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Forex Currency Trading Systems - The Fibs Ain’t No Lie - A Systems Approach to Trading the Forex

When it comes to the having a system is the number one key to . Making as “mechanical” as possible is the only way to sanely trade a market where the traders and are always in play.

This is where a system shines. Having a system that says when “A” happens you automatically execute trade “B.” This kind of system has a great effect at removing much of our emotional .

How The Systems Work

As you probably know, is based on the of one to another - called . And these are used to create a trade. For instance you believe that the Euro is due to rise against the - or said another way - you believe the Euro is strong and the US is weak. Based on this you would expect to see the Euro rise in value over the and if it did you would profit.

So the pair you would be is the EUR/USD pair where the first listed, in this case the Euro is called the base . The second, in this case the US , is called the counter or quote . Each pair is quoted with a single number that expresses the between the . So if a quote of 1.4525 were quoted that would mean that it would take 1.4525 Dollars to exchange for a single Euro.

The Fibs

Fibonacci, often called the fibs, are a method of gaining some measure of predictive pricing in the . They are based on the famed number sequence developed by a mathematician named, you guessed it, Fibonacci. The sequence that he developed is a sum where each of the two preceding numbers are added to form the next in the sequence. So a sequence starting from the number 1 would look like 1,1,2,3,5,8…and so on.

The is especially sensitive to the fibs. If you spend any time with your charts you will notice how prices turn at or near Fibonacci numbers.

Now of course then numbers are not as neat and clean as 1,1,2,3,5 etc. In the they look more like. .236, .50, .382, .618, etc., Using this type of number sequence you will find that you can use the Fibs as a price point to enter or exit a position. They offer a seasoned a certain measure of predictive capability.

They can be used in you system as the response to other market so if you get a market signal that tells you to enter the market long the Euro, then your mechanical response would be to wait until the prices broke through the next Fibonacci line and then enter your position. Waiting for this type of movement would help prove that the price was on the rise.

Of course this is assuming that you expect the price of the Euro to go up, and that is not the only way the market could move, but this is the beauty of the , you can trade the market up or down. It lets you make in both directions.

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Posted by admin on January 14th, 2009

Why Hedging FOREX is Superior to Directional Trading

Recently at a convention on Hedging there were in the who had spent as much as 80,000 or more on courses. None of them had any with trying to predict trends as directional traders. Most a of in the process.

Apparently there are about 250,000 traders. I would that 98% of them are directional traders. Yes, 250,000 traders in a 3.2 /day market while there are 144 Million traders in a much smaller market place. The New York exchange is about 30 million a day and comes nowhere near the of the decentralized market.

So, why so few are hedging the market? I believe this is mostly because of a lack of a system that consistently works.

Most directional traders with any experience have thought of hedging the market but most come to the the hedge just cancels itself out over time. So, most just give up on it not knowing how to make it work. But, what if, instead of zeroing out all you could actually double your with the hedge?

Let’s take the EURUSD and the CHFUSD .

These are historically negatively 93-98% of the time. That is when one pair goes up the other goes down, and vice versa, up to 98% of the time. Now, over time these would pretty much just cancel each other out and you would not be left with much of a profit and maybe would even see a slight loss if the hedge was not in your favor.

Now what if you could ALWAYS buy low when one pair went down and sell high when the other correlated pair went up? And when the market corrected do the same in the opposite direction over and over and over again?

This is how I ‘trade’ the market. Really it is more like ‘’ since I do not look at charts, do no analysis of , care very little about fundamentals as long as the hedge is sticking. I also only spend about 5-15 minutes a week resetting my buy and sell limits. The rest is done automatically.

Now, that is the ONE of the ways that I build my equity. The other is daily interest paid at special negotiated rates from some of the biggest brokers in the US and Switzerland. Not all brokers are alike in the rates that they pay even though they are based on the rates set by the respective central .

Because the system I use is so consistent and works so well the brokers are not only willing to bend over backwards to give us the best available they are also willing to give us 400:1 leveraging. Some brokers extend this 400:1 leveraging up to one . Note that no other system to my gets this kind of on that kind of . It is a first in retail and there is a good why.

