Showing posts with label technical analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technical analysis. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Forex Made Easy for Everyone

Forex made easy is as simple as you would want it to be.

The foreign exchange market is a worldwide market and according to some estimates is almost as big as thirty times the turnover of the US Equity markets. That is some figure to chew on. Forex is the commonly used term for foreign exchange. As a person who wants to invest in the forex market, one should understand the basics of how this currency market operates. Forex can be made easier for beginners to understand it and here's how.

Foreign exchange is the buying and the selling of foreign exchange in pairs of currencies. For example you buy US dollars and sell UK Sterling pounds or you sell German Marks and buy Japanese Yen. Why are currencies bought or sold? The answer is simple; Governments and Companies need foreign exchange for their purchase and payments for various commodities and services. This trade constitutes about 5% of all currency transactions, however the other 95% currency transactions are done for speculation and trade. In fact many companies will buy foreign currency when it is being traded at a lower rate to protect their financial investments.

Another thing about foreign exchange market is that the rates are varying continuously and on daily basis. Therefore investors and financial managers track the forex rates and the forex market it on a daily basis. Those who are involved in the forex trade know that almost 85% of the trading is done in only US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Euro, British Pound, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar and Australian Dollar. This is because they are the most liquid of foreign currencies (can be easily bought and sold. In fact the US Dollar is most recognizable foreign currency even in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam etc). Being a truly 24/7 market, the currency trading markets opens in the financial centers of Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York in that sequence. Investors and speculators alike respond to the ever-changing situations and can buy and sell simultaneously the currencies. In fact many operate in two or more currency market using arbitrage to gain profits (buying in one market and selling in another market or vice versa to take advantage of the prices and book profits). While dealing in forex, one should have a margin account. Quite simply put if you have US$ 1,000 and have a forex margin account which leverages 100:1 then you can buy US$ 100,000 since you only need 1% of the US$100,000 or US$1,000. Therefore it means that with margin account you have US$ 100,000 worth of real purchasing power in your hand. Since the foreign currency market is fluctuating on a continuous basis, one should be able to understand the factors that affect this currency market. This is done through Technical Analysis and Fundamental Analysis. These two tools of trade are used in a variety of other markets such as equity markets, stock markets, mutual funds markets etc.

Technical Analysis refers to reading, summarizing and analyzing data based on the data that is generated by the market. While fundamental Analysis refers to the factors, which influence the market economy, and in turn how it would affect the currency trading. Of course there are other economic and non economic factors which can suddenly affect the trading of the forex markets such as the 9/11 tragedy etc. One needs to have a shrewd acumen and a few number crunching abilities to strike gold in the forex market.

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An individual who is responsible for the entire financial portfolio of another individual or another entity. A money manager receives payment in exchange for choosing and monitoring appropriate investments for the client.

Benefits of being a Money Manager with [ForexGen]:

* Providing three different commission sources.
* Weekly commission plan.
* Easy & fast commission withdrawals.
* Fixed percentage of the profits.
* P = k * D “P=Profit, k=Variable Parameter, D=Deposits”

The money manager gets a fixed percentage of the profit previously agreed upon with the client for managing the client funds as a bonus feature.

The most competitive trading conditions:

* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.
* Providing online trading services without maintenance margin, margin call and no automatic closing of positions below the initial margin on weekdays for accounts with initial equity of up to $1 million US. The margin level have to be recognized Fridays at 23:00 CET and before public holidays.
* Leverages up to 1:200 for accounts up to $1 million US.
* Liquidity and 24/5 availability are the characteristic factors of the Forex market compared with other financial markets.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Basic Technical Analysis

What really works in TA

This part of technical analysis works perfectly. It isn't based on any complicated indicators just on past and current price action. Basic technical analysis include all methods based on drawing trend lines, recognizing sideways trends and breakouts from it. Also major and minor support and resistance levels, gaps, stoploss hunting and all things plainly visible on any price chart. Knowledge and experience in spotting and using them is vital for gaining success on any financial market around.

Trend is your friend
Don't betray your market friends
Most of people when sit before price chart with very strong up trend sells as they see that it won't go any higher. If you traded before you certainly know this course of action but let me ask you - what is the probability that trend will break just when you start to watch it? Most of people when they see situation for a first time would buy but longer they try to trade then they spend more and more time on trying to recognize top of tops or lowest bottom and buy/sell on them. I assure you that entering with trend and getting profit is much easier than spotting highest highs or lowest lows. Best places to enter with trend are of course discounts but this we will cover in one of next articles.

Formations
Price making pictures
Patterns that price movements are forming from time to time have also some importance. This part is rather difficult because patterns are rarely precise. To spot them and use them you need some experience that comes from practice only. Many traders are using chart patterns in market situation assessment both to describe big picture situation and short term decision making.

[ForexGen Money Manager]

An individual who is responsible for the entire financial portfolio of another individual or another entity. A money manager receives payment in exchange for choosing and monitoring appropriate investments for the client.

Benefits of being a Money Manager with [ForexGen]:

* Providing three different commission sources.
* Weekly commission plan.
* Easy & fast commission withdrawals.
* Fixed percentage of the profits.
* P = k * D “P=Profit, k=Variable Parameter, D=Deposits”

The money manager gets a fixed percentage of the profit previously agreed upon with the client for managing the client funds as a bonus feature.

The most competitive trading conditions:

* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.
* Providing online trading services without maintenance margin, margin call and no automatic closing of positions below the initial margin on weekdays for accounts with initial equity of up to $1 million US. The margin level have to be recognized Fridays at 23:00 CET and before public holidays.
* Leverages up to 1:200 for accounts up to $1 million US.
* Liquidity and 24/5 availability are the characteristic factors of the Forex market compared with other financial markets.

Friday, December 12, 2008

The price side of the coin:

In a way, fundamental factors supply the road map of what happens in the forex market. Navigating that map — that is, actually trading — is usually a matter of analyzing price
action, especially for short-term traders.
The FX market is well-suited to price-based techniques such as technical and quantitative analysis. In terms of trading with technical analysis, as long as you use charts and indicators,
trading the euro currency/dollar currency pair is just like trading shares of Microsoft or E-mini futures.
One of the most common gripes about technical analysis is that it fails to consider the very factors that result in the move - ment of exchange rates; it only looks at statistics and patterns,
which are derivatives of market activity, not causes of it. As a result, some argue technical analysis is an ineffective forecasting tool.
Although this is undeniably true, it is also misleading. The advantage of technical analysis and other price-based techniques is they do not involve forecasting or predicting — they consider only what is actually going on in the market re g a rd i n g who is buying and who is selling. This is the true information in the market, and it is the only information that matters. The market
is simply a battle between buyers and sellers — and thus, technical analysis reasons, looking at the statistics behind this “battle” is all that is really needed to determine what really is going on in the market, and how to profit accordingly.

Implications for currency trading:

Ultimately, the most successful trading scenarios tend to be the ones supported by both technical/quantitative and fundamental arguments.
A great example of this is the breakdown of the
dollar against the yen in October 2003 — the pair declined 6
percent between October 2003
and February 2004 (see Figure
2).

At that time, both technicals
and fundamentals called for
gains in the yen against the dollar.
Technically, the dollar/yen had broken below longer-term support (a price level that has acted as a floor to past price declines), while fundamentally, Japan was finally showing economic growth after 10 years of stagnation.
It is important traders consider both schools of thought when trading currencies as fundamentals can shift the technical trend, while technicals can be used to forecast short-term movements

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