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Forex Trading - Become a Successful Forex Trader in 4 Simple Steps

October 8th, 2008
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Sacha Tarkovsky asked:


Anyone can become a successful forex trader from home, if they learn the right knowledge and learn how to apply it.

Here we will look at a proven way to make big profits quickly with low risk in global forex markets - even if you never traded before.

Step 1 – Work Smart Not Hard

In many professions you get paid for how many hours you put in, but this does not apply to the world of currency trading:

You get paid for being right.

There are many clever people who spent huge amounts of time building currency trading systems that are extremely complicated and clever, but don’t make money.

The good news is that everything about forex trading can be specifically learned.

It’s also a fact that the best methods are not complicated they are extremely simple. A simple system is more robust in the face of ever changing currency fluctuations.

A Simple system is also easy to understand and apply and this gives a user confidence, which translates into discipline, which is essential for online trading success.

Step 2 – A Method for huge gains

Let’s now look at a methodology that can make huge gains in currency trading.

The a great methodology for any trader to use is one based upon breakouts of valid resistance.

Breakouts are simple to understand and easy to spot, yet most traders don’t use this methodology, as it makes them feel uncomfortable.

Let’s look first at why it is so successful and a fact that most traders don’t realize which is, most big moves in currency trading start from new market highs, NOT market lows.

If you buy breaks of resistance to new market highs you can catch these moves.

Most traders can’t do this because they want to “buy low and sell high” and they wait for the pullback to buy at a better price, however the really big moves don’t pull back and most traders miss them.

If you buy these breakouts, you can make big profits and keep in mind “buy high sell higher” is a great way to make money. Yes, you have missed the start of the move, but the odds are on your side if you enter on a breakout that the move will continue.

To make money in forex trading, buy breaks of significant resistance and use trend lines and just a few confirming indicators and you have a simple, but powerful way of trading.

Step 3 Taking Risks

If you don’t like risk then you shouldn’t trade currency markets.

Most traders spend so much time trying to restrict risk, they actually create it and ensure they lose. They place stops to close or trailing them to quickly and are stopped out by normal market volatility.

If you want to win at forex trading, you need to take meaningful risks.

If you are trading a small account risk as much as 10% per trade and don’t move your stop too quickly. This will ensure you won’t be bumped out of the trade by normal market volatility and can stay with the longer term trends.

Step 4 Patience

You need to be patient and only trade the best forex trading signals that occur at breakouts of valid resistance.

You don’t make money for how often you trade, but for being right.

Many traders like to be in the market all the time in case they miss a move, but this simply ensures they lose.

When you are in a currency trade, you then need to be patient with market volatility eating into your open equity. This is not easy!

When you have to sit and watch dips in your open equity of thousands of dollars however, being patient and riding out this volatility will be very rewarding if you accept it and focus on the longer term trends.

Successful Forex trading

Is within reach of all traders and involves working smart not hard, having confidence in what you do and having a method that works, that you can apply with discipline to take calculated risks at the right time.

The above tips will help you win at forex trading, if you incorporate them into your forex trading strategy.



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Forex Trading Strategy - 4 Steps for Forex Success

June 10th, 2008
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Kelly Price asked:


If you want to make money in forex trading you need to have a soundly based forex trading strategy. This is far easier to achieve than many traders think it is and here we will show you how to build one in 4 simple steps.

1. Success Comes From Inner Understanding

To succeed at forex trading you need to do it on your own and understand EXACTLY how and why your system works.

Even if you follow a vendor or someone else’s currency trading system, you can’t simply follow it you must learn it and have confidence in it.

If you don’t understand how your trading system will help you succeed, you won’t have confidence in it which will lead to a break down of discipline if you hit a losing period.

Keep in mind if you don’t have the discipline to follow your trading method, you don’t have a method!

2. Keep It Simple & Work Smart

Many traders believe the more effort they put into their forex trading strategy the more they will make - this is not true. You get rewarded for being right with your trading signal and that’s it.

Other traders think the more complicated their system is the more chance it has of succeeding but again - this is not true.

All the best forex trading systems are simple and this means they have fewer elements to break and are more robust in the face of brutal market conditions.

This is actually good news, as you need to work smart and not hard to succeed.

Simply focus on the right areas and learn them. If you do this, it will lead you to currency trading success.

3. A Successful Trading System

Here we can’t give you all that goes into a successful trading system - but we will give you some important basic elements you need to keep in mind when building one.

- Do not day trade, as you are guaranteed to lose. All short term volatility is random and you cannot get the odds on your side, either swing trade or follow long term trends.

- Base your system on the concept of support and resistance and breakout methodology.

- Do not predict with your system. Use momentum oscillators to confirm each and every trading signal.

If you predict that’s simply hoping or guessing and you won’t win.

Trade the truth of price action and confirm.

- Always place stops and assume the worst eventuality - you need to protect what you have above all else. As one trader I once knew said:

“If you take care of the losses the profits will look after themselves”.

4. The crucial Point You Need to Understand!

In forex trading 95% of traders lose.

This is simply in most instances down to the fact they don’t work smart and learn the right information.

They therefore don’t have confidence to apply their system with discipline.

You need to understand as part of your forex education that your method is important - but you need the right mindset to apply it.

If you want to learn currency trading you can, in fact anyone can - but you must learn how to trade currencies the right way and build a logical, simple forex trading strategy which, takes into account all the points we have made above.

If you do, you can build a forex trading strategy for success.



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