Tuesday, May 22, 2007
The Forex Trading Blog - Some interesting facts..:-)
Here are some interesting facts on "The Forex Trading Blog" -
As I mentioned in my previous post, it took more than 5 days infact 7 days to be precise for the 1st visitor to visit this site since I started it on 13-May-06. However once it started, there is constant increase in the readership.
The most popular post that is read again and again on this site is the one in which I mentioned the ebook I recommend - Forex Trading Machine from Avi Frister and 5 EMA forex trading system by Adam Burgoyne. These 2 ebooks are truely great.
The most famous question that my readers keep asking me again and again is "Which currency pair should one trade". I recommend the USD based currency pair since the spreads are very tight.
The most common technical indicator that I guess readers are interested is EMA and people always ask me the settings for the EMA.
There are 177 RSS subscribers to my blog (2 added since my last post..:-)) ..Out of these 40% are USA based and 25% are UK based. To my surprise, 5% are indians. I was expecting less than that.
I asked in one of my posts that which fundamental announcement do people like to trade the most. The response was..Yes, NFP (Non farm payroll).. Altough its a very volatile & risky news, still it seems to be the favourite. If you are trading using that, I suggest you to use the strategy that Avi frister provides when one buys his Forex Trading Machine ebook
Thats all in today's post..I'll share some more interesting facts in my next message..Keep visiting to learn more. Infact I encourage you to add the RSS feed to your site so that you are always aware when I post about online forex trading which I do quite frequently..:-).
As I mentioned in my previous post, it took more than 5 days infact 7 days to be precise for the 1st visitor to visit this site since I started it on 13-May-06. However once it started, there is constant increase in the readership.
The most popular post that is read again and again on this site is the one in which I mentioned the ebook I recommend - Forex Trading Machine from Avi Frister and 5 EMA forex trading system by Adam Burgoyne. These 2 ebooks are truely great.
The most famous question that my readers keep asking me again and again is "Which currency pair should one trade". I recommend the USD based currency pair since the spreads are very tight.
The most common technical indicator that I guess readers are interested is EMA and people always ask me the settings for the EMA.
There are 177 RSS subscribers to my blog (2 added since my last post..:-)) ..Out of these 40% are USA based and 25% are UK based. To my surprise, 5% are indians. I was expecting less than that.
I asked in one of my posts that which fundamental announcement do people like to trade the most. The response was..Yes, NFP (Non farm payroll).. Altough its a very volatile & risky news, still it seems to be the favourite. If you are trading using that, I suggest you to use the strategy that Avi frister provides when one buys his Forex Trading Machine ebook
Thats all in today's post..I'll share some more interesting facts in my next message..Keep visiting to learn more. Infact I encourage you to add the RSS feed to your site so that you are always aware when I post about online forex trading which I do quite frequently..:-).
Labels: 5 EMA forex trading system, Adam Burgoyne, avi frister, EMA, forex trading machine, fundamental announcement, fundamental news, technical analysis
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Forex Trading at its best when technical indicators work like they should
Forex Trading at its best when technical indicators work like they should -
A trader of currency market gets a lot of pleasure when the technical indicator s/he has analysed works the way analysis said. So, when someone feels that the currency pair should bounce of a fibonacci level or should bounce from EMA, and if that happens, its terrific.
The same happenned with AUD/USD. My analsis of this currency pair said that it should bounce from 200 EMA. Spot that happenned in forex day trading..I went in to trade as MACD also crossed up, and made 55 pips. Most of the times I use RSI as the trigger. But this time MACD turned out to be the trigerring indicator.
However, still I maintain that the most volatile currency pair is GBP/USD followed by USD/CHF and EUR/USD. They respond to technical indicators very well.
Thats all in this session..Thanks for visiting. Come again to learn more about currency trading.
A trader of currency market gets a lot of pleasure when the technical indicator s/he has analysed works the way analysis said. So, when someone feels that the currency pair should bounce of a fibonacci level or should bounce from EMA, and if that happens, its terrific.
The same happenned with AUD/USD. My analsis of this currency pair said that it should bounce from 200 EMA. Spot that happenned in forex day trading..I went in to trade as MACD also crossed up, and made 55 pips. Most of the times I use RSI as the trigger. But this time MACD turned out to be the trigerring indicator.
However, still I maintain that the most volatile currency pair is GBP/USD followed by USD/CHF and EUR/USD. They respond to technical indicators very well.
Thats all in this session..Thanks for visiting. Come again to learn more about currency trading.
