Showing posts with label forex education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forex education. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 April 2008

Trader Tricks So You Won't Lose in the Forex Market

The forex market or the foreign exchange market has become a central and important business center. $2 trillion trades a day are made in this enormous market that is becoming more and more popular. You can make a lot of money but you can also lose a lot of money if your not careful here are some tips for success.

You begin with making yourself a trading plan one that can fit into your life. Make yourself a proper schedule at what times will you be doing your forex trading. Then check out what money you can put into the Market and build a proper budget so you can see the inflows and outflows. Take time and study the forex market you will have your ups and downs but you must stick to your plans so you will see profits on the long run. Then you must make sure that you have money that you can lose. It's a fact that in the forex market you need money to lose. There is no way to make money without losing some so make sure before you begin you have a sum that can be used for this purpose.

At least until you know what your doing go with the flow. Begin by trading the most popular currencies that are: United States dollar, USD, the Japanese yen, JPY, the European Euro, EUR, the United Kingdom pound, GBP, the Australian dollar, AUD, the Swiss franc, CHF, and the Canadian dollar, CAD. The majority usually chooses these pairs: GBP/USD, EUR/USD, AUD/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF, and USD/CAD. To make sure that your money will be well used is by keeping to your plan. Don't change your plan because you have a feeling. Make decisions cold minded and teach yourself to exit when the signs show you should.

The trends in the forex market are quite safe. The currencies can shift a bit in different directions but they usually stay quite steadily in a certain direction. So to follow the trends is usually a good idea. If you want success in the forex market be patient it pays off. Expect to have small losses without them you won't win either. The small losses are part of your plan to make big sums of money don't let them bother you. even great traders lose some to gain some.

You should be very careful of forex scams - companies that offer you services that can only pull you down. You must get away from them as quickly as possible. Build your own strategy with forex experts and trade by yourself or by licensed brokers. Make sure that you are using forex strategies that you understand and that all the information you have comes from forex guides, tutorials or professional forex signals providers. Be sure that you now what you are doing. Teach yourself to exit before you are in too deep. Keep inside your money limits and don't allow yourself to go over board. Leave when it's time, don't wait for the fall!

Mauro Sciaccaluga

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Beginner Forex Trading - What Every Beginner Should Know About Currency Trading

Forex trading is a very appealing way to make money online. Trillions of dollars exchange hands every day, and entire fortunes are made and lost literally overnight.
Part of the attractiveness of the Forex market is the ability for retail traders to trade on margin. Margin trading essentially involves the ability to trade a large sum of currency using only a fraction of your own money.

For example, when trading on a margin of 1:100, you can control $10,000 worth of currency using only $100 of your own money. This is what lures many amateur traders to take part in this multi-trillion dollar market - the potential to make a lot of money, by risking only a little of your own.

Understanding The Risks Of Margin Trading

Although margin trading is indeed a great way to make big bucks, beginner traders would do well do remember that it's actually a double-edged sword - it's just as easy to lose money as it is to win. So even though one can make potentially $300 in an hour, it's also equally likely for that person to lose the same amount within an hour (or even in a shorter time period!).

There Is No Central Governing Authority

The next thing beginner traders should know is that there is no official governing authority in the Forex trading industry. What this means is that unlike other financial trading exchanges where there is centralized control (such as the SEC for the stock market), the currency exchange market is not regulated by any organization at all.

This poses an extra risk for retail traders as it leaves the potential for scam ‘brokers' to set up shop, take your money and basically run away with it.

That's why retail traders will have to be extra careful when choosing a broker to work with. Where possible, do try to find reputable brokers such as big banks or other well-established trading houses.

You definitely wouldn't want to risk having your money cheated by scammers who are looking to make a quick buck at your expense.

Harold Hsu is currently giving away a free 26-page report on how to trade Forex profitably, and you can get it now at http://www.ForexSystemProfits.com. Harold is the owner of http://www.ForexSystemProfits.com where he provides premium Forex trading information and resources.

Thursday, 26 April 2007

FOREX Education - Thinking Of Buying FOREX Advice? Read This First



(by Kelly Price)

There is a huge amount of FOREX Education you can buy but before you buy it read this, as in excess of 90% of it will ensure you lose.

So you ensure you get the right FOREX Education follow the guidelines below.

1. Never buy a day trading system!

Most novice traders are enticed by the theory of making money everyday, with low risk and high rewards, but this is not the reality of day trading.

The reality of day trading is:

A quick wipe out of equity – why?

