Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Forex Trading Tutorial - Your Guide to Forex Trade

Forex market or foreign exchange market is a market which operates 24 hours a day and involves trading in different currencies of the world. Booking profits and making money by trading in forex is no longer restricted to experts - ordinary people like you and me can make profits by using readily available forex trading tutorials, some of which are available online.

The players in this trading system are major financial institutions, central banks, retail currency traders, speculators, large international companies, government institutions, companies with overseas operations etc. The trading instructions are exchanged via global network system over telephone or computers. Investment made by traders is largely governed by movement of major currencies.

Majority of forex trading tutorial with the purpose of educating the users on how to forex trade emphasize and begin with the basics of forex which are:

Each world currency is denoted by a uniform three letter code which is used in forex quotes by all involved. Normally instruments which are traded by forex traders/ investors are currency pairs. A currency pair is the exchange rate of one currency over another. The most traded currency pairs are EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, AUD/USD.

Trade can happen only when you compare one currency with another. To quote an example - you cannot trade by buying and selling USD alone. You need to compare the USD rate to any other world currency rate if you desire to undertake a forex transaction. In the above example say you may wish to sell USD and purchase EUR against it. Forex trade will happen when you accept the price offered for this transaction by your dealer. To continue with our example upon receipt of your concurrence to the price quote, the dealer will actually buy and sell as per your instruction and confirm the price for this trade transaction involving sale of USD and purchase of EUR.

Forex trading tutorial give detailed explanation of some of the technical terminologies also. For example technical terminology for first currency of a currency pair is base currency which is USD in the referred example. The second currency is referred to as the counter or quote currency. Each currency pair is expressed in units of the counter currency needed to get one unit of the base currency.

Forex trading tutorial are indeed of great help in getting us started. However a word of caution here. While trading in currencies take care to ensure that you trade only when you expect the currency you are buying to increase in value relative to the currency you are selling. If the currency you are buying does increase in value, you must sell back the other currency in order to lock in a profit.

So what is stopping you from making use of proven system software and help readily available to start playing the game. If interested in knowing more about one such user friendly tool visit http://www.know-to.info/forex/fx2.html

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Forex Trading-Making Money With Woodie's CCI

Ken Wood is a unique man. He's a successful trader as I'm sure you know. He runs a website (I don't remember the address, just Google his name). It's a huge community of traders all trading his style--Woodie's CCI. Even better it's all free.

Well, I will admit that I tried to trade Woodie's CCI method. I couldn't make it work for me. However, I think that was mostly because I disagreed with him about some fundamental issues, not because his method didn't work.

For example, did you know that Ken recommends that you don't look at price at all? To quote him, "You don't need no stinkin' price!" Furthermore Ken maintains that the CCI is a leading indicator. (No such thing exists, but that's another story.)

So I just couldn't swallow all that. However, it obviously works. Thousands of traders converge on his website to trade together all day and night.

Now, if you can't look at price, just how does Woodie make his profits? He actually has about six patterns (his favorite is the ghost), that you need to learn to see in the CCI itself. No, I'm not kidding!

I believe he sort of invented a new form of technical analysis. That is finding patterns on indicator. The only problem is it's not a leading indicator. If there was such a thing as a leading indicator, that would be equivalent to saying that some mathematical formula knows the future. Really?

Obviously that isn't true. So no leading indicators exist.

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Nathan Pennington is a forex trader and the author of Winning Forex Trading -THE Definitive Guide

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