Tools For Forex Trading: How to Develop Your Skills

November 22, 2010 · Posted in Currency Trading · Comments Off 

There are so many Forex Trading tools that are available to a trader. Yet with so many tools out there, the numbers of people who actually make a profit are limited. So now the question is: If it’s not the tools that make a person successful, then what does?

Some of the tools to help a forex trader be successful are very basic and very obvious. Then again, there are some out there that are not so simple and straightforward. However, it is the not so obvious tools that influence your forex trading success in very important ways without having a direct impact.

One of the reason that it is so difficult for a lot of people to become successful in Forex trading is that they can’t see how everything flows and works together in the Forex market. Seeing the big picture of things is very important to be successful as a trader, because it persuades you in the direction in which you need to use your tools to gain a profit from the markets.

Of course, there is a big difference between the novice trader, and the advanced or season trader. A lot of novice traders only keep in mind the minimal amount of things needed to get started with trading while the advanced trader will use all the tools that are available to them.

In Forex trading, the retail traders are the ones who know the least about it, and they hold less power to figure out how the forex currencies. Banks and financial institutions have the access to the more sophisticated tools, as a retail trader, this doesn’t mean that you have to have all of them to get started.

Basic Tools
Below are the basic tools you need, but of course these are not the only tools that are required for success

1. Your trading account with Forex
2. Your trading platform with Forex
3. Your trading system
4. Your Risk Capital with Forex

The novice traders usually think that this is all they will need to be really successful. It is true that this is all you will need to get yourself started, but you will need more to actually make a profit when you decide to become a Forex Trader.

About Author
George Pettit is a well known journalist and financial specialist from Perth, Australia. He writes for several important magazines about topics such as stock exchange markets, loans, forex trading, debt consolidation and similar popular topics which attract attention of many readers.

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Compare Forex Trading and Stock Trading

July 30, 2010 · Posted in Currencies · Comments Off 

The forex (foreign currency exchange) market is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. The forex market unlike stock markets is an over-the-counter market with no central exchange and clearing house where orders are matched.

Traditionally forex trading has not been popular with retail traders/investors (traders takes shorter term positions than investors) because forex market was only opened to Hedge Funds and was not accessible to retail traders like us. Only in recent years that forex trading is opened to retail traders. Comparatively stock trading has been around for much longer for retail investors. Recent advancement in computer and trading technologies has enabled low commission and easy access to retail traders to trade stock or foreign currency exchange from almost anywhere in the world with internet access. Easy access and low commission has tremendously increased the odds of winning for retail traders, both in stocks and forex. Which of the two is a better option for a trader? The comparisons of retail stock trading and retail forex trading are as follows;

  • Nature of the Instrument
    The nature of the items being bought and sold between forex trading and stocks trading are different. In stocks trading, a trader is buying or selling a share in a specific company in a country. There are many different stock markets in the world. Many factors determine the rise or fall of a stock price. Refer to my article in under stock section to find more information about the factors that affect stock prices. Forex trading involves buying or selling of currency pairs. In a transaction, a trader buys a currency from one country, and sells the currency from another country. Therefore the term “exchange”. The trader is hoping that the value of the currency that he buys will rise with respect to the value of the currency that he sells. In essence, a forex trader is betting on the economic prospect (or at least her monetary policy) of one country against another country.

  • Market Size & Liquidity
    Forex market is the largest market in the world. With daily transactions of over US$4 trillion, it dwarfs the stock markets. While there are thousands of different stocks in the stock markets, there are only a few currency pairs in the forex market. Therefore, forex trading is less prone to price manipulation by big players than stock trading. Huge market volume also means that the currency pairs enjoy greater liquidity than stocks. A forex trader can enter and exit the market easily. Stocks comparatively is less liquid, a trader may find problem exiting the market especially during major bad news. This is worse especially for small-cap stocks. Also due to its huge liquidity of forex market, forex traders can enjoy better price spread as compared to stock traders.

  • Trading Hours & Its Disadvantage to Retail Stock Traders
    Forex market opens 24-hour while US stock market opens daily from 930am EST to 4pm EST. This means that Forex traders can choose to trade any hours while stock traders are limited to 930am EST to 4pm EST. One significant disadvantage of retail stock traders is that the stock markets are only opened to market makers during pre-market hours (8:30am – 9:20am EST) and post-market hours (4:30pm – 6:30pm EST). And it is during these pre-market and post-markets hours that most companies release the earnings results that would have great impact on the stock prices. This means that the retails traders (many of us) could only watch the price rise or drop during these hours. Besides, stop order would not be honored during this times. The forex traders do not suffer this significant disadvantage. Also, a stock trader may supplement his/her trading with forex trading outside the stock trading hours.

