Investing in foreign currencies is a relatively new avenue of investing. There are considerably fewer people are aware of this market than there are people aware of several other avenues of investing. Trading foreign currency, also known as forex, is the most lucrative investment market that exists. There are several factors that make this true among which, successful forex traders earn realistic profits of one hundred plus percent each month. Compared to some of the better known investment markets such as corporate stocks, this is an unheard of return on investment. It's very necessary to mention here that a person who invests in forex must, without exception, make it a point to learn the detailed, but simple strategies and information surrounding the market. This very fact is what makes the difference between successful forex traders and other traders.
A few additional points, which create such powerful leverage for investors within the forex market are: The amount of capital required to begin investing in the market is only three hundred dollars. For the most part, any other investment market is going to demand thousands of dollars of the investor in the beginning. Also, the market offers opportunities to profit regardless what the direction of the market may be; In most commonly known markets investors sit and wait for the market to begin an up trend before entering a trade. Even then, investors, as a rule must sit and wait some more to be able to exit the trade with a nice profit. Given that the forex market produces several up, down, and sideways trends in a single day, it can easily be seen that forex stands head and shoulders above other markets. Additionally there are trading strategies, which are taught that provide for compounded profits; these are profits on top of profits. In addition, free demo accounts are available within the industry of forex trading, which facilitate the sharpening of skills without the risk losing any capital. And the advantage regarding the time factor in trading foreign currency is a very attractive point for any investor. Compared to one of the most sought after avenues of investing, which often requires forty or more hours each week, namely in the real-estate market, the forex market requires a much smaller demand on the investor's time. Forex trading requires approximately ten to fifteen hours each week to earn a full time income. It's easy to see that the advantages and great leverage that exist in the forex market, make it among the most lucrative, time liberating, and easy to enter by far.
I hope this information gives you a clear understanding of how you can turn your investing into a true method of making your money work harder for you.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Forex The Future Investment
There are many many advantages over the various other ways of investing. First of all it is a 24 hr market, except for weekends of course. You have the US market then the european and then the Asian. One of the great times to trade is during the over lapping periods. The USA and european overlap between 5am & 9am eastern and the Euro & Asian between 11pm & 1am eastern. Usually the busiest time and best to trade.
The is also the risk factor for the accounts. With futures and options you can get margin calls that can wipe you out. If you get caught in a bad trade not only do you lose the money in the account but you may have to come up with alot more from your pocket. It can be very risking. But not in Forex. Worst case senerio you could lose whats in you account. But you would have to do something really stupid. Like making a big trade on a Fundamental day and leave it alone. If market takes a bad move and you weren't there. OOOPS. But That wouldn't happen with a smarth trader.
Then there are the demo accounts which is an account where you can trade using all the right things, platform,charts,and information. But you are using play money, or what we call paper trading too.
Plus with Forex you have a mini account. Instead of needing thousands of dollars to get into it. You can open an account with as little as $300.00. Now of course you will be trading at 1 tenth of a trade. IN other words you controling 10,000 instead of 100,000.00 These are call lots. Which also means you will only risk 1 tenth too!
So if you would love to learn to do investing and not have near the risk you really need to take a closer look at Forex trading.
The is also the risk factor for the accounts. With futures and options you can get margin calls that can wipe you out. If you get caught in a bad trade not only do you lose the money in the account but you may have to come up with alot more from your pocket. It can be very risking. But not in Forex. Worst case senerio you could lose whats in you account. But you would have to do something really stupid. Like making a big trade on a Fundamental day and leave it alone. If market takes a bad move and you weren't there. OOOPS. But That wouldn't happen with a smarth trader.
Then there are the demo accounts which is an account where you can trade using all the right things, platform,charts,and information. But you are using play money, or what we call paper trading too.
Plus with Forex you have a mini account. Instead of needing thousands of dollars to get into it. You can open an account with as little as $300.00. Now of course you will be trading at 1 tenth of a trade. IN other words you controling 10,000 instead of 100,000.00 These are call lots. Which also means you will only risk 1 tenth too!
So if you would love to learn to do investing and not have near the risk you really need to take a closer look at Forex trading.
Explosive Profits: 7 Reasons to Trade Forex
There are many money-making opportunities out there and we've been involved with quite a few, namely property marketing, web development, residential construction security, multi-level marketing businesses etc.
We've come to a few conclusions with the help of some well-known properity coaches.
Often people with the income they desire don't have the time to enjoy it. Those that have time don't often have money. You don't have to sacrifice your life-style to earn an above-average income. If you focus on the for a few months you can make that dream a reality and create time and money to do what you REALLY want.
To earn a living money is given in exchange for a product or service rendered. It needs to be sold continuously otherwise your income stops abruptly unless it's a repeat type of product or service.
Money is a medium of exchange. There's no magical formula to possess it, you need to exchange something of value for it.
What if, you could have access to thousands of customers who are ready, willing and able to buy from you whenever you wanted? Wouldn't it be great to avoid any hassles like money collection problems (just had a delayed payment from my web business), keeping difficult customers happy (we all know what that's like), competition stealing your business without providing the same value etc.
All that is possible with . You can also trade from anywhere. Take your laptop with you, find an internet connection and away you go.
Another advantage is that you don't need experience to get started. Get a traditionally job involves accumulating specialized experience, having a well-polished resume and having the right contacts. With the right training course, you can get started straight away.
Here's 7 more reasons to trade :
1. It never closes. It's open around the clock, worldwide. Trading positions open at Monday 7am, New Zealand time and close 5pm New York time on Friday. During this time, you can enter or exit the market whenever you like. It's a continuous electronic currency exchange. This is great because you can trade whenever you have spare time.
2. Leverage. Standard $100 000 currency lots can be traded with as little as $1000. This is mainly because of the ease with which you can buy and sell, some brokers will leverage up to 200 times, so with $100 you can control a 200 000 unit currency position. It's the best use of trading capital around, even banks lending on property investments don't come close.
3. Accurately predict the outcomes. Currency prices generally repeat themselves in predictable cycles so you can see what the trends are. 'Technical Analysis' helps to see these trends and profit from them.
4. Low Transaction Cost. In other words, you mistakes won't cost you a fortune. Good brokers won' charge commissions to trade or maintain an account even if you have a mini account and trade small volumes.
5. Unlimited Earning Potential. has a daily trading volume of over 1.5 trillion, the largest financial market in the world. It dwarfs the equities market (50 billion daily) and the futures market (30 billion).
6. You can make money in any market conditions. Each market is one currency against another, so when you buy in one, you're selling in another so there's no biase towards either currency moving up or down. This means it's up to you to choose which currency to buy or sell with. Yu can make money going up or down.
7. Market transparency. This is an advantage in any business or trading environment. It means you can manage risk and execute orders within seconds. It's highly efficient and allows you to avoid unexpected 'surprises'.
I hope you're now convinced that is the best investment and income opportunity around.
We've come to a few conclusions with the help of some well-known properity coaches.
Often people with the income they desire don't have the time to enjoy it. Those that have time don't often have money. You don't have to sacrifice your life-style to earn an above-average income. If you focus on the for a few months you can make that dream a reality and create time and money to do what you REALLY want.
To earn a living money is given in exchange for a product or service rendered. It needs to be sold continuously otherwise your income stops abruptly unless it's a repeat type of product or service.
Money is a medium of exchange. There's no magical formula to possess it, you need to exchange something of value for it.
What if, you could have access to thousands of customers who are ready, willing and able to buy from you whenever you wanted? Wouldn't it be great to avoid any hassles like money collection problems (just had a delayed payment from my web business), keeping difficult customers happy (we all know what that's like), competition stealing your business without providing the same value etc.
All that is possible with . You can also trade from anywhere. Take your laptop with you, find an internet connection and away you go.
Another advantage is that you don't need experience to get started. Get a traditionally job involves accumulating specialized experience, having a well-polished resume and having the right contacts. With the right training course, you can get started straight away.
Here's 7 more reasons to trade :
1. It never closes. It's open around the clock, worldwide. Trading positions open at Monday 7am, New Zealand time and close 5pm New York time on Friday. During this time, you can enter or exit the market whenever you like. It's a continuous electronic currency exchange. This is great because you can trade whenever you have spare time.
2. Leverage. Standard $100 000 currency lots can be traded with as little as $1000. This is mainly because of the ease with which you can buy and sell, some brokers will leverage up to 200 times, so with $100 you can control a 200 000 unit currency position. It's the best use of trading capital around, even banks lending on property investments don't come close.
3. Accurately predict the outcomes. Currency prices generally repeat themselves in predictable cycles so you can see what the trends are. 'Technical Analysis' helps to see these trends and profit from them.