Quite simply, all short term moves are random and using support and resistance as day traders do is destined to failure.

If you don’t believe me try this simple test when buying any FOREX Education from a vendor:

Ask for the real time track record of profits and you won’t get one from a day trader.

At best you will get a hypothetical track record, but that’s done in hindsight, knowing the closing prices and if we know the closing prices its not hard to make money.

If you want to make money don’t day trade!

2. Real time profits

A real time track record is an essential requirement on ANY FOREX education you buy, not just day trading systems.

The fact however is, most FOREX education is sold by failed brokers, or people who have never traded in their lives.

If these people have not had the confidence to trade their own money on their own system why should you?

3. Understand the FOREX Education

Even if you are lucky enough to find a system that does have a track record of real FX Profits you need to be mindful of the following:

You need to fully understand the method and not follow it blindly.

If you don’t understand why a method works you won’t have confidence to follow it through inevitable periods of losses.

Not only must you understand it to follow it with discipline, you must also check it fits your trading personality.

Some traders can take big drawdowns or losses, other traders find them hard to take, so pick a system with a risk to reward you can handle emotionally.

4. The best FOREX education

There is a huge amount of FOREX education and FOREX advice free on the web, so use it.

In other articles we have shown how to build a system that makes profits from free info and it’s a lot easier to learn FOREX Trading this way than many people think.

You can also get some great FOREX education at nominal cost from your local bookstore this FOREX advice is from:

Traders who don’t just talk the talk – they have walked the walk and made money.

Great books to look at are Jack Schwager’s excellent Market Wizards and New Market Wizards – which interview some of the best traders of all time.

Trader Vic – Victor Sperandeo a great all round book and there are many more.

Rather than buying a e-book from someone without a track record, get your FOREX Education free on the net and get some classics from legendary traders.

Most of the courses and systems on the web are over priced, don’t work and you can frankly, do better on your own with the above advice.

FREE ESSENTIAL TRADER PDF'S AND MUCH MORE

On all aspects of becoming a profitable trader including features, downloads and some great FREE Trading PDF's visit our website at http://www.net-planet.org/index.html

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If you're looking for a forex trading platform, I can highly recommend Easy Forex. They offer competitive spreads, guaranteed stop-losses if required, live training and support, and you can start trading with as little as $25.

Tuesday, 10 April 2007

FOREX Trading Advice - The Good News Is That You Can Get Great Advice For FREE



(by Kelly Price)

All the forex advice you need to become a successful trader is available on the internet for free.

Here we will show you where to get the best forex advice for free and turn you into a profitable trader.

A common error

A common error made by many novice forex traders is to think that they can buy a system or an e-book from a guru for $100 or so and buy success.

Now, while there is some good forex advice sold on the net, the bulk of it is not worth the money.

Most of it is sold by salesmen (who have never traded) or failed brokers who cant trade and decide they may as well sell advice.

It is common sense that you cannot buy forex success for $100 or so, as if the forex advice worked then it would not be sold.

A quick way to decide if sold forex advice is worth your hard cash is to ask for a real time track record of real money made in the markets.

After that look for a money back guarantee.

If you don’t get both the above don’t buy it.

The reason you should do it on your own is that if you get your own forex advice and study it you will have confidence in it.

This means you will be more likely to follow it with discipline when you come to trade it.

It is far harder to follow someone else’s advice with discipline than your own, as you will always understand your own better.

The internet has all the information you need for free and here are some topics to look up and study

1. Technical analysis

Everything you need to know can be found on the net from advantages to the chart formations.

2. Technical indicators

You will know how to draw charts and what the formations mean from Point 1. Now you need some timing indicators.

Good ones to look up are: Bollinger bands, stochastics, moving averages, RSI and MACD. By all means look up others but the above are the ones we find most useful for entering a market

Go to a free chart service such as futuresource.com and look at them on some live charts.

3. Breakouts

Now you have looked at some charts and some indicators to help you identify and enter trends you need a methodology.

Perhaps the easiest methodology to use is a breakout method.

Look it up.

It’s easy to understand and easy to implement and it works.

4. Putting it altogether.

With the forex advice you have you can build a simple system to trade.

Base the system on breakouts and use chart support and resistance to spot profitable trading set ups.

You can then experiment with various technical indicators to help you enter breakouts.

Our own personal way of trading uses chart support and resistance to set up trades.

We then define entry with stohastics (a momentum indicator) and RSI which is an indication of the strength of the price and that’s it.

There is a lot of forex advice on the net that makes forex trading more difficult than it really is.

