Trading Forex with no indicator is nothing new. Before there were charts traders “read the tape”. There is a lot of talk as if indicators are a bad thing and that trading Forex with no indicator is the only way to trade Forex successfully. The truth is there is no one way to trade Forex…
Since the weekend I had spoken in length in the London FXBootcamp session about seriously developing 4hour MACD divergence on every Japanese Yen pairing I could pull up. About a third of the way into today’s London session we began to see hints of a change in direction, such as USD/JPY having an hourly lower high, then breaking it’s recent price trap’ support level in the 15m chart. In class we covered the trade plans for shorting the GBP/JPY, EUR/JPY, and USD/JPY, and any trader could have done the same on any or even a basket of JPY pairs. In this video however, I will cover just the GBP/JPY. I will discuss and show in detail what caused us to both look for the short ‘clue train’ in the first place, and ultimately the actual entry/trigger criteria we used to short the GBP/JPY , risking just 20 or so pips, amounting to a fairly painless ride to just over 100 pips, before offering another pullback for an additional 90 pips reload. Very nice trading session indeed for London, certainly well deserved after the choppy sessions we have seen of late in the London time frame. FXBootcamp London Currency Coach- Christian Stephens
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Originally posted 2009-11-14 20:40:49. Republished by Old Post Promoter
The approach of forex trading is the main driving force for success. Putting it the other way around, the way you view the markets has a lot to do with how successful you will be with your forex systems. Some people have compared this with dune surfing!
You combine solid analysis with competent execution to achieve what you want. At the end of the day, you will develop new skill sets too. It’s like the following formula-
Talent + Hard Work = Forex Trading Success
And it all amounts to the following aspects-
Viable approach
Before getting started with foreign exchange trading, you need to develop thorough understanding regarding the kind of homework you need to finish doing. The bottom line is that, you’ll have to assemble your own aims and/or work-style with the available tools or markets, which you can happily relate to.
Time Structure
This points out the particular type of foreign exchange trading, which is suited to your nature. To trade forex off of any 5-minute chart would actually imply that you’re more at home being in a place lacking the revelation to overnight risks. Conversely, going for weekly foreign exchange charts would point out to a console that contains overnight risk as well as an inclination to watch some days that are not your best or favorite ones.
When forex systems make sense and when they don’t
There are many expert advisors or EA in foreign exchange market. Unfortunately, a significant part of them are engaged in making impractical promises to bring you fortunes using automatic trading, as you relax and sleep in your bed. While many of these software applications are far from being able to keep their promises, some are solid gold!
To find and effective EA system, you’ll have to look up reviews online as well as offline. A solid EA system is likely to firstly look up current market figures – the idea here is to spot lucrative trades. And once the system finds what it concludes to be highly gainful trading opportunity, it’ll undertake that particular trade immediately.
From this time forth, it’ll trail the performance and appeal of that trade in the foreign exchange market. It will also make sure that you keep receiving streaming profits. The moment, the market starts swinging to your favor, that EA system will identify this and pick up the most appropriate time for selling the asset.
To get the finest EA System you should go through most recent reviews in 2009. You can find them in numerous forex market sites, blogs, forums, or articles crosswise the web. You’ll as well find reviews where many users have placed their complaints. If you take the pain of researching, you will soon be able to spot the most common complaints.
Good example is those systems’ trading too aggressively, or not at all possessing the right capability of analyzing with real life parameters when it comes to caution or discipline. By reading pertinent reviews, you should be able find a trading system which works as far as profit maximization, loss minimization and overall money making is concerned.
Foreign exchange markets have shown little sign of moving towards adopting an exchange trading system as volumes on the world’s largest over-the-counter market continue to soar.
Settlement risk has long been a significant concern in the foreign exchange market, a tangled web of bilateral transactions which, according to the latest figures from the Bank for International Settlements, averages a daily turnover of $3,200bn.
The BIS warned earlier this year that more action was needed to reduce foreign exchange settlement risk to avoid a meltdown in the global financial system, fears that have been heightened by recent market turmoil.
Foreign exchange settlement risk, the chance that one party to a trade pays out the currency that it is sold but does not receive the currency it bought, worries global central bankers due to its potential to introduce systemic risk into the global financial system.
However, foreign exchange volumes have kept rising despite the recent volatility on financial markets and the freezing of the inter-bank lending market.
Icap, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker, said average daily trading volumes on its EBS electronic broking platform reached a record high of $274.2bn in September. This was 43 per cent higher than in September 2007.
“The OTC financial markets are functioning very well and OTC market participants – banks, brokers, prime brokerage clients and post-trade providers – have worked together to respond to the increased volatility,” says David Rutter, deputy chief executive of electronic broking at Icap.
Indeed, according to CLS Bank, which settles 55 per cent of FX trades, there was a surge in activity last week, with 1m payment instructions on Friday alone.
So far this month, CLS says average daily payment instructions have reached 783,000, up 45 per cent from August.
The BIS says the dominance of CLS has delivered significant progress in eliminating settlement risk. CLS, which was launched by a consortium of leading global financial institutions in 2002, operates a payment netting system that virtually eliminates settlement risk by, in effect, acting as a trusted third party between the two counterparties to an FX trade.
