Forex Trading Strategy - An Easy to Learn Method

If you want a Forex trading strategy which can make you big gains, in just 30 minutes a day then, you will love the method enclosed which is also very easy to understand and can be learned quickly. Let's take a look at the Forex trading method in more detail...

If you look at any currency chart, you will see short term price spikes which are caused when greed pushes prices to far to the upside or fear, pushes prices to far to the downside. These price spikes from fair value never last long and prices soon come back to more realistic value from these overbought or oversold levels. The aim of the Forex trading strategy we will look at here is to, sell into greed and buy into fear and make quick profits. This method is known as Forex swing trading.Let's look at a simple Forex swing trading strategy which makes big gains and in our example, we will look at selling into greed in a bull market but of course, the same logic will work in a bear market when prices are oversold.

• Watch for an accelerated up trend and a short sharp price spike - as soon as it occurs, look to see how overbought the market is.
• To find out how overbought the market is use some momentum oscillators which will show you how overbought the market is and the best ones in my view are - the MACD, the RSI and the stochastic. These indicators are all easy to learn and will allow you to see how overbought the currency is.
• You then need to wait until momentum diverges from price and you want a set up where the price is still rising and momentum is falling - this is known as divergence and warns that the price is about to turn. When divergence occurs, execute your trading signal and go short and place a stop above nearby resistance.
• Set a downside target where you want to take profit and this should be above the support level you expect prices to pull back too. Never wait for support to be tested in case prices turn back up and eat your profit. Set your target and get out the market and wait for the next signal.
• Always keep in mind, the more overbought the market is and the steeper the price rise, the bigger the fall, so only trade markets which are at extremes.

Forex Trading From Home

Forex trading from home, offers one of the few ways where traders can start with small amounts of money and build wealth quickly. While many traders aspire to this, very few succeed and it's not because they can't learn to do it - anyone has the potential to make big gains but most fail due to getting the wrong education. Below you will find some simple tips which will give you, a roadmap to Forex trading success so follow them and currency trading success can be yours.The first point should be obvious which is you need to do your homework and learn your art but most traders fail to do this and lose. They buy cheap Forex software and think these automated systems will give them an income each month with no effort, all for the cost of a good meal out for two! Of course they lose and you have to accept that if you want to win at FX trading, you are going to have to learn the basics but for the amount of work you have to do, huge gains can be yours.

When trading Forex you need to keep things simple and not complicate your trading so forget about trying to follow news, judge economic numbers and guess where prices may go and use Forex charts.The advantage of using charts is - you don't need to guess or predict anything, you just follow the price action and trade the reality of the price change. The reasons behind the moves on the charts are unimportant to you because you just want to make money by locking into and following price trends.Learning to spot chart formations that offer trading opportunities is a learned skill and the even better news is - the best systems in financial trading are simple! Forget about all the gurus and geeks, who tell you complex systems are better there not, simple systems are more profitable because they are more robust and have fewer parameters to break.

You can learn a simple chart based system in a few weeks and then you need to get the right mindset to win. The problem for most traders is their emotions prevent them from winning. They hate to lose so run losses and when they get profits they take them early. To win you need to keep losses small and take them. If you fail to do this, you will never win at currency trading. If you have an ego and want to be right all the time don't trade currencies.

Four Elements Of Any Good Trading Market

There are four elements which must be present in any good financial market, whether you are trading in the stock, bond, futures, currency market or any other market. These four elements are liquidity, transparency, low trading costs and market trends.

Liquidity

There are always two sides to a trade, a purchase and a sale, and in its simplest form liquidity refers to the ease with which traders can buy and sell. To be truly liquid traders must also be able to trade in substantial volume without this having any marked effect on prices.

If a market lacks liquidity then traders will often encounter delays in meeting orders to buy, frequently leading to a significant variation between the price when an order is placed and when it is executed. In addition, it may be hard to sell in a market that is not sufficiently liquid.

Fortunately the currency exchange market (especially when trading in major world currencies such as the USD and GBP) is extremely liquid and a huge number of trades are conducted each day on the Forex money market with a trading volume that far exceeds that of other markets.

Transparency

A market is said to possess transparency when traders can access accurate information at all stages of the trading process.

Information is the key to many things in life and the world's various markets are no exception. There are many examples, especially in the world stock markets, of companies and individuals which have run into difficulty because the parties to a trade did not have access to accurate information.

The foreign currency exchange market is without doubt the world's most transparent market and this is especially true when it comes to pricing.

Low Trading Costs

Markets carry trading costs which inevitably lower a trader's profits or increase his losses. However, when a market can keep its trading costs low it becomes attractive to traders and encourages both an increased number of trades and an greater trading volume.

The absence of commission and other usual trading costs, together with the tight spread of prices, in currency trading mean that trading costs in the Forex market are kept very low.

Market Trends

In many markets it can be difficult to know just when to enter the market and when to exit it (when to 'buy' and when to 'sell'). As a result, it is important to have some way of assessing the present state of a market and to predict its future direction.

In the foreign currency exchange market this is achieved by employing various forms of technical analysis which examine the past performance of the market and identify trends which can then be used to predict its future.

Most markets display trends of one form or another, but in some markets these are far more clearly defined than in others, making it far easier for traders to enter and exit the market. The foreign currency market displays a particularly strong trending characteristic.