Most traders keeping a lookout for a new foreign exchange trading system such as Forex Profit Accelerator are looking for the ultimate prize. That is, the one perfect system that will earn cash, if not every single time, then at least 90% of the time. Reports in ads of systems that have an incredibly high success rate support the belief that such a perfect or near perfect forex trading system exists. Read the rest of this entry

You need money to live a secure life. You need money to provide education to your kids. And, you need money to have a meal. Read the rest of this entry

Forex trading is the biggest known monetary market. Daytime or nighttime, it doesn’t very matter; the trade goes on even as half of the world is sleeping. It presents a lot of opportunities for numerous organizations and people to make profit. Read the rest of this entry

I have read about GBPBOT and noticed that currency trading online is starting to become a very widely known way to earn money from home, but there also are many stories of people who get burned. So how safe is forex trading, and how can you shield your investment if you make a decision to get embroiled in this hot new online financial market?

The first thing to be definite about if you are thinking of taking up fx trading online, is that you can make cash but you may also lose it. Read the rest of this entry

Forex market is the largest financial market in the globe, where money is traded freely. In its current shape the Currency exchange market place was introduced in the 1970s, at time when free exchange values were introduced, and only the participants of the market place control the price of one currency against some other country proceeding from demand and supply. With respect to the the freedom from any outside control and free contest are concerned, the Currency exchange market place is the ideal marketplace. Read the rest of this entry

With the advent of the Web 2.0 technology, a thousand businesses literally boomed overnight. Some businesses became a lot more profitable on their own merits, while others like the Forex buying and selling arena became all the rage. It seems like each person who wants to earn a few extra dollars on the side, or those thinking up of establishing a home based business has stumbled upon Currency trading buying and selling as a viable means of livelihood. But the thing about Forex trading is that: things are not as simple as they seem. Sure, lots of marketers are saying that with the right on the web tools and software applications, you are able to make the money overflow in all directions. But we all know that that is not that easy at all.

Currency trading is a really liquid market, with a really volatile product. Unless you have some solid know-how about its internal workings, or that you’re willing to dedicate lots of time and energy to acquire that know-how, your efforts with this kind of business may not serve you well enough to earn you a sustainable income.

This is where managed Forex trading accounts come in. Managed Currency trading buying and selling accounts mean that you’re allowing another individual, preferably a certified Forex broker, to handle your monetary portfolio. This broker will trade and sell currencies on your behalf. Of course, the initial expense cash will come out of your pocket, and that you are basically hiring a expert on your payroll. The biggest advantage to that is that your broker will do all the financial buying and selling perform for you. In some cases, all you need is the initial investment and then every other successive monetary input would come from your profits in buying and selling.

Although managed Forex buying and selling practices may seem like the end-all solution to your financial woes, there are particular areas to consider. The primary one is hiring the proper broker for the job. There are numerous on the web based companies now that are offering the said services, but hiring an on the web broker to work for you has the same principle as hiring a non-online based broker. You require to find 1 that will advance your interests first. It is also important to hire one that you simply know you can work with, without really locking horns over investment procedures and trading.

Just one last note: hiring a expert broker doesn’t mean that you give over the monetary reins completely. It would be greatest if you still know certain information and buying and selling skills about the Forex market. Installing tools like Forex Funnel? and Forex Tracer? on your computer may assist you track down your buying and selling processes as well, giving you a more detailed look as to where your money is going, and how to better improve your financial portfolio.

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Make no mistake, trading is less about trading and more about eliminating trades. Trading is not an active hunt for a trade. Trading is a process of elimination. Other than our normal rules, which really should limit us to very few trades per week, we have a few things that automatically filter out potentially bad trades. Some of these are periods of illiquidity, major news releases, speeches by major players, and holidays. Periods of illiquidity include normal daily and weekly anomalies. The Sydney session and early Asian session are some of my least favorite times to enter a trade. There are exceptions to this rule. Many of my trading strategies are based on daily of weekly price action. I’ll enter those trades at anytime with no fear that normal illiquidity will take me out of a good trade. Summer months are another time that wreaks havoc on traders. From May through August, you can expect some pretty wild swings, but very little sustained movement. During summer, I prefer to put my daily and weekly trading systems on the shelf and move down to the intraday timeframes. During summer, I trade ranges on intraday during late Asian and London sessions. Major news releases are just nuts! Price moves up by 50-100 pips, back down 100-200 pips, then ends up right back where it started. Every once in awhile there is a real change in value. For the most part, however, news events just create a whipsaw. Great trading systems that are based on daily or weekly price action have a distinct advantage in this environment. The stop losses are usually placed outside the range of a news spike, however, price spikes in your favor can assist your trade by hitting your target days early. Speeches by major players pretty much just piss me off. These pole-smokers seldom have anything truly important to say, and when they do say something important it’s suspect at best. Once again, however, a trade based on the daily or weekly price action should survive almost anything these degenerates have to say. Holidays go without saying. When the big money is on vacation, the market is illiquid. In fact, from Thanksgiving on through New Year the market is pretty pathetic. There is money to be made, but it’s a great time to spend with family, or to learn more about your craft. Trading is a process of elimination. If you hunt for trades, you’ll find them. There are opportunities to enter the market every millisecond. Use as many filters as practical to conserve your equity and enter only the highest quality trades.

