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More on Technical Indicators

August 14th, 2009

Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is the difference between the 26 day and 12 day exponential moving average. A 9 day exponential moving average called the signal or a trigger is plotted on top of MACD to show buy sell opportunities.

You can use MACD in three ways: Crossover, overbought/oversold conditions and divergences. In wide swinging markets, MACD proves most effective. When MACD falls below the signal line, the basic rule is to sell. Similarly, when MACD rises above the signal line and cuts it from below, it is a buy signal.

When the shorter moving average pulls away from the longer moving average, it is likely the price is overextended itself. This indicates, it will comeback to the realistic levels soon. MACD is also very useful tool in telling whether the market is overbought or oversold.

An indication that an end to the current trend may occur soon is when MACD diverges from the currency pair. A bearish divergence occurs when MACD is making new lows and the currency price fails to reach those lows. Similarly, a bullish divergence occurs when the MACD is making new highs but the currency price fails to reach those highs.

Momentum is an oscillator that indicates the rate of price change not the actual price level and it is the net difference between the currency pair closing price and the oldest closing price from the predetermined period. The signal is triggered when the oscillator crosses the zero line. The more responsive the momentum oscillator will be to the short term price fluctuations, the shorter the number of days included in the calculations.

Another important technical indicator is the Relative Strength Index (RSI). It indicates a markets current strength or weaknesses depending on where the prices close during a given period. RSI is plotted on a scale of 01-100. A buy signal is triggered when RSI moves up from the lower band above 30. Similarly, a sell signal is triggered when RSI moves down from the upper band and comes down below a level usually set at 70.

Rate of Change (ROC) is another version of momentum oscillator sometimes used. Instead of subtracting the oldest closing price from the current closing price, the ROC formula divides the current closing price with the oldest closing price.

One of the most popular indictors is the Volume Indicator. It is used to show the strength of an up or down movement. A movement accompanied by an increasing volume is more likely to continue strongly than a movement accompanied with decreasing volume.

Many traders use volume indicator as their only tool in trading. Others use it in conjunction with charts, economic news and geopolitical news. The Volume Indicator is a great source of confirmation, entry and exit signals and overall trading decisions. Learn to use these technical indicators. Become comfortable in using them and discerning trends on different currency pairs and time intervals.

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How To Trade Price Action In Forex Markets?

July 27th, 2009

If you want to become a successful trader, you should immerse yourself completely in the subject in order to find your edge. In case, you are already a winning trader than you should know exactly what your edge is.

Even the most advanced traders find it difficult to understand, interpret and trade the sharp moves often seen in the forex markets. By learning to read and interpret price action, you can develop a huge advantage for you as a trader.

When the market is going in a steep decline, one should be really careful to measure the reaction of the long positions. You must try to understand if the sharp move has the chance to turn into a rout.

Look at the reaction of the longs as soon as the rate begins to go south, this way you may be able to determine if the market is sitting on a large number of long positions. In case, the spike is followed by a sharp V recovery, you should avoid shorting the pair.

More buyers entering the market at lower levels tells you that the market is not heavily long and traders are seeing it as an opportunity to buy low. These lower prices mean bargain prices for you if you wish to accumulate long positions.

Moving averages (MAs) are among the oldest, true and tested lagging indicators. MAs can be simple as well as exponential. Widely used moving averages are the 50, 100 and 200 day MAs. Many traders use MAs in making trading decisions.

Moving averages are essentially lagging indicators and relate to the past price action. MAs can be used effectively in intra day trading for entering and exiting positions in one way markets.

During times of sharp price moves, it becomes difficult for the traders to enter a position as retracements are far and few. This makes most of the traders confused and forces them to start taking arbitrary decisions.

Moving Averages can be used as dynamic support and resistance levels in such situations. This will give results superior than the static support and resistance levels used by majority of the traders.

The advantages of using Moving Averages this way gives you dynamic levels to trade off and gauge price action taking place. MAs can help you avoid using arbitrary levels in trading a position on when you should take profit.