4. Low Transaction Cost. In other words, you mistakes won't cost you a fortune. Good brokers won' charge commissions to trade or maintain an account even if you have a mini account and trade small volumes.
5. Unlimited Earning Potential. has a daily trading volume of over 1.5 trillion, the largest financial market in the world. It dwarfs the equities market (50 billion daily) and the futures market (30 billion).
6. You can make money in any market conditions. Each market is one currency against another, so when you buy in one, you're selling in another so there's no biase towards either currency moving up or down. This means it's up to you to choose which currency to buy or sell with. Yu can make money going up or down.
7. Market transparency. This is an advantage in any business or trading environment. It means you can manage risk and execute orders within seconds. It's highly efficient and allows you to avoid unexpected 'surprises'.
I hope you're now convinced that is the best investment and income opportunity around.
Why Trade the FOREX?
My purpose for writing this article is to demonstrate to you the advantages of trading on the Forex market. However, there is one myth that I want to dispel before I go further. The myth is that there is a difference between trading and investing. To dispel that myth I quote from Al Thomas, President of Williamsburg Investment Company, who wrote "If It Doesn't Go Up, Don't Buy It". He said "Everyone who invests is a trader, only the time period is different." It is a lesson that I took seriously after taking a beating in the stock market in 2000.
So now, let's compare features of currency trading to those of stock and commodity trading.
Liquidity — The Forex market is the most liquid financial market in the world around 1.9 trillion dollars traded everyday. The commodities market trades around 440 billion dollars a day, and the US stock market trades around 200 billion dollars a day. This ensures better trade execution and prevents market manipulation. It also ensures easily executable trading.
Trading Times — The Forex market is open 24 hours a day (except weekends) which means that in the US it opens at 3:00 pm Sunday (EST) and closes Friday at 5:00 (EST), allowing active traders to choose the times they want to trade. Commodities trading hours are all over the board depending on which commodity you are trading. Including extended trading times US stocks can be traded from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm (ET) on weekdays.
Leverage — Depending on your Forex account size, your leverage may be 100:1, although there are Forex brokers that offer leverage of up to 400:1 (not that I would ever recommend that kind of leverage). Leverage in the stock market can be as high as 4:1, and in the commodities market, leverage varies with the commodity traded but it can be quite high. Because the commodity markets are not as liquid as the Forex market, its leverage is inherently riskier. Although I was never shut out of a commodity trade by the day limit, the fear was always in the back of my mind.
Trading costs — Transaction costs in the Forex market is the difference between the buy and sell price of each currency pair. There are no brokerage fees. For both the stock and the commodity markets, there are transaction costs and brokerage fees. Even when you use discount brokers, those fees add up.
Minimum investment — You can open a Forex trading account for as little as $300.00. It took $5,000 for me to open my futures trading account.
Focus — 85% of all trading transactions are made on 7 major currencies. In the US stock market alone there are 40,000 stocks. There are just over 200 commodity markets, although quite a few are so illiquid that they are not traded except by hedgers. As you can see, the fewer number of instruments allows us to study each one more closely.
Trade execution — In the Forex market, trade execution is almost instantaneous. In both the equity and commodity markets, you count on a broker to execute your trades and their results are sometimes inconsistent.
While all of these features make trading the Forex market very attractive, it still requires a lot of education, discipline, commitment and patience. All trading can be risky.
So now, let's compare features of currency trading to those of stock and commodity trading.
Liquidity — The Forex market is the most liquid financial market in the world around 1.9 trillion dollars traded everyday. The commodities market trades around 440 billion dollars a day, and the US stock market trades around 200 billion dollars a day. This ensures better trade execution and prevents market manipulation. It also ensures easily executable trading.
Trading Times — The Forex market is open 24 hours a day (except weekends) which means that in the US it opens at 3:00 pm Sunday (EST) and closes Friday at 5:00 (EST), allowing active traders to choose the times they want to trade. Commodities trading hours are all over the board depending on which commodity you are trading. Including extended trading times US stocks can be traded from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm (ET) on weekdays.
Leverage — Depending on your Forex account size, your leverage may be 100:1, although there are Forex brokers that offer leverage of up to 400:1 (not that I would ever recommend that kind of leverage). Leverage in the stock market can be as high as 4:1, and in the commodities market, leverage varies with the commodity traded but it can be quite high. Because the commodity markets are not as liquid as the Forex market, its leverage is inherently riskier. Although I was never shut out of a commodity trade by the day limit, the fear was always in the back of my mind.
Trading costs — Transaction costs in the Forex market is the difference between the buy and sell price of each currency pair. There are no brokerage fees. For both the stock and the commodity markets, there are transaction costs and brokerage fees. Even when you use discount brokers, those fees add up.
Minimum investment — You can open a Forex trading account for as little as $300.00. It took $5,000 for me to open my futures trading account.
Focus — 85% of all trading transactions are made on 7 major currencies. In the US stock market alone there are 40,000 stocks. There are just over 200 commodity markets, although quite a few are so illiquid that they are not traded except by hedgers. As you can see, the fewer number of instruments allows us to study each one more closely.
Trade execution — In the Forex market, trade execution is almost instantaneous. In both the equity and commodity markets, you count on a broker to execute your trades and their results are sometimes inconsistent.
While all of these features make trading the Forex market very attractive, it still requires a lot of education, discipline, commitment and patience. All trading can be risky.
Forex Avenue
In my continuing quest to provide visitors of my site with a large amount of options to chose from when considering working from home I have done some research on Forex trading. I first learned of Forex trading while pursuing my MBA program. For those of you who have never heard of this, Forex trading is the exchange of foreign currency.
I know I would have never even know this was an option for making money had I not found out in class. Most of the really big corporations have departments of people that do this for a living because it can be very lucrative if done correctly. The best news I have learned about this process of exchanging currencies is that many of the websites that you can sign up with to do this offer free trial accounts to help you learn before you invest your money into trying it. You won't make any money in the trial accounts if you do well, it is just pretend money essentially but with the real market conditions. If you do well in the trial account you will know if this is something you want to try on your own.
Benefits to Forex trading are that is can be done 24/7 whereas the stock market is a business hours only exchange. It is 24/7 because it is done with countries around the world so clearly there are countries that are awake and working while we sleep. Another benefit is you are in control of the trading on your account. You do not need to hire a licensed broker to make your trades and charge you fees. Along those same lines, anyone who does any investing most likely knows that some funds require you to own then for a certain period of time or pay early withdrawal fees. You do not need to concern yourself with this either. One last benefit that I would like to point out is the fact that Forex is not really subject to the same kinds of swings in the market that stocks are subject to. Of course if you always buy and sell the same currencies then there will be market swings. But, because there are hundreds of currencies out there, there is always going to be something for you to make money on because while one currency is up in value another one is down and vice versa.
There are many resources available to someone interested in becoming involved in this type of training. The Federal Reserve Bank's website is just one example of the information available — http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/foreignex.html. Here is another article that you will find helpful in starting out in this field. http://www.forex.com/pdf/pro2.pdf . I have also included one of the sites that does offer a free lesson.
While there are many benefits to this type of training, as I mentioned above, there are certainly risks involved as well. There are risks with exchange rates, central banks in foreign countries, and risks involving interest rates and credit. Forex is quickly becoming a popular way to help diversify your investment portfolio. If you are good with understanding investing concepts and enjoy doing it this may be the home business opportunity for you. Just do your research and try to find one of the sites offering the free trial account to practice with and you are well on your way down.
I know I would have never even know this was an option for making money had I not found out in class. Most of the really big corporations have departments of people that do this for a living because it can be very lucrative if done correctly. The best news I have learned about this process of exchanging currencies is that many of the websites that you can sign up with to do this offer free trial accounts to help you learn before you invest your money into trying it. You won't make any money in the trial accounts if you do well, it is just pretend money essentially but with the real market conditions. If you do well in the trial account you will know if this is something you want to try on your own.
Benefits to Forex trading are that is can be done 24/7 whereas the stock market is a business hours only exchange. It is 24/7 because it is done with countries around the world so clearly there are countries that are awake and working while we sleep. Another benefit is you are in control of the trading on your account. You do not need to hire a licensed broker to make your trades and charge you fees. Along those same lines, anyone who does any investing most likely knows that some funds require you to own then for a certain period of time or pay early withdrawal fees. You do not need to concern yourself with this either. One last benefit that I would like to point out is the fact that Forex is not really subject to the same kinds of swings in the market that stocks are subject to. Of course if you always buy and sell the same currencies then there will be market swings. But, because there are hundreds of currencies out there, there is always going to be something for you to make money on because while one currency is up in value another one is down and vice versa.