“We feel the elimination of principal settlement risk has helped underpin investors’ ability to trade,” says Jonathan Butterfield, executive vice-president at CLS.
Evidence of the foreign exchange market’s lack of interest in moving towards an exchange traded model was delivered by the announcement last week that FXMarketSpace, the world’s first centrally-cleared global foreign exchange platform, was set to close.
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Originally posted 2009-11-07 07:39:47. Republished by Old Post Promoter
www.forexforum.gr is the place were you can find free trading systems and the results for almost 9 months now, from Northern Lights Strategy. In http you can find more information about Northern Lights Strategy method.In www.forexlegion.com you can find our basic forex school in Greek language.More languages on the way. Franfurt today was choppy so I close the trade at breakeven.Then I have wait for the London open and the breakout move along with my tools and filters. It seems we hit a bulls eye. Thank you for watching
www.forexforum.gr is the place were you can find free trading systems and the results for almost 9 months now, from Northern Lights Strategy. In http you can find more information about Northern Lights Strategy method.In www.forexlegion.com you can find our basic forex school in Greek language.More languages on the way. If you dont know what is forex scalping check here forexforum.gr Check also the opinions of brokers concerning forex scalping and a complete list of brokers allowing forex scalping :www.isotimia.info Today we have a consolidation and a scalp to the next pivot point.
London today opened with the British Pound/USD pairing stuck in a little triangle, price trap. Just as London opened it seemed to breach the upper resistance of this trap , but quickly proved to be a fakeout when we awaited a pullback. In this video I show how, in great detail, how we were able to stay out of the long, and build a solid tradeplan on the break either way of the trap. Sure enough we got a break on the next test of the bottom, awaited a Fibonacci pullback to the now broken trendline, and it was pretty much straight to our projected target in no time after that. Having solid patience and discipline in this setup led us to a very high quality pullback entry risking 22 pips or so for an 80 pip reward, London could start off worse eh? Good stuff. fxbootcamp London Currency Coach- Christian Stephens
Originally posted 2010-03-02 20:37:52. Republished by Old Post Promoter
True, solid forex systems look like life savers when you feel almost lost in the ocean of forex trading. But you also must consider the fact that, the trading plan you have at the end of the day matters a lot. So you got to figure out whether your forex trade plan is pushing you towards overtrading.
Or you might put the question alternatively seeking to know the factors that keep traders from being successful in trading. Apart from running with the hype of forex systems, this article tries to shed some lights on a bit different issue. Some financial analysts jotted down the following factors playing significant role in this regard. These factors actually hold you back from overtrading.
Reconsidering the trading plan
Overtrading might be embedded into your current trading plan and you might not be even aware of it. I know concerned trader struggling with the outcomes of his decision to take too many of those ambitious trades. Ironically, the guy was strictly following his trading plan.
When he got an analyst to probe the plan, it was found that the plan stood on the same old 60-minute chart, that marked inauguration of every trading session, support or resistance levels in addition to that MACD indicator. Do you think the trading plan was solid enough to find enough opportunities for generating on daily and/or weekly basis?
A better way out could be taking it nice and easy. Things are better when they’re done in longer time frames. Using an elongated time frame has every possibility of automatically reducing the amount of trades you’ll consider – that in tern reduces the trading plan’s built-in tendency to crash into over trading.
This way, there will be little chance you’re your plan will drag you towards a so called “valid signal” 7 or 8 times everyday while trading on the daily chart. A large number of trades are devised on daily charts – but of course the entry has to be taken on a decent 4-hour chart.
Considering your weekly goal
Some analysts go with trading plans that have weekly goals targeting between 50 and 100 points. You can call that a sensible goal since it helps him achieve, while having those number jotted reminds him that once he’s done with his weekly goal there’s no reason for him to place the goal at risk. And when that goal is attained you should do anything but the trade.
If you are trading in any lower time frame it should be a better move to take up a solid weekly goal, since smaller time frames let you enjoy better and numerous “trading opportunities” that put your profit potential at risk. I have seen people successfully trading with their weekly goals for years. But most of all, it’s a solid shield against disastrous over trading.
Consider whether you need taking that trade – at all!
Most seasoned traders ask themselves such questions to make sure they are not destined for a failure. Have your heard of a pilot who manages to land with an aircraft’s gear up? At times, your emotions must be paid attention to prior to trades. If you’re tired, angry or just missed a really gorgeous trade (and feeling desperate for making some pips), then you should take it easy now.
Regardless of forex systems, you deserve the right to relax if you’re done with your weekly and/or monthly goals. You can relax considering that you don’t have to trade. So go for it if your mind says ‘yes’, but if your mind is hesitant there’s no reason you should put your hard earned capital at silly risks.
Originally posted 2009-11-07 07:36:42. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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Originally posted 2010-01-18 20:43:26. Republished by Old Post Promoter
daytradexpress@hotmail.com Andy talks about “visualization” as one way to help us comply with our trading rules and act on them without fear or emotion. The latter, in my view, is the no. one cause of many failures. If you need more information just send me an e-mail and I will respond to you as soon as practically possible.
Originally posted 2010-02-06 20:42:07. Republished by Old Post Promoter