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Economic Factors That Move the Forex Markets in the Short Term

July 21st, 2009
<div style='font-style:italic;' class='byline'>by Ahmad Hassam

Fundamental traders depend on fundamental analysis in trading forex. Technical traders depend on technical analysis in trading forex. But the importance of economic data cannot be underestimated in shaping trading strategies.

Over 90 percent of currency transactions are done against USD. USD is either the base currency or the counter currency in most of the currency trades.

Since majority of the currency trades involve USD, you as a forex trader will also most probably trade USD most of the time. Release of certain economic data has significant and lasting impact on currencies like USD.

With experience, you will understand that currency markets reaction to the release of different economic data with time also changes. A few years back, US GDP figures used to be important for USD but they dont have much impact now.

EUR/USD is the most liquid pair in the forex market and is heavily traded. The release of Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) data on the first Friday of each month has become important in recent years. These figures makes EUR/USD and other pairs involving US Dollar highly volatile for some time until the markets digest the importance of these figures.

Similarly, the release of US housing sales number every month has become very significant for USD in the recent years. Previously, forex markets used to give more importance to US Trade Balance.

Range traders like to trade when the currency pair they are trading tends to range. If you are a range trader who wants to scalp for a few pips every time you trade, you should avoid the day NFP data is released for trading. This is a highly volatile day for the markets.

However, if you use breakout trading as your trading strategy, understanding which economic data is expected to be released on a particular day can help you in your trading. You should plan your trading strategy in accordance with the significance of the economic data to be released.

In nutshell, understanding that some economic indicators move the forex markets most is very important for you as a trader. It is also important for you to know which economic data the market deems most important at any point in time.

You should also know which data causes knee jerk reaction in the markets and which pieces of data will have lasting reaction in the forex markets.

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Trading Forex Online Risk Free

April 19th, 2009

Many people want a home based business opportunity that can generate good income for them part time. During the recent stock market crash, many have burned their fingers. So, most of them are afraid of investing in stocks. People dont know that forex trading is the best home based business. Even if they know, they think that it is not them being too difficult.

Learning something new is always an effort and without a little bit of commitment you wont succeed. You will have to learn forex trading with some commitment in the beginning. But once you have learned it, you will be happy to have done so.

Always learn a new thing with commitment. Make a conscientious decision that you are not going to quit until you succeed. With this approach you are surely going to emerge a winning forex trader.

Many people stay away from forex trading thinking that they will have to lose money in the beginning in order to learn forex trading. Now, the best thing is this that you can learn forex trading without losing a single cent of your hard earned money.

Start with selecting a good forex trading course just to educate yourself about the forex markets in general, what is forex trading, forex trading method, how to enter/exit a trade, technical analysis etc,. Buy a course that comes with a money back guarantee. So, that if you dont like the course, you can ask for a refund and go for another course.

Go through the course thoroughly step by step. In my opinion, you should be able to master the material in the course in less than two weeks.

Once you have mastered the forex trading course, open a demo account. You can easily open a demo account online in five minutes. It is as easy as that.

Start practicing the strategies that you have learned in the course. Practice and practice to figure out what works for you and what does not, demo account gives you the opportunity to do so. On the demo account, you trade with fake money or virtual money but the data is real. So you are trading in the real world but using fake money.

As you have been practicing with fake money, you are not losing your real money but you are getting valuable practical experience of trading forex. Since you are no using real money, you are not going to lose even a single cent of your hard earned money but you will be getting valuable experience trading forex. Now many people have stopped trading forex manually. They trade forex on autopilot with a robot.

The development of Metatrader platform by forex brokers opened up the possibility of developing programming scripts known as forex robots that could trade forex on auto.

In the last two years, a number of very good forex trading robots have hit the market. A few of them are very good. Do your research and select one. Buy a forex robot that comes with a money back guarantee. Install it on your Metatrader demo account. Let it run for a few weeks. See its performance.