Labels: aud/usd. voltile currency pair, currency trading, EUR/USD, forex day trading, forex ema, forex macd, forex technical indicators, GBP/USD, technical analysis
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Placing the trades using Pivot Points
Placing the trades using Pivot Points -
Apart from the common indicators such as EMA, RSI and Fibonacci, another technical indicator is very popular between trades which is pivot points. This technical indicator is mostly used for currency day trading.
Point pointsare nothing but some pre-identified support and resistance levels which are something like mutually agreed between the traders in themarket.
They are influenced by the price action that took place in last 24 hours. So if a trader tries to identfy the pivots for today, s/he needs to check what is the price action that took place in last 24 hours.
Generally when trades are placed using pivots, the profit range is 35-50 pips. So, thats very nice profit..
In all Pivot point system is very reliable. However, I have not personally tried it yet. I am more into placing trades using EMA and MACD, stochastic etc.
In the next post, I'll mention some of the courses or ebook in the market that are based on pivot points..
Thats all in today's session..Visit again to learn more on forex day trading..
Apart from the common indicators such as EMA, RSI and Fibonacci, another technical indicator is very popular between trades which is pivot points. This technical indicator is mostly used for currency day trading.
Point pointsare nothing but some pre-identified support and resistance levels which are something like mutually agreed between the traders in themarket.
They are influenced by the price action that took place in last 24 hours. So if a trader tries to identfy the pivots for today, s/he needs to check what is the price action that took place in last 24 hours.
Generally when trades are placed using pivots, the profit range is 35-50 pips. So, thats very nice profit..
In all Pivot point system is very reliable. However, I have not personally tried it yet. I am more into placing trades using EMA and MACD, stochastic etc.
In the next post, I'll mention some of the courses or ebook in the market that are based on pivot points..
Thats all in today's session..Visit again to learn more on forex day trading..
Labels: fibonacci levels, forex pips, forex technical indicators, forex trading ebook, MACD, pivot points, technical analysis
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Trading with EUR, GBP
Trading with EUR, GBP - The popular currency pairs
Ever thought which are the most popular currency pairs to trade? Yes, EUR/USD is the popular of all and generally has tightest of spreads which is 2-3 pips depending on the broker.
The next is GBP/USD - the highly volatile and has spread of 4-5 pips.
What follows is USD/CHF and USD/JPY. Generally have 4-5 pips spread.
Remember the high the volatile the currency pairr is, the more it will honour technical analysis and corresponding indicators such as EMA, fibonacci levels, MACD, RSI etc. etc.
The exception being USD/CAD and USD/JPY which I have noticed is highly fundamental announcements and news impacted. Such as Oil price drives USD/CAD very heavily.
Also, the high the volatility, the more popular the pair is and the more ebooks are written for that currency pair. For e.g. ones written by Avi Frister or by Marc Mcrae. Not only that, people develop separate strategy for day trading that forex pair and some develop swing trading strategies as well.
I have not heard any one developing startegy for EUR/GBP since it is not that volatile.
Thats all in this session.Visit again to learn more on the exciting market of currency trading.
Ever thought which are the most popular currency pairs to trade? Yes, EUR/USD is the popular of all and generally has tightest of spreads which is 2-3 pips depending on the broker.
The next is GBP/USD - the highly volatile and has spread of 4-5 pips.
What follows is USD/CHF and USD/JPY. Generally have 4-5 pips spread.
Remember the high the volatile the currency pairr is, the more it will honour technical analysis and corresponding indicators such as EMA, fibonacci levels, MACD, RSI etc. etc.
The exception being USD/CAD and USD/JPY which I have noticed is highly fundamental announcements and news impacted. Such as Oil price drives USD/CAD very heavily.
Also, the high the volatility, the more popular the pair is and the more ebooks are written for that currency pair. For e.g. ones written by Avi Frister or by Marc Mcrae. Not only that, people develop separate strategy for day trading that forex pair and some develop swing trading strategies as well.
I have not heard any one developing startegy for EUR/GBP since it is not that volatile.
Thats all in this session.Visit again to learn more on the exciting market of currency trading.
Labels: EMA, fibonacci levels, forex day trading, forex pips, forex technical indicators, fundamental announcement, fundamental news, spread, technical analysis, volatility
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Forex Day Trading System : importance of correct forex charts
Forex Day Trading System : importance of correct forex charts to follow trade
I have observed that most of the traders and newbies generally tend to focus on the book to learn trading stratgies or systems and not focus on rest of the essentials. What they don't realize is that it doesn't matter if you have wheat in the house and not the utensils to cook it.
Same goes with forex trading. Along with having a sound forex day or swing trading system, you also need to have other necessaties lined up. One of such necassity is a good trading chart. Without the currency trading chart its as good as doing gambling. Your entry points, exit points may not be right, you will not know the trend and other points.
