Showing posts with label forex trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forex trade. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 December 2012

3 Power Strategies in Forex Trading

3 Rules to Make serious earnings

If you want to catch the serious profit in forex dealing you need to trend watch forex trends which are worse term. here we are going to give you a 3 step simple method which if you use it correctly, will help you catch every superior forex trend and lead you to long-term term currency dealing success.

Most beginner traders don't bother trying to trend following forex lengthier term - instead they try forex scalping or day trading. These methods focus the trader on small moves and they hope to catch small profit however as most short term moves are random, this leads to equity eliminate.

The other alternatives are swing trading and long term forex trend following and this article is all about the latter method. If you look at any forex chart, you will see long-term term trends that last for months or years. These moves can and do yield serious profit - present we will outline a simple method to get them.

Breakouts

By far the best way of catching the serious moves is to use a forex dealing strategy based around breakouts. A breakout is simply a move on a forex chart where a new high or low is made and resistance or support is broken.

It's a fact that most leading moves start from new highs or lows.

While it might appear that you are not buying or selling at the greatest level, you are in terms of the odds of the trend continuing. Most forex traders make the mistake of waiting for the breakout to come back and get in at a better price but these traders never get on board. The grounds for this is if a breakout occurs, then you have a new strong trend and a pullback is not very likely to occur.

Most traders don't buy or sell breakouts and that's exactly why it's such a powerful method.

The only point to keep in mind is a support or resistance which is ruined, should be valid and that means at least 3 points in at least 2 different times frames. The more tests and the greater the spacing between the tests the more valid the level is.

Confirmation

Of course not every breakout keeps and some reverse, these are false and can cause losses. You therefore need to confirm each move. All you need to do to achieve this is to put a few momentum indicators in your forex trading system to confirm your dealing signal.

These indicators give you an estimation of the strength and velocity of price and there are many to choose from. We don't have time to discuss them here (simply look up our other articles) but two of the greatest are - the stochastic and Relative Strength Index RSI

Stops and Targets

Stop points are easy with breakouts - Simply behind the breakout point.

If you have a serious trend then you need to be careful you can milk it, so don't move your stop to soon and keep it outside of normal volatility. If it is a huge move, trailing stops should be held a long-term way back and the 40 day moving average is a good level to use.

You have to keep in mind that when the trend does eventually turn you are going to give some profit back. You don't know when the trend is going to end, so don't predict.

It's ok to give a serious back, as that's the nature of trading forex. Keep in mind if you got 50% of all leading trend you would be very rich. When you are long-term term trend following you have accept giving a bit back and taking dips in open equity as the trend develops - this is noise and does not affect the long term trend.

The above is a simple way to trend watch forex and catch the high odds moves that yield the serious profit. If you are learning forex dealing and want a simple method that is robust and will help you get every major move, then you should base your dealing on the above method.

Source : Forex Article Collection

Monday, 26 November 2012

What Is Hedging

Hedging denotes safety and security. Hedging is protection of client's funds from unfavorable currency rate fluctuations. Account funds are fixed at their current price through conducting trades on Forex. Thus, hedging helps to ease exposure to currency rate change risks, which helps to achieve result not influenced by fluctuations.

In fact, hedging presupposes using one instrument in order to lower the risk related to unfavorable market factors impact on the price of another one directly associated with it. More often, the notion ‘hedging’ means insurance from the currency price fluctuations, assets etc. Hedging can also be considered as a type of investment allowing to minimize the price movements risk in the market. The hedging cost should be valued with regard to possible losses in the event of refusal from it.

Hedging types on Forex

The first type is hedging the buyer’s money to lower the risk of possible increase of an instrument price. Another type is hedging the seller’s money in order to lower a price drop risk.

Hedging example

A trader, who imports foreign currency, opens buy trade with a currency on his trading account in advance, and when the real time of currency purchase comes in his bank, he closes the position. And a trader, who exports foreign currency, opens a sell trade with a currency on his trading account beforehand, and at a real moment of this currency purchase in his bank, he closes it.

There is a so-called hedging mechanism, which implies obligations balancing in the currency market (or securities market etc.) and the opposite futures market. To hedge capital losses from a particular instrument, the position is opened with another instrument, which can compensate financial losses.