Now, at first blush you may think that 400:1 leveraging is increasing our . In directional it certainly would be putting you in grave danger of losing your capital all that much quicker.

But, in fact, when you hedge the market as we do 400:1 actually DECREASES your . Hence, the brokers are quite happy to provide this kind of for this style of because it actually reduces the of a call and it makes the brokers that much more .

Now, why is 400:1 so important to hedging the market in the way we do it? Well, because of the daily interest!

Let’s take an example and say you have $5000 in your account and a 10% set.

That means you have $500 allocated to the market. If the net interest we receive is 1.11% annually then this would not be a of . We could do better at the ! …well maybe…

But, what happens when this $500 is leveraged at 400:1? All of a sudden this 1.11% interest becomes 44% per annum! Now, I am sure you would agree that this is a return worth looking at and that most managers would sell their mothers for this kind of return!

But, this return does not include the buy low/sell high . Add these all together and you have a system that on fairly conservative can produce very handsome and consistent without risking your shirt and without needing to in front of a computer all day and night watching charts until you go cross-eyed.

There is one more way that equity can increase or decrease. That is via the market in the hedge. Sometimes the hedge will work in your favor and sometimes it will go against you. When it is in your favor you can see windfall beyond the daily interest and buy and selling process. If it goes against you it will cause a pullback in your equity for a .

Compounding is also possible. When your balance and equity increase significantly over time your is going down. That means it is getting more conservative and safer if you just let it grow. But, if you want to keep your at say 10% then you can reallocate your and buy more lots which bring more interest and more buy low/sell .

Now, if you think that daily interest at 400:1 and 100% winning transactions makes sense what would you think if we could smooth out the that give us the big and big pullbacks, i.e. volatility?

Well, we could up our could we not? We could increase our without incurring much more and in fact may even be able to reduce it when we hedge the hedge. The net result means more interest, more profit, and less while freeing up our time to spend the we are making instead of ignoring our family stuck to a chart on a screen.

Presently such an enhancement is in testing and may soon to be released to the public if tests are successful. If you want to keep updated on this new development be sure to subscribe to my update list.

By learning how to HEDGE the you not only increase your profit and reduce your . You can also get a life! That to me is the most attractive part of this whole system.

The great thing is it is not difficult to either. I personally in the system I use and it usually takes a couple of hours and about 10 minutes a week to monitor before my students are on their own.

Wayne Nash is a semi-retired professional, , and online with over 15 Years of online , coaching, and experience and serves a large international network from almost every in the world. Wayne speaks fluent Japanese and has lived in since 1985 and spends part of the year in his native BC in Canada.

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Posted by admin on December 13th, 2008

Things To Know To Deal With Foreign Currency Exchange

The main purpose of the foreign is to make but it is different from other equity . There are various technical terminologies and a must know to deal with exchange. This article will give an into the normal operations in the foreign .

In the the that is traded is the foreign . These foreign are always priced in . The value of one unit of a foreign is always expressed in of another foreign . Thus all incorporate the purchase and sale of two foreign at the same time. You have to buy a only when you expect the value of that to increase in the future. When it increases in value, you have to purchase the you have bought to make your profit. When you buy or sell a then the trade is called open trade or in open position and can be closed only when you sell or buy an equivalent amount of .

You must also understand how the are quoted in the . They are always quoted in as USD/. The first is the base and the second one is the quote . The quote value depends on the conversion rates between the two under consideration. Mostly the USD will be used as based but sometimes euro, pound sterling is also used.

The profit of the depends on the bid and the ask price. The bid is the price the is ready to pay to buy base for exchanging the quote . The ask is the price the is ready to sell the base for exchanging the quote . The difference between these two prices is called the spread which determines the profit or loss of the trade.