Here are the important points to consider when identifying a good forex chart -
1. It should update realtime.
2. It should allow yoputo fluctuate between different time periods such as a daily chart or 1 hr chart or 5 min chart etc.
3. It should allow you to put atleast some popular technical indicators such as EMA, RSI, MCD and Fibonacci. Others are parabolic sar, stochastics, candlesticks etc.
4. It should allow to follow charts of multiple currency pairs such as EUR/USD, USD/CHF or GBP/USD etc.
Thats all in this session of forex day trading..Visit again to learn more on the exciting world of currency trading.
I have observed that most of the traders and newbies generally tend to focus on the book to learn trading stratgies or systems and not focus on rest of the essentials. What they don't realize is that it doesn't matter if you have wheat in the house and not the utensils to cook it.
Same goes with forex trading. Along with having a sound forex day or swing trading system, you also need to have other necessaties lined up. One of such necassity is a good trading chart. Without the currency trading chart its as good as doing gambling. Your entry points, exit points may not be right, you will not know the trend and other points.
Here are the important points to consider when identifying a good forex chart -
1. It should update realtime.
2. It should allow yoputo fluctuate between different time periods such as a daily chart or 1 hr chart or 5 min chart etc.
3. It should allow you to put atleast some popular technical indicators such as EMA, RSI, MCD and Fibonacci. Others are parabolic sar, stochastics, candlesticks etc.
4. It should allow to follow charts of multiple currency pairs such as EUR/USD, USD/CHF or GBP/USD etc.
Thats all in this session of forex day trading..Visit again to learn more on the exciting world of currency trading.
Labels: currency trading, EMA, Entry, exit, forex chart, Forex day trading system, forex pips, rsi, technical analysis
Monday, March 26, 2007
Forex Day Trading system : Hitting of stop loss on my last trade
Forex Day Trading system : Hitting of stop loss on my last trade
Today the EUR/USD market unexpectedly turned. Euro became stronger and the currency pair jumped about 100 pips in a span of 2 hours..As expected, it would have taken out the stops of all the forex traders that were short.
That included me as well. My trade was short and was up 67 pips. My stop loss as 40 pips away. Since my stop loss was hit, I ended with a profit of 27 pips on this trade. Not bad!!
The weaking of $$ (dollar..:-)) was seen across the board..In GBP, AUD, NZD and all. However I saw that Eur and so the swiss franc were the big gainers.
Having a stop loss is always advantageous since it protects you from such quick reversals..No matter what kind of trade one may have like on the basis of technical analysis and indicators such as rsi, macd, stochastics etc or if it is a trade purely based on economic analysis..However your stoploss should give room for the currency pair to move as well. So, no point having a stop loss of 15 pips on an hour chart, since the currency pair may just hit that and then go in the direction where one anticipated. True for swing trading as well as forex day tradong and any system for that matter.
Thats all in this session..By the way all those who are using ebook of Avi Frister Forex Trading Machine , how are you finding that ebook??simple and easy to use, right?? And what about the one by Adam Burgoyne called "5 EMA forex trading system"
You might find that these ebooks have different methodologies..which are easy to use and easy to practice.
Today the EUR/USD market unexpectedly turned. Euro became stronger and the currency pair jumped about 100 pips in a span of 2 hours..As expected, it would have taken out the stops of all the forex traders that were short.
That included me as well. My trade was short and was up 67 pips. My stop loss as 40 pips away. Since my stop loss was hit, I ended with a profit of 27 pips on this trade. Not bad!!
The weaking of $$ (dollar..:-)) was seen across the board..In GBP, AUD, NZD and all. However I saw that Eur and so the swiss franc were the big gainers.
Having a stop loss is always advantageous since it protects you from such quick reversals..No matter what kind of trade one may have like on the basis of technical analysis and indicators such as rsi, macd, stochastics etc or if it is a trade purely based on economic analysis..However your stoploss should give room for the currency pair to move as well. So, no point having a stop loss of 15 pips on an hour chart, since the currency pair may just hit that and then go in the direction where one anticipated. True for swing trading as well as forex day tradong and any system for that matter.
Thats all in this session..By the way all those who are using ebook of Avi Frister Forex Trading Machine , how are you finding that ebook??simple and easy to use, right?? And what about the one by Adam Burgoyne called "5 EMA forex trading system"
You might find that these ebooks have different methodologies..which are easy to use and easy to practice.
