My Experience With Forex Trading Made EZ

By Micheal Bates

When I first started trading and investing in the currency markets, I had a bit of beginner's luck. This initial success caused me to think I understood more than I actually did, so I continued to try to make money on my own.

I would soon find out that this was not the most intelligent approach. I began researching Forex training courses online. The first one that caught my eye was Forex Trading Made E Z. Immediately I was drawn to the kind of potential that could be made.

This wonderful program turned my fortunes right around and was the catalyst for my new career as a professional Forex trader and investor. I can't say enough good things about Forex, and I know I am only one of thousands who feel that way.

This program is optimal for use by the new, beginning trader. It makes trading easy to understand and use. If you can apply yourself by participating in the class, watching all the videos, and reading the material, in just one week you will be ready to begin!

The other reason the Forex Trading Made E Z course was perfect for a beginner was that it is a low risk high reward system. Losing money on trades is a rarity with the system, and even the few losing trades were small and easy to overcome.

The basis of the Forex Trading Made EZ system is called "Forex Scalping." This strategy utilizes quick moves within the market (usually inside of one day) allowing you to come away with a five percent return on your investment.

Five percent might sound like a small number, but with so few losing trades and the ability to get these gains repeatedly in a short time, in a month's time that five percent return can easily compound to 200% return on investment.

Because of the reasons mentioned above, I highly recommend Forex Trading Made E Z. It has positively impacted my financial situation. I suggest you try it out for yourself, and see if it is something you might be interested in. Just think, you have surely wasted fifteen minutes in your life waiting in the checkout line, or sitting in traffic, than reading a little about this great program. - 23199

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Learn To Trade the Breakout (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

Who doesnt want to reap massive profits from a big price move in a short time? This is what breakout trading can provide you. A breakout typically occurs when the currency price moves beyond the period of consolidation or range trading.

Even though breakouts are known to be technically unstable, there are times when trading the breakout can be very profitable. When the price moves above or below a support or resistance level whether temporarily or permanently, a breakout occurs.

You will have to take into account many market factors including both the technical and the fundamental analysis in order to trade breakouts with a higher probability of success.

The volume information is easily available for stocks and futures. Both are traded on a centralized exchange. At the end of the day, the traders can find out the volume of each security that had been traded during the day. Information about volume is critical to trading the breakout.

However, volume data is not available for forex markets due to its OTC nature. Being decentralized, this data cannot be collected. Lack of forex volume data is a huge disadvantage to forex traders. Volume reveals where the market is positioned or positioning.

Breakout signals a change in the underlying supply and demand conditions possibly triggered by a change in market sentiments. When the price attempts a breakout of a significant support or resistance level, this change is caused by some new markets fundamentals. Successful breakouts are generally accompanied by a rise in volume. Volume is a very important criterion for any breakout trading strategy.

Price breakouts can be of two types: 1) Continuation Breakouts and 2) Reversal Breakouts. Successful breakouts must be accompanied with a strong surge of momentum in the direction of the breakout.

Continuation Breakout: In a continuation breakout, currency prices break out of an established price level to again resume the underlying trend. The breakout occurs after a period of consolidation in which the buyers and sellers of the currency pair try to regroup and think about the next price move. The price action climbs higher in continuation of an uptrend or falls further lower in a downtrend.

Reversal Breakout: Reversal breakout means a new trend in the opposite direction. It is caused by new market fundamentals. A breakout my lead to a trend reversal and the beginning of a new trend in the opposite direction!

There are many times when the price action does not move in a straightforward direction in the markets. A false breakout may occur. The prices may break the support or resistance but then retreat back into the previous price zone.

If you are a breakout trader and you have placed your stop just above or below the resistance or support levels, a false breakout will stop out most of the breakout traders! The worst kind of a breakout is the whipsaw type. - 23199

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Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard University. He is interested in day trading stocks and currencies. Know The Forex Market. Learn Forex Trading!

Comparing Mutual Funds

By Bob Jones

For anyone who is interested in investing in the stock market, there are numerous mutual funds that can be worth looking into. When you are doing this type of research, it is best to choose a couple of different mutual funds. To compare mutual funds you will have to keep various benchmarks in sight. The first one is the performance of the various companies that you have chosen.

This entails looking to see how the company has weathered the ups and downs of the stock market over a previous period of years. While this is not an reliable indication of future success, it will let you know, whether the mutual fund company is capable of performing well, even if there is no clear indication of the prices of stocks changing. You can find this financial information in various papers on and off the Internet.

You will get an impression of how the stock market affects different types of mutual funds from these different data sources and, once you have understood these changes and the way your prospective portfolio is affected by them, you will know which funds are best avoided and which ones are worth to study further. However, it takes much more than just looking through financial reviews to compare mutual funds effectively

You will also have to see what kinds of expenses are listed by the different mutual funds. These costs will include administrative costs, advertising costs, buying and selling of stocks and bonds and also the kinds of load costs. As most of these expenses need to be borne by the customer, it is best for you to research this information thoroughly.