There are many resources available to someone interested in becoming involved in this type of training. The Federal Reserve Bank's website is just one example of the information available — http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/foreignex.html. Here is another article that you will find helpful in starting out in this field. http://www.forex.com/pdf/pro2.pdf . I have also included one of the sites that does offer a free lesson.
While there are many benefits to this type of training, as I mentioned above, there are certainly risks involved as well. There are risks with exchange rates, central banks in foreign countries, and risks involving interest rates and credit. Forex is quickly becoming a popular way to help diversify your investment portfolio. If you are good with understanding investing concepts and enjoy doing it this may be the home business opportunity for you. Just do your research and try to find one of the sites offering the free trial account to practice with and you are well on your way down.
Forex Trading
So what is is Forex trading you may ask? Forex is the exchange you can buy and sell currencies. For example, you might buy British pounds (by exchanging them to the dollars you had), then, after pounds / dollar ratio goes up, you sell pounds and buy dollars again. At the end of this operation you are going to have more dollars, then you had at the beginning.
The Forex market has much higher liquidity, then the stock market, as much more money is being exchanged. Forex is spread between banks all over the planet and as a result it means 24 hour trading.
Unlike stocks, Forex trades are performed with high leverage, usually it is 100. It means that by investing $1000 you can control $100,000, and increase potential profits accordingly. Some brokers provide also so called mini-Forex, where the size of minimum deposit equals $100. It makes possible for individuals to enter this market easily.
The name convention. In Forex, the name of a "symbol" is composed of two parts — one for first currency, and another for the second currency. For example, the symbol usdjpy stands for US dollars (usd) to Japanese yen (jpy).
As with stocks, you can apply tools of the technical analysis to Forex charts. Trader's indexes can be optimized for Forex "symbols", allowing you to find winning strategy.
Example Forex transaction
Assume you have a trading account of $25,000 and you are trading with a 1% margin requirement. The current quote for EUR/USD is 1.3225/28 and you place a market order to buy 1 lot of 100,000 Euros at 1.3228, expecting the euro to rise against the dollar. At the same time you place a stop-loss order at 1.3178 representing a maximum loss of 2% of your account equity if the trade goes against you, 50 pips below your order price, and a limit order at 1.3378, 150 pips above your order price. For this trade, you are risking 50 pips to gain 150 pips, giving you a risk/reward ratio of 1 part risk to 3 parts reward. This means that you only need to be right one third of the time to remain profitable.
The notional value of this trade is $132,280 (100,000 * 1.3228). Your required margin deposit is 1% of the total, which is equal to $1322.80 ($132,280 * 0.01).
As you expected, the Euro strengthens against the dollar and your limit order is reached at 1.3378. The position is closed. Your total profit for this trade is $1500, each pip being worth $10.
The Forex market has much higher liquidity, then the stock market, as much more money is being exchanged. Forex is spread between banks all over the planet and as a result it means 24 hour trading.
Unlike stocks, Forex trades are performed with high leverage, usually it is 100. It means that by investing $1000 you can control $100,000, and increase potential profits accordingly. Some brokers provide also so called mini-Forex, where the size of minimum deposit equals $100. It makes possible for individuals to enter this market easily.
The name convention. In Forex, the name of a "symbol" is composed of two parts — one for first currency, and another for the second currency. For example, the symbol usdjpy stands for US dollars (usd) to Japanese yen (jpy).
As with stocks, you can apply tools of the technical analysis to Forex charts. Trader's indexes can be optimized for Forex "symbols", allowing you to find winning strategy.
Example Forex transaction
Assume you have a trading account of $25,000 and you are trading with a 1% margin requirement. The current quote for EUR/USD is 1.3225/28 and you place a market order to buy 1 lot of 100,000 Euros at 1.3228, expecting the euro to rise against the dollar. At the same time you place a stop-loss order at 1.3178 representing a maximum loss of 2% of your account equity if the trade goes against you, 50 pips below your order price, and a limit order at 1.3378, 150 pips above your order price. For this trade, you are risking 50 pips to gain 150 pips, giving you a risk/reward ratio of 1 part risk to 3 parts reward. This means that you only need to be right one third of the time to remain profitable.
The notional value of this trade is $132,280 (100,000 * 1.3228). Your required margin deposit is 1% of the total, which is equal to $1322.80 ($132,280 * 0.01).
As you expected, the Euro strengthens against the dollar and your limit order is reached at 1.3378. The position is closed. Your total profit for this trade is $1500, each pip being worth $10.
Introduction To Forex Trading
There are many markets: markets for stocks, futures, options and currencies. These are probably the most accessible markets for everyday traders like you and I. People easily understand the basics of trading shares, so I will occasionally use examples from that market.
I began trading shares first and then I moved on to trading currencies; therefore, most of the examples I will be using in this book are derived from trading currencies.
If you do not know a lot about currency trading, allow me to introduce it to you. It is what I trade and I believe that it is one of the best markets to trade because of its efficiency. The transaction costs to execute a trade are minimal and most brokers provide you with the tools and data you need to make your trading decisions, they usually provide them for free. The market is open 24 hours a day which allows you to design your trading hours around your daily commitments. It is very volatile, which is great for those people who are looking for day-trading opportunities.
The foreign exchange market is the market in which currencies are bought and sold against one another. People may loosely refer to this market under different labels, including foreign exchange market, forex market, fx market or the currency market.
The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world, with daily trading volumes in excess of $1.5 trillion US dollars. All transactions involving international trade and investment must go through this market because these transactions involve the exchange of currencies.
It is the most perfect market that exists because it has a large number of buyers and sellers all selling the same products. There is a free flow of information and there are little barriers to participate.
The currency exchange market is an over-the-counter (OTC) market which means that there is not one specific location where buyers and sellers can actually meet to exchange currencies. Instead, transactions are conducted by phone, fax, e-mail or through the websites of brokers who specialize in currency trading.
The major dealing centres at the time of writing are: London , with about 30% of the market, New York , with 20%, Tokyo , with 12%, Zurich , Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Singapore , with about 7% each, followed by Paris and Sydney with 3% each. Because of the fact that these centres are all over the world, foreign exchange traders can execute transactions 24 hours a day. The market only closes on the weekends.
THE MAIN 'PLAYERS' IN THE FOREX MARKET
The five broad categories of participants are: consumers, businesses, investors, speculators, commercial banks, investment banks and central banks.
Consumers, including visitors of countries, tourists and immigrants, do need to exchange currencies when they travel so that they can buy local goods and services. These participants do not have the power to set prices. They just buy and sell according to the prevailing exchange rate. They make up a significant proportion of the volume being traded in the market.
Businesses that import and export goods and services need to exchange currencies to receive or make payments for goods they may have bought or services they may have rendered.
Investors and speculators require currencies to buy and sell investment instruments such as shares, bonds, bank deposits or real estate.
Large commercial and investment banks are the 'price makers'. They are the ones who buy and sell currencies at the bid-and-offer exchange rates that they declare through their foreign exchange dealers.
Commercial banks deal with customers on one hand, and with the Interbank or other banks, on the other hand. They profit by utilizing the bid-and-offer spread. The bid price is the exchange rate that the buyer is willing to buy and the offer price is the exchange rate at which the seller is willing to sell. The difference is called the bid-offer spread. They also make profits from speculating about whether the exchange rate will rise or fall.
Central banks participate in the foreign exchange market in their effective duty as banks for their particular government. They trade currencies not for the intention of making profits but rather to facilitate government monetary policies and to help smoothen out the fluctuation of the value of their economy's currency.
I began trading shares first and then I moved on to trading currencies; therefore, most of the examples I will be using in this book are derived from trading currencies.
If you do not know a lot about currency trading, allow me to introduce it to you. It is what I trade and I believe that it is one of the best markets to trade because of its efficiency. The transaction costs to execute a trade are minimal and most brokers provide you with the tools and data you need to make your trading decisions, they usually provide them for free. The market is open 24 hours a day which allows you to design your trading hours around your daily commitments. It is very volatile, which is great for those people who are looking for day-trading opportunities.
The foreign exchange market is the market in which currencies are bought and sold against one another. People may loosely refer to this market under different labels, including foreign exchange market, forex market, fx market or the currency market.
The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world, with daily trading volumes in excess of $1.5 trillion US dollars. All transactions involving international trade and investment must go through this market because these transactions involve the exchange of currencies.
It is the most perfect market that exists because it has a large number of buyers and sellers all selling the same products. There is a free flow of information and there are little barriers to participate.
