2010
02.24

There are two critical terms in forex trading – short term and long-term trading. What are they and how they’re different? Obviously, short term trading is introduces more risk because with this technique a trader makes more trades. The key is quicker profits. On the other hand, long term trading is more thought out, there are just a few trades each month and it’s a lot correct. However, there’s a ton less profit potential because there are much less trades. Currency exchange trading systems like Forex Ripper try to take advantage of the both.

Nobody asserts you’ve got to only use one strategy. You can trade both, short and long-term. What that does is enable you to get fast profits in short term, but also be profit-making in the long term. It is vital, however, to balance those systems out. Because the short term strategy is much riskier, you have got to take that into account. You must mange the chance so that the near term losses don’t wipe out your long term profits. Consider the long term methodology as your most important technique and figure out how much you are able to afford to lose in short term.

2010
02.15

Did you see this? Forex Cash Evolution

Currency trading pips are a crucial part of forex trading that any trader must understand. They’re the measure of changes in price, and so of profit and loss. Brokers customarily interpret pips into dollars and cents for you, or into the currency that your account is held in, if it is not US dollars. However , when comparing two trades with different position sizes it’s the profit or loss in pips that tells you more than the profit in greenbacks.

PIP means percentage in point. It is employed as a measure of change in price . Spread is also measured in pips. The pip is the smallest part of the measured price of a quoted currency.

In practice, most currencies are quoted to four decimal places, e.g. 1.2315. In this situation one pip is 0.0001 units of the quote currency. So if that price changes to 1.2316, the price has increased by one pip.

The japanese yen is the sole one of the major currencies that is low enough in value to be typically quoted to 2 decimal places. So when the yen is the quote currency, one pip is 0.01 yen.

2010
02.13

Article courtesy of Triple Threat FX

Are you looking out for a forex mentor? Read on and we can teach you the secret of success in currency trading at the moment – freely.

Currency trading is a dangerous business as I’m sure you know. It may also be extremely perplexing. If you do a Net search you may find so many foreign exchange systems, plans, strategies, tactics and techniques that it’ll make your head spin. All of this seems built to get you to buy into yet one more system that may probably be no better and no worse that the one that you have just.

Many times, traders are simply diverted although they know that if they could only stick to one thing doggedly they would have a much better chance of success. So what drives us away from the path that we know could lead us to success? The answer, most all the time, is fear.

Fear of failure

We may be under plenty of pressure to earn money with currency trading. The pressures can be internal, in our own minds, or external, coming maybe from a spouse or friends who challenge us to make good and earn cash. At the same time, we may lack confidence either in ourselves or in our system.

Getting over dread of failure is pretty simple if you can begin to see everything as a learning experience. In this manner of looking at life, there are no mistakes, only learning possibilities. It will help if you scale back your stress by keeping your risk low and testing your system totally in demo before going live.

Fear of success

Fear of success is commonly harder to handle and it is incredibly typically found in our culture, especially if we have grown up in a family or subculture where successful people are detested or mistrusted. Parents often instill the fear of success into their kids without even realizing it.

For example, your mother and father might have taught you that being good or popular was more critical than being financially successful. Fine, except that it is simple for a kid to interpret this as suggesting successful folks are not good or preferred.

often this belief will be internalized so that as you grow up you are not even aware of it. But as fast as you get anywhere near financial success, something always goes belly up. You screw up. Why? Because somewhere deep inside, you believe that if you’re successful, you will be a bad person and everyone will hate you. That is’s fear of success, and it will wreck your chances of making profits from foreign exchange trading if you don’t fix it.

2010
02.07

Article from MT4 Alert

Anybody who wants to learn day trading wishes to follow certain guidelines. I will not say rules because a lot of people don’t like the word, but beliefs. Many of them are quite well known and some of them are less so, but they’re all urgent to the successful day trader. I call them the four major guidelines of day trading.

1. The Buck Stops With You

Whether or not you are looking round for a day trading system or developing your own, remember that whatever you do is your responsibility. Ask for recommendation and help by all means, but don’t believe everything you hear. People are different and their trading styles can vary hugely, so never follow advice blindly.

