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Monday, May 18, 2009

Learn How To Trade Forex

By Hass67

Learning forex trading is not difficult. With decent money management rules and a trading strategy, you are ready for conquering the forex markets.

You should always try to understand the big picture. You should start each trading session by looking at the daily charts. After looking at the daily charts zoom into 4hr, 1hr, 30min, 15 min etc charts. Forex trading is about interpreting the past price action as well as about interpreting the future price action.

You need to ask: Is the market ranging or trending before each trade. You should ask: Is there any long term patterns that have developed. By taking a general look at the different charts you will develop a general understanding of how the forex markets are behaving in the short as well as the long term.

You should try to understand the general direction of your favorite currency pairs. You can use candlestick analysis and moving averages (simple as well as exponential) to identify long term patterns and reversals.

You can use the Bollinger bands applied to 4hr charts to identify the daily trading range. A daily trading range shows you where the vast majority of moves are expected to happen. Any moves outside the daily trading range can be viewed as short term abnormalities.

You need to do some scenario planning for each day, once you have a general overview of the market for that day. You should know what fundamental news is scheduled to be released for that day and how the markets are expected to react.

Understanding the big picture does not mean knowing the whole picture. You should only focus on your favorite pairs. It takes a longtime and effort to understand a currencys behavior, how it reacts to things like oil prices, interest rates etc. So concentrate only on a few pairs in forex trading.

You should always try to take notes and keep a daily trading journal. Start each entry in the trading journal by analyzing the general direction of the markets for that day. What you think how the markets are going to react to different news that is expected to be released that day? What should be your entry and exit for the trade. How many pips you are expecting to make?

After each trade, look at what went wrong and how to avoid it in future trading! In case of a good trade that made you pips, analyze how many pips you could have made more and how to tweak your trading strategy for better results in the future trades.

Keep these general tips in mind while you are learning forex trading. Always remember never ever trade without stop losses and practice on the demo account for at least three months. - 23226

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