The bid and ask prices are quoted in five figures. The spread is measured in which is defined as the smallest change in price based on the conversion rates of the under consideration. For USD/ if the bid price is 136.50 and ask price is 136.55 then spread is 5 and you have to recover the five from your profit.

used in the foreign exchange terminology refers to the deposit that a makes to his account to cover any expected in the future. A high degree of is supplied by the brokers to traders for exchange. The ratio is 100:1 normally. The brokerage system will calculate the funds required for the trade and will check for the availability of before executing any trade.

You have to understand the characteristics of foreign before your . This market has extreme and always alive giving you wide spread opportunities to make . As there is so much potential for gain, there is potential for great loss too. You have to spend your time and effort and watch the market and trade at the to reap the profit.

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Posted by admin on December 6th, 2008

Forex Fortunes - Fact Or Fiction?

this, that…

What with systems, methods, , alert systems et al it seems that everyone and their aunt is involved in the market one way or another.

The vendors of these various products make it all sound so easy and they seduce their prospective clients in to really believing this. But…

Please, please at least the of the market before any of these products and for heaven’s don’t open any accounts until you at least acquaint yourself with some basic concepts.

For example:

1) In the market, transactions are always handled in .

You buy one and sell another one. The idea is to make a trade when you believe the you’re is going to go up in value compared to the one you’re selling. Then, if it turns out your prediction was correct, you do another trade in the reverse direction — selling the you originally bought and the one you sold — in order to reap the .

For example, let’s say the market reports this: GBP/EUR 1.2200. That means the cost of one is 1.22 euros. If you believed that course was going to change, and the euro was going to become more valuable than the pound, you might sell 100,000 pounds, buy 100,000 euros, and wait. Then let’s say a later, the exchange fluctuates to this: EUR/GBP 1.3100. Sure enough, the euro is now worth 1.31 pounds, a profit of 0.11 per unit

2) to interpret a basic price chart.

Every chart will be labeled with a pair: EUR/USD, USD/GBP, etc. Remember, all deals with different countries’ in relation to each other. The EUR/USD chart, for example, tells you how the euro and the U.S. compare.

Along the bottom of the chart is the timeline — 15 minutes, an hour, a day, a week, or some other period. Going up the right-hand side are incremental amounts. For the EUR/USD chart, the amounts might be 1.2531 at the bottom, going up to 1.2561 at the top. And of course the middle of the chart shows what position the EUR/USD pair held at what time.

The chart is useful because it shows in graphic how a pair is doing. You can see at a glance whether a is getting stronger or weaker, and you can act accordingly. Choosing the helps you see very minor trends (in a 15-minute period, say) or more long-term ones (over the course of several days, perhaps).

3) Make sure you get yourself a account before diving in with both feet.

A shows you how it works before you jump into it for real

Before airplane pilots actually fly on their own, they usually practice in simulators that re-create what flying will be like without any actual . Since is as dangerous financially as flying is physically, it makes sense that there would be a available, too.

A is a smart way for a new to start. Reading and taking online courses can teach you the , but the best way to anything is to get some hands-on experience. However, with , hands-on experience could mean losing your shirt. So a gives you real-world with no actual being involved.

Usually, the demonstration comes courtesy of a brokerage or other Web site that has an interest in currying your favor. The plan is that once you’ve tested your skills in the , you’ll get into the real thing and take of the paid services the provider has to offer — , managed accounts, automated , etc. The is like a free sample, offered in the hopes that you’ll enjoy it so much that you buy something, too.

For that , be should be highly suspicious of any Web site that wants to charge for a . Considering there are literally dozens of sites that offer free demonstrations, there is absolutely no that you should pay for it.

Diana is an experienced and has a very helpful that she invites everybody to check out. Soon there will be daily videos and a completely free forecasting service - you’ll it!

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Posted by admin on December 3rd, 2008

Shocking 135% Returns Per Hour - See Proof - Introducing Forex Mania

DID YOU KNOW THAT:

50% of the that trade lose , even in the long run? For many , equals gambling. Here is where the problem is, to make CONSISTENTLY and increase your account, you need a PROVEN .

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* The is up or down
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Q: I have never traded the market, is Mania for me?