Labels: 5 EMA forex trading system, Adam Burgoyne, avi frister, EUR/USD, forex pips, forex technical indicators, forex trading machine, stop loss, technical analysis
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Forex Day Trading System : My trade on EUR/USD
Forex Day Trading System : My trade on EUR/USD
In my last post I mentioned that I opened a EUR/USD trade on a buy side at 1.3306 with target of 1.3345. I kept the stop at 1.3268..
Currently I am 80 pips profit since the EUR bounced higher crossing the double top of 1.3345 resistance. Due to this, I closed on half of the position at 1.3345. This is a gauranteed 39 pips profit for me..The other I am keeping afloat to book more profits.
In between, my trade was in 30 pips loss and as per my trading rules, once the currency pair breaks below a particular EMA level, am supposed to close the trade..However I identified that the 1.3375 was a strong support level with currency pair of EUR/USD consistently bouncing from that, so I stayed in the trade despite it required me to bend my trading rules.
In a nut shell, this trade converted from forex day trading to swing trading.
Different people have different trading styles - Some generally like to have some strategies that are more of trading guidelines and have flexibility of defying them as per forex market conditions like the example mentioned above. Other prefer to have a total mechanical approach. They are the ones that generally don't put too much of focus on technical indicator and their analysis such as mACD, RSI or even EMA (exponential moving average) for that matter.
Many of you have sometimes asked me which ebook is the best for finding the strategies..1st of all, in my blog itself if you continously follow, I reveal strategies from time to time as and when I come across any..However, if you are looking for a specialized ebook that mentions inside out of a forex trading strategy, here are the 2 books which I recommend on the basis of limited trades I placed using the currency trading system mentioned in them -
1. Mechanical trading style - For, this style of traders, the book I recommend is Forex Trading Machine by Avi Frister. I placed 4 swing trades using cash cow system out of which 3 were profitable. Total profit 210 pips.
2. Flexible trading style - These traders should definitley buy 5 EMA forex trading system by Adam Burgoyne. Great system..I placed 3 trades using my demo account on this with total profit of 177 pips.
So, decide what is your trading style and if you are looking for a system, then above mentioned two ebooks should be bought. However, use the strategies mentioned in them in your demo account 1st. Also, if you are totally new to forex trading, I suggest you to learn the important technical indicators 1st.
Thats all in this message..Visit again to learn more on online currency day trading.
In my last post I mentioned that I opened a EUR/USD trade on a buy side at 1.3306 with target of 1.3345. I kept the stop at 1.3268..
Currently I am 80 pips profit since the EUR bounced higher crossing the double top of 1.3345 resistance. Due to this, I closed on half of the position at 1.3345. This is a gauranteed 39 pips profit for me..The other I am keeping afloat to book more profits.
In between, my trade was in 30 pips loss and as per my trading rules, once the currency pair breaks below a particular EMA level, am supposed to close the trade..However I identified that the 1.3375 was a strong support level with currency pair of EUR/USD consistently bouncing from that, so I stayed in the trade despite it required me to bend my trading rules.
In a nut shell, this trade converted from forex day trading to swing trading.
Different people have different trading styles - Some generally like to have some strategies that are more of trading guidelines and have flexibility of defying them as per forex market conditions like the example mentioned above. Other prefer to have a total mechanical approach. They are the ones that generally don't put too much of focus on technical indicator and their analysis such as mACD, RSI or even EMA (exponential moving average) for that matter.
Many of you have sometimes asked me which ebook is the best for finding the strategies..1st of all, in my blog itself if you continously follow, I reveal strategies from time to time as and when I come across any..However, if you are looking for a specialized ebook that mentions inside out of a forex trading strategy, here are the 2 books which I recommend on the basis of limited trades I placed using the currency trading system mentioned in them -
1. Mechanical trading style - For, this style of traders, the book I recommend is Forex Trading Machine by Avi Frister. I placed 4 swing trades using cash cow system out of which 3 were profitable. Total profit 210 pips.
2. Flexible trading style - These traders should definitley buy 5 EMA forex trading system by Adam Burgoyne. Great system..I placed 3 trades using my demo account on this with total profit of 177 pips.
So, decide what is your trading style and if you are looking for a system, then above mentioned two ebooks should be bought. However, use the strategies mentioned in them in your demo account 1st. Also, if you are totally new to forex trading, I suggest you to learn the important technical indicators 1st.
Thats all in this message..Visit again to learn more on online currency day trading.
Labels: 5 EMAs Forex Trading System, Adam Burgoyne, avi frister, EMA, Forex day trading system, forex pips, rsi, technical analysis
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Forex Day Trading System - The most volatile time of the month is NFP (Non Farm Payroll)
Forex Day Trading System - The most volatile time of the month
Tomorrow is the most volatile time in a month of the currency trading market..Yes its Non Farm Payroll time.. I like the way the forex pairs jumps during this announcement..The candlesticks size is big, the technical indicators such as RSI, EMA or MACD etc don't make sense and all the analysis goes for a toss..