  • Affordability
    In order to trade stocks, a trader needs to have quite a significant amount of capital in his account, at least a few tens of thousands in general. However, a forex trader can start trading with an account of only a few hundreds dollars. This is because forex trading allows for higher leverage. A forex trader could obtain larger transaction compared to stock market. Some forex brokers offers 100:1, 200:1 or 400:1. A leverage of 100:1 means that a US$1k in account could obtain a 100 times transaction value at US$100k. There is no interest charge for the leveraged money. Stock trading generally allows for not more than 2 times leverage in margin trading. There are interest charges associated with margin trading.

  • Data Transparency & Analysis Overload
    There are thousands of different stocks in different industries. trader needs to research many stocks and picks the best few to trade. There are many factors that affect the stock prices. There are much more factors that may affects stock price than foreign currency exchange rates. The forex traders therefore can focus on few currency pairs to trade. On top of that, most data or news affecting currency exchange rate are announced officially, scheduled and in a transparent manner. Retail forex traders therefore have better chances of success than retail stock traders.

  • Bear/Bull Stock Market Conditions
    Forex traders can trade in both way buying or selling currency pairs without any restrictions. However, stock traders have more constraints to trade and profit in bear market condition. There are more restrictions and costs associated with stock short selling. In a bull market when the economy is doing well, stock traders have a high chance of profitability if they buy stock first then sell it later. Savvy forex traders however, could operate in all market conditions.

  • Trending Nature of Currency
    Major currencies are influenced by national financial policies and macro trends This national financial policies and macro trends tend to last long in a certain direction, either in monetary expansionary (rate cutting) or monetary contractionary cycle (rate hiking cycle). Stock prices however tend to fluctuate up and down due to many factors, many of these factors are micro and specific to the stocks. Therefore forex traders can better exploit the trends in foreign currency markets that stock traders in stock markets.

  • Regulation
    Generally, most major stock markets are better regulated than forex markets. Therefore, traders need to be aware of this difference to stock markets. Fortunately, there are however many reputable forex brokers in the market. With prudence and proper research, it is not difficult to find a suitable reliable forex brokers.

Based on the above few points, forex trading seems to be a better trading option than stock trading, especially during these uncertainties in the global economy. During bull market condition, stock trading could be a viable alternative. A stock trader should definitely seriously consider supplementing their trading with forex trading. Forex trading enables a stock trader to exploit any opportunity arises during non stock trading hours, by trading in forex trading. Forex trading would also enable the stock traders to understand a more complete big picture of world economies operations and further enhance their stock trading skills.

Author: David K Smith
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Forex Nitty Gritty – Finally, a Forex Trading Course For Beginners!

June 18, 2010 · Posted in Currencies · Comments Off 

Forex trading in the trading and investing world has become what Texas Holdem is to the poker world. It has exploded, with over $3.5 trillion being traded every day. Forex is a zero sum market. That means there are winners, and an equal number of losers. Generally, retail Forex traders like you and I are on the losing side. But educated investors CAN and ARE on the winning side.

The truth is, 95% of retail traders lose money in the Forex market. They get frustrated, try system after system, and still lose money. The market is full of gimmicks and “unbeatable” robots that will trade for you making you thousands overnight while you sleep. To be successful in Forex Trading, we have to become independent traders. We can’t depend on some forex robot to trade our money for us in the hopes that we make thousands of dollars. We can’t depend on other people to trade our money for us, like managed broker accounts. They get paid on the number of trades they make, not whether we are profitable or not. Bottom line is that nobody cares about our forex trading success and our financial well being as much as we do ourselves. Become an educated investor and trader, and you will be more successful.

THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREX

People are flocking to Forex trading with the dream of the old California gold rush. Billions of dollars can be made, all you need to do is get your hands on some of it, right? But if it is so easy, and you can plug in a robot, or give somebody your money to trade for you, how come you are the only one to keep losing your money? You’re not. Forex trading has become an industry for predators in search of prey. They sell you on gimmicks and get rich quick schemes. It all sounds great, especially for the low price of $97 – $247 on average. And you don’t even have to work at it, or educate yourself, or spend any time at all on trading forex! Woooo hoooo!