The currency exchange market is an over-the-counter (OTC) market which means that there is not one specific location where buyers and sellers can actually meet to exchange currencies. Instead, transactions are conducted by phone, fax, e-mail or through the websites of brokers who specialize in currency trading.
The major dealing centres at the time of writing are: London , with about 30% of the market, New York , with 20%, Tokyo , with 12%, Zurich , Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Singapore , with about 7% each, followed by Paris and Sydney with 3% each. Because of the fact that these centres are all over the world, foreign exchange traders can execute transactions 24 hours a day. The market only closes on the weekends.
THE MAIN 'PLAYERS' IN THE FOREX MARKET
The five broad categories of participants are: consumers, businesses, investors, speculators, commercial banks, investment banks and central banks.
Consumers, including visitors of countries, tourists and immigrants, do need to exchange currencies when they travel so that they can buy local goods and services. These participants do not have the power to set prices. They just buy and sell according to the prevailing exchange rate. They make up a significant proportion of the volume being traded in the market.
Businesses that import and export goods and services need to exchange currencies to receive or make payments for goods they may have bought or services they may have rendered.
Investors and speculators require currencies to buy and sell investment instruments such as shares, bonds, bank deposits or real estate.
Large commercial and investment banks are the 'price makers'. They are the ones who buy and sell currencies at the bid-and-offer exchange rates that they declare through their foreign exchange dealers.
Commercial banks deal with customers on one hand, and with the Interbank or other banks, on the other hand. They profit by utilizing the bid-and-offer spread. The bid price is the exchange rate that the buyer is willing to buy and the offer price is the exchange rate at which the seller is willing to sell. The difference is called the bid-offer spread. They also make profits from speculating about whether the exchange rate will rise or fall.
Central banks participate in the foreign exchange market in their effective duty as banks for their particular government. They trade currencies not for the intention of making profits but rather to facilitate government monetary policies and to help smoothen out the fluctuation of the value of their economy's currency.
Trading Forex To Advance Your Financial Position
Everyday, currencies are traded in an international foreign exchange market, otherwise known as the forex market, with the main marketplaces (otherwise known as bourses) existing in the world's financial centes New York, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Zurich. Historically, the only way to participate was from the trading floor of one of these bourses, but today, people can trade forex from anywhere through a secure internet connection and a PC.
Today's traders operate in a global network, taking positions in the market and making investment decisions based on either relative value between two currencies, or a particular currency's actual price. Currency value fluctuations are constantly renegotiated through trading activity, and this activity, and the corresponding currency values are also indicators of the levels of currency supply.
An example of market behaviour greater demand for the Euro might indicate a weakening supply. Low supply and increased demand will drive the price of the Euro up against other currencies like the dollar, until the price better reflects what traders are prepared to pay when short supply exists. Another way to look at this situation is this higher demand means it will cost more dollars to buy the Euro, which equates to a weakening of the dollar in comparison. Analysis of situations such as in this example forms the basis for a trader's investment decisions, and they will purchase or sell currency accordingly.
This should be remembered, as while many see the foreign exchange market as the vehicle for converting their home currency while travelling abroad, many others choose to use the market to advance their financial position and secure their future.
Today's traders operate in a global network, taking positions in the market and making investment decisions based on either relative value between two currencies, or a particular currency's actual price. Currency value fluctuations are constantly renegotiated through trading activity, and this activity, and the corresponding currency values are also indicators of the levels of currency supply.
An example of market behaviour greater demand for the Euro might indicate a weakening supply. Low supply and increased demand will drive the price of the Euro up against other currencies like the dollar, until the price better reflects what traders are prepared to pay when short supply exists. Another way to look at this situation is this higher demand means it will cost more dollars to buy the Euro, which equates to a weakening of the dollar in comparison. Analysis of situations such as in this example forms the basis for a trader's investment decisions, and they will purchase or sell currency accordingly.
This should be remembered, as while many see the foreign exchange market as the vehicle for converting their home currency while travelling abroad, many others choose to use the market to advance their financial position and secure their future.
6 Advantages to Invest in Forex Market
There are many different advantages to trading forex instead of futures or stocks, such as:
1. Lower Margin
Just like futures and stock speculation, a forex trader has the ability to control a large amount of the currency basically by putting up a small amount of margin. However, the margin requirements that are needed for trading futures are usually around 5% of the full value of the holding, or 50% of the total value of the stocks, the margin requirements for forex is about 1%. For example, margin required to trade foreign exchange is $1000 for every $100,000. What this means is that trading forex, a currency trader's money can play with 5-times as much value of product as a futures trader's, or 50 times more than a stock trader's. When you are trading on margin, this can be a very profitable way to create an investment strategy, but it's important that you take the time to understand the risks that are involved as well. You should make sure that you fully understand how your margin account is going to work. You will want to be sure that you read the margin agreement between you and your clearing firm. You will also want to talk to your account representative if you have any questions.
The positions that you have in your account could be partially or completely liquidated on the chance that the available margin in your account falls below a predetermined amount. You may not actually get a margin call before your positions are liquidated. Because of this, you should monitor your margin balance on a regular basis and utilize stop-loss orders on every open position to limit downside risk.
2. No Commission and No Exchange Fees
When you trade in futures, you have to pay exchange and brokerage fees. Trading forex has the advantage of being commission free. This is far better for you. Currency trading is a worldwide inter-bank market that lets buyers to be matched with sellers in an instant.
Even though you do not have to pay a commission charge to a broker to match the buyer up with the seller, the spread is usually larger than it is when you are trading futures. For example, if you were trading a Japanese Yen/US Dollar pair, forex trade would have about a 3 point spread (worth $30). Trading a JY futures trade would most likely have a spread of 1 point (worth $10) but you would also be charged the broker's commission on top of that. This price could be as low as $10 in-and-out for self-directed online trading, or as high as $50 for full-service trading. It is however, all inclusive pricing though. You are going to have to compare both online forex and your specific futures commission charge to see which commission is the greater one.
3. Limited Risk and Guaranteed Stops
When you are trading futures, your risk can be unlimited. For example, if you thought that the prices for Live Cattle were going to continue their upward trend in December 2003, just before the discovery of Mad Cow Disease found in US cattle. The price for it after that fell dramatically, which moved the limit down several days in a row. You would not have been able to leave your position and this could have wiped out the entire equity in your account as a result. As the price just kept on falling, you would have been obligated to find even more money to make up the deficit in your account.
4. Rollover of Positions
When futures contracts expire, you have to plan ahead if you are going to rollover your trades. Forex positions expire every two days and you need to rollover each trade just so that you can stay in your position.
5. 24-Hour Marketplace
With futures, you are generally limited to trading only during the few hours that each market is open in any one day. If a major news story breaks out when the markets are closed, you will not have a way of getting out of it until the market reopens, which could be many hours away. Forex, on the other hand, is a 24/5 market. The day begins in New York, and follows the sun around the globe through Europe, Asia, Australia and back to the US again. You can trade any time you like Monday-Friday.
6. Free market place
Foreign exchange is perhaps the largest market in the world with an average daily volume of US$1.4 trillion. That is 46 times as large as all the futures markets put together! With the huge number of people trading forex around the globe, it is very hard for even governments to control the price of their own currency.
1. Lower Margin
Just like futures and stock speculation, a forex trader has the ability to control a large amount of the currency basically by putting up a small amount of margin. However, the margin requirements that are needed for trading futures are usually around 5% of the full value of the holding, or 50% of the total value of the stocks, the margin requirements for forex is about 1%. For example, margin required to trade foreign exchange is $1000 for every $100,000. What this means is that trading forex, a currency trader's money can play with 5-times as much value of product as a futures trader's, or 50 times more than a stock trader's. When you are trading on margin, this can be a very profitable way to create an investment strategy, but it's important that you take the time to understand the risks that are involved as well. You should make sure that you fully understand how your margin account is going to work. You will want to be sure that you read the margin agreement between you and your clearing firm. You will also want to talk to your account representative if you have any questions.
The positions that you have in your account could be partially or completely liquidated on the chance that the available margin in your account falls below a predetermined amount. You may not actually get a margin call before your positions are liquidated. Because of this, you should monitor your margin balance on a regular basis and utilize stop-loss orders on every open position to limit downside risk.
2. No Commission and No Exchange Fees
When you trade in futures, you have to pay exchange and brokerage fees. Trading forex has the advantage of being commission free. This is far better for you. Currency trading is a worldwide inter-bank market that lets buyers to be matched with sellers in an instant.
