I wanted to take the time to share with you some of the forex trading tips that I use with my personal trades. This is the biggest market in the world with several trillion dollars traded in a period of 24hrs. This means there is huge rooms for profit.

- Cripple Emotional Thinking: This is the last place you want to be emotional. When you do this business with emotion, you’re basically at a casino rolling the dice. Basically, all you’re doing is gambling. You have to have one consistent rule; when it comes to my money, I’m going to put logical thought into where I move it. It’s as simple as that. You want to make trades based on logical and factual signs. You don’t want to make the move because you have a “gut feeling”. If you feel yourself having “gut” feelings, a “need” to make a trade, a euphoric feeling, you need to take a break. Walk away because you’re leaving yourself open to losing your money.
- A Simple Routine: When you first start out at this, everything will be chaotic. Eventually, you’ll make it to a point where you “get it”. This is when the routines develop. Anyone that is trying to make an income, is doing a routine. You’re going to need to do the same similar tasks you did every other day to make profits. The problem is that people make it complicated. Complication makes it hard to follow and you’re more likely to make mistakes. If you keep it simple, it is much easier to get working.
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Friday 15 January 2010
I’m going to share with you some of my forex currency trader tips. These should help transform your game from minor to maximized profits. We all have potential in this business, some more than others, but if I hope to help you use all your potential.
Why should I not be an emotional trader?
Well, I suppose in some cases emotions are good, like sports. But in this business emotions are an unprofitable ego hiding inside of you. They come out at the worst times and sabotage your efforts. Emotions are bad for trades because they reduce you from a business person to a petty gambler. You don’t make decisions on emotions, you make decisions on the cold hard facts.
You should be able to identify all emotional responses, but some are harder than others. Here are a few of the most common: The gut feeling is just a feeling to get into a trade. It’s not based off of anything, so therefore it should be avoided. Another is the stressed out/frustrated/flustered feeling. It isn’t a good state to trade in. Lastly, is the need feeling. This doesn’t seem emotional, but it is. You have this feeling that you need to make a trade. If you feel a “need” to make a trade, you should probably take a break.
What is the worst type of behavior?
I’d have to say the worst type of behavior is definitely the overcautious type. This type will do nothing for you. You will end up missing out on great opportunities because you hesitated. You wanted to check your work ten more times before you make a trade. It also leads to indecisiveness, especially after you buy. If a trade goes down slightly (down very little to make any difference) you’ll want to exit. You need to give a chance to your trades and let them play out.
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Saturday 2 January 2010
Do you need a better way to trade successfully?
Is it time to get rid of the old methods you have been using?
Are you at the point where you are feeling, it must be the methods you have been applying that is coursing you to fail? There are many more losing traders than successful traders, and it’s seldom about the strategy or system.
Your psychological approach to the market is normally the determinant component in your success or failure as a trader. The majority of traders fail because of their lack of discipline, not their system or method. Your success or failure is in your hands completely, and to be a great trader you need to continually educate yourself in both the technical and mental aspects.
Firstly, do extensive backtesting or forward testing by paper trading your trading strategy. The more you test it the more assured you are going to feel, and when going live, you will have the confidence to trust the system and have the ability to follow the signals particularly during the rough patches. It is vital to keep your emotions under check.
You know that all traders take losses, but how will you react when trading live and you have 3 or 4 losses in a row. Are you going to be overwhelmed with doubt when you take a string of losing trades?
Do you know that it is not you who is the loser here, but your trades? Does your self image take a knock when you take losing trades?
Don’t feel like a failure, don’t take trading personally. This is the time to continue trading as the next trade will in all possibility be a profitable one. If it is not, then you have to take the next trade, because that could be the profitable trade..etc.etc.. In other words, you have tested your strategy so you have to take every single trade without hesitation. You know it works, why stop trading because you have had a few losses? Why change to a new method when you know it works?
There are many profitable trading systems, but unless you are able to trust in a system and take every trade without hesitation no matter what, you will never succeed.
The same cycle will continue over and over again, until you have tried and tested every method out there, and you are still losing all your money. If you don’t remove these emotions out of your trading then you may as well give up now.
Once you have tried and tested your strategy you have to believe in it and enter your trades regardless, and do exactly what your tested system tells you to do.
You do not want your emotions to take over at any stage of your trading. Hoping and praying the market will go in your direction is not the way to go. You cannot control the market, you want to control yourself and thats all. Predictabley you will have losing trades, and you will probably make some mistakes too. Trading is a game of probabilities. There is always risk of loss and the trade going ‘the wrong way’ after you get a signal from your strategy. All we can expect to do is to tip the odds in our favour.