A: Absolutely! The Mania was created for as well as . Mania is successfully used by with no experience at all!

Q: How much do I need to start ?

A: You can start with an amount as low as $50. Remember that starting out with low capital may put you at disadvantage because you will only be able to trade in small share sizes. We recommend to start with capital of $2,000-5,000 USD or on a account till you are satisfied with the performance.

Q: Is it hard to and implement your system Explosion?

A: No! Most that purchase Mania start the next day after they read it. Some even within minutes. I provide exact detailed instructions how to start.

Q: Does the cover other than EUR/USD?

A: The has been designed to be useful for any major pair such as EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/, USD/ etc… The examples are mostly EUR/USD, however our Mania can be easily applied to any other pair.Note that, this is not the system, this the successful that will work for you.

If I can get 135% returns per hour, why can’t you?

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Posted by admin on December 2nd, 2008

9 Common Forex Trading Orders - Use Them To Protect Profit And Prevent Loss

When , there are several order types that the retail can place in the market place to protect themselves from adverse market conditions and to capitalize on opportunities that the market often provide. We will start with the basic orders that should be available in any platform. For , you should keep to the simple types until you get comfortable with your platform. Never force yourself to take any trade for the of playing with order types.

It can be said that all orders in the market place boils down to Buy or Sell orders. Remember that when you are selling one and simultaneously another. Here are some of the common order types:

(1) Buy Order - Place this order when you anticipate that the market will rise. Often, you have to provide some parameters with your buy order. For instance, do you want to buy the pair at the price it is currently at, or do you have a particular price in mind? What if your order cannot be filled at the price you are specifying, what price range is comfortable to you? This is called slippage. For example, the GBP/USD is at 2.0190 and you anticipate that it will go up higher; you can place a buy order to buy at 2.0190. However, there is no guarantee that you will get in at that price, many brokers will require that you specify a slippage. Continuing with our example, suppose, you are comfortable as low as 2.0185 or at most at 2.0195, then you would specify a slippage of 5 . This is for your protection. Suppose just before your order becomes active, their is a news event, that makes GBP/USD to drop down 50 , are you still willing to buy? - maybe the has now changed downwards, your answer may be no. In addition, you must specify the time range when the order will be active. Your buy entry price should be dictated by your or system.

(2) Sell Order - Place this order when you anticipate that the market will fall. Sell order have the same kinds of parameters we discussed under Buy Order.

(3) Market Order - You want to get in or out of the market at the prevailing price. is typically guaranteed, but price is not. A market order ensures that you will get into or out of the market.

(4) Limit Order - An instruction to execute an order if a market moves to a more favorable level (i.e. an instruction to buy if a market goes down to a specified level or to sell if a market goes up to a specified level. is typically not guaranteed. Your will use their “best efforts” to get your order filled. This order can be used to enter or exit a position.

(5) Stop Order - An instruction to execute an order if a market moves to a less favorable level (i.e. an instruction to buy if a market goes down to a specified level, or to sell if a market goes up to a specified level. A Stop Order is often placed to put a cap on the potential loss on an existing position; which is why Stop Orders are sometimes called Stop-loss Orders. Never trade without placing a Stop-loss order. A trade you think has all the right ingredient for may turn into a fat loss right before your eyes. Always protect yourself so that you can be alive to trade another day.

(6) Trailing Stop Order - A trailing stop order is similar to order. The only difference is that you are already in profit and you want to protect your profit. Trailing Stop Order then allows you to configure your stop order to continue to follow the in real-time by specifying the distance in you would like your stop to move. For example, you have a long USD/ position, which you bought at 111.50 and you set a Stop Order to sell USD/ at 111.10, in case USD/ starts to fall. This Stop Order will close your position with a 40- loss if USD/ drops to 111.10. However, suppose USD/ moved up to
111.90. You can move your Stop Order to sell at 111.70 which will luck in a profit of 20 for you in case USD/ were to stop its upward movement.

