Currency Trading System

If you are considering forex and currency FX trading then you this article is for you and will give you the basics you need to know to succeed…

The first fact to keep in mind is that around 95% of traders lose all their equity and lose it quickly. If you want to be in the small minority of winners then you should consider the following and whether you have the mindset and motivation to do what it takes to win.

Don’t Follow ANYONE!

There are many vendors on the net who would like you to follow their systems and they all promise you will get rich - but you shouldn’t follow them. Most are selling unproven systems, with simulated track records which have never been traded and we can all make money on paper.

There are no secrets to successful forex, Currency and FX trading and success really is down to a good forex education and the right mindset to succeed.

Why You Can Win If You Want To

While 95% of forex traders lose - it is a known fact that everything about forex trading can be specifically learned. It’s not easy and you wouldn’t expect it to be with the potential rewards on offer but it can be done and that’s very encouraging.

So What Do You Need to Be a Winner?

Well you need a simple forex trading system and the simper the better. Simple systems have always worked best, because they have fewer elements to break than complicated ones. Now comes the hard part:

You need the mindset to succeed and execute you’re trading system with discipline.

Always keep in mind if you don’t have the discipline to execute your trading signals in line with your system, you don’t have one!

Discipline is The Key

Mindset and discipline are the keys to success.

It’s a fact that most traders simply cannot acquire these traits and to be fair, it’s not easy - but you can do it, if you are prepared for the following:

- To do trading signals that disagree with the majority.

- To ignore news stories and expert opinion.

- To follow your rules with discipline even when you are taking loss after loss.

- To look stupid when the market wrong foots you.

- To be prepared to take a majority of losing trades and pay for them by running a minority of winners.

- The discipline to hold trades even short term dips in equity are costing you thousands in open profits.

The above list contains just a few of the factors you will face, where you have to stay disciplined and keep your emotions and bay which will be telling you to do the opposite of what you should do - Easy?

Far from it, it’s very hard - but if you can do it, then you will be rewarded with long term currency trading success.

Winning traders have a plan and execute it with discipline.

They are prepared to stand along and not rely on anyone else. Its uncomfortable being along and standing away from the crowd - after all, man is a pack animal and seeks approval of his peers - but in forex trading run with the crowd and you will lose.

There are few occupations that give you the earnings potential of forex currency FX Trading and providing you are prepared to get the right education and learn to get the right mindset there is no reason why you cannot enjoy currency trading success.



By: Monica Hendrix

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It has always been very difficult to constantly make money trading Currency Fx. The basic rules of trading are very hard to stick with. Normally new (and not so new  Traders) make these mistakes:

·         Trade too often. It is not the number of trades but the success of your trades that is important.

·         Try to anticipate a trade rather than waiting for the market to confirm a trend.

·         Spread the risk by having multiple trades running at the same time hoping one will profit.

·         Work on the theory that if you have a losing trade the best option is to double up on your next trade. (a very easy way to wipe out your capital).

·         Not understanding Risk/ reward. It is not a good strategy to risk more than you could win or the same as you could win. Most good traders would look at a 2:1 ratio, your profit being twice your potential loss. 

·         Incorrect placement of stop losses or trading without one.

The biggest change in trading the currency fx market is the use of robots. When we first tried them they tended to show good back testing but live trading proved a disaster.

 Trading has always been 70%+ mental, having the discipline to actually stay with a system that worked. Trading under pressure and constantly making the right decisions is very difficult. That is why we were very interested in automated trading. If the system worked the robot would just keep on trading, most of the problems we traders had were results of lack of discipline.

We have just bought one of the latest generation automated trading robots and are very interested to see how we get on. Sure the results we have been told about are truly amazing but like in most things we like to test these things for ourselves.

One of the methods of trading that has always appealed to new traders is using very short time frames, watching the screen constantly and entering trades frequently. This is very high risk as the market is very volatile and if the spread is too high and your stops very close you can have many losing trades with the costs to your broker adding up very quickly.

The robot we are using has two different methods of trading, scalping using the 15m charts and longer term trading. 

If you are new to trading we would highly recommend trying this robot and reading our review on our website. Trading with a demo account first is the only way to try it.  If these robots are going to eliminate human error then trading is going to open up new opportunities for everyone. Visit our website where we are updating our results constantly and see if it is for you.



By: Lyndsay Wilkinson

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Do you want a simple timeless, method you can understand which works and will continue to work and can give you triple digit annual profits? Then you will find it in this article and base your Forex trading system on it and you can enjoy great profits…

The method is trading breakouts to new chart highs or lows. The reason it works and will continue to do so, is because it’s based on this fact which you can observe on any Forex chart:

Most major trends start and continue from new market highs or lows.