One of the latest crazes to hit the Forex Market lately are these so called Forex Robots, or Automated Trading Systems. In a nutshell, you buy this program, install it, turn it on, and it makes you money without you having to know anything about forex trading at all. You can “double your account in 30 days” even while you sleep. No education. No work. You don’t even need to know what Forex IS, much less how to trade it. Just buy this or that robot that will trade for you and make you thousands of dollars every month. A dream come true.

Well, robots don’t work. If they did, those top banks and financial institutions certainly would be using them and not have fallen to financial woes.  Beyond that, just so we can say this with authority, we have tested one of the biggest money making robots on the market today, FAP Turbo. It makes a LOT of money… for the guys selling it, not for the people buying it. Sure, some people make money with it. A blind horse is bound to find water ONCE in a WHILE, right?

However, if you want to do a little work, and educate yourself a little bit, and learn the proper way to trade Forex, then there is a new course on the market just for you. Forex Nitty Gritty is just that course.

30+ Year Trading Expert and Mentor Bill Poulos Creates Forex Nitty Gritty

Bill Poulos is a veteran trader with over 30 years of practical experience. He has helped and mentored thousands of investors make even more money in the market by teaching solid methods based on sound fundamental trading principles and methods.

All of his courses cost several hundred to several thousands of dollars, and WELL WORTH every penny. I myself have used his Forex Profit Accelerator course and obtained returns of 58% per month on average for the past 7 months. Yes, I can show you the actual broker trade data and prove it.

But he wants to help the beginning traders now. And he is mentoring Forex Nitty Gritty for only $97 at the time of this writing. In a personal phone discussion with him, he did tell me that one of the reasons was so that he can help teach people that are new to forex, or that haven’t succeeded in forex, because he wanted to later sell them the more expensive advanced courses. (Hows that for honesty?). But I’ll be honest here, his main goal is to keep people from making the basic mistakes that wipe out their trading account. Bill Poulos is passionate about helping people to learn and understand the Forex market, and to be able to trade it successfully. Yes, he likes the money his students give him. But he really doesn’t need it. He has made a great deal of money trading, and mentoring people, and really has no need for more. He could retire this minute, very well off and never look back. But he WANTS to help people learn to trade successfully. So why does he charge so much for his courses? Because it gives the people learning them value and desire to learn. If he mentored people for free, those people just wouldn’t care to learn as much. It’s a fact. Scientifically proven. Not to mention that his time IS valuable, and he deserves a little something for giving 30+ years of knowledge to his students.

But Forex Nitty Gritty is different. It is an entry level course for new forex traders, or people that have been in the forex market and not been successful. People that have gotten ripped off by the gimmicks and robots and the unscrupulous “trainers” that really have no business taking peoples money. Bill knows exactly what causes failure in the markets, and he is teaching people that, and much more.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN FOREX TRADING WITH FOREX NITTY GRITTY AND BILL POULOS

There are many things you must do, and many more you must avoid, in order to succeed in Forex trading. Bill Poulos teaches you them in Forex Nitty Gritty.

One of them is that you must focus on high probability, low-risk trades. Nothing more. This means you only take the trades that have the highest probability of being profitable, and the lowest risk of losing your trading account value. Generally this will cause you to have fewer trades, but they will be quality trades and generally more profitable. You will stop trading the less desirable trades that have a higher degree of moving against you. And that means you will win trades with higher profits than the losses you sustain. And yes, you will have losses. But the wins more than make up for that, making you profitable.

With Forex Nitty Gritty, you will only have to spend about 20 minutes a day trading. You will identify any new trades, and manage current trades. You will set entry prices, stop losses, and take profit orders. You will practise good money management rules that will increase your potential profit and lower your overall risk. And yes, it will only take you about 20 minutes a night.

Forex Nitty Gritty also includes optional daily videos that show various trade setups, to help you learn the market the right way. And videos teaching you the basics of forex, and forex trading. The Forex Nitty Gritty Insiders website has a lot of core information and training to help the new traders, or those of us that want to learn how to be more profitable.

Like I said, we tested FAP Turbo, and several other robots as well. And what we found out through our testing is that it doesn’t work. Go ahead and review our testing of Fap Turbo, but don’t buy it or any other robot unless you want to risk losing your account balance. Forex Nitty Gritty is not some lame automated trading system. It is a solid course with a great trading method that will help you learn Forex trading and be potentially profitable.

