Forex Methods That Work

Forex Methods That Work

Forex is known for taken eager traders, chewing them up and spitting them out. Hopefully, this article will save you from being another meal for the sharks that circle the deadly seas of Forex. Forex is a competition, it is a zero sum game, someone has to lose money for you to get paid, normally, it is the new traders who are the losers. The big winners are the global banks who run super computers and who have mathematicians from Ivy League schools on their staff. The average trader doesn't have any advantage in the competitive world of Forex.

Since we do not have an advantage in Forex, we should do everything not to give any more of an advantage to the professional traders. There are several ways that new traders spew money. The first way they spew money is by not having a money management strategy. All you trades should be of the same size and you should never try to make up losses by trading bigger, that is what losers do. Don't be a loser.

Losing trader also give more edge to the professionals when they trade to often. Over trading is a reason why many new and experienced traders lose money. Do not trade just for fun, Forex trading is not a game, and it shouldn't be used for entertainment. Treat Forex like a business and not a money making hobby.

Another way that new traders hand over their money to the professional is by not having a trading plan. You have to trade using a system or a plan that removes all in-trade decisions. You need a system which tells you when to open a trade and when to exit a trade. You should never have to make these decisions on the fly. Discretionary trading is a slave to fear, greed and other human frailties. The professionals use computers to make their trades so that they don't have to deal with emotions or human subjectivity. Computers don't feel fear and don't have greed, they just do what they are programmed to do.

New traders also foolishly try to scalp the markets and they try other short-term strategies that are low probability. It is my belief that they are attracted to these losing strategies for two main reasons, they want instant gratification and they want excitement. Successful trading is boring! Remember that! If you want fun go hangout with your friends.

As you can see, Forex trading should be treated like a business and not used for fun or entertainment. Successful trading is anticlimactic, it's boring and it becomes mundane. Entertainment traders are those who want to put half their account at risks and gamble, they always end up losing their shirt.

Do the opposite of what the losers do and try to imitate the winners and their no frills approach to trading Forex. Making your trading so rock solid, steady and boring that you know everything that is going to happen in every trade.

Forex Trading Price Action

Forex Trading Price Action

I have wasted a lot of time on things that do not work. I use to try different styles of trading charts and different type of indicators. My charts were stuffed with every tool that you could imagine. Did any of this chart oranament make me a better Forex trader? No! In someone way I believe that it actually held me back and slowed down my progress as a trader. The truth is that no one really needs all of those things on their chart to pick high probability trades. There is a much better way to found those trades.

A better way to find high probability set ups in Forex or any market is to learn how to read the price action. Price action is the story that creates what you see on the chart and it has to be viewed in real time. If you look back at an old chart, you will miss a lot of the story that the price fluctuations tell. When you simply spend months of time looking at how charts develop, you will be able to tell the ending of the story ahead of time. This is the beauty of understanding price action.

Price action will show you how the big banks and institutional traders develop intraday trades. You will be able to spot how they setup both novice traders and professional traders. There's nothing more magical when you start to be able to predict what is going on and what is going to happen because of the price action. I remember my first style spotting a fake out 10 minutes before it happened. I felt so accomplished and proud of myself. That was my first Yoda moment and far from my last. Give this a try and you will understand what I am talking about.

So is this magic and all I need to trade. Yes, you can develop your trading style all around price action but be warned that this is a form of discretionary trading. You will be making decisions off of subjection information and beliefs and if you lack the fundamentals of trading this can comeback to hurt you. The fundamental that you need to have are: Trading using a pre-planned system that you will not tinker with due to fear or greed. You have to have a money management strategy. If you understand these basics then trading Forex based on price action might be for you.

As you can see, the price is right! Price action tells the whole story of what has and will transpire in the Forex market. By observing price action, you will be able to accurately predict where the market is going, what the big money traders are trying to do and why a movement in price happened. Whereas technical indicators lag the market and are based off old data, watching price action focuses on the here and now, and on the only thing that matter when trading. What is that one thing, PRICE.