Linda Wainman is the author of the day trading book “Keeping it Simple”.
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Monday 21 December 2009
The forex trading tip enclosed is all about increasing your profitability and there logical, easy to apply and work. So here are your 3 trading tips, to increase the profitability of your forex trading strategy.
1. Learn The 80 - 20 Rule
It’s a fact that in many areas of business work etc that 80% of your profits come from 20% of your efforts and it’s also true in forex trading.
Most traders over trade and trade for the sake of trading, they think that if their not trading they will miss a move or the more they trade the better and this is not true. What you need to do is:
Cut you’re trading dramatically and only focus on the high odds set ups. I know traders who trade less than once a month but earn triple digit profits. They know trading frequency has nothing to do with forex trading success and you should learn this to.
2. Don’t Diversify
Diversification is seen as a way to cut risk - that’s only true if you diversify into good high odds trades, but most traders think they should trade a spread of positions, take marginal trades but all that does is dilute profit potential.
Most forex trader’s accounts are so small they simply can’t diversify and have meaningful gains. No you need to concentrate on high odds trades and then use the next tip to milk them for all their worth.
3. Load up The Risk Reward
How many times do you read that you should only risk 2% per trade well for a small forex account of say $5,000 you wont make much doing that that’s $100!
No you need to risk up to 20% on the high odds set ups - if you don’t take a risk, you won’t make big gains, its as simple as that.
You are not being rash, you are taking a calculated risk based upon the odds and like a good card player, you are going to load up your trade.
The tips above are simple and mean that you have to see forex trading for what it is a high risk - high return odds based game, where you need to be patient, to wait for the right trades and when you see them - hit them hard.
Think about the above simple forex tips and you will see they make total sense.
They will help you enhance your forex trading strategy and enjoy forex trading success.
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Wednesday 9 December 2009
Forex Trading operates 24 hours a day and therefore making it the most liquid market in the world.
Every minute in the Forex market counts. One minute you notice a currency is increasing in value, the next you notice that the same kind of currency you noticed a minute ago is decreasing in value. This is why you should consider the fact that Forex market is a very dynamic market with lots of price oscillations.
Minute by minute events are very important in order for you to be successful. Because of this feature that is found in the Forex market, you, as a Forex trader, can enter the market a number of times a day. This will allow you to earn some profits after every number of trades you do and perhaps maybe even lose one if you made the wrong trading decision.
Firstly, you have to remember that the Forex market beings at Sunday at 5PM EST to Friday at 4PM EST then it beings again at 5PM EST. Trading begins in Forex at New Zealand next at Australia followed by Asia, in the Middle East, Europe and ends in America. The major markets in Forex are London, Tokyo and New York with trading activities the heaviest when major markets overlap.
Basing from the times, you will see that there will always be someone anywhere in the world who is buying and selling currencies. You will see that when one market closes, another market opens. Trading in the Forex market is 24 hours a day.
Forex market transaction volume is always high during the whole day. However, it peaks the highest when the Asian market, the European market and the US market opens at the same time.
These are the trading hours in the Forex market you have to trade in, in order to get the highest possible trades. This are the hours that are also the most profitable.
Here are the open market times that you can use as reference:
• New York - 8am to 4pm EST
• London - 2am to 12nn EST
• Great Britain - 3am to 11am EST
• Tokyo - 8pm to 4am EST
• Australia - 7pm to 3am EST
If you look at the schedule and study it, you will see that there are two instances where two of the major markets overlap on trading hours. These are between 2am and 4am EST with Asian and European markets and 8am to 12pm EST with European and North American.
These are the things you should remember when trading in the Forex market. It is not only important that you know how to trade and know some strategies on Forex trading, But, you should also know when is the best time to trade in this very large and very liquid market.
If you follow all these, you can be sure that you can earn a potentially higher profit than on other trading times.
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Thursday 5 November 2009
The global forex market is the largest financial market in the world. The daily transaction in the market totals up to 3.5 trillion USD. There are some popular myths about forex trading. The first one is the process is extremely difficult and complex, and you need to have mathematical and analytical brain to earn some profit from your investment. The second is you need to personally attend the trades to maximize your chances of profit. All these advise you can simply ignore if you have a forex autopilot software like Forex Tracer, Forex Raptor, or Forex Killer with you. These forex robots can be expressed as your legitimate and completely ethical means to earn money from forex.