Look at a chart and you will see this and trends that last for weeks, months or years, get in and hold them and you can make huge profits.

Breakout trading, enables you to get on board these trends and ride them, most traders however cannot do this despite the fact it works - why?

Why Most Traders Don’t Trade Breakouts

Because when a break occurs, they want to wait for the dip and this is due with traders think they pinpoint timing is the way to make money but with breakout trading you miss the start but as you cannot predict prices this trading the reality is the way to go.

Breakouts if there good ones simply do not come back and the trader who waits will wait in vain.

So what should a breakout system consist of?

You need to get Forex education in 3 main areas and they are the following

1. Choosing the Best Breakouts

Not all breakouts of course go right so to get the odds on your side look for levels that have been tested numerous times - the minimum is 2 times but the more the times the better. The more times a level is tested before it breaks the better the odds of success tend to be.

2. Confirming Breakouts

You then need to confirm the breakout. A good one will feature acceleration in momentum and for this you need some momentum oscillators to help you. We have discussed these in other articles.

One or two are all you need to confirm the break and if they support it, its time to execute your trading signal.

3. Stops and Money Management

Stops are under the break.

The real key with trading big breakouts is to have your stop behind random volatility.

These big breakouts can last a long time so you need to give a bit back at the end when the trend finally turns. You cannot buy or sell market highs or lows exactly and your aim is to make money by catching a major chunk of the trend and you can do this and make a lot of money.

A method that NEVER Goes out of date

As long as markets trend, breakout trading will work and make money and even better most traders can’t do it

It’s a very simple Forex trading system but it’s also very effective, easy to understand and time efficient. Once you have learned the basics you can be making money in around 30 minutes a day and be on the way to making big profits by trading breakouts.



By: Kelly Price

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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) were first introduced to markets in 1993. From there they remain one of the mainstream instruments for profiting from market. With time various financial firms introduced different kinds of ETFs which track different underlying products with various levels of risks and returns.

Trading exchange traded funds holds many advantages over trading stocks, bonds and index funds. Most of these advantages derived from the fact that ETFs are less actively managed and have low tracking error.

1. Exchange traded funds are just traded like stocks. That means one can day trade them, swing trader them, invest in them, short them and can trade them on margin.

2. ETFs are liquid trading instruments. Unlike bonds, they can be intra-day traded for price differences and can be bought and sold at any time during market hours. This makes them flexible to handle.

3. ETFs are almost free from scamps so far. This is because of the fact that the firms have to disclose their holdings on a daily basis. Traders can accurately know the value of the shares they are holding.

4. Exchange traded funds ensures portfolio diversity. They can be incorporated into any type of trading portfolio and can be used to reduce risks or to maximize returns.

5. ETFs are less expensive than index funds. Index funds usually have an expensive ratio close to 1 where ETFs have that close to 0.2. And many studies have shown that they can offer as much (or even more) return as index funds.

6. Variety of funds available to choose from. There are index specific, sector based, international, regional-specific, industry-specific, market-specific and currency specific ETFs available to fulfill different trader demands.

7. They are multi-purpose instruments. ETF can be used for minimizing trading risk, for steady income, for quick portfolio growth, for hedging the risk, for just portfolio diversification, and for saving time and money of active investment management.

8. ETFs also hold tax benefits as they are more tax efficient than index funds and stocks.

But trading exchange traded funds do not include only benefits there is also another side. Like stocks, they involve risk and for profiting the trader should have good market knowledge. They are poor investment instruments for dollar cost average and the trading of them involve brokerage fees and other account requirements which can vary with broker and type of account.



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Foreign currency trading is the most profitable and powerful way to make money today in the world.

It is a 2.5 trillion dollars daily global market and business.

For this reason the knowledge and the secrets of how to do it successfully have been kept away from the public for thousands of years.

This is because it is the jealously guarded “SECRET” of how the “Money and Power” Elites, the multi-national and multi-billion dollars corporations, largest banks and governments of the world, the “Movers & Shakers” of International Banking & Finance, Business moguls & Tycoons, CEOs of major Corporations, secret societies and the privileged blue bloodlines of the Wealthiest Families of Europe and the Americas make their money and get rich.

They create vast fortunes easily trading foreign currencies.

Thereafter, using this great wealth, they create factories to manufacture consumer goods and products and hire you, Joe Bloke to work in those factories, banks and jobs at minimum wages.