In fact, anyone with the free forex advice on the net can build test and implement a system based upon sound logic.

Keep in mind

The majority of traders fail because they lack discipline.

This comes from the fact that they don’t have confidence in their system and throw in the towel as soon as they have a few losses.

By taking some time to build your own system, you will have confidence in it and will be more able to follow it with discipline.

The fact is all the forex advice you need to build and trade a system for yourself is free.

If you put in the time and effort your study will be handsomely rewarded.

FREE ESSENTIAL TRADER PDF'S AND MUCH MORE

On all aspects of becoming a profitable trader including features, downloads and some great FREE Trading PDF's visit our website at http://www.net-planet.org/index.html

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If you're looking for a forex trading platform, I can highly recommend Easy Forex. They offer competitive spreads, guaranteed stop-losses if required, live training and support, and you can start trading with as little as $25.

Saturday, 7 April 2007

Forex Trading 101 – 10 Essential Tips For Novice Traders



(by Sacha Tarkovsky)

If you are new to forex trading you know that 90% of traders lose their money quickly, so you need some tips on how to join the 10% that make big consistent profits.

Here are 10 essential tips to increase your chances of making big profits from forex trading.

1. You need to rely on yourself

Many novice traders think they can buy success.

If you think you can buy success from someone else for $100 or so, you are mistaken.

Think about it – If you could a lot more traders would win than do!

Rely on yourself, do your own research and homework and come up with a system that you are confident you can make money with.

2. Avoid day trading

Day trading is popular, but the fact is it doesn’t make money, as it’s based upon flawed logic.

You cannot predict volatility in short time periods so don’t try.

Do it and you will lose.

If you don’t believe me then ask any day trader for a track record of real profits and you won’t get one.

3. Get a method your confident in

This means a simple method and for novice traders one which is based upon technical analysis.

A simple method will be easy to understand and more importantly, it’s a fact that simple methods work better than more complicated methods.

Why?

Quite simply, their less likely to break in the face of brutal market conditions.

Just a few indicators you understand and are confident in. are all you need

If you want a methodology to base your method on:

Base it on “breakouts”, most of the world’s top systems are based upon this methodology and you should consider it.

4. Discipline

If you have a method you must execute the signals with discipline.

As you will have devised the method yourself and it will be simple to understand, you will be able to acquire discipline.

Keep in mind, if you can’t execute a method with discipline you don’t have a method at all!

If you are using a technical method don’t be tempted to listen to the news.

Why?

Because you will hear lots of convincing stories that are probably wrong.

Remember, that experts in the media tell good stories but their more often than not wrong.

It’s a fact that:

Important market tops form on very bullish news and market bottoms form on bearish news – SO ignore it!

5. Money management

This is a major problem for most novice traders.

You need to protect what you have and run longer term trends.

You must take a risk!

Don’t be tempted to place your stops to close and MOVE them to quickly - you will be stopped out continually.

Most novice traders try to restrict risk, but actually end up creating it by ensuring they will be stopped out.

6. Have realistic aims

Most traders think trading is easy but of course it isn’t.

If you consider that the top traders in the world make 50 – 100% per annum then you will see that getting rich over night is not an option.

You need to set realistic objectives and be patient.

7. Work smart not hard

You don’t need to work all hours of the day, or acquire vast amounts of knowledge.

Once you have a method you are happy with, your trading should take less than an hour a day.

There is no reward for how much effort you put in.

You only get rewarded for getting market direction right.

8. Forex trading looks easy

But, if it was easy, 90% of people would not lose there money quickly.

Be humble and accept that the market is all powerful and you need to work smart to make money.

9. Patience

Many novice traders think that they need to trade all the time in case they miss a move, but this is a recipe for loses.

You need to be patient and wait for the right opportunities to come along.

10. Perseverance

If you are in a losing run (and don’t worry this will happen) you need to persevere and maintain your discipline.

Wait for the losing run to end and keep your emotions in check.

TO be successful at forex trading you need to work smart and acquire the right knowledge and then apply it with discipline.

If you can do the above forex trading can build you serious wealth over the longer term

Good luck!

FREE ESSENTIAL TRADER PDF'S AND MUCH MORE

On all aspects of becoming a profitable trader including features, downloads and some great FREE Trading PDF's visit our website at http://www.net-planet.org/index.html

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If you're looking for a forex trading platform, I can highly recommend Easy Forex. They offer competitive spreads, guaranteed stop-losses if required, live training and support, and you can start trading with as little as $25.