manual Forex trading is here to stay. Many of the most skilled full-time Forex traders prefer this method. The key words here are skilled full-time traders.
You see, manual Forex trading can be time consuming. While the process of Forex technical analysis gets a bit easier and more efficient with practice in manual Forex trading it can never be completely eliminated. Manual Forex traders will always need to complete their technical and perhaps even fundamental analysis prior to executing their Forex trades.
As you know, fundamental Forex analysis has to do with looking at economic indicators within and between nations. Fundamental Forex indicators such as Consumer Price Index, Non-Farm Payroll, Gross National Product, Industrial Production, Producer Price Index, Retail Sales, Balance of Payments and Interest Rates are many of the most common fundamental indicators Forex traders seek to incorporate in their analysis.
Needless to say using both fundamental and technical analysis is quite complex and can be a very time consuming challenge. Except for "news" traders many Forex traders default to primarily using Forex technical analysis.
A prime example of "news" is the Non Farm Payroll announcement. This announcement normally takes place on the first Friday of each month at 8: 30am Eastern Time. Forex traders who trade the news position themselves in the market to capture as many PIP's as possible during the market corrections that take place just after a "news" release. Forex traders who trade the news rely quite a bit on fundamental indicators in making their trade decisions.
New Forex software programs that gather and interpret Forex fundamental indicators have been around for a while and they will continue to improve their accuracy with time.
Speaking of Forex software programs, one of the most rapidly developing forms of Forex software are "Expert Advisors". Forex Expert Advisors (EA's for short) are software programs that operate within your Forex trading platform. So far, the industry leading Forex trading platform for EA's is the Metatrader 4 Trading Platform designed by Securities OBJECT DESCRIPTION.
There are several advantages to using an EA. Perhaps chief among these advantages is the fact that the "on-board" programming of the EA eliminates the need for the Forex trader to spend a lot of time doing technical analysis. Once an EA is properly initiated, it will automatically trade a Forex pair specified, or pairs, using a predetermined strategy or Forex trading approach.
This can be a huge time-saver.
With an EA the Forex technical analysis is handled by the Forex trading logic programmed into the EA. The EA functions off of a predetermined set of "rules" which guide its operation. The EA enters the Forex trade when the entry conditions are met and exits the Forex trade when the exit conditions are met. Each EA has a different set of predetermined rules. Each rule is typically controlled by one or more user adjustable "switches". These switches are optimized at the time the EA is delivered to the user and can be saved as a switch settings profile. Once the default switch settings are saved, the user can make changes to the switch settings if they wish. It is important to remember that the best way to determine EA switch settings is through the back testing process.
Back testing is a process by which each switch or set of switches are methodically tested using actual past market data from your Forex trading platform. While back testing takes much less time than forward testing it is still a painstaking and time consuming process but the results can be very revealing and informative. This process will tell you such things as, for example, which time frame (s) and currency pair (s) are the most profitable to trade.
Back testing is not necessary in order to optimize the settings for an EA and as such it is very valuable process but the process is not perfect. Data mismatches can occur during the back test process which can degrade, the results used. The source of these data mismatches is not known at this time but it is an industry wide problem and the solution to the mismatch problem is being vigorously pursued.
Even with its flaws the back test process improvement with regard of utmost importance when it comes to optimizing the performance of any EA.
The time saving nature of using an EA coupled with the stress reducing effect that it has on the Forex trader has boosted the popularity of this kind of Forex trade automation.
It is just this kind of Forex trade automation that is helping to fuel the explosive growth of the retail Forex market. It is no longer necessary to stay glued to your computer monitor and "baby sit" your Forex trades. Not only that but a properly designed EA can perform functions that even the most skilled and experienced Forex traders find difficult. For example, there are EA's on the market today that can trade multiple currency pairs simultaneously. Other EA's can trade multiple Forex hedge trades at the same time!
We are in the midst of a quiet revolution toward increased trade Forex automation. It is safe to say that the trend toward Forex trade atomization is likely to continue and strengthen over the next several years. Because the advantages of using an EA outweigh the disadvantages, the popularity of using EA's is at an all time high and likely to set new records in the near future.
Even though EA's are reducing the need for Forex technical analysis they are not reducing the importance of self-control and discipline. It is common for Forex traders who are new to EA trading to have an urge to "manual" trade using the EAS. This is a mistake, first of all it defeats the purpose of the EA and second it can result in preventable loses.
With the trading EA EA is your Forex trading method. The EA trader is well advised to allow EA to do its work without trying to manually over-ride it (Plan your trade-trade your plan).
If possible, examine the back testing and forward testing results of an EA before you purchase it. Always demo trade with a new EA to confirm its operation before using it in a live account.
EA trading is gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds. EA trading is part of a major trend toward increased automation in the world of Forex. This trend is expected to expand and strengthen in the years ahead.
Being skilled in Forex technical analysis is always an asset but EA trading relies more on the logic of the Forex trading EA than it does the technical skill of the trader.
Self control and discipline are equally important whether you are trading or manual Forex EA
trading. Combine the personal qualities self control and discipline with using a well designed EA and you are on your way to profiting in Forex-the world's largest market.
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