So, it is no wonder why they don’t want you to know about the REAL TRUTH and “SECRET” on how to generate great wealth through foreign currency trading.

If you know how to trade foreign currency and generate $100,000 monthly for life, will you be idiotic, naïve and crazy to go to work at these DEAD END jobs to earn minimum wages and be paid nickels and dimes?

So, there has been a persistent organized campaign by the powers that be, the Money Elite to KEEP AWAY AND HIDE these “SECRETS” of creating vast wealth from foreign currency trading.

That is why they are always floating false propaganda and negative campaign in the mass media that currency trading is risky and you should not do it because you’ll lose all your money.

If you go to your bank manager or money management advisor or investment management company and tell them that you wish to make money at home from online currency trading, they will scream at you and try to discourage you and frighten you with the false information and half truth that it is risky and that you’ll lose your money.

This is because it is THE SECRET with which they make money and get rich!

Citibank alone makes $20 billion dollars trading currencies yearly.

Most banks, including your bank trade currencies and it is among the major ways to create income.

It is just that they don’t advertise this secret.

George Soros, the King of forex trading makes billions of dollars yearly trading currencies!

It is reported that a few years ago, he nearly caused the government of Thailand to go bankrupt because he made so much money trading their currency!

Yes, foreign currency exchange trading or forex trading can be risky.

It is true, you can lose your shirt and go bankrupt.

But this is half of the truth.

The other half of the truth is that if you buy and study a good forex currency trading e-book guide or program and understand how it works, avoid the pitfalls and get to know the secrets of risk management and trade with discipline, you can get fabulously rich so fast it will make your head spin round and put the devil to shame.

This is why there is an organized campaign to discredit online currency trading.

If you get rich so fast, then you’ll not need to depend on the “Money and Power” Elites and their jobs and welfare system where they allow you nickels and dimes to keep you subjugated.

If you get rich too fast, they will no longer be able to manipulate you into voting and keeping them in power to continue milking your life by making you labor and work yourself to death making them rich.

There are so many reasons why most beginners in foreign currency trading fail to earn money and instead lose all their savings.

When they first hear about how easy and fast it is making money from day trading currency, they search the internet and find a forex trading broker.

Then they open a currency trading account and put in a few thousands of dollars in the online currency trading account and immediately begin to try to earn money from online currency trading.

And they get entangled in all the foreign currency trading sophisticated strategies and systems of technical and fundamental analysis such as reading “Forex charts”, “Moving Averages”, “Elliot wave”, “Stochastics”, “Bollinger bands”, “Directional movement index”, “Trend and Oscillator indicators”, “Fibonacci retracements and others.

They spend all day and night listening to business news on radio, reading forex newsletters, forex articles in magazines and watching business news on TV

These beginners don’t take their time to buy a valid online currency trading e-book guide to study and understand the forex market and the currency trading “SECRETS” before they begin trading.

They don’t open the free demo trial forex trading account to practice for free to develop viable profitable currency trading skills first before they open a paid forex trading account to begin trading and making real money.

They make the fatal and dumb mistake of trying to fly in the world of foreign currency trading market before they learn how to crawl.

So, they get confused, make grievous foreign currencies trading errors and lose their money.

When they lose their money, they will not accept responsibility because that is the difficult part.

The easy thing to do is to blame their mistakes on online currency trading and to declare and gripe that it is risky and a scam designed to con the unsuspecting public.

This gives them the justification to begin filing false complaints and instigating legal action with the lame excuse that they were naïve and didn’t know the risk involved and so have been ripped off.

The truth is that there are at least one million people around the world who have foreign currency trading skills and do it well to make millions of dollars monthly!

Yes, sometimes they will lose.

But most of the time they are fabulously profitable.

I once read about a taxi cab driver from New York who started trading foreign currencies about 10 yrs ago.

While driving his taxi cab, occasionally during his lunch break, he will log into his forex trading account and enter a few currency trades.

By the end of his driving day shift, he would check his online currency trading account and was always surprised to find that for a few minutes of trading currencies, he had made more money that day in minutes than he made driving the cab for a whole month.

This encouraged him to stop driving the taxi cab and to begin trading currencies full time.

In 10 years, he made $4 billion dollars ($4,000,000,000) trading foreign currencies online and was listed in Forbes Magazine’s 400 richest Americans!

He is just one out of the many average people all over the world who took the time to study online currency trading, understood it and trade it correctly and are making millions of dollars without any hard work.

You too can do the same.

It is simple.

If you can click your mouse once to buy the currency and in a few minutes click your mouse a second time to sell them, you can make money.

It is a no brainer. Even a caveman can do it!

