Posts Tagged ‘Spot’

Spot Forex Trading – Effective Use of Price Alarms

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The spot forex is a support and resistance market. Whatever forex tools and forex indicators you are using to trade the spot forex market, the experience can be greatly enhanced by understanding near term forex support and resistance along with longer term forex support and resistance numbers for the currency pairs of interest.

Every spot forex trader and the major forex trading institutions are watching critical areas of support and resistance on the various currency pairs. If any major currency pair breaks through a critical support or resistance number it makes news everywhere on the forex newswires and

Forex Trading Signals – How to Spot the Trend Easily in Currency Trading

Monday, January 4th, 2010

You may have heard of this frequently in some forex trading tutorials, ‘Trend is your best friend’. So there is really nothing to be afraid of trends in forex trading. In fact, one should leverage the power of the trend to make money in currency trading.

Although many people is aware that they have to trade with the trend, but surprisingly for some reason, a lot of people may have problem of spotting a real trend. It may be true that different people has different views on whether the currency pair is trendy or not. But the bottom line is, if you can’t spot a trend in forex trading, there is nothing else much simpler that you can do.

The first step that anyone attempts to trade the forex will be identifying the trend, wait for a good entry point into the existing trend and then hope to ride the trend as long as possible. So they will try to figure out whether its a down trend or up trend by looking at their arsenal of forex indicators. Are you doing the same too? If you are, that is the mistake that most people make! You should train your eyes to judge instead of using those moving averages to be able to know where the trend is.

So how do you do it? It’s not as difficult as you think it is…yes, it’s simple! What you have to do is to pull out a chart of the currency pair that you would like to trade. First look at the chart and try not to look for very long, the first impression will always be the more accurate one. If price is going upwards from the bottom and if the past 3 to 5 candlesticks are bullish, then it’s obviously an up trend. Vice versa for a down trend.

If you are a short term trader, you should look at longer time frame charts to have an idea on what the main trend is before looking for forex trading signals in shorter time frame. For example, if you are trading using the 1 hourly time frame, you should also be looking at the 4 hour and daily charts to see what is the trend of the longer term. This will definitely filter off some whipsaws. Another example, if you are scalping the 5 minutes chart, what should you do? Yes, you will be looking at the 15 minutes and 1 hourly chart to read the trend.

Knowing where the trend is going always put you in the driving seat. So start training your eyes from now on to look at whether the charts are trendy or not. You can be sure that you will consistently make profits when you follow the trend with a forex trading system.

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Am I More Likely To Win At Spot Forex Trading Or Stock Cfd Trading? (please Help)?

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

I am 18 years old and I have 2 practice accounts; one with cityindex CFDs and the other with easy-forex spot forex trading. What I would like to know is, which of them am I better to trade out of forex or stock trading and which has a higher probability of me winning and creating a home based business out of that could make me a millionaire?
Also, I was trading with my CFD practice account with cityindex, and they give you £2,500 virtual money. I was down £300 or so to £2,200 on one stock with careless trading, but traded another one and was right about the market direction and made my £2,200 account into £2,986.15 in 1-2 days. With the other account; easy-forex, I have been quite careless and up until now I am learning how to use it. Please give a good answer to help solve this problem. Thanks.

Forex Trading Books – How to Spot a Good One

Monday, December 21st, 2009

There are lots of Forex trading books that you can read in order to grasp the essentials of the Forex market. However, like other educational resources, there are good Forex books but there are also rubbish ones.

That is why it is very important to verify the expertise of the author and read reviews of books that you want to buy. Through diligent background research, you will know if you are buying a good book or not.

One of the first things that you have to do when choosing a good Forex book is to check the background of the author. You can do a simple Google search for the name of the author and see if his or her credentials are good.

Some Forex trading books are written by some Internet marketing dude who just wants to make a quick buck from you. So you really have to make sure that the author is reputable and has the right academic and industry credentials so you can get real value from Forex books.

You must also choose a Forex book that does not hype the currency market. Usually, a hyped book can be easily spotted if its sales page will promise instant success for you. Remember, books are knowledge resources and they should not be hyped like ordinary products.

What you need are Forex trading books that present facts and analysis in a very straightforward manner. Straightforward books on Forex will present real situations and trading lessons so you can learn from the experience of the author.

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What Factors Influence The Spot And Forward Exchange Rates In The Forex Market?

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Basically an understanding of what goes behind the decisions of selecting to go for a spot rate of exchange or a forward rate of exchange.