FOREX NITTY GRITTY SUMMARY

If you are new to trading in the Forex Market, or you’ve had problems being profitable, or you’ve ever had your account wiped out by those “Holy Grail” forex robots and automated trading systems, then Forex Nitty Gritty is for YOU. Learn Forex Nitty Gritty and you too can potentially generate consistent profits while learning how to be among the 5% of retail forex traders that are successful.

Happy Trading!

Author: Mark K.
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Forex Trading Tools – Developing Your Skills For Consistent Profits

May 7, 2010 · Posted in Currencies · Comments Off 

There are several Forex Trading Tools available to a trader. Yet with the multitude of such tools, the number of traders that make it to consistent profits are still so few. So the question that begs to be asked is:

If it’s not the forex trading tools that make a successful trader, then what does?

Some of the tools required to trade the forex currencies are obvious and basic. At the same time, there are quite a few others that aren’t. Yet it is these less obvious tools, while not having a direct impact on your trading results, influence your forex trading success in very subtle and important ways.

One of the reasons why forex traders find it so difficult to find success is not having the ability to see how everything works together in the forex markets. This ability to see the bigger picture is crucial to find success as a trader, because it influences the way you would use your trading tools to pull profits out of the markets.

The difference between novice traders and season traders is this:

Most novice traders only think about the minimum things required to start trading, while the experienced, seasoned traders often strive to utilize the maximum of the tools available to them.

In the game of forex trading, retail traders are usually the least informed and hold the weakest power to determine how the forex currencies. On the other hand, while the banks and large financial institutions have access to sophisticated forex trading tools, it doesn’t mean as a retail trader, you require all these tools for forex trading success. But you DO need to have all the trading tools required for forex trading success.

So what do you need to start your forex trading career?

The Basic Forex Trading Tools to Start Trading

These are the basic forex trading tools that you obviously need in order to trade the forex currencies, but these aren’t the only tools required for forex trading success:

1. Your Forex Trading Account

2. Your Forex Trading Platform

3. Your Forex Trading System

4. Your Forex Trading Risk Capital

In most cases, novice forex traders tend to think that this is all they need to become hugely profitable in the forex markets. It’s so simple and easy, right? It’s true, this is all you need to start trading. But what is not so obvious is that while this is what you need to START trading, it’s not necessarily what’s needed to be trading profitably!

Forex Trading Success is a journey where you, as a trader, are on a path of learning and growth. It’s a journey from point A to point B, where point B is consistent forex trading profits.

To think that a novice trader can become wildly successful with just these four trading tools alone is thinking a towering 100 story building can be constructed with only a pencil, a piece of paper, and 4 bricks. Other elements and tools are used to build your forex trading business but because they are in the background of what’s going on, they can be easily missed or dismissed in terms of their importance.

If these four tools are what is required for trading success, then we would have a lot more traders being profitable and rich, wouldn’t we?

Developing Your Skill To Use The Basic Forex Trading Tools

Developing your skill as a forex trader is necessary to become successful. The quality of the product is due to the quality of the craftsman. The more highly skilled you are, the more you are able to understand and utilize the nuances of forex trading tools.

On the surface, it may seem the skills required to use these forex trading tools would be the technical knowledge. Knowledge of how your trading platform works, how technical indicators are constructed, what they mean, and what would be the best ways of putting them together to create a forex trading system.

However, forex trading success isn’t a two dimensional thing consisting only of your trading account and a trading system. In reality, it’s a multi-dimensional thing that encompasses you not just as a trader but as a complete person. You have to learn a forex trading system suitable to you, the appropriate type of risk and money management strategies, developing a daily forex trading routine that matches what you want to accomplish in congruence with your actual life, maintaining your records and other supporting skills.

And these skills as a trader can’t be bought with money. It takes time, effort and discipline to develop your trading skills. Not only that, it does require actual trading experience to understand what emotions you go through and how to manage them in your forex trading business.

While it may seem to be a lot of work and study, it’s definitely possible to become a successful forex trader. Just don’t expect it to happen overnight, or you will be sorely disappointed. Even the best of traders are constantly learning new things about the markets, the subtleties of trading and of themselves as traders and persons. Although with the right forex trading education and mentorship you can reduce the time taken, in most cases you’ll still have to go through the experience of learning what it takes to be a successful forex trader.

Keep working on your trading skills in totality and soon you will find yourself having Consistent Forex Trading Profits.

Author: Ryan Lee Daniels
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