So, foreign currency trading is not difficult to understand or to do like stock or bond or commodity trading.

If you know where to get a good and valid forex trading guide or e-book and be patient to spend 1 hr daily to study it to understand the foreign currency trading market, how to click your mouse to buy and sell the currency; and if you will be patient to do the free demo trial for a few months before you open a paid forex trading account to begin trading, you can get obscenely and insanely rich so fast, it will make your eyes want to pop out, seeing all the piles of cash you generate just by clicking your mouse twice for a few minutes daily!

One powerful secret that will help you as a beginner is to avoid hiring money managers at the beginning to trade currencies for you.

The reason is that 90% of these money managers who advertise with highly impressive websites and brochures and also in TV infomercials and radios and seminars are fraudulent.

When you hire them to trade for you, they will over trade your account (churning) so as to generate a lot of trading fees for themselves because whether they make money for you or not, you must pay them their fees.

The more they trade your account, the more fees they generate for themselves!

By over trading your forex currency account, they expose it to massive risk which will eventually lead you to lose a lot of money.

This is because there are certain days and times which are profitable to trade and there are some days and times which are not.

Therefore by over trading (churning) your currency trading account, they get rich at your expense.

Plus, some of them will even use some profits they generated from trading your account to trade for themselves and make themselves rich without you knowing what is going on.

As if that is not bad enough, some will entice you to trade on margin. This means that they will loan you money to trade.

But the trick is that they are loaning you digital money which is created from the air and has no value.

All they do is go to your account and enter any amount of money they wish to loan you. (They don’t actually put real money into your currency trading account!)

This is not real money because it is just digital artificial numbers.

But if you use this fake funny digital money to trade and lose, then you’ll owe them real money!

You’ll be required to pay them with real money!

And if you fail to pay them, they can freeze your bank accounts, assets and homes to collect the debt.

This is how most of these brokers get rich at the expense of naïve beginners in online foreign currency trading.

So, if you’re a beginner, avoid hiring money managers to trade for you at the beginning. Stay away from managed trading.

Instead learn to trade and after you have made at least $500,000, contact us to give you the list of the best and honest money managers in the world (as well as the best forecasting services) who can trade for you and make you richer.

There is another fraud which some money managers perpetrate.

After you open a paid online currency trading account and put in thousands of dollars in there for them to trade for you, they use your money to trade for themselves.

Then they use a computer software to generate a fake forex trading account statement for your forex trading account which will show that you’ve lost money.

There is no way most people will find out, because you can’t access their trading activities.

And sometimes even when you find a honest and reputable money manager to trade for you, when your account becomes profitable and you request to withdraw some of the money, they will begin to give you a run around, excuses and try to discourage you from withdrawing the money.

If you persist, you’ll find out that suddenly your account will begin to lose money because they have softwares to manipulate it and generate dubious account statements to make seem as if you’ve been losing money!

Above all, most beginners in forex currency trading fail to earn money because they spend too much time in doing complicated forex mathematics, reading charts, listening to business news on radio, TV and reading too many forex newsletters and magazine articles, which are conflicting, confusing, time consuming and counter productive.

They spend so much time over stuffing themselves with forex trading news and information that they become constipated with information and overwhelmed and so have little or no time to actually click their mouse to buy and sell the currencies and make money.

Most beginners also are unable to find and use a good currency trading system and software.

Some of them are even conned into buying outrageously expensive trading softwares and system for $4000 from some companies who advertise on TV infomercials late at nights.

They don’t know that they can get the same forex trading system and softwares for free online at the websites of some forex trading companies!

These $4000 softwares are not for beginners and when we checked them out, we found they are complicated and not easy to use.

Infact after you manage to master how to use it, they will not help you to make more money!

So, it is not wise squandering your hard earned $4000 to buy them.

If these over priced worthless forex trading softwares work as they are advertised in seminars and infomercial, the companies will not be selling them.

Instead they will keep them secret and use them to make billions of dollars.

If you wake up tomorrow and discover you have a goldmine underneath your house, will you go out and advertise in TV infomercials and radios and seminars to sell your house for $4000???

The truth is that most of these infomercial advertising forex companies don’t really trade currencies. They are just sales people. Shysters. Tricksters.

They make their money by peddling worthless forex trading softwares to the naïve beginners for $4000.

When you check one of these companies out (one of them has the audacity to call their worthless software “Forex Made Easy”), you’ll discover that the CEO of this company actually admitted that not only that he does NOT use his $4000 software to trade but he knows nothing about trading currencies!

He only lends his name to his company to use to market their worthless foreign currency trading software.