Equally, you can purchase in a system but do not neglect to test it. Whether or not the guy who designed it is saying that it’ll double your money in two months for certain sure, you must test, because there are three possible issues with that. One, he might be lying. Two, perhaps it used to work well but it doesn’t work any more. Three, perhaps it works for him except for some peculiar reason to do with your spread or whatever, it does not work for you. Your cash is your responsibility and yours alone, so put the system to work on a demo account until you are sure.

2. Stay Calm

The most important enemy of any trader is his or her own emotions and this is especially true for the individual that wants to learn day trading. If you’re the kind of person who makes bad decisions under stress, you might want to think again about selecting day trading as your method. This is a fast moving world where seconds can count in thousands of greenbacks, so you need to keep a particularly cool head.

Now just about everybody likes to think they are a calm kind of person who would react way under pressure, so even if you’re convinced you’re going to be the world’s number one ice cold trader, test yourself as well as your system in that demo account. If you curve off the system even once or start altering your position size, closing out early, waiting too long etc in demo mode, sorry but you aren’t prepared for real life trading when things will be much more hairy. Work on it.

2010
01.26

Something to look up:

Forex Powerband Dominator is a manual currency trading trading system that functions on any time frame with any currency pair, and is good for scalping as well as long term trading.

The system is sold in a package of:

A comprehensive trading manual that teaches you everything about the Forex Powerband Dominator system.
Video modules that cover: platforming and charting, how to plot “fixed” and “dynamic” support and resistance areas, how to use price action and candle formations to give you a real edge in the markets, entry techniques, the best use of time frames, position management, and more.
The demonstration of the system on live trades…

It can be worth it.

2010
01.21

A new Forex robot:

Pip Android is the “most intelligent Forex system” that promises remarkable accuracy and profitability. Most importantly, it will show live trading results to back up its accuracy, once it goes live.

Pip Android’s main features:

Provides live results updated every 10 minutes.
Trades in different market conditions (ranging, sideway, choppy, and trending markets).
Has a profit and drawdown protection system…

I am not saying to buy it, but it’s worth a look.

2010
01.17

A new currency trading EA:

FAP Turbo is one of the oldest Expert Advisors that is still very popular to this day. Besides the English version, it’s also available in Spanish and Chinese languages.

There’s a saying that during tough times the rich are made as well as the poor. The markets swing like crazy and any experienced FX trader would tell you that it’s a trader’s paradise. It is the time when most profits are made…

May be worth to give it a look.

2010
01.09

Forex Juggernaut

Check it out:

Forex Juggernaut is an EA with a 76.48% winning rate. It’s pretty much like other Expert Advisors, with an exception that it says to use its own Juggernaut ‘SWING’ technology. It runs only with EUR/GBP and on 1 hour timeframe and is a fully automatic EA.

The website of Forex Juggernaut provides us with back-testing statement, and even without seeing live trading results there’s a lot to be said. The average stop loss of the system seems to be about 80 pips, while the exit point is at about 10 pips. That wouldn’t look good, but the system always closes the losing trades early and often closes the profitable trades early too…

I recommend it.

2010
01.07

Have you heard about this?

USDBOT is a 2 in 1 Forex robot for two currency pairs – EUR/USD and USD/JPY. The system is built around a strategy of a group of veteran FX traders, which has taken them years to perfect. The Forex robot was built using the adaptive neural network technology which takes into account common trading strategies in addition to its own. Thus the Forex robot is able to adapt to different market conditions or trends.

The system is easy to install, it’s beginner friendly and most important of all, it comes with a live support chat for its users.

The live trading statements that I can see at the time of writing this are of a period of about a week and the USDBOT seems to be making several trades per day…

You may take a look, I think.

2009
12.30

Forex Mercenary

I’ve just heard of a new system:

Forex Mercenary is a stand-alone foreign exchange signals software developed with its own AI and based on statistical models for each currency pair. The stand alone software doesn’t need any extra platform (such as Meta Trader) and it generates signals for short-term positions. As such it should generate several signals a day.

While there aren’t many numbers for me to crunch on (at least yet), I do have one statement that shows a 96.62% winning rate. It also shows an average profit trade of $50, and an average loss of $50 as well. I don’t have the exact information about the stop loss and take profit of Forex Mercenary but these two numbers give a good hint of a risk/award ratio of 1…

You may at least take a peek, I think.