Its really exciting..I generally do not trade this fundamental news announcement..However, I bought Avi frister course of Forex Trading Machine sometime back..The course comes with a strategy on how to trade the NFP news..I am going to apply this strategy on my demo account to check how is the strategy working..My target will be just 25 pips..no more..no lesss.
As always, I'll share the results with you..
Meanwhile, some of you who hava asked how has been the results of the cash cow strategy of this course..Here are the details -
1. Trade 1 - 100 pip profit..
2. trade 2 - I customized the strategy a bit to apply under certain different rules..I ended up with 60 pip profit on my demo account..
Although I made a big profit by trading NZD/USD..it was 191 pips..
As far as the Forex Trading Machine system goes, its too early for me to say how reliable is it though I had too profitable trades, but I would like to make few more trades using the strategies mentioned in that.
Thats all in today's post..Incase you have bought the forex trading machine course yourself, do share with me your results if you have done the day trading of the NFP news.
Visit again to learn more on currency trading.
Tomorrow is the most volatile time in a month of the currency trading market..Yes its Non Farm Payroll time.. I like the way the forex pairs jumps during this announcement..The candlesticks size is big, the technical indicators such as RSI, EMA or MACD etc don't make sense and all the analysis goes for a toss..
Its really exciting..I generally do not trade this fundamental news announcement..However, I bought Avi frister course of Forex Trading Machine sometime back..The course comes with a strategy on how to trade the NFP news..I am going to apply this strategy on my demo account to check how is the strategy working..My target will be just 25 pips..no more..no lesss.
As always, I'll share the results with you..
Meanwhile, some of you who hava asked how has been the results of the cash cow strategy of this course..Here are the details -
1. Trade 1 - 100 pip profit..
2. trade 2 - I customized the strategy a bit to apply under certain different rules..I ended up with 60 pip profit on my demo account..
Although I made a big profit by trading NZD/USD..it was 191 pips..
As far as the Forex Trading Machine system goes, its too early for me to say how reliable is it though I had too profitable trades, but I would like to make few more trades using the strategies mentioned in that.
Thats all in today's post..Incase you have bought the forex trading machine course yourself, do share with me your results if you have done the day trading of the NFP news.
Visit again to learn more on currency trading.
Labels: currency trading, Forex day trading system, forex technical indicators, forex trading machine, nzd/usd, rsi, technical analysis
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Forex Day Trading System - USD booms
Forex Day Trading System - USD booms!!
Anyone who is watching the currency trading charts must have realized that the USD is bullish the big time..And its bullish across the board with EUR, GBP, CHF, AUD, NZD everyone stumbling against Greenback retaliation..Except JPY!! Yes, Yen is giving bigtime pounding to the $$..
Thats because the JPY is too much driven by the fundamentals..Thats the primary reason I don't day trade USD/JPY currency anymore since I do trading by technical analysis using indicators such as EMA, RSI or MACD etc..
I entered the trade the other day NZD/USD, which I closed at 191 pips profit..In between I was in 230 pips profit, but I stayed in the trade till I got a valid exit signal..
Thats the important concept, enter the trade only when your trading system for day or swing trading mentions for forex market and exit only when the technical indicators ask you to do so..
Thats what the philosophy I applied and ended up with 191 pips profit..
Thats all in today's session..Please visit again to learn for on currency or also called trading the forex.
Anyone who is watching the currency trading charts must have realized that the USD is bullish the big time..And its bullish across the board with EUR, GBP, CHF, AUD, NZD everyone stumbling against Greenback retaliation..Except JPY!! Yes, Yen is giving bigtime pounding to the $$..
Thats because the JPY is too much driven by the fundamentals..Thats the primary reason I don't day trade USD/JPY currency anymore since I do trading by technical analysis using indicators such as EMA, RSI or MACD etc..
I entered the trade the other day NZD/USD, which I closed at 191 pips profit..In between I was in 230 pips profit, but I stayed in the trade till I got a valid exit signal..
Thats the important concept, enter the trade only when your trading system for day or swing trading mentions for forex market and exit only when the technical indicators ask you to do so..
Thats what the philosophy I applied and ended up with 191 pips profit..
Thats all in today's session..Please visit again to learn for on currency or also called trading the forex.
Labels: EMA, Entry, EUR/USD, exit, forex pips, forex technical indicators, MACD, nzd/usd, rsi, technical analysis, USD/JPY