The company’s pitchman who conducts the seminar is a sales man and he also doesn’t trade currencies because he had committed fraud in the past and was barred from trading commodities.

While the CEO of the company runs infomercial and seminars peddling worthless forex trading software for $4000, he doesn’t use it and doesn’t trade currencies.

Instead he hired a money manager who trades the currencies for him!

So, if you’re a beginner who desires to get rich fast from currency trading, you must know these insiders’ “SECRETS” of currency trading market and the pitfalls and how to avoid all the fraudulent companies peddling worthless forex trading e-books, books, softwares, systems and complicated trading strategies.

There are millions of them.

Beware because they are smooth operators who are very skilled in salesmanship and who can easily dazzle you with their big refined nonsensical English and so con you.

There are billions of dollars to be made in foreign currency trading and you can get abundantly rich trading these currencies online from home or office starting small.

But you must locate and buy a valid foreign currency trading e-book guide.

You must study it and understand it.

You must try the free demo account trading and do well in it before you can open a paid forex trading account to actually begin making real money.

You must begin by trading only one or two currencies at the beginning.

With time as you acquire more skills, you may trade more currencies.

You must learn how to trade with discipline and learn the BEST DAYS AND HRS to trade to be profitable and the other times when YOU MUST NOT TRADE to avoid losing money.

You must know how to “go long” or “short” on a currency, how to enter “Market Order”, “Limit Order”, “Stop Order”, “OCO order” and “Entry Order”.

If you learn how to do Online currency trading hedging, it will help you to maximize your profits.

You must be disciplined and avoid emotional currency trading.

When you make a reasonable amount of money for the day, stop trading because you can’t be profitable at all times of the day and if you don’t stop and take your profit, you may end up losing all the money you made.

Above all don’t open a paid currency day trading account and trade until you have done the free trial demo account trading for a few months and mastered it.

At the beginning, keep your trading strategies simple.

Avoid complications and advanced trading strategies of technical and fundamental analysis because these are the reasons why 90% of beginners lose money.

Use a simple trading strategy to get rich at the beginning.

Afterwards you may then take advanced forex trading courses and do technical, fundamental analysis and use forecasting services to make even more profits and get richer, making millions of dollars effortlessly.

If you’re serious in learning all the insiders’ “SECRETS” about how to make millions of dollars trading foreign currencies online, without selling your soul to the devil and without losing your shirt, you must get our powerful currency trading e-book which reveals a very simple and yet profitable and powerful trading strategy which is guaranteed to make you $100,000 monthly for life from home or office.

You can learn to get rich from the jealously guarded foreign currency trading “SECRETS” of the “Money and Power” Elites, the multi-national and multi-billion dollars corporations, largest banks and governments of the world, the “Movers & Shakers” of International Banking & Finance, Business moguls & Tycoons, CEOs of major Corporations, secret societies and the privileged blue bloodlines of the Wealthiest Families of Europe and the Americas.

With the millions of dollars which you make from foreign currency trading, you’ll be free like a bird to buy a mansion, with the most lavish and expensive furnishings, jewelry, antiques, electronics, a 50ft yacht, dream luxury cars, pick your choice: Lexus X470, $44,000 Jaguar 2007 S type, Silver Porsche Carrera, $180,000 Ferrari Testarossa, Mercedes 2007 Model S Class, 2007 Rolls Royce Silver Seraph, Bentley Mulsanne S, $220,000 Bentley Arnage Silver Tempest or a flaming red Lamborghini Jalpa!

You can make all your dreams in life to come true, without any hard work!

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Firstly lets talk about what investing in foreign exchange means. It does not mean buying foreign currency and keeping it up until it fairs well in value. Converting the money you have and holding it till it appreciates in value can take you only so far, usually you may gain about a few dollars over a period of an year by doing that. Then what does it mean? It means actively trading currency in a foreign currency market place or and exchange.

Before going into details, lets see how a FX market really works. In FX markets there is no concept of buying a currency, there is always an exchange of currencies, one being bought and the other being sold. Lets take this to a level that we are all comfortable with; You’d usually ‘buy dollars’, but what we actually do is exchange the local currency we have into USD at the current market rate. Lets assume the dollar is at 105 local currency units now, we’ll spend 210/= and buy 2US$ and will keep the dollars with us. If the dollar rises to 110/=, our investment has also appreciated. To make use of the appreciation, we have to re-sell the dollar at 110/= and we would have made a profit of 10/= on the transaction. Now look at this from a purely external point of view. Intially the investor gives out some currency to buy another sort. Then when the rate rises, he sells what he originally bought and buys back the depreciated currency. The difference in the rate he bought at and sold at, is his profit.