Even though you do not have to pay a commission charge to a broker to match the buyer up with the seller, the spread is usually larger than it is when you are trading futures. For example, if you were trading a Japanese Yen/US Dollar pair, forex trade would have about a 3 point spread (worth $30). Trading a JY futures trade would most likely have a spread of 1 point (worth $10) but you would also be charged the broker's commission on top of that. This price could be as low as $10 in-and-out for self-directed online trading, or as high as $50 for full-service trading. It is however, all inclusive pricing though. You are going to have to compare both online forex and your specific futures commission charge to see which commission is the greater one.
3. Limited Risk and Guaranteed Stops
When you are trading futures, your risk can be unlimited. For example, if you thought that the prices for Live Cattle were going to continue their upward trend in December 2003, just before the discovery of Mad Cow Disease found in US cattle. The price for it after that fell dramatically, which moved the limit down several days in a row. You would not have been able to leave your position and this could have wiped out the entire equity in your account as a result. As the price just kept on falling, you would have been obligated to find even more money to make up the deficit in your account.
4. Rollover of Positions
When futures contracts expire, you have to plan ahead if you are going to rollover your trades. Forex positions expire every two days and you need to rollover each trade just so that you can stay in your position.
5. 24-Hour Marketplace
With futures, you are generally limited to trading only during the few hours that each market is open in any one day. If a major news story breaks out when the markets are closed, you will not have a way of getting out of it until the market reopens, which could be many hours away. Forex, on the other hand, is a 24/5 market. The day begins in New York, and follows the sun around the globe through Europe, Asia, Australia and back to the US again. You can trade any time you like Monday-Friday.
6. Free market place
Foreign exchange is perhaps the largest market in the world with an average daily volume of US$1.4 trillion. That is 46 times as large as all the futures markets put together! With the huge number of people trading forex around the globe, it is very hard for even governments to control the price of their own currency.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Top Mistakes Forex Traders Beginers Make
If the Forex trading market were so simple to break into as a new trader, how come so many fail when they try their hand at it? You've seen the advertisements, with the promises of high profits for very little effort; having money made for you automatically; and the golden investors' stories of success. There are several mistakes traders new to the Forex market make, and it inevitably leaves their trading accounts empty and their hopes disappointed. Here are a few of the typical mistakes new traders to Forex make:
Believing the Forex Hype
It's definitely an exciting new investment market, and it is fairly easy to become a part of it, but many new Forex traders buy into the unbelievable offers. Whether it's the broker who is either scamming or just terribly inexperienced but sells themselves well, or the $300 trading system that's foolproof- don't be fooled. It might be nice to hope that you can start making a large profit within hours of joining the Forex trading pool. But if you don't make sure the offer is a respected and legitimate Forex program/ site/ ebook- it's a loss-loss situation.
Over-Confidence
Confidence is a good thing in investing. It encourages you to trust yourself, and in the Forex trade market you can get rewarded many times. Over-confidence, on the other hand, can give you a false sense of security in your Forex account- and cause you to make rash decisions. Part of the Forex trade market is precision, information and studious attention to details. Not understanding how to trade well on Forex trade platforms (listening to your gut) instead of taking the time to learn rarely, if ever, pays out.
The Next Best Thing
The latest ebook, the hottest new automated Forex robot and the cheapest DVD Forex tutorial are gimmicks. You can buy as many 'tricks of the trade' you want to, and it won't actually improve your investing expertise or your Forex trading potential. Many of them are useless, not proven in the field or can actually harm your Forex account with bad, simplified advice. Start with the basics, work your way up the experience ladder- and you'll be able to find your own Forex trading system that can work long-term.
Profits Only, No Losses
The last fatal mistake new Forex traders make: they don't expect to ever take a loss. It's not part of the plan for money-making, and they're unprepared for it. If you're investing in the Forex trade market, get ready to take a loss. Get ready to take several. It's part of your initiation and the experience from loss teaches you what not to do. If you can't lose the money needed to open your Forex account financially, then Forex isn't the trading market for you.
Forex trading can be a great way to make an income while learning a new skill in investment. As long as you don't fall into the typical mistakes of new Forex traders, you're already halfway to being a success.
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The Most Common Mistakes Forex Trader Do
A very common mistake amongst newbie and experienced forex traders alike, have a common flaw in using forex trading indicators. The use of indicators can help alright but populating your graph with more indicators than you need holds its own risks. Using these forex trading indicators blindly without paying heed to what you see can be detrimental. Some forex traders do not understand that there are indicators that follow a trend and those that predicts the trend, so what ends up happening is for instance they use a trend predicting indicator and without waiting for confirmation the jump in. As a result of this the trader finds himself either too late or too early and end up on the losing side. Keep your use of indicators simple and do not fill your chart with every single indicator provided.
A second mistake made by most forex traders is starting their trading account with the minimum account required. By depositing the minimum account into your trading account, you are already at a disadvantage for the following reasons:
• Your account might be too little to withstand the normal market fluctuations.
• You will find yourself trading with fear.
• You will have problems adopting a suitable money management procedure.
• You will be an emotional wreck.
So, personally it is advised that you continue to demo trade while you build your initial capital. Don't be in a hurry to start trading as you will simply hurry out of forex trading.
The third mistake is that most forex traders find themselves getting too hooked on winning that they find themselves unable to accept loss. As a trader you must teach yourself to accept a reasonable loss and move on to the next trade without chasing your loss. Chasing a losing trade is a mistake you will find often in most forex traders. Do not be careless but at the same time don't be too scared to lose, because you must lose some trades. But the ability to win more trades than you lose is what puts you in a profitable position.
The final mistake I will mention here is inadequate knowledge. Most forex traders "put the cart before the horse" meaning they start thinking of making profit instead of getting the required education to enable them trade. Forex trading can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be.
Avoiding Mistakes In Forex Trading
Difficult challenge facing a trad-er, and particularly those trading in forex, is finding perspective.Achieving that in markets with regular hours is hard enough, but withforex, where prices are moving 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it isexceptionally laborious. When inundated with constantly shifting market information, it is hard to separate yourself from the action and avoid personal responses to the market.The market doesn’t care about your feelings. Traders have heard it in many different ways — theonly thing you can control is when you buy and when you sell. In response to that, it is easier to know how not to trade then how to trade. Along those lines, here are some tips onavoiding common pitfalls when trading forex.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Forex Trading Strategy - The Easiest Trading Method for Novice Traders
If you are a novice trader perhaps the easiest forex trading strategy to use is a swing trading strategy as it overcomes two problems that most novice traders face but cant overcome.
By using a swing trading strategy not only can you overcome these problems, you can give yourself a great chance of currency trading success.
Let’s look at this forex trading strategy in more detail
1. Patience
Most novice traders lack patience and they think the more they trade the better.
Most go for forex day trading which is probably the best way to lose money you can get – day trading simply does and cannot work, due to the fact all short term volatility is random.
You can never get the odds in your favour and you can never win – PERIOD.
Other traders however lack patience when long term forex trend following – they simply cannot accept the profits it wants to give them!
We all want profits – but when you sit on a long term trade and see open equity dips of thousands of dollars the temptation to take it is huge and most novice traders bank profits far to soon.
If you are forex trend following you need to take a bit more risk and that means hanging on for longer term gains.
Most traders simply don’t have the patience and discipline to do this and it’s hard even for pro traders.
Swing trading when incorporated in a forex trading strategy overcomes the problem.
You are looking at making profits in periods of 3 days to a few weeks, so you are never holding a position for long periods, and there are plenty of opportunities to keep the trader interested and finally, stop loss protection can be tight keeping risk low.
Forex swing trading is easier than long term trend following as you don’t have to be so patient, it’s easy to maintain discipline, which is the key to big forex gains.
2. Swing Trading is simple
Swing trading tends to be quite simple to learn.
All you need to do is look at support and resistance and use some momentum indicators to time your trades.
One or two timing indicators are all you need to judge price momentum as it moves into test support and resistance and your all set to swing trade.
Being simple to understand is a big advantage, because from understanding comes confidence and from confidence, flows discipline – the key to successful trading is having the disipline to foloow your plan through periods of losses and is a trait all succesful traders have.
So if you want to trade currencies then try swing trading its simple, easy on the mind and can be very profitable.
Consider it as part of your forex trading strategy and let it help lead you to the currency trading success you desire.
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By using a swing trading strategy not only can you overcome these problems, you can give yourself a great chance of currency trading success.
Let’s look at this forex trading strategy in more detail
1. Patience
Most novice traders lack patience and they think the more they trade the better.
Most go for forex day trading which is probably the best way to lose money you can get – day trading simply does and cannot work, due to the fact all short term volatility is random.