Before going into the details of earning we must know how these forex autopilots work and why the profit you earn using them is legally safe. These autopilots in most of the cases are designed by forex consultants and experts who have years of experience and exclusive personalized trade secrets for their forex trading. With slightest of the market movement or a tiniest dip in the currency analysis curve they can sniff what is coming up. After a while, they become experts in predicting and speculating market trends that come true in majority of the incidents. Their experience when combined with software programs turn out to be the deadly combination, which works behind the forex autopilots. So, when you buy the software you trade just like the expert trader who designed the system and therefore there is nothing unlawful about its use.
As the systems are highly mechanical in nature, they can repeat the trades again and again without feeling tired like a human trader. The software cannot take wrong decision as well, if not forced to do so. It can take on multiple trades in the same market or in more than one trading markets. You can set the software work as a day trader or a scalper, or a carry-on trader in the forex spot market. In other words, your forex autopilot software is free to take independent decision as you ask it to do. You need to keep the software running and attend your own preoccupations. The automatic program will select the trade to enter, when to enter, when to exit, and how to place the stop-loss limits. Depending on the setting the software will freely review the market situation to locate upcoming trends to alter the strategy.
The situation is even more in your favor if you have previous trading experience. Then you can ask your autopilot how you want it to trade, and it does it, mechanically, without ever failing because of human psychological factors. The more you stay away from your terminal the better the chances are for you. You can test different parameters like different currency pairs and trading strategies to finalize the winning combination and lawfully earn huge profit from your forex trading.
Read more on how to legally cheat forex here.
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Tuesday 3 November 2009
Most forex brokers that you will use online have developed their trading platforms so that they calculate your profits/losses for you. So why am I writing this article?
Well, it’s pretty simple really.
If you are serious about being a successful forex trader you need to understand the mathematics behind your trades. Plus it makes sure that you can keep tabs on your forex broker, so you can make sure they are not ‘cooking the books’.
As a forex trader, I’d expect you to be numerate, so it should be pretty easy for you to calculate your profits and losses. But I can understand if you are new to forex trading it might not be initially self-explanatory.
The 2 formulae you need to commit to memory.
(In this calculation I’m assuming you are trading in USD.)
When the US Dollar is the second currency (the quote currency), the formula to use is:
1 - Profit is equal to: the price change in PIPs multiplied by the units traded. (e.g. profit = pips price change x traded units)
Secondly if the US Dollar is the first currency in the pair (base currency), the formula to use is:
2 - Profit is equal to: the change in price in PIPs multiplied by the units traded divided by the exit price. e.g. profit = price change in pips x units traded / exit price
So to ‘hammer this home’ and make sure you really understand this process I want to give you a few examples.
To start with we’ll use an example where the US dollar is the second currency, the quote currency, and to make things easy we’re going to use a 1% broker margin. So you can trade up to 100,000 USD with only 1000 USD.
OK?
Great. We’ll take the EUR/USD which for example is trading at 1.5618/9. Your analysis has led you to predict that the Euro is going to rise in value against the dollar so you start a trade to buy more Euros and sell US Dollars.
So you end up buying $100,000 worth of units at a price of 1.5619 - remembering that you are buying so you have to buy at the ask price - this is the last/second number in the quote (so you buy at the ask price of 1.5619 not 1.5618).
Your predictions turn out to be correct. Congratulations, the price rise to 1.5635/6. So you start another trade to sell the Euros and buy USDs. For this trade you use the bid price as you are selling, which is 1.5635.
So here’s where your maths comes in.
As you purchased the Euros at 1.5619 and then sold at 1.5635 your profit is 16 pips, or 0.0016. So before that makes any sense we need to convert that into proper money. So this is where we use our formulae.
Profits = 0.0016 (price change in pips) x 100,000 (units traded) = $160.00
If you are trading standard sized lots of a currency pair as we did above of 100,000, in which you use the USD as the quote currency, a quick rule to remember is that a pip is equal to c.$10. Hence 16 pips = $160.
So let’s take another quick example, but this time we’ll use the USD as the base currency.
You place a buy order for 100,000 units of USD/JPY at 103.20. The price increases and you sell at 103.33. You just made a quick 13 pips. So to calculate your profit in your second formula:
Profit = .13 (pips) x 100,000 (units traded) / 103.33 (exit price) = $110.78
Easy huh?
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Saturday 24 January 2009
Trading the Forex market without knowing the meaning of Margin Call is the beginning of failure.The good news is that this article exposes all you need to know about this Margin Call.
Margin Call occurs when your broker notifies you that your deposits have fallen below the required minimum level because an open position has moved against you. Your positions could be partially or totally liquidated should the available margin in your account fall below a predetermined level or percentage.