In a forex market, you’ll trade something thats called a currency pair. This will look something like EUR/USD. If you buy this, you will actually exchange the USD that you have with Euros. When you’ve bought a currency pair, its called opening a position. But just because the Euro went up, you cant benefit from it. You have to convert it back to the original USD to compare the profit. So how would you do this? You have to exchange the EUR you have to USD, i.e. you close the position that you opened. Lets take an example: In current market the value of the EUR/USD is about 1.57 i.e. each Euro is worth 1.57 times the USD. Lets say you have 157 USD, you exchange this for a 100 EURs (i.e. you open a position by buying the EUR/USD pair). Tomorrow, the EUR/USD rate might turn out to be 1.5730, the EUR has gained slightly. Let say that you close the position now, you have 100 EURs which converts to 157.30 USD, you’ve gained 30 cents on your investment. See? pretty easy.

You may ask how this is any different to buying foreign currency and holding it till it goes up. The reason is because with a bank, you can only exchange the local currency with the majors (USD, EUR, JPY, GBP). Lets say the Dollar started appreciating against the GBP; you really cant do anything about it. (eg: USD is say 105/= and say GBP is somewhere around 200/=, you have local currency with you and all of a sudden USD starts going down all the way to 100/=. The effective rate of GBP/USD at the beginning was 1.9047 at the end of the event, the rate is 2.00. If you could trade the GBP/USD pair, you could have made a profit on this. But you cant cos you have only local currency. Well yes, you could convert the money to USD and then to GBP and wait till it goes up and … bit of a process yes?) In a forex dealing place, the conversion will automatically done for you; You can deposit your money in USD and actually trade a pair like EUR/JPY.

Well what you’ve just read through is all a lie. But its an important lie to get introduced into dealing in forex markets. To be fair, the above sums up the principle of a forex dealing place; It will help you to understand how the profit and loss taking really happens. But thats not how it operates.

Like everything else, forex rates are also based on the demand for the currency. And also like in most of the international markets, the currency rates are determined by large traders who do transactions worth several millions of dollars per trade. When you buy USD from a local bank, they sell you the dollars they’ve bought from the international market. This is exactly what a forex dealing exchange does. (i.e. This is what a forex dealing exchange for normal people like you and me does. I have no idea how exactly the bigger deals work out); they channel all the orders from their user base into dealing places for large banks.

We know that with an exchange place we will be trading currency pairs. The rate of the currency pair would typically be expressed in five numbers.

Eg:

GBP/USD = 1.9825

USD/JPY = 106.38

The smallest change possible for each pair is known as a pip. (i.e. for GBP/USD this is 0.0001, for USD/JPY this is 0.01)

In most exchanges, each lot of the traded currency is in lots of 10,000. Thus, if you buy 1 lot of GBP/USD at 1.9825, you are actually buying 10,000 GBP. The amount of USD you spent for this is 10,000*1.9825 = 19,825 USD. Let’s say you hold the currency pair till the rate goes up to 1.9830. You will close out the position by selling the GBP and buying the USD. Thus you will sell out 10,000 GBP and buy USD. This would yield 19,830 USD; the rate of the currency increased by 5 pips and your profit increased by 5$. If each lot was 100,000 units of the currency, then for the same 5 pip increase, the profit would be 50$. For any currency pair that looks like X/USD this is the case.

Let’s look at the USD/JPY pair now. Pair is at 106.38 and you buy it, i.e. you buy 10,000 USD by spending Japanese Yen. Now that’s a problem right? Cos you deposited the money in USD but definitely you don’t have any JPY. Not a problem. The exchange knows that what you’ll do is opening up a position and later closing it. Thus you’ll buy some USD spending the JPY you don’t have and buy back the JPY later. So the exchange will settle the net cash amount for you without bothering to look whether you have JPY or not. So lets say you buy the USD/JPY pair for 106.38, you buy 10,000 USD spending JPY. If you had JPY, what would be the worth of it? You’d spend 10,000*106.38 JPY to open the position. Now let’s say the currency pair rises to 106.48 and you close the position. What you’d technically do is to sell out the 10,000 USD and buy back the JPY. The amount of JPY that you’d receive would be 10,000*106.48. Thus your JPY worth has gone up by 1,000. If you convert this to USD, it would be a net gain worth 1,000/106.48 = 9.39$. What the exchange does is to pay out this 9.39$ to you. There is no need to convert your dollars to anything or whatever. Every one is happy.