You can never get the odds in your favour and you can never win – PERIOD.
Other traders however lack patience when long term forex trend following – they simply cannot accept the profits it wants to give them!
We all want profits – but when you sit on a long term trade and see open equity dips of thousands of dollars the temptation to take it is huge and most novice traders bank profits far to soon.
If you are forex trend following you need to take a bit more risk and that means hanging on for longer term gains.
Most traders simply don’t have the patience and discipline to do this and it’s hard even for pro traders.
Swing trading when incorporated in a forex trading strategy overcomes the problem.
You are looking at making profits in periods of 3 days to a few weeks, so you are never holding a position for long periods, and there are plenty of opportunities to keep the trader interested and finally, stop loss protection can be tight keeping risk low.
Forex swing trading is easier than long term trend following as you don’t have to be so patient, it’s easy to maintain discipline, which is the key to big forex gains.
2. Swing Trading is simple
Swing trading tends to be quite simple to learn.
All you need to do is look at support and resistance and use some momentum indicators to time your trades.
One or two timing indicators are all you need to judge price momentum as it moves into test support and resistance and your all set to swing trade.
Being simple to understand is a big advantage, because from understanding comes confidence and from confidence, flows discipline – the key to successful trading is having the disipline to foloow your plan through periods of losses and is a trait all succesful traders have.
So if you want to trade currencies then try swing trading its simple, easy on the mind and can be very profitable.
Consider it as part of your forex trading strategy and let it help lead you to the currency trading success you desire.
5 FREE Trader PDF’s + More Essential Trader Tools
Get all the support you need to trade like apro with our user-friendly multi-lingual online trading platformsup to date financial news, free demo account, $100 minimum investment, tight pip spreads, and 24-hour professional support.
Forex Trading For Beginners - Top Tips!
Most novice Forex trading amateurs are often perplexed about which trading broker to leverage. There are few things to be considered before you invest your money and trust with a broker. Here are the top 10 aspects to evaluate before zeroing on a Forex trading broker.
Reviews and general opinions about a broker site are crucial. If you are not sure about what other consumers feel about this site, you can check out the scores of consumer reviews online. If the general consensus about the Forex trading site is good then go for it.
Customer service and protection policies are also important. Does the broker follow regulations stipulated as per Forex trading laws? What registrations does this company possess in terms of regulations and what level of consumer protection does it offer? Do they insure client funds incase of frauds or bankruptcies?
The method of implementing Forex trading transactions is also important. Are they desk-oriented, no-dealing brokers, ECNs or market makers? How fast can they execute an order? Do they execute such orders manually or automatically? How much trade size do you need on a minimum before quote requests? Are all the trade transactions of clients offset?
The overall spread of the potential broker is also crucial. The tighter the spread the more chances of volatility in capital. Do they have a variable or fixed type of spread? You can understand the interaction between slippage and spread through a reputed Forex training program.
The amount of slippage to be expected will play a role in your profits at Forex trading. Hence, you need to know the amount of slippage expected in both fast and normal paced markets.
Aspects Such As Margin Requirements Are Also Important.In addition, you should also know if this requirement changes according to certain days in the week as well as currency pairings. Points of time when margin calls are made by the broker and whether it applies for both mini and standard accounts will also be important.
The rate of commission will determine the extent of profits you make. Most Forex trading brokers incorporate this inside the spread.
Rollover policies of the broker is also essential to know. Do you have to have a minimum margin requirement to get rollover interest? What are swap rates prevalent for currency pairings in both long and short? Do any other conditions apply for getting rollover interest?
The kind of Forex trading platform used will also play a role. Is it functional and intuitive? Does it have disconnections at the time of trading? During news announcements and fast paced market conditions, does the platform remain stable? How many pairs of currencies is it possible to trade with this platform? Is there an API for automation of the Forex trading process?
Trading account specifics like minimum balance needed, trade size required and if interest is earned on unused balances etc. all are important factors for evaluation.
No matter which broker you decide to go for, you ultimately need access to reputed Forex training courses to help you with the workings of the system.
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Reviews and general opinions about a broker site are crucial. If you are not sure about what other consumers feel about this site, you can check out the scores of consumer reviews online. If the general consensus about the Forex trading site is good then go for it.
Customer service and protection policies are also important. Does the broker follow regulations stipulated as per Forex trading laws? What registrations does this company possess in terms of regulations and what level of consumer protection does it offer? Do they insure client funds incase of frauds or bankruptcies?
The method of implementing Forex trading transactions is also important. Are they desk-oriented, no-dealing brokers, ECNs or market makers? How fast can they execute an order? Do they execute such orders manually or automatically? How much trade size do you need on a minimum before quote requests? Are all the trade transactions of clients offset?
The overall spread of the potential broker is also crucial. The tighter the spread the more chances of volatility in capital. Do they have a variable or fixed type of spread? You can understand the interaction between slippage and spread through a reputed Forex training program.
The amount of slippage to be expected will play a role in your profits at Forex trading. Hence, you need to know the amount of slippage expected in both fast and normal paced markets.
Aspects Such As Margin Requirements Are Also Important.In addition, you should also know if this requirement changes according to certain days in the week as well as currency pairings. Points of time when margin calls are made by the broker and whether it applies for both mini and standard accounts will also be important.
The rate of commission will determine the extent of profits you make. Most Forex trading brokers incorporate this inside the spread.
Rollover policies of the broker is also essential to know. Do you have to have a minimum margin requirement to get rollover interest? What are swap rates prevalent for currency pairings in both long and short? Do any other conditions apply for getting rollover interest?
The kind of Forex trading platform used will also play a role. Is it functional and intuitive? Does it have disconnections at the time of trading? During news announcements and fast paced market conditions, does the platform remain stable? How many pairs of currencies is it possible to trade with this platform? Is there an API for automation of the Forex trading process?
Trading account specifics like minimum balance needed, trade size required and if interest is earned on unused balances etc. all are important factors for evaluation.
No matter which broker you decide to go for, you ultimately need access to reputed Forex training courses to help you with the workings of the system.
Want to retire early or just looking for additional income?
Discover the benefits a great Forex training program and effective coach can make by attending a risk-free online seminar offered by The Forex Trading Institute. Whether you’re a new trader or experienced veteran, a rock-solid forex training course makes all the difference.
Learn Forex Trading Become Profitable Trader
Our currency trading forex courses are awesome and the hard work to come out these forex training course are proven logical, powerful, robust and well presented methodology. We have the great trader and mentor. The strategies that are being taught honestly in the course have paved & lighted the forex trading path & turned the dumb money into smart money. The pivot point trading method is analagous to precision guidance system. The signal analysis method gives high level of accuracy and most of the traders truly learn from the concise and useful technical information.
What are the Secrets in Forex Trading?
More than 100 million people in the world are looking for profitable investment. We love talking investment because this is the energyless but high profit gain business. Forex Trading is the world's largest financial market with an estimated daily average turnover between $1.5 trillion to $2.5 trillion that we cannot doubt. If we want to make profit from this investment, there are some related knowledges that we definitely need to know.Use Future data to justify market trend.Pivot Program shows entry & exit signals.Familiar Chart Patterns and Trend lines. how big dogs are doing? euro vs USD Tricks. Be Smart to Filter Various Currency pairs.Confident to Control Up and Down Trendy.Avoid Pitfalls of Dumb money.Intelligent stop loss strategies implementation.AIME methodologyHistory is your tips. Hedge currency Trades .
Advantages of Forex Trading
Are you new to trade currency? Are you giving up due to your past trade? Get yourself to know the primitive advantages of Forex trading. And you are also essentially advised to refer to the risk-bearing. Two Way Market where traders can trade in Bull and Bear market Margin Trading 100 : 1 leverage Low Account Balance for entry Can work in odd work due to 24 hours a day from Sunday night to Friday noonFlexible transaction sizesVery dynamic and trendy No worry about bad fills due to price gaps Can practice at online simulation until you become expert read more..
What are the Secrets in Forex Trading?
More than 100 million people in the world are looking for profitable investment. We love talking investment because this is the energyless but high profit gain business. Forex Trading is the world's largest financial market with an estimated daily average turnover between $1.5 trillion to $2.5 trillion that we cannot doubt. If we want to make profit from this investment, there are some related knowledges that we definitely need to know.Use Future data to justify market trend.Pivot Program shows entry & exit signals.Familiar Chart Patterns and Trend lines. how big dogs are doing? euro vs USD Tricks. Be Smart to Filter Various Currency pairs.Confident to Control Up and Down Trendy.Avoid Pitfalls of Dumb money.Intelligent stop loss strategies implementation.AIME methodologyHistory is your tips. Hedge currency Trades .