(7) Good till Canceled Order (GTC) - As mentioned earlier, when you place an Order, you must specify for how long the Order is to be valid. The GTC Order is a very common type of Order; it remains valid, 24 hours a day, until you cancel it, or it is executed. It is the ’s responsibility, not the dealers, to remember there is an open order.

(8) Day Orders - Day Orders are good until 23:00 CET time.

(9) Order Cancels Order (OCO) - Also known as One Cancels Other. After entering the market, a limit order to protect , and a stop-loss order to limit can be placed. When either the limit or the stop order is executed, it will cancel the other order automatically. For example, you sold EUR/USD at 1.2290, looking for a short-term move to 1.2260. However you decide that if EUR/USD moves above 1.2310 you want to cut your loss, therefore you put on a Limit Order to buy EUR/USD at 1.2260, and a Stop Order to buy EUR/USD at 1.2310 on an OCO basis. This order will close your position with a 30- profit if Limit Order is reached first or with a 20- loss if Stop Order is reached first. Once one of the orders is executed, the second order is automatically cancelled.

There are other types of Orders available to traders. However, keeping your simple is perhaps one of the best of in . Making is what matters, not how complex your order structure is. A rule of thumb is that if you do not understand what the order you are placing really mean, do not place it. It can hurt you really badly.

Professor Sunmonu is a Professor Of Mathematics at York College. His can be found at http://www.FrxBank.com

Posted by admin on November 22nd, 2008

Forex Trading - Tips and Tricks

Always keep your systems simple. Too much information at one time on your screen could confuse and delay your decision to trade.

- A of brokers are in only to make from yours. Read , and chats around the net to get an unbiased opinion before you choose your .

Sample the Environment - It is important to remember that many registered and online agents have fictitious platforms which mirror the real-time, live platform clients and trade on. It is not only advisable, but it is also actively encouraged to initially open a ‘dummy’ account where fictitious can be undertaken that closely reflect what real may be like when they are eventually undertaken. Such platforms are designed to give those that are new to a feel and an idea what real on live will be like when the decision is made to begin .

Buy low, Sell high - does not involve the physical purchase of the , but rather involves contracts for amount and exchange of . The potential for profit comes from the in the . Regular daily in the value of one against another give a clear over conventional market equities and instruments. See Illustration Only

Manage Losing Positions - will sometimes inevitably on occasion go against you. It is important to accept them as an inherent part of . Cut your and move on having learned from any mistakes made. Always remember however that you will not be able to trade without losing some positions. It is important to manage these well.

- Do not over-trade your account. Good management practice is important and will help with . This will go a long way in helping you develop a which fits with your capital. Operate a trailing policy say 15 to 20 behind the trade. Minimize your good as long as you are confident.

Flexible - Don’t set yourself false targets and expectations. Experts will tell you is not an exact science and setting oneself unattainable targets will only lead to frustration and feeling of when these targets are not . Always maintain an open mind. The market is a constantly changing environment tunes your to understand this.

And lastly but definitely not least, it is most important for all market participants to remember that unique and past performances do not guarantee future results. results can vary in any combination of . If you do not have extra capital that you can afford to lose, you should not trade in the market.

Invest wisely and take of the resources and available to you in the market.

Ladi Dairo: Equity Research Analyst.

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Posted by admin on November 5th, 2008

Forex Online Option Trading - The Basics Explained

online option is a brand new opportunity as of 2007 for individual to trade options on world . Offered through the Philadelphia Exchange world options are traded in exactly the same way as any other option. options offer a major to those interested in FX .

Up until 2007, the only way to trade in was through , and through market makers. Both involve a much greater degree of difficulty than simply in options. In , there is a great deal of . If your position moves against you, your loss can be potentially unlimited. In both and spot FX , you are tied to your trade 24 hours a day, watching and guarding against constant . While you still have to keep an eye on your positions, world options are traded only when the market is open.

online option is available through almost any online that deals in options. Just like a , you simply need to know the symbol to find the option chain or chart. For example, in , the Euro/US pair is called the EURUSD. In online option , the symbol is XDE.

option is as simple as identifying the direction of the and a call if you think it’s going up, or a put if you think it’s going down. You can buy an option for a month, or more.

