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Forex Big Money Strategies

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Forex Trading

Making money on a regular basis in the forex market can be a very difficult task to become good at. Making big money in FX market is the result of a combination of dedication, passion, and rigid self-discipline. Many aspiring forex traders fail to recognize how important the psychological aspect of trading and that it is actually much more important than any other factor. It is important to understand that only after you fully accept the fact that you cannot control the forex market will you begin to make money. After you fully believe this fact and find a simple yet highly effective trading method and combine it with strict money management and self discipline, then and only then will you be on track to big money in forex.

The importance of utilizing a highly effective yet simple to understand method to analyze the forex market cannot be overstated. Many traders start off on the wrong path by thinking they must use an extremely complicated method to trade the forex market with. All that is required is a trading strategy that is not overly confusing or so technical that you don’t understand how it works. Analyzing the market based off price action setups is the most simple and effective way to trade. When you base your trading plan on price action setups you are making use of the core data of the forex market, this data is self-generated by the market and it inherently is a better predictor of future direction than any lagging indicator will be. Any aspiring forex trader looking for a profitable method that will provide them with the proper tools to eventually make big money in forex needs to check out price action analysis. It is critical that you learn how to analyze raw price movement in the dynamic forex market instead of purchasing some black box sytem or subscribing to a monthly signal service that teaches you absolutely nothing.

After finding a great price action analysis trading course, you then need to move on to the most important aspect of forex trading which is focusing on self-discipline and money management. If you are not disciplined to carry out your pre-defined trading plan than you will naturally end up trading off of emotional impulses that harbor very little, if any, objective logic. One of the great things about using price action setups to trade forex is that they assist you in maintaining an objective mindset. They do not confuse you or cause you to over analyze a thousand different indicators. That being said, you still need to make sure you maintain discipline and trade only what you see, not what you think. If you concentrate on only taking price action setups that are obvious and well defined than you will naturally increase your trading discipline and as a result you will be that much closer to making big money in forex.

Forex trading success is not easy to achieve, if it was than everyone would be wealthy. The truth is that the great majority of people who attempt to make money from trading fail very badly. This is because trading one’s own money elicits emotional responses from people, and if a person does not keep their emotional responses in check then they will end up experiencing greed and fear which will absolutely cause them to blow out their trading account. The key to making big money in forex is using a method that is simple yet effective like price action analysis, maintaining strict discipline and money management, and believing in yourself.

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How to Trade Forex using Price Action

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Price Action Tutorial

I am ure there is plenty of currency forex traders out there could use some help with their forex trading and overall trading plan.Dealing with over 100 Students every month, I have come the conclusion that just about every aspiring novice trader attempts to make currency trading more difficult than it has to be, they are basically “chasing their tails into eventual trading failure”.generally, the simple stuff is often overlooked, for example : do you remember the text book material you once read on basic forex analysis techniques ? How much of that do you actually remember and use in your trading? How much study and testing did you actualy put into it? I rest my case, that simple trading methods are widely overlooked in forex trading.

To Start with, you should always know where the primary shor term trend is, and at first glance, whilst that may sound rather obvious, as I said, it’s quite amazing how many traders don’t even look at the larger picture trends on the currency charts.

If you are one of those kind of traders who aren’t sure of how to trade with the trend, I’ll give you a little hint: It’s a lot easier to spot when you don’t use indicators, honestly, Indicators are USELESS! for pro traders, there’s a basic and simple way to find the short term direcitonal forex trend and work within that trend it to make high probability trades, but you wont ever have clarity using the modern day standard indicators, they are not really going to give you any clearly defined market edge over any other typical price chart observations using generic price action.

Just think of magial indicators as a kind of shortcut to the market, and we all know that shortcuts are not the way to learn trading! If you want a deep understanding of what it takes to move the market and trade with a high probability trading plan, you are going to have to dig a little deeper than all those lagging indicators and fancy trading systems, you should know that none of that is what really works in trading, there is no easy road here.

You want to be able to look at a chart the same way that most trading purists would, the same way as the hedge fund manager would.  So what is the answer? … well to put it in one sentence, ‘you need ia basic bar chart or candlestick chart’

I know you may be a bit apprehensive, but if you look at it with an open mind, I think you’ll be amazed at what you see. The forex market has a natural energy. It has a natural ebb and flow that gives you strong support and resistance areas, not only that but you will soon start to see obvious reversal signals, and candlestick formations, things that are occuring over and over again with precision.

You should be aware of the fact most forex traders who have used modern day technical analysis relied solely on price action trading alone, they certainly did not use indicators like Stochastics, MACD, RSI, etc. To start having any chance of success in forex trading, you must learn to trade using price action, and of course look to surroun yourself with like minded traders and mentors who teach the price action strategies which work.

All the best and good trading.

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