Obviously, its not easy to calculate the gains or losses on a non USD denominated currency pair (like USD/JPY or AUD/EUR). Thus the brokers (the correct name for ‘exchanges’) publish lists of ‘pip costs’. It tells you how much of a gain or loss you’d make if the pair moved by one pip.

Now in this example we saw that the traded value of each pair is worth several thousands of dollars. Obviously a normal individual would not have access to that amount of money. This is where leverage comes in. The brokers let you play with money that is much more than what you have, this is known as leverage. Typically a forex broker would offer leverages from 50:1 to 200:1. What does this mean? This means that to do a trade worth 10,000$, with a 50:1 leverage, you need only 200$. With a 200:1 leverage, you can do the same trade for 50$.

This may look very lucrative, but it means that you are also at a large risk. Lets say you put 50$ for a 200:1 leveraged trade. The maximum loss you could make is 50$ (as the broker will not allow you to make a loss for more than what you have. If that becomes the case, a ‘margin call’ will fire and most probably your position will be automatically closed. This is done as a safety mechanism for the broker to not to have clients running large losses and not covering them.) To lose 50$, your currency pair needs to lose 50 pips. In the currency markets 50 pip move can happen in a matter of few hours. Now lets say you had a leverage of 50:1, then you would need 200$ to do the trade and even with a 50 pip loss, you’d still have 75% of your investments left. If you are dealing with large leverages, its necessary to have a large percentage of your deposit not allocated in a trade to make sure you don’t lose out on price spikes. (We’ll talk about this later on another topic where I plan to talk on how to play with currencies).



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With the current questioning on whether or not property [whether residential, buy-to-let, or industrial] is the place to invest at the present moment; the experts assessment that a further interest rate rise is on the cards; the large amounts of money required for any significant promise of profiting from shares, even if you pick the correct ones… and the costs involved; the gloom and doom in pension funds - are you looking for a bright spot?

The Currency Trading/Forex/FX markets could be that bright spot… after all billions are traded there on a regular basis, day after day, month after month, year after year.

It doesn’t matter whether you buy or sell, the potential for profit is there whichever way the market is headed.

Did you know that it is a TAX-FREE market? That it is relatively cheap to enter, especially when compared to shares? And that costs are extremely low?

It is quite easy to learn the ins and outs which you will need to know to make successful trades, if you don’t know anything about it in the first place, then a course will put you in the know. Don’t expect it to be difficult to learn and don’t be put off by the technical terms. They are extremely simple to pick up, you will find it interesting, riveting even, and the details of the actual amounts of money which are traded are guaranteed to be an eye opener.

Once you have learnt HOW to trade, you can sign up with an online trading platform… remember to take advantage of their FREE courses, tutorials, and most importantly their demo account.

Does this sound like an avenue worth exploring… get your research off to a resounding success… visit http://www.5thNovember.com for all the lowdown on the best courses and trading platform, plus free tips which you won’t want to miss.

This article has, of necessity, only been an introduction to the fascinating subject of currency trading. Newbies need a reliable source of introductory information, even the more experienced can benefit from study. There are numerous books on every aspect available… I’m sure you could find some at your local library. The only problem with this approach is that before you have done a basic introductory course, you could…

1. become overwhelmed, plus you wouldn’t understand the basic terms.

2. find the books rather ‘dry’ and hard-going in the extreme.

My advice, do a basic course first… then if you feel you want to expand your knowledge… follow the above option.

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Volatility is very important for traders because on the trading market everything happens very fast and it’s very important to move the money before they expire.

Unfortunately many traders are not able to see the market direction in time and their timing is not synchronized with the trading signal. In most cases they spot the direction of the prices, stop but when the trend goes up as they suspected there’s nothing to be done and they lose big money.

The currency options can change all that because they are ok with your short term swings and they’ll also keep you in the trend. It’s attractive but you should know that up to 90% of options expire and you can’t do anything about that.

There’s a good way and there’s a bad way to play this trade options game so let’s start from the beginning.

The Wrong Way

Before time expires, many traders choose to buy cheap at the money options away from their strike price and the only result is that they lose their money. That’s why it’s so cheap. You have to be very careful about time decay because the options expire very fast.

These traders repeat their mistake again and again dreaming about huge profit but in most cases they only lose money.

The Right Way

Obviously, the right way to buy currency options is exactly at the other side of the equator compared to the above mentioned one. It’s recommended that you buy in the money or at the money options so that the time won’t be your enemy. There are better chances of success as long as the options have less profit potential than out the money option.

If you know how to use currency options then this very important risk control tool will offer limited risks and will increase the chances of making profit.