You can find this information in newspapers and on Internet sites. However, make sure that you understand all of the information that is given, as this makes investing in a mutual fund easier. In addition to these ideas on how to compare mutual funds, you will also discover lots of in-depth articles.

These brochures will explain the different terminology used in mutual fund brochures. You will also be given details about the kinds of mutual funds that are available on the stock exchange at the moment.

By examining all of this information, you can make a well-balanced decision about which mutual funds are worthwhile investing in. Be sure that you examine all of these details before you begin investing. The details gleaned from investigating the mutual funds will give you the best information for investing wisely in the very risky world of the stock exchange. - 23199

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Trading Forex Using Price Action " The Engulfing Patterns

By Tim Barnby

Few things are more satisfying to me that bare chart trading. Ive seen traders with so many indicators on their screen that I could not even see the price of the currency pair. What do any of these indicators tell you anyway? Do I need a MACD or a CCI? I can see which direction the trend is moving without them. How about a stochastic? I can see where candles are closing relative to the high or low. Other than some horizontal lines at key support and resistance levels, some Fibonacci retracements, and trend lines I often have nothing on my charts at all. All of these are topics for future articles.

A bullish engulfing pattern is characterized by having a real body which completely engulfs the real body of the preceding candle. A simpler way of describing this is that the bullish engulfing candle has a higher open and a lower close than the preceding candle. A bearish engulfing candle has a lower open and a higher close than the bar immediately preceding it.

The bullish and bearish engulfing patterns are powerful indicators of a trend reversal. Engulfing patterns must appear after a significant run up or down in price to be considered valid. When the engulfing pattern presents itself at a probable price reversal zone, or a confluence of support or resistance it is even more reliable. My experience has shown these patterns to be over 75% reliable, and normally offer at least a two to one reward to risk ratio when traded on the one hour or four hour charts. They are even more reliable on the daily and weekly charts.

There are a couple of valid methods for trading engulfing patterns. The first is pretty basic. You place a market order at the close of the candle. Your stop loss order goes a few pips past the opposite side of the engulfing candle, and the target goes somewhere at least twice the distance of the stop loss. Using this method, if the engulfing candle has a 50 pip range, your stop loss would be about 55 pips and your target would be about 110 pips away from your entry. The more advanced method involves pulling a Fibonacci retracement tool on the engulfing candle. Place your entry order at the 38.2%, 50% or 61.8% Fibonacci level of the candle, and place the stop loss in the same position as the first method. This method gives you a smaller stop loss, which offers you a much high per pip value, and a bigger target. It has a lower rate of successful fills, so youll have fewer trades using this entry method.

No matter what your method of entry is, you will profit from trading these powerful reversal indicators. Youll also save yourself the stress of conflicting technical indicators and cluttered screens. Trade this pattern for a week and see if I am wrong. - 23199

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Money Management Principles in Forex Trading (Part III)

By Ahmad Hassam

Perhaps the best advice that you will receive in your trading career is live to trade another day. Currency markets are volatile, brutal and unforgiving. You should learn to survive in the markets.

The most common factor that causes many currency traders and investors to blow up their accounts and lose all their money is greed. Once you start taking unnecessary risks you are in trouble. You want a secret formula that never loses a trade. You will start looking for the Holy Grail technical indictor or a forex robot that can make you rich. You will believe that by discovering one, you will become rich.

Unfortunately there is no Holy Grail in trading. You must learn not to risk more than 2% of your account on a single trade. Incrementally grow your account over time and never ever be tempted to risk big making one single winning trade that can make you rich.

You should know how much you are willing to risk in a single trade. I said 2%. But if you want to be aggressive you can go up to 5% but stay between 2-5%. Dont exceed it. If you are conservative, on the other hand, you should consider risking between 1-2% only.

Once you have decided on the risk you are willing to take, knowing the rest is simple. Suppose you have a $50,000 account and you decide on a risk of 2%. How much you can risk on a single trade? You can only risk (50,000) (0.02) =$1,000. This is the maximum you should risk on a single trade.

However, if you are in more than one trade at the same time, the amount may be higher. Suppose, you are in 3 trades and you risk only $1,000 per trade. So the total amount at risk will be $3,000. Once you have determined your risk level, you are ready to determine the trade size.

Trade size is the number of contracts you purchase in any one trade. To determine the trade size, you need to first determine where you want to put your stop loss. Lets use an example to make it clear. Suppose you are willing to risk $1000 on trading EUR/USD pair. You decide on a stop loss of 50 pips. Each pip on EUR/USD pair is $10 worth. So the number of contracts that you need to trade are (1,000)/ (50) (10) =2.

By calculating your trade size, you have taken the guesswork out of your trading once you have determined your risk level. You can sleep well now. You know how much of your money is at risk. You are going to be able to trade tomorrow. No matter what happens today.

Using these common money management rules will help you avoid the pitfall of losing almost all the money in your account. Learning to survive the markets and trade another day is the essence of trading. This can help your trading take the next level of profitability. - 23199

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Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard University. He is interested in day trading and swing trading stocks and currencies. Trade Dow Futures. Learn Forex Trading.