Forex Trading
Foreign Exchange, or FX, or Forex, is one of the most lucrative and appealing markets worldwide. The turnover is over $ 2.3 trillion a day.
The trading methods used by brokers can be different.
The methods to become a successful forex trader depends how you apply those methods to the Forex market. Your personal trading approach is probably not the right one. It depends on the plan you have. If you don’t have a solid, consistent plan, it is easy to fail, because distraction can be around the corner. Your solid business trading plan, gives you the foundation to become a succesful trader and protect you from failure, fear, anxiety, greed and unforeseen surprises.
If your Forex Trading Strategy is well-planned and structured, you will save yourself and trading business from burn-out and all kind of displeasures.
So in order to be successful in Forex Trading, be consistent, f ollowing
a set of rules, a systematic methodology. Your strategy in forex trading must be cohesive and include:
- Timeframe
- The right moment to trade, when to entry
- The right moment to leave, when to exit
- The terms of risk, or how to control risk
- Amount of money to trade with, or money management
So, if you want to be succesful in forex trading you have to consider to make a consistent planning, based on a set of rules, following these rules without deviation. You must stick to the plan, and in the meantime, busy exploring the various interesting topics of this huge Forex Market.
As I said, distraction can be around the corner, and because there are many interesting topics, just study them, and implement what you think is needed.
Lets mention some of them:
- How to trade Forex nowadays, with a recession, or credit crisis?
- How to trade, while keeping the ‘Wave Principle’ in mind
- How to trade with the major currency pairs and
- Why not to be a ‘greedy’ trader
- How to understand the relationship between the
- bull market and EUR/USD currency pair
- How to understand the commodity future markets
- How to trade, in general, with strengths and weaknesses.
- How to compare different economies and markets
- How to use all kind of different trading strategy information and
- How to imply all this information into your own
- forex trading strategies
- What are Bollinger Bands, and how tu use in Forex Trading
- How to analyze profit opportunities in the Forex Markets
- RSI, how does it works
- How to apply Candlestick analysis
- Why, better to accept loss than going on……..
- How to achieve consistent returns
Of course, this list is far from complete, I only want to contribute to your allready existent knowledge on Forex trading, to you, my highly valued reader, and give you assistance on the track and provide you with a broad range of material. Because, the information on Forex is huge, I can say that even an succesful Forextrader, will still be a student in this Forex Market. And keep in mind that ‘being a student’, is the right attitude.
Learning parts of all different methods, and being skilled in some parts of the markets, assumes also lacking knowledge in other parts. Even a professor, is lacking knowledge, that is inevitable, to my knowledge.
Technical analysis of RSI, studying Forex methods.
A forex trading professional must have a certain understanding of the Relative Strength Index [RSI].
Sometimes, you will be surprized, if you study new methods on Forex, coming accross something which opens you up to new dimensions. Always look for new tools, as a supplement for your trading arsenal.
Such a tool, is the Relative Strength Index or RSI.
The Relative Strength Index[RSI], calculates, while using 14 periods, measuring the strength of the current price against the prices over the last 14 periods of time. Of course, this is a great thing, because the indicator shows upward movements as well as downward movements in strenght and price.
The indicator [RSI] can be used to all trading. The positive and negative divergences provided by the indicator are the strongest signals.
When a positive divergence occurs, the indicator makes higher lows while the prices from the security’s is making lower lows, telling us, that the movement downward is losing its strenght.
So the price will reverse and will head higher. But, when a negative divergence occurs, the indicator fails in making new highs while the price does, exactly telling us, that the upward trend is a weakening trend.
So to speak, the price will fall and will enter a downtrend.
The divergence signals are powerful but do not forecast the exact time for the reversals to happen but give us a strong signal, that it will happen, soon.
Also when we speak of a market’s overbought or an oversold status, the RSI proves to be a good indicator. For Instance if the indicator shows a rise above 70, then we consider the security to be ‘overbought’, and we will be ready for a reversal or a pullback. But that doesn’t mean, that at this point, you will
instantly sell a long position. When there appears to be a drop down below 70, shown by the RSI, while first moving above, then, this signal indicates to exit the long position, or going after a short in the ‘bear’.
Let’s say, when the indicator drops below 40, even further, below 30, this signal shows that the market is pretty oversold and will reverse, likely very soon, to the upside. But still, if the indicator goes back above 30, wait buying. And, if going short, buy only to close the position. Be sure when buying a long position that the market trend is ‘bullish’.
