Showing posts with label forex market secret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forex market secret. Show all posts

Monday, 24 December 2012

Top 10 Trading Tips for Beginner Traders.

1.Tread Softly into Unknown Territory!

Don’t make the mistake of most beginners. For example, they hear some rumors and invest all they have in the hopes of profiting quickly and effortlessly. As a beginning trader start small. Humbly learn all you can about a few instruments before you dive in.

2.Hold on to your Capital!

Quick profits are out there for the taking, but real success at trading comes with time and experience.  Remember: staying cool in this line of work is achieved by discipline and knowledge, by entering and exiting the market confidently.

3.Respect Your Stop Loss!

Do you know what the number one reason is that causes traders to quit trading? They incur heavy losses because they don’t incorporate Stop Loss into their strategies. It’s that simple. If you are not familiar with Stop Loss, make sure you understand it thoroughly before it’s too late.

4.Create a System of Trading

Just like each person has their own fingerprint, so each trader has their own style. You must nurture and develop your own style by reading widely and studying carefully. Study success and you may achieve it!

5.Watch your Profits Grow!

Among  the most important things to remember as a beginning trader is to not to close your winning trades too early.  Avoid making decisions based on fear and impatience.

6.Know when to Adjust!

When your trades prove profitable, watch them closely. If need be, more your stop loss forward to your entry point to guarantee profit. Then, watch the trend and adjust your stop loss. And most importantly, watch the trend to prevent your investment from slipping into a loss.


7.Plan Forward

Trading takes finesse and planning. If the price of a stock or currency suddenly rises or falls, don’t take that as an indication that it’s a good time to enter. Knowing your entry point well in advance takes study and planning.  You must know your Take Profit and Stop Loss rates before you trade, so then you only have to wait for the right opportunity to come up.

8.Trend Basics

One more thing that new traders should be aware about is that as a new trend starts to grow, it gains momentum. So, imagine that what you see as a great opportunity, so do thousands of others thereby strengthening the trend. This could push your trade into the right direction, increasing your profits sooner than you might forecast.

9.Taking a Loss? Get out!

Remember the old saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”? So it goes with trading. If one of your trades is taking a loss, pull out! You can always reassess it from the sidelines.

Friday, 9 November 2012

GBP/USD Currency pair

In this article we consider the peculiarities of GBP/USD currency pair. GBP/USD is an abbreviation of British pound and US dollar currency pair. The currency pair quote indicates how much money it is necessary to pay in order to buy 1 British pound.
It is very popular trading instrument in Europe and, especially, in Great Britain. It stands third on the list of the most traded currency pairs worldwide, daily trading turnover reaches 12% of the total Forex market turnover. This currency pair is really unpredictable and has strong volatility. Its fluctuations are short-term and unstable. Due to such behavior in the market it was called Cable.
Daily fluctuations of the currency pair reach 130 points on average. Low liquidity of this pair is observed only in the Asian region (average movement is about 30 points). That is why novice traders are not recommended to start with this pair.
Many traders prefer EUR/USD to the Cable. As a rule, British pound moves in the same direction as EUR/USD, but not always.
Pound-dollar movement can be absolutely different from the same euro-dollar in the period when certain “cable” news is released. For example, the British Government changes interest rate through the Central bank. Pound movements are similar to the movements of euro and Swiss franc. One should always be careful trading with pound because nobody knows what surprise it will bring this time. Pound often moves against the news; even when everything seems favorable for the currency, its rate can fall down. Many traders choose this pair for swap trading because of a substantial difference in interest rates of pound and dollar.

Market Makers


The participants of Forex currency market are divided into two groups by their activity and influence on currency rates: market makers and market users.

Market makers are large banks and financial organizations which determine the current level of a currency rate, owing to a significant share of their operations in a total volume of the world market. Market makers exercise a constant control of different trading instruments, and they also conduct trades with them. Market makers are market members providing liquidity of particular instruments, making buy or sell orders. These are big international banks and financial institutions, which run daily currency operations of buying or selling trading instruments for more than billions of US dollars. Every market has its own market makers. Similarly, every Forex broker has its personal market makers, the quoting rates of which are exploited by it and offered to its clients further on. Among the greatest market makers such as Deutsche Bank, Mizuho Bank, Barclays Bank, PBS, Citi Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland can be named. In order to define whether the organization is a market maker it is important to consider not only the size of a bank, but also its share in market operations and its capability to influence the market by setting a price policy.

As mentioned before, for a particular market there can be own market maker. Worth pointing out that for the USD/CHF trading instrument the main market makers are Credit Suisse Bank and Union Bank of Switzerland. For trading instruments comprising the Asian currencies the major market maker is the Standard Chartered Bank. As to the rouble instruments, here the top market makers are the International Moscow Bank and the Onexim Bank. The Central Bank of Russia can also play this role being one of the most active participants in setting up the quote rates of currencies vs. the rouble, making different currency interventions, if the rouble rate exceeds the regulated currency rate limits.

Market makers determine the current currency exchange rate by conducting trades with each other as well as with smaller banks, which are also market participants. That is the market makers who introduce quote rates to small banks, organizations and individuals. Thus, another notion emerges characterizing these participants - market users.

Market users are financial organizations, broker companies, small banks and individuals, who use the quoting rate set by market makers for their operations. Market users are not aggressive market players, though a total volume of their operations in the market can be significant, but the share of each one is minor. The role of small market users consists in either acceptance or not of the rates provided by market makers. Consequently, market makers make price and market users take it.

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