Monday, January 5, 2009

Tips For Trading in the Foreign Exchange

I'm going to share with you some of my tips for trading in the foreign exchange. This is a great home business opportunity for people. Never before have ordinary people been allowed to trade in this huge market from the comfort of their own home.

What are demos and how do they help me?

When you get a broker or software, you will have access to what is called a demo platform. It's just a way to run a simulation of real trades without having to risk any of your money. It plays a few vital roles for new people to become better traders. First, it allows you to learn how to do the process of trading. You get to learn all the buttons and figuring things out. If you're not sure what a button does, you can push it without having to worry about losing money. The second thing is that it helps you develop those tasks you do before trades. You can develop a routine of analysis before you ever start risking your money. Finally, you can test out your own strategies to see how good you are at this game.

How many currencies should I learn at a time?

I recommend learning only one at a time. You'll notice, over time, that each currency has unique characteristics and behavior. Trying to learn too many currencies at once will confuse you and I think it will be detrimental to you over the long term. Learn one at a time and learn the little things that make the currency unique.

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Day Trading - Three Questions to Ask Before You Begin

The one rule that anyone who has even thought about day trading has heard a thousand times is that the market is never wrong, this advice is generally followed by some generic sayings such as the trend is your friend, don't fight the market, and develop your own strategy.

While all of these pieces of advice are relatively useful, it seems many new day traders under emphasize the last point (develop your own strategy) and fail to find a method of trading that matches their personality. In my experience it is the lack of a defined strategy that is the reason that so many fail to find success in the markets. So here are a few basic questions to help beginning traders filter down their options and try to find the strategy that best fits their personality.

Within day trading what is your time period? Seconds? Minutes? The whole day?

When making this decision it is important to ask yourself how you perform best; are you willing to continue holding a position if it begins to move against you or would you rather participate in short bursts and exit at the first sign of reversal? Are you up to the task of making countless instantaneous decisions and synthesizing multiple streams of data? Or would you be better at highlighting particular stocks the night before and then waiting to see if they meet your entry criteria the next day?

How much are you willing to risk and what are you paying in commissions?

Although it is important to find the day trading time frame that is right for you, the fees you pay and your level of capitalization can limit which strategies you can employ as a trader. For example, if you are stuck paying a 5 dollar commission and are only risking 1000 on any given trade that means you will need a 1% return per trade just to break even (10/1000= 1%, 5$ for entry 5$ for exit). Day trading is hard enough but going up against that kind of built in disadvantage makes it near impossible.

What markets and securities are you going to trade?

What markets you decide to trade have a tremendous effect on what type of analysis you will be doing as a day trader. For example the trader who chooses to follow a breadth of large cap securities will be forced to keep up with the news for the entire market whereas a trader who only focuses on securities in a given sector will spend much more time monitoring the catalysts for his or her basket of stocks. However day trading need not be limited only to stocks, with the wide variety of commodity etfs and currency trading brokerages now more than ever investors can focus on asset classes that were not accessible even 5 years ago.

Regardless of what path you choose it is of the utmost importance that your trading style match your personality, because if it doesn't odds are you won't be a trader for long.

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