Using online option gives you a few major advantages. Your is limited to the price of the premium - and you can easily a stop, further limiting your potential for loss. With FX options it’s much easier to take a position and hang onto it for the longer duration of a . Your is limited and your potential for profit is virtually unlimited.

The one thing to remember in option is that of the six that are available with options, four of them are reversed if compared to the FX . All of the option are settled in the US .

For more information on online option , please visit http://www.squidoo.com/forexonlineoptiontrading

Posted by admin on October 31st, 2008

Forex Currency Trading Systems - The Fibs Ain’t No Lie - A Systems Approach to Trading the Forex

When it comes to the having a system is the number one key to . Making as “mechanical” as possible is the only way to sanely trade a market where the traders and are always in play.

This is where a system shines. Having a system that says when “A” happens you automatically execute trade “B.” This kind of system has a great effect at removing much of our emotional .

How The Systems Work

As you probably know, is based on the of one to another - called . And these are used to create a trade. For instance you believe that the Euro is due to rise against the - or said another way - you believe the Euro is strong and the US is weak. Based on this you would expect to see the Euro rise in value over the and if it did you would profit.

So the pair you would be is the EUR/USD pair where the first listed, in this case the Euro is called the base . The second, in this case the US , is called the counter or quote . Each pair is quoted with a single number that expresses the between the . So if a quote of 1.4525 were quoted that would mean that it would take 1.4525 Dollars to exchange for a single Euro.

The Fibs

Fibonacci, often called the fibs, are a method of gaining some measure of predictive pricing in the . They are based on the famed number sequence developed by a mathematician named, you guessed it, Fibonacci. The sequence that he developed is a sum where each of the two preceding numbers are added to form the next in the sequence. So a sequence starting from the number 1 would look like 1,1,2,3,5,8…and so on.

The is especially sensitive to the fibs. If you spend any time with your charts you will notice how prices turn at or near Fibonacci numbers.

Now of course then numbers are not as neat and clean as 1,1,2,3,5 etc. In the they look more like. .236, .50, .382, .618, etc., Using this type of number sequence you will find that you can use the Fibs as a price point to enter or exit a position. They offer a seasoned a certain measure of predictive capability.

They can be used in you system as the response to other market so if you get a market signal that tells you to enter the market long the Euro, then your mechanical response would be to wait until the prices broke through the next Fibonacci line and then enter your position. Waiting for this type of movement would help prove that the price was on the rise.

Of course this is assuming that you expect the price of the Euro to go up, and that is not the only way the market could move, but this is the beauty of the , you can trade the market up or down. It lets you make in both directions.

For more currency trading systems visit http://ForexTradingRobot.info a site dedicated to systems for seasoned traders and alike.

Posted by admin on October 29th, 2008

Forex Brotherhood - Join the Club of Elite Traders

Every and require experience, and is not different. However, the market has an extra - the of losing everything and hating it forever. Without someone to hold you in your hand, you are nearly doomed to in this field of infinite . Luckily, there is an answer for that. . This big package includes so much information that even a who started yesterday can already generate some .

First, offers two daily webinars, short video seminars, with a top . In this webinar, you will secret , what is going to happen today, how it is going to affect you, and how you need to react in the upcoming day. These webinars are a wonderful source of information, and the huge content archive allows you to watch them over and over in order to really understand what is going on.

Two daily reports are also given to you so you can easily read, interpret, and understand the events on the market. Some find it easier to read than to listen, and the reports do a wonderful at explaining you exactly, at all levels, what is about to happen and why moved they way they moved. The two reports are also included in the huge content archive, so you can read past reports and gain great amounts of .

are an excellent way to meet , network with others, and everything you want. offers such forum with a professional . You can ask any question, you can discuss what you want to do with your , and you can meet other who share your interest. This is the most fun and definitely the best way to practice and a new skill.

To start enjoying and making , read the Forex Brotherhood review at Great-Info-Products.com and sign up.

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Posted by admin on October 27th, 2008

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