Only buy a forex robot that gives you a money back guarantee. This will help you test it by installing it on your Metatrader demo account and running it for a few weeks. If after a few weeks you find that it has multiplied your money, keep it. If it has not multiplied your money or has given you a loss, simply ask for a refund. Since, you have been using fake money; you are not losing a single cent of your hard earned money.

Dont you like this risk free method of trading forex? Why dont you give it a try? Forex trading is the best home business. Dont miss it! You can start trading forex with $300 or even less so dont hesitate to try it. It may make you rich!

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Fundamental & Technical Analysis for Forex Trading

April 16th, 2009

People are leaving stocks and turning towards forex in droves. Forex trading is the new fad. Many new gurus have appeared who are paddling their forex trading courses to the general public. If these gurus had made their fortunes from trading forex they need not sell courses. These gurus are only making money from the sales of their course.

According to these gurus, forex trading is easy. Buy the course and everything will be explained in an easy and step by step manner. These gurus are only selling their courses. No doubt, internet has made forex trading possible from anywhere in the world. But is it easy.

No guru will ever tell you that only 5% of the new traders ever succeed in the long term. 95% will quit after a few months or within a year. Forex markets are like a battlefield. Only the best survive. There is no room for inexperienced traders. Forex markets are brutal and unforgiving to those who dont know how to swim.

Why 95% of the new traders fail? Simple, because they assume that by reading one or two eBooks, they will understand forex markets. Forex markets are far more complex and complicated to understand in one or two eBooks. You cannot succeed at forex trading until you start living and breathing it.

I am not saying that you should not trade forex. What I mean is that if you are serious about forex trading then learn it properly first. Try to understand how forex markets work. What are the factors that move the currencies in the markets? How can you predict market movements?

Learn fundamental and technical analysis. Some people say both are exclusive and require different strategies. But I say both supplement each other. Fundamental analysis can help you predict the general trend in the forex market in the medium to long run. Fundamental analysis studies the underlying economic factors that affect the currency markets.

Technical analysis studies the past behavior of prices to predict the future behavior of prices. You need to master technical analysis if you are thinking of becoming a day trader. Technical analysis is ideally suited to forex markets.

Technical analysis uses a number of indictors to predict the movement of currency pairs. Understand how to properly use these indicators to determine whether the market is trending or ranging and what is the best entry/exit.

If you have been previously trading stocks than you can switch to forex trading much faster. But always remember as long as you dont make forex trading passion of your life, you wont succeed at it. Learn everything about forex, make it a passion and you will develop into a winning trader.

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Forex Options Trading Strategy

April 14th, 2009

Have you heard about George Soros; The legendary manager of Quantum Hedge Fund who had made a cool $1 Billion profit from a single bet. In the early 1990s, one day he was sitting in his office discussing currency markets with his associate. Both of them were of the opinion that the British pound was overpriced and Bank of England could not sustain its price for long.

Acting on his hunch, he told his associate to purchase $10 Billion put and call options on British Pound and German Mark. It was a huge bet. He was in fact swaggering all the assets under his control on a single bet that may or may not pay off.

George Soros had perfect knowledge of the currency markets. He was sure of his bet and had the conviction that the Bank of England could not prop the overpriced British pound for long. His conviction was shared by other currency speculators. The only difference between him and them was the huge amount of the bet he placed. Bank of England was forced in just of 24 hours to take the British pound out of the European Monetary System and let it float freely. His gamble had paid off.

The value of British pound plunged. George Soros gamble paid off. He is now famously called the Man who broke the Bank of England.

Daily more than $3 trillion are transacted in the currency markets. You as a forex trader can profit from the volatility in the currency markets using a number of methods. Forex options is one of the methods

As a retail forex trader you can trade any of these contracts: spot, futures and options. Forwards and swaps are two contracts that are also traded in the forex interbank market between large institutions like banks, corporations and hedge funds.

What are forex options? Options are derivative instruments that allow you to buy or sell an underlying asset at a price known as exercise price before or on a certain date called strike date. There is no obligation on you to actually buy/sell the currency like that in futures.