If you understood these tips then you won’t have any problem succeeding on the trading market.



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Forex Trading involves buying one currency in a currency pair, by selling the other. So if one is trading in EUR/USD, the trade may involve buying EUR by selling USD at the current market rate or vice-versa. Similarly buying EUR in EUR/GBP would require GBP to be sold.

Unlike options or stocks which have lots of companies that can be traded on, the forex market has got limited currency combinations which can be used to place the trades.

Despite this, often people wonder which currency pairs should be chosen for trading? Should it be USD based or should it be the one that is heavily volatile or should it be some other?

Lets look at few parameters which can be used to decide -

1. What is the pip spread involved - The biggest factor to be considered is the spread between the currencies. In layman’s terms, Spread is a difference between the sell price and the ask price of forex currency pairs as given by the forex broker. In other words, it is a commission of the broker or agent through which the trades are made. The lower the spread, the better it is for the forex trader. The lowest spread I have seen is in EUR/USD, which has the average spread is 2 pips to 3 pips. Typically a spread of upto 5-6 pips is good enough to trade.

2. What is the liquidity? - The more the liquidity, that means the higher is the amount of money being traded on that currency pair. So, this eventually means that that particular currency pair moves a lot in a the trading sessions. Its better to trade on such from a day trading perspective as the trades don’t need to be kept open for a longer time. I have seen that the GBP/USD is heavily liquidated. On average it moves about 100-150 pips everyday. This is followed by EUR/USD and USD/CHF.

3. How does the currency pair behaves? - Does it move technically or is it primarily fundamental driven? The one that is primarily fundamental driven doesn’t has much regard for technical analysis. I have seen JPY (Yen) as one such currency which is heavily fundamental analysis driven.

So, these are the some factors that can be used in identifying the currency pairs to be traded on. Though these factors are not an exhaustive list, they can be used as minimum basic rules. The pip spread is one important criteria. The lower, the better it is. However the currency pair should also be sufficiently liquidated as this means that there will be significant pips movement during a trading day.



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How to Make BIG Profits with Currency Trading Systems

FOREX markets turn over trillions of dollars per day and are the world’s biggest investment medium.

In recent years, FOREX trading systems using technical analysis to predict trend changes have become increasingly popular as a way of catching the big profitable trends.

Catching the Longer Term Trends for Big Profits

The longer-term trends in FOREX markets mirror the underlying health of the economy. As periods of expansion and contraction take years, so do currency trends and a good FOREX trading system can help you lock into, and profit from, these trends.

When picking a currency to trade, it is important to have good long-term trends and liquidity.

Good major currencies to trade include the US Dollar, Swiss Franc, Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, and Canadian Dollar.

FOREX trading systems remove the emotional component from trading, which is the major reason the majority of traders lose.

Removing the Emotion from Trading with Systems

One of the best starting points on the effect that emotions have in trading, are the works of legendary trader W. D Gann, whose works on the subject are essential reading.

Other authors worth reading are: Edwin Lefeurve, Jake Bernstein, Larry Williams, Ken Roberts, Van Tharpe and Jack Shwager whose book “Market Wizards & The New Market Wizards” interviews some of the top traders of all time, including the legendary “turtles”.

FOREX Trading Systems for Profit

The developments in computer software, and the growth of the Internet, have seen system trading reach a wider audience than ever before.

Packages such as Tradestation, Supercharts and Omni trader, allow traders to build and back test systems, using technical indicators such as stochastics, Bollinger bands, moving averages, RSI etc., to realistically see how the system would have performed in the markets over time.

Traders who do not have the time, or inclination, to develop their own FOREX Trading systems, can buy a variety of systems off the shelf.

What Makes A Successful FOREX Trading System?

If you are buying a FOREX trading system from a vendor, there are several things to consider:

1. Do you want to be a day trader, or a longer-term trader? You need to pick a system that suits your personality.

2. Do you want to have any manual input into the system, or do you want it to make all the decisions for you?

3. Do you want to trade just one currency, or a spread? Trading one currency can increase the profit potential, but keep in mind that it can also increase the risk.

4. What is the logic of the system? It is a fact, that if you understand the system and its logic, you will have more confidence in it, than if you buy a black box system where the logic concealed.

5. What is the profit potential and what are the drawdowns? The important point here is that any system will have periods of drawdown or losses, and you need to be able to have the confidence to follow the system through good periods and bad. Generally, the bigger the profit potential, the bigger the drawdowns tend to be.

When you are buying from a vendor, check out their experience, record of accomplishment, customer support etc., and make sure you are comfortable with them.



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