How much did your last FX trade cost you? Chances are that you lost more than just your broker’s spread. Be honest with yourself for a moment. Read the rest of this entry

Forex Money Management – No-Nonsense Style

By Tim Barnby

If a Forex trading system promised to (and you KNEW it would) consistently make you money, would you pay $1,500.00 for it?  How about signals?  If you knew that a signal provider would make you $2,000.00 per month, would you pay $1,500.00 per month for the service?  Of course you would.  You’re smart enough to add and subtract.  If you w0uldn’t pay $1,500.00 for signals that produce $2,000.00, please do us both a favor and switch from trading to something in the retail industry or something.  Perhaps a Wal-Mart greeter?

Would you pay $1,500,00 for a forex money management system?  Ummmm…probably not.  I’ve actually asked these questions in my trading room.  Clients almost always answer the questions the same way.  Of course they will pay top dollar for profitable systems and signals.  When it comes to money management and the mental-game of trading, they answer negatively.  There are reasons for this that I’ll get into later.  This is a money management article.

There are probably more than 100,000 different Forex systems available for purchase on the Internet.  Some of them are good and some of them are crap.  All of them will make pips when the market is in tune with their signals.  I say that they make pips because they don’t necessarily make profit.  Positive pips counts do not equal positive equity. Pips and profit do not have a strong positive correlation.  I have proven this dozens of times in the past and will prove it again here in a video.  I know, I know…you’re tired of seeing that you canm lose 300+ pips while gaining money.  If you’re tired of hearing it and still losing money, you might want to take a serious look into your goals.

People are superstitious.  We think we have a $10,000.00 account even after a 30% drawdown.  We always try to sling a big line, no matter what our current financial condition is.  Even worse is the poor guy who has to “get back” at GBPJPY for the 300 pip loss he took in the previous trading session.  A trader can’t get back at the market.  The market is bigger than all of us, and she’ll take what ever we offer her, whenever she wants.  The idea behind money management is to not offer her much (even less when we’re losing) and take more from her when she’s generous.  Proper money management will protect you from yourself.  Money management is no different from everything else in the trading profession.  It’s a series of steps that are taken every single time you trade.  When I wake up in the morning I put on my pants before I step out the door.  When I get in the car, I put the key in before I drive away.  When I open a trade, I follow my money management steps.  It’s that routine.  It’s so routine that it requires absolutely NO THOUGHT!  No deliberation, no self-negotiation.  There are no exceptions to trading rules.  I view trading rules much like I approached combat in the Army.  Exceptions get you killed!  Excuse yourself one time from following your rules and your blood will be sprayed all over the room.  Get it?  Do you see how important it is to follow these rules?  Just in case you didn’t get this earlier, I’ll say it again here:  There are no exceptions to money management rules. If you break your money management rules, I’m going to be spending ALL of your money instead of a little bit of it.  Remember that every trader in the market wants you to lose.  It is a market.  We’re traders, not investors.  We make a living speculating on psychology, supply and demand.  Even the best system has long periods of drawdown.

When a non-professional trader is on a winning streak, he tends to attribute it to his trading genius.  The next Jesse Livermore gets five winning trades and is now a guru…  This is the point where he makes a fatal mistake.  He places a trade…a big trade.  He takes his $13,000.00 and puts on 5 standard lots.  Why not?  He is a Rock Star trader now…a real veteran.  Price turns against him by 20 pips.  He can’t stand the thought of losing $1,000.00 in five short minutes, so he moves his stop loss.  He fools himself into thinking that he made the right trade.  The market is just acting wrong.  It’ll turn around for sure.  Another 20 pips should do it.  An hour later, price is almost to his new stop loss.  He’s now about to lose $2,000.00.  He can’t lose.  The market will turn around.  He moves the stop loss back by another 100 pips this time.  He goes to bed knowing his position is safe.  It’ll never move another 100 pips against him.  After all, the 15 Minute trend IS Bullish and the 5 Minute stochastic is already almost over-sold, and the MACD is clearly in an up-trend.  He can almost smell the leather in the new Porsche he’ll buy with the winnings from this massive trade.  He wakes up and rushes to his computer.  He sees that his trade is closed out…his new balance is $5,000.00.  He sees that he’s gotten a margin call.  All that he has left is the money that he had leveraged.  Don’t laugh.  I know the guy that this exact scenario happened to.  He’s since become an excellent trader.