Currency is the underlying asset in forex options. You can purchase a forex options on payment of a certain premium. This is the price that you pay for getting the right but not the obligation to buy/sell a certain currency.

You may or may not exercise your right to buy/sell the currency. If the market price of the currency is above/below your strike price, you can buy/sell that currency by exercising your option.

However, in case, the currency market price is below/above the strike price of the forex options; you need not exercise your right to buy/sell. By not exercising the forex options contract, you only lose the premium.

There is a very good forex options strategy that lets you profit from the currency markets in whatever direction it is moving. You can profit regardless of the direction of the market.

This method is guaranteed to give you profits with an ROI of 30-50%. Try this method. It is risk free.

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Are Great Traders Made?

April 13th, 2009

The question is can anyone become a winning forex trader? Yes anyone can in my opinion. The only thing that is required is a winning trading plan. If you have not developed a good trading plan than dont enter the forex market. First develop one. Forex markets are not going anywhere. These markets will be there next year and after that. Enter only when you are prepared.

Let me tell you about a great experiment in history. This experiment is a perfect example of developing and then implementing a winning trading plan. This experiment was known as Turtle Traders Experiment.

Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt were two great traders and partners who were arguing one day on whether great traders are born or made. This was the year 1983. Both were commodities speculators.

Bill was saying that great traders could only be born and not made. Richard had the opinion that great traders could be made through good training. To settle the argument, both agreed to select and then train a few traders to see the trading results after training.

An advertisement was placed in New York Times, Barrons and The Wall Street Journal. 1000 applications were received in response to that advertisement. The Turtle Trading Experiment had started.

Only 13 applicants were selected after shortlisting and interviewing 80. Those selected were known as Turtles.

The turtles were given training and a complete trading plan based on rules on how to apply it. Richard would always emphasize to the turtles that he could give these rules to anyone but these rules were useless unless they were applied consistently.

So, the actual success in trading whether forex, stocks, commodities or futures lies in having a good trading plan; You need to have a trading plan that is exact. In other words is mechanical and ruled based does not depend on your emotions. Learn to control your emotions in trading.

In the end, it is discipline and consistency that will make you a winning forex trader in applying your trading plan. Who says, you cannot become a Great Trader!

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Want To Make A Million With Forex MegaDroid?

April 12th, 2009

Have you heard about Forex MegaDroid? It is a revolutionary new forex trading robot that has been released just recently in the market. It is make so much buzz in the online forex trading community, you cant imagine.

Its RCTPA Artificial Intelligence technology makes it see in the immediate future and adjust itself according to the expected new market conditions. This is something totally new that other forex robots cannot do.

Other forex robots simply dont have this capability. They only look to the past to seek guidance before opening a new trade or closing an existing one. Past conditions can only help you up to a certain extent. But when the market suddenly changes and the past conditions are not met, other forex robots fall flat.

Forex markets keep on changing. In the past, US housing sales figures were not very important for forex markets. But now after this recession that was precipitated by the slump in the housing markets, forex markets have started to react to these figures. So, with change in underlying economic conditions, forex markets also change.

John Grace and Albert Perrie are two forex professionals that have been working in the interbank market for the last 4 decades. They are the real professionals. They know the inside and out of forex markets.

They developed a new technology RCTPA. They used this technology to develop a new robot- Forex MegaDroid. This robot has a capability to see ahead 2-4 hours in the future and predict how the markets are going to change.

Forex MegaDroid has the capacity of doubling your money every single month. The trading record of this robot is very good. In the last three months, it has given more than 350% ROI. Do you know that you can use Forex MegaDroid to make your first million in forex trading?

Start with only $500. Every month double your account. Do the calculation: $1000, $2000, $4000, $8000, $16000, $32000, $64000, $128000, $256000, $512000, $1024000. In only 11 months, you have reached $1 Million.

What I would recommend is to use two robots instead of one on two totally different accounts. This will hedge your risk. FAPTurbo is another very good forex robot that gives consistent results. I would suggest, use both Forex MegaDroid and FAPTurbo. One loses, the other wins. This reduces your risk.

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