Advantages of Forex Trading
Are you new to trade currency? Are you giving up due to your past trade? Get yourself to know the primitive advantages of Forex trading. And you are also essentially advised to refer to the risk-bearing. Two Way Market where traders can trade in Bull and Bear market Margin Trading 100 : 1 leverage Low Account Balance for entry Can work in odd work due to 24 hours a day from Sunday night to Friday noonFlexible transaction sizesVery dynamic and trendy No worry about bad fills due to price gaps Can practice at online simulation until you become expert read more..
6 Simplest Steps to Successful Portfolio Management
people prefer to have their portfolios managed by a professional. However, it's not impossible to manage your own portfolio. It just takes time and a basic understanding of the process.
Portfolio management involves 6 steps in an ongoing process.1. Determine Objectives/Constraints2. Formulate a Strategy3. Design an Investment Policy4. Implement Asset Allocation5. Monitor Performance6. Evaluate Performance
As an ongoing process, it is the responsibility of the portfolio manager (whether that's you or a professional) to go through the process (beginning at "Determine Objectives and Constraints") and upon reaching the "Evaluate Performance" stage, start again.
Why is it an ongoing process? Because life is not static. People move, they change jobs, they get married, they get divorced, they get remarried, they have children, they make large purchases, they make wise decisions, they make unwise decisions, they are faced with windfalls and tragedies. Each of those (and many, many other) events will affect how they manage their portfolio.
Every individual has different needs and wants. The first step to successfully manage your investment needs is to identify them by drafting an investment plan. This plan should state your goals. It is simply a mission statement of what you endeavor to achieve. Be as specific as you can, so that you can determine what to invest in, and how your portfolio will be structured to realise your dream.
Knowing yourself is critical to creating and managing a portfolio that will do what you want it to do. This knowledge will help you set realistic future financial goals and will help you to decide how much risk to include in your investment strategy
There are several constraints that may work against your desire to build up a healthy nest egg. These are all challenges of having money. Unfortunately, many of them are unavoidable… but that doesn't mean that they're not manageable. The best thing to do is know that they exist and develop strategies to help you over come them. Some of the considerations include evaluating your Risk & Return Profile, Investment Time Horizon, Liquidity Requirement, Legal and Taxation Structure, etc.
And also, do you remember the popular saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" ? The reason why you should achieve diversification in your portfolio is that the value of different asset classes tends to behave and perform very differently. Some assets move in tandem or in a similar direction with each other, while others move in opposite directions. What may surprise you is that for the same rate of return, you can actually combine different asset classes to achieve this expected return. Thus the secret to successful portfolio management is to create a portfolio by investing in different types of asset classes, that generate the lowest risk factor to achieve your investment objectives.
As you manage your portfolio, different factors will have an effect on its performance. The economy, for example, may go up or down and cause the value of your holdings to rise or fall. Perhaps you followed some advice from a friend on a "can't lose" stock and ended up losing. Whatever the case may be, it is crucial to monitor the performance of your portfolio at all times so that you can react if something happens.
We will review the 6 steps in our upcoming series of articles and I really hope you will benefit from it.
FOREX Trading Profits – 4 Tools to Help You Catch the Biggest Profit on Forex
Here we are going to look at the art of contrary trading, which if you can trade contrary to the majority at important market turning points, which can give you massive profits but also low risk.
These FOREX trading profits only come a few times a year, but if you simply concentrated on them and caught them, you could enjoy triple digit profits.
Let’s look at how to catch them.
A good place to start is:
Exaggerated moves with a general consensus that the move will go on for ever in the media and from so called experts and gurus.
When you have a move like this start watching your charts.
It’s a fact that strong bull and bear moves collapse when the news is at its most bullish and bearish respectively – human nature has pushed prices too far from fair value and a change is likely.
These moves are easy to spot, if you use the following tools:
Relative strength index
A great contrary indicator.
Look for RSI To be over bought or oversold and watch for a turn up in a bear market and down in a bull market.
% Bullish
Another great contrary indicator when % bullish is above 80% in FOREX markets prices are overbought and when their below 20% their oversold.
Keep an eye on this indicator with the RSI, to spot potential trade set ups.
Looking for entry levels
When you start to see a these indicators indicating a top or bottom; its time to look for an entry in the opposite direction – i.e. a contrary trade.
Do this by watching for support or resistance to form and hold.
Timing your entry
Use the stochastic momentum to indicate price momentum going the other way to the prevailing trend.
Ideally, you want a cross of stochastic momentum to downside (bearish divergence) in a strong bull market, or the opposite set up in a bear market.
The majority will not agree with you!
Not many people will agree with your point of view, but that should not worry you – keep in mind the vast majority are wrong at important market turning points, so its good they don’t!
Great contrary trades don’t come up everyday.
You will probably only see a few of these trades a year, where all the elements come together, but when they do, you will trade with very low risk and huge profit potential.
These are the trades that make the big profits.
If you use the above indicators and don’t mind everyone telling you you’re wrong you can bank some triple digit gains.
Learn to become a contrary trader and have patience and the big profits will come.
These FOREX trading profits only come a few times a year, but if you simply concentrated on them and caught them, you could enjoy triple digit profits.
Let’s look at how to catch them.
A good place to start is:
Exaggerated moves with a general consensus that the move will go on for ever in the media and from so called experts and gurus.
When you have a move like this start watching your charts.
It’s a fact that strong bull and bear moves collapse when the news is at its most bullish and bearish respectively – human nature has pushed prices too far from fair value and a change is likely.
These moves are easy to spot, if you use the following tools:
Relative strength index
A great contrary indicator.
Look for RSI To be over bought or oversold and watch for a turn up in a bear market and down in a bull market.
% Bullish
Another great contrary indicator when % bullish is above 80% in FOREX markets prices are overbought and when their below 20% their oversold.
Keep an eye on this indicator with the RSI, to spot potential trade set ups.
Looking for entry levels
When you start to see a these indicators indicating a top or bottom; its time to look for an entry in the opposite direction – i.e. a contrary trade.
Do this by watching for support or resistance to form and hold.
Timing your entry
Use the stochastic momentum to indicate price momentum going the other way to the prevailing trend.
Ideally, you want a cross of stochastic momentum to downside (bearish divergence) in a strong bull market, or the opposite set up in a bear market.
The majority will not agree with you!
Not many people will agree with your point of view, but that should not worry you – keep in mind the vast majority are wrong at important market turning points, so its good they don’t!
Great contrary trades don’t come up everyday.
You will probably only see a few of these trades a year, where all the elements come together, but when they do, you will trade with very low risk and huge profit potential.
These are the trades that make the big profits.
If you use the above indicators and don’t mind everyone telling you you’re wrong you can bank some triple digit gains.
Learn to become a contrary trader and have patience and the big profits will come.
Forex Strategy That Will Provide Massive Returns
Forex is a foreign-exchange currency market, where investors from all over the world buy and sell different currency pairs. The development of the Internet and computer programs have made it possible for people from all over the world to enter this multi-billion dollar market. But, most of them get caught up by the system. Start-ups with as much as $250 in their account are highly-likely to fail. If you want to invest in this market, you need a strategy. The goal behind a Forex trading strategy is to provide profit for the investor. The whole scheme is based on the idea of buying a given currency when it's undervalued and exchange it for another currency of normal or higher value. The difference will be your profit. This is a very simple strategy, but brings out the main idea of FX strategies.
No matter what type of strategy you apply, always remember that the chances of loosing are as real as the chances of winning. Be prepared to loose those money, but at the same time, do your best to be on the receiving end. Your strategy must be based on accurate and thorough studies of the market, up-to-date financial tools and information.
The big corporations that deal on the Forex market are able to make constant profits, because their strategies are made by professionals that have extensively researched the market, have special education and years of experience. Watch what large traders do and try to get some advices from them regarding the strategies available to you.
A Forex trading strategy must be influenced by the current economical and political news, situations and factors. You must follow the government issued reports, political news from all around the world, and economic trends in order to forecast the moves of the different currencies. Other strategies can be based on mathematical analysis of the forex charts for a given currency pair. The best idea is to combine both methods but no matter how good a given strategy is, unexpected events will always occur at one moment or another. Remember that it’s not the events the drive the market, but the anticipation of those events.
This is a two-sided market, as there are always two currencies that are involved, two different countries. It’s the news about those countries that make the difference. The goal when investing in currency is to be holding a currency that increases in value relative to another currency.