If the same trader had used sound money management and risked 3%, he’d have hit that 20 pip stop loss and easily swallowed the $400 or so loss.  His mistake was what I call “trading beyond the sleeping level.”  If you find yourself worrying about a trade, you’re risking too much.  Let me make sure you understand that…if you cannot sleep, go to dinner with your spouse, go golfing, or spend 6-8 hours doing whatever without thinking about your open trades, you’re risking too freaking much money!  You MUST Trade down to the sleeping level.  Your success as a trader depends on this.  There will be future articles on the mental game of trading.  I just told you the secret of the mental game though.

Here are my money management rules.  I’ve modified them a bit from earlier versions so take a look even if you have already read my money management system:

1. When you begin trading, risk only 1% of your base capital.
2. Reduce your equity by the amount of the financial risk for any open trades.
3. After 3 consecutive winners, increase your risk to 2.5% of your base capital.
4. After 1 loss, reduce risk to 2% of base capital.
5. After two consecutive losses, reduce risk to 1.5% of base capital.
6. After four consecutive losses, reduce risk to .5% of your base capital.
7. After two consecutive wins, we reset back to 1% risk per capital and move back to step one.
8. Between 1 June and 1 September, and between 15 November and 15 January, I risk no more than 1%.

My method isn’t the ONLY way to manage your forex trading.  It’s certainly not the most profitable.  It works for me.  In fact, I use a different money management system on my income account than I do with my growth account.  This system has proven to build my equity consistently.  Even if you choose to trade a set percentage, which is absolutley valid, be consistent in your money management.  Trading this way will help you profit, relax, and sleep like a baby even with open positions.

By:  Tim Barnby

Have you ever had one of those trading weeks that started out great?  You know the week I mean.  You’re on fire.  You can’t place a bad trade.  Then something happens.  You start losing.  You can’t get an entry, your stop losses are hit to the pip, price never gets deep enough to take profit, etc.  This is a symptom of a bigger problem.  The problem is over-trading.

There’s an easy cure for over-trading.  It’s called goal setting.  When you start your trading session with a goal in mind, you know when to call your efforts successful.  Without this goal, you have no idea when to quit.  You keep going and going and eventually lose all of your gains, and probably some of your carry forward equity as well.

I create a trading plan at the beginning of the month.  The first step in creating that plan is a SMART goal.  I know you’ve all heard several definitions for the acronym SMART.  It doesn’t matter what else you’ve read.  For my purposes, it stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time Constrained.  A good example of a SMART goal on a trading plan is:  “20% equity growth every 30 days.”  This goal is specific and measurable (20%), it is attainable and realistic (I teach my clients how to do this with 50 pips or less per week), and it is time constrained (30 days).

Each week, I create a weekly trading plan.  Each weekly plan is completely independent of the preceding week unless a higher-timeframe goal is already reached.  If I meet my monthly goal of 20% equity gains in the first trade of the first week of the month, I’m done trading for the month.  There are no exceptions to this rule.  However, if I made only 2% the preceding week, I will not attempt to make that up in the following weeks.  I aim for 5% equity growth per week.  I stop trading when a trade closes and my account crosses that 5% threshold.  I have found that those short weeks are easily taken care of by trades that have tighter stop losses or run longer into profit.  There is no reason to try to catch up.  Catching up is an outcome of consistent plan execution.

Goal setting accomplishes several things for you:  First, it gives you a break from looking at charts.  Second, it tells you when you are successful.  Last, it gives you a complete reset at the beginning of every week.  This is a big help in the mental-game of trading.  When I started trading this way, I stopped carrying those terrible weeks with me into the following week.  This week, my personal trading was finished by about 01:00 CDT on Monday morning on a short EURUSD trade that ran for a 40 pip profit and netted me a 7.2% equity increase.  That brokerage account will not be opened again until Sunday and I can concentrate on other things.

If you are not as profitable as you should be, the chances are good that your goal setting needs some work.

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