You may not receive a Margin Call before your positions are liquidated or closed. Meaning all your trades would been return8ing only the balance you have left which no longer be able to open a position based on previously accepted leverage.
For Example: Let’s say you opened Forex account with $500.And you open 3 mini lots of EUR/USD with a margin requirement of $100. The amount you have opened the 3 mini lots EUR/USD which is now active in the trade and in the trade and is called Used Margin or Margin in trade.
Used Margin or Core Equity is the money available to open new positions or sustain trading losses.Since you started with $500, your Usable Margin is $500. But when you opened 3 mini lots, which requires a margin requirement of $300,your Usable Margin is now (Balance/EquityInitial Capital/Opening Margin Minus Used Margin/Amount in trade). If your losses exceed your Usable Margin of $200, you will get a Margin Call.
I believe this makes it clear now.And if you want to trade again with the remaining balance, you either put in more money for more leverage(more leverage is not advisable though) or better you start all over with micro lot sizes of between 0.01 and 0.09 (which is better for you anyway because that is where you should have started in the first instance).
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Thursday 18 December 2008
In the trading business you always have to deal with gains as well as losses. Among the most important factors that influence the success of a trade is money management. Learning how to use money management to protect your profits is easy to do and the importance of proper management should never be underestimated.
Money management basically involves the way money is allocated and how much loss is accepted before a trade is considered to be bad. By setting certain limits as to how much can be lost, it is possible to keep any profits intact and minimize losses. The best way to limit losses and protect profits is to use something known as a stop. A stop’s sole purpose is to keep profits safe and they are really nothing other than an emergency exit out of a trade. Stops can be pulled if a trade does not at least double the profit, for example.
Another way to protect profits is to determine the sizing of a trade budget. This means that the amount of profits to be spent in the next trade is limited to only a certain percentage, which means the rest can go in your pocket. By spreading out the money to be invested over several trades means that there is a higher chance of making a good trade. The percentage spent is determined by the outlook of the trade, meaning that positive forecasted trades will be given the highest amounts and the riskiest trades the lowest amount.
The better you fix the investment to trade, will make you to analyze and understand the deals. Money management is really essential and important, because they are considered to bring better safe and consistency to your trade deals. When you handle money management, you can understand the varying difference in the cash flow. Fix your trade deals and never spend huge cash deals on trading, particularly if you are a novice. Being a novice, you must understand the tricks and techniques to widen your deals. Further with the effective managing deals, you can right away fit in with absolute trading management.
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Friday 12 December 2008
Money changes everything. This line from a song takes a pitch on how money affects man. People from all walks of life - poor or rich - think of numerous ways on how to earn money or even how to grow them into million bucks. We are not survived by love alone, money still matters.
One of the most-sought after money-making investments nowadays is the popular forex trading. You watch them in the news, read them in the papers, see them in the movies - everybody’s talking about it, and you don’t even know a thing that people really do get rich from a well-managed forex trading.
If you are a novice, we are providing you with guidelines on how to start with forex and have a successfully managed forex trading all throughout.
Knowledge is Power. The most successful businessman in the world is the man who has gained true knowledge and master of the business. You can’t engage your money at once just because people are telling you this is how you do it. If ever their opinions matter, it is your opinion that matters the most. Search for numerous information about the business. Read them thoroughly and learn them by heart. Try joining seminars or workshops, watching online videos and tutorials, and don’t stop until you know you have gathered more than enough information.
Right Trading System at your doorstep. Before finally making a choice on which broker you have decided to put your money on, study all the different systems of brokers and do some sort of charting or auto trades on the computer.
Work out your Trading Plans. Get your objectives, market strategies, point of investment and expected return on investments sorted out. If you have not finalized these details, then do not try to jump into the water yet. You will likely lose whatever you have invested. If in case you have a well-managed forex plan ahead of time and still failed to profit from the business, do not fret for there is always room for improvements on everything. Find out where you have mistakenly set your plans.
Managing your money. In every business or investment, there are always possible risks or dangers. Learn how to manage your money and protect it from losing terribly. As I have mentioned earlier, set your objectives on your profits and set protective indicators on when to make a stop. Because if you lose everything at once, you might miss a great chance along the way since you have no capital anymore. Also, try managing your personal expenses with it.
Everything is learned thru discipline. Especially if you are about to target a well-managed forex trading success from the beginning, it is important that you learn the art of discipline. Do not be moved by your emotions along the way; do trade with your trading plan at hand.
Once you have discovered the right formula to a well-managed forex trading, forex business can really be a smart and beneficial move to grow that capital in hand.
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Tuesday 9 December 2008