Saturday, 24 November 2012

What is Stop Loss

Stop loss is a widely used order aiming mainly at limiting the possible losses in case of negative market movements.
Stop loss is used only with open positions. When the market conditions are not favorable for a trader and the price has reached the level of Stop loss, the deal is closed automatically. Therefore, Stop loss helps the trader to control losses and in case of failures to keep safe at least the part of the deposit.
If a trader does not use Stop loss orders, the position is closed by the broker when the sum of losses is equal to the sum of the deposit.
There are 3 types of Stop loss orders: fixed Stop loss, sliding Stop loss and combined Stop loss.
Fixed Stop losses are set while opening positions. They cannot be replaced until the deal is closed. Sliding stop losses, on the contrary, can be replaced any time depending on the price movement. Another name for sliding Stop loss is Trailing stop that can be replaced either manually or automatically considering the traders settings.
Presently there are lots of discussions on whether it is necessary to use Stop losses or not. Some traders believe that Stop loss should be compulsory for trading, emphasizing the ability of Stop losses to prevent the loss of the whole deposit. If the price is rapidly moving in direction, which does not correspond to the forecast, the deal that has not been closed in due time can result in significant losses. The opponents of Stop loss believe that this order can limit not only losses, but profits as well. As the price movement is often unpredictable and unexpected, it can develop according to the trader’s expectations though with some periodic bounces crossing the Stop loss line. In this case the position is closed with losses though it was a possible to close it with profit.
As a rule, the decision on whether to use Stop loss or not depends on the individual strategy of a particular trader. Therefore, there is no single opinion on the necessity of using the limiting the losses.

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Trade Arrangment - Every Trader Must Know

Any trader either a newbie or a professional should develop the most convenient and profitable trading system for himself. Trading strategy is one of the basic elements of the trading system. Undoubtedly, there are many trading strategies on the international currency exchange Forex market, but it does not mean that each of them can be applied by all traders. Before developing a trading system the trader should define which strategy will be the most appropriate. It should save trader’s time searching for the most applicable trading system. In order to decide on the trading strategy you have to take into account two factors:

- personality and internal constitution;
- financial capacities.

Most traders make a great mistake by following an unnatural trading strategy for them. The problem is that the major part of traders, regardless of their trade experience, does not think about that. The second reason is lack of financial resources in order to choose the most relevant trading strategy. Consequently, a trader does not have any other way except for choosing a strategy which meets the requirements of small capital, not taking account of the first component.

We consider all trading strategies as follows:

Intraday trade


Adherents of this type of trade are mostly beginners, it is connected with currency market dynamics which attracts novices. Intraday trade has the following peculiarities:

• Positions can be opened during one trading day and by the end of the day they should be closed or, in case of urgency, carried over the next trading day with setting protecting orders;
• All trades are short-term and meant for taking just a part of profit;
• Within a day the number of trades can be more than one;
• Intraday trading does not require huge financial investments;
• The work time interval is minute charts.


Intraweek trade


As a rule, traders, disappointed in intraday trade, try this strategy. Intraweek trade has no such furious market movement as in intraday trade. It may seem that market is motionless. But it is just at first sight. Intraweek trade has some peculiarities as follows:

• A trade can remain opened for ten days;
• All trades are counted on taking the most part of profit on market movement;
• As a rule, not more than 2 positions are opened during a week;
• Requirements for invested funds are much higher than for intraday trading;
• The work time time is multi-hour charts.

Positional trade in the direction of positive swaps

As a rule, positional trade is used only by patient traders. Positional trade is distinguished from the previous two by a pressure put on trader, and moreover, a trader has more free time. Positional trade has the following characteristics:

• The work time interval is daily and weekly charts;
• A trade can remain open during months;
• Requirements for invested capital are the highest, compared to the intraday and intraweek trades;
• An option of being outside the market during correction periods is available.

Probably, every trader can find additional definitions of the strategies, but the basis is one of these strategies to become ideal for you. In order every trader to be able to choose the most appropriate strategy for him/her, let us consider which strategies are applicable to different characteristics of a trader. However, strategy choosing is a responsibility of traders.

First, let us look through advantages and disadvantages of the intraday trade:

Advantages:


• Huge capital is not necessary;
• Trader may stop trading any time;
• Minimal risk;

Disadvantages:

• High emotional pressure;
• It is required much time for refreshment;
• Lack of time during a trading session.

This strategy is suitable for traders with a great endurance and virile character, quick reaction and strong nerves.


Intraweek strategy:


Pros:

• Insignificant pressure;
• High profitability;
• Less time is required for refreshment;
• There is free time during a trading session.

Cons:


• Significant volume of funds is required;
• Trader can be outside the market during the trend correction;
• Impossibility to stop trading at any moment;
• Necessity to hold opened position for 24 hours.

This strategy suits traders who combine such qualities as working capacity, deliberation and thoughtfulness, because first time trader will need to monitor positions 24 hours a day, analyzing all market changes. It is really timely at the moment of market trend formation. Meanwhile, usage of multi-hours charts will be uncomfortable for you due to signals which are shaped on the night bars.

Positional trade:

Pros:

• A lot of free time;
• No emotional pressure;
• No necessity in refreshment.

Cons:


• Periods of absolute inactivity;
• Impossibility to stop trade at any moment;
• Limited number of currency pairs for trading;
• Necessity in huge capital for trade.

This strategy suitrs traders who have a great patience, purposefulness and big funds.

In case you have achieved absolute coincidence of a trading strategy, your character and financial capacities, it would be a perfect variant for you.

Trader Insight