No matter what type of strategy you apply, always remember that the chances of loosing are as real as the chances of winning. Be prepared to loose those money, but at the same time, do your best to be on the receiving end. Your strategy must be based on accurate and thorough studies of the market, up-to-date financial tools and information.
The big corporations that deal on the Forex market are able to make constant profits, because their strategies are made by professionals that have extensively researched the market, have special education and years of experience. Watch what large traders do and try to get some advices from them regarding the strategies available to you.
A Forex trading strategy must be influenced by the current economical and political news, situations and factors. You must follow the government issued reports, political news from all around the world, and economic trends in order to forecast the moves of the different currencies. Other strategies can be based on mathematical analysis of the forex charts for a given currency pair. The best idea is to combine both methods but no matter how good a given strategy is, unexpected events will always occur at one moment or another. Remember that it’s not the events the drive the market, but the anticipation of those events.
This is a two-sided market, as there are always two currencies that are involved, two different countries. It’s the news about those countries that make the difference. The goal when investing in currency is to be holding a currency that increases in value relative to another currency.
Five Successfull Trading Secrets
I think I had better start off by clarifying that there really are no “secrets” to trading in the forex market, but there are certain things that successful traders do that unsuccessful traders do not do – and vice versa.It seems to be a well established fact that 95% of all the people that trade the forex lose some or all of their investment while a small percentage of traders make a very handsome return. Why is this?
If we were able to make a detailed study of every successful trader, we would find that there is a common thread that runs through these people. The details that we could take from this thread could be considered to be the five secrets of successful forex trading.So here is the first “secret”. Successful Forex Traders love to trade. They love everything about trading. They love the studying, the planning, the scheming, the waiting, the anticipation, the execution, the result, the atmosphere and of course they love making lots of money.
These traders talk, eat, sleep and dream trading. It is not a job. It is a way of life. They DO NOT do it just for the money!In my forex trading business, one very common question that I am asked is “how do you overcome the boredom of being stuck in front of your PC all day?”.The answer is of course that I do not find it boring. I love trading and if I didn’t, I would find a different way to make a living.
The next “secret” is emotional control. Successful traders have learned the ability to trade without emotion. This does not mean that they do not care about the outcome of their trade, quite the opposite. Successful traders always trade to win, but they do not let their emotions play a part in the process. They just look at the cold hard facts and then either trade or wait. Successful traders also accept that there will be both winning and losing trades and they treat both with the same lack of emotion.The next “secret” is to have a system. Now it really does not matter what system you use so long as it produces more and bigger winning trades than losing ones. This is referred to in trading circles as “an edge”. If you do not have an edge, then I highly recommend that you consider the trading system that I co-developed called The Amazing Stealth Forex Trading System. It is available from the website: www.stealthforex.com
The penultimate “secret” is to be disciplined. This means having the self discipline to STICK TO THE PLAN. There is a great maxim in trading. Plan the trade and trade the plan. If you have a winning system, make sure that you have the discipline to stick to the rules exactly.
The final “secret” is to have enough money to trade safely. In many ways this should be RULE NUMBER ONE. More people fail to make money when trading on the forex through insufficient trading capital than for any other single reason.
When trading it is vital to adhere to strict money management and capital conservation techniques. Money management must be an integral part of any good trading system, and of course you should never trade with money that if lost would cause you or your family financial difficulty.If you can take onboard and learn these not so secret “secrets”, there is no reason why you should not be able to join the ranks of successful forex traders.
If we were able to make a detailed study of every successful trader, we would find that there is a common thread that runs through these people. The details that we could take from this thread could be considered to be the five secrets of successful forex trading.So here is the first “secret”. Successful Forex Traders love to trade. They love everything about trading. They love the studying, the planning, the scheming, the waiting, the anticipation, the execution, the result, the atmosphere and of course they love making lots of money.
These traders talk, eat, sleep and dream trading. It is not a job. It is a way of life. They DO NOT do it just for the money!In my forex trading business, one very common question that I am asked is “how do you overcome the boredom of being stuck in front of your PC all day?”.The answer is of course that I do not find it boring. I love trading and if I didn’t, I would find a different way to make a living.
The next “secret” is emotional control. Successful traders have learned the ability to trade without emotion. This does not mean that they do not care about the outcome of their trade, quite the opposite. Successful traders always trade to win, but they do not let their emotions play a part in the process. They just look at the cold hard facts and then either trade or wait. Successful traders also accept that there will be both winning and losing trades and they treat both with the same lack of emotion.The next “secret” is to have a system. Now it really does not matter what system you use so long as it produces more and bigger winning trades than losing ones. This is referred to in trading circles as “an edge”. If you do not have an edge, then I highly recommend that you consider the trading system that I co-developed called The Amazing Stealth Forex Trading System. It is available from the website: www.stealthforex.com
The penultimate “secret” is to be disciplined. This means having the self discipline to STICK TO THE PLAN. There is a great maxim in trading. Plan the trade and trade the plan. If you have a winning system, make sure that you have the discipline to stick to the rules exactly.
The final “secret” is to have enough money to trade safely. In many ways this should be RULE NUMBER ONE. More people fail to make money when trading on the forex through insufficient trading capital than for any other single reason.
When trading it is vital to adhere to strict money management and capital conservation techniques. Money management must be an integral part of any good trading system, and of course you should never trade with money that if lost would cause you or your family financial difficulty.If you can take onboard and learn these not so secret “secrets”, there is no reason why you should not be able to join the ranks of successful forex traders.
Secret Forex to become a Millionare
The Forex market, it is always useful to have some sort of code book that will be able to help you to decipher the whole market and pick it apart successfully. When you have the sheet in front of you, you will be much better positioned to conquer the market like no other and make your millions. Imagine, the market turns over at several trillion a day, so what is a few million to you if you are willing to work for it and you have the secret tips that you can use to make your day at the market much more profitable.
The first tip you need to look at is using your head when thinking about investments. You need to learn all you can about how currency behaves and since this seems quite obvious to you, you would be surprised that more than 90 percent of the people all over the world who come into the trading game do not even bother to study the commodity that they are investing in. While the currency market is one that is massive and violent, you need to be able to know how exactly the currency pairs that you are going to be investing in behaves and how you can capitalise on these behaviours to make the most of the market and make you some serious money.
You need to understand that the market psychology and market behaviour is also tied to the currency and how it behaves when placed in different situations. When you know this, you also need to be able to get a whole of the whole option of Forecasting the Forex market and when doing this, you need to know the very secret methodologies that big investment companies have been doing to make big money. For one thing, the Forex market is actually one that falls into general patterns of behaviour. These patterns are the very things that can help you actually predict how the market is going to be like and where the price movements are going towards.
Knowing this means that you will be able to further focus and pinpoint the strategies that you will be employing to make your day at the market much better. Also, try and look much deeper into this than normal and once you are able to define the technical terms and various ‘islands' where investors flock to when there is either areas of trouble or pockets of good activity. When you know this, you will be able to go against the market, which means that you would already know where the market is going and how you are going to shore up against it. Once you are able to do this, then you are able to get the edge over other investors and have some real money on your hands. Remember, forging ahead while other people are selling and selling when there is a buying frenzy could mean the difference between a loss and a magnificent time at the paper trade.
The first tip you need to look at is using your head when thinking about investments. You need to learn all you can about how currency behaves and since this seems quite obvious to you, you would be surprised that more than 90 percent of the people all over the world who come into the trading game do not even bother to study the commodity that they are investing in. While the currency market is one that is massive and violent, you need to be able to know how exactly the currency pairs that you are going to be investing in behaves and how you can capitalise on these behaviours to make the most of the market and make you some serious money.
You need to understand that the market psychology and market behaviour is also tied to the currency and how it behaves when placed in different situations. When you know this, you also need to be able to get a whole of the whole option of Forecasting the Forex market and when doing this, you need to know the very secret methodologies that big investment companies have been doing to make big money. For one thing, the Forex market is actually one that falls into general patterns of behaviour. These patterns are the very things that can help you actually predict how the market is going to be like and where the price movements are going towards.
Knowing this means that you will be able to further focus and pinpoint the strategies that you will be employing to make your day at the market much better. Also, try and look much deeper into this than normal and once you are able to define the technical terms and various ‘islands' where investors flock to when there is either areas of trouble or pockets of good activity. When you know this, you will be able to go against the market, which means that you would already know where the market is going and how you are going to shore up against it. Once you are able to do this, then you are able to get the edge over other investors and have some real money on your hands. Remember, forging ahead while other people are selling and selling when there is a buying frenzy could mean the difference between a loss and a magnificent time at the paper trade.
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