As many of you already know, Forex is the most amazing and popular electronic financial market: it moves 1.5 trillion dollars a day, what NY Stocks market moves in a year. A 24 hours a day, 7 days a week market, with high volatility and liquidity, and with a plus advantage: leverage. A market where you can choose to go bull or bear with no cost: no extra premiums to pay, no additional options. It seems pretty much convenient, right?
Well, let me tell you the disadvantages before I continue: high volatility, liquidity, leverage. Yes, just the same: advantages are disadvantages too. All these things can play against you as well as in your favor, with an extra: Brokers. Most retail traders must use a broker, who will be the counterpart in all transactions as there is no way to directly deal in the interbank market. And, as brokers are market makers, they can widen spread, or even refuse to trade during particular moments or conditions.
So, why are we here? What makes Forex so attractive? Where is the DIFFERENCE? A non written rule says only 10 % of Forex traders are successful, against the 90 % who blow their accounts. Believe it or not, the “90 % losers†trade without using technical analysis, without a working plan, without nothing but the ambition to become rich in the short term. Most Forex traders trade by impulse following a hunch more than a trend. Using guts instead of indicators or oscillators.
A simple and effective way to start with technical Forex trading is using Moving Averages: a Moving Average (MA) is a trend direction indicator that calculates a simple arithmetic average of prices for a particular period, showing the average value of the price of a currency over a set of values.There are different types of MA: we use SMA for simple moving averages and EMA for exponential ones. There are others kinds of MA (smoothed, linear weighted, etc) but we will limit this short study to the firsts ones, as they are the most used. Read More
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VIDEO: How to profitably trade using moving averages - Rob Colville
VIDEO: Moving Averages - Carol Harmer
VIDEO: Using Moving Averages in Trading - Dean Malone
Well, let me tell you the disadvantages before I continue: high volatility, liquidity, leverage. Yes, just the same: advantages are disadvantages too. All these things can play against you as well as in your favor, with an extra: Brokers. Most retail traders must use a broker, who will be the counterpart in all transactions as there is no way to directly deal in the interbank market. And, as brokers are market makers, they can widen spread, or even refuse to trade during particular moments or conditions.
So, why are we here? What makes Forex so attractive? Where is the DIFFERENCE? A non written rule says only 10 % of Forex traders are successful, against the 90 % who blow their accounts. Believe it or not, the “90 % losers†trade without using technical analysis, without a working plan, without nothing but the ambition to become rich in the short term. Most Forex traders trade by impulse following a hunch more than a trend. Using guts instead of indicators or oscillators.
A simple and effective way to start with technical Forex trading is using Moving Averages: a Moving Average (MA) is a trend direction indicator that calculates a simple arithmetic average of prices for a particular period, showing the average value of the price of a currency over a set of values.There are different types of MA: we use SMA for simple moving averages and EMA for exponential ones. There are others kinds of MA (smoothed, linear weighted, etc) but we will limit this short study to the firsts ones, as they are the most used. Read More
Do you want to learn more?
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REPORT: Is Average or Below Average Performance Your Trading Problem? - Sam Seiden
VIDEO: How to profitably trade using moving averages - Rob Colville
VIDEO: Moving Averages - Carol Harmer
VIDEO: Using Moving Averages in Trading - Dean Malone
Editors’ Picks
EUR/USD extends gains above 1.0700, focus on key US data
EUR/USD meets fresh demand and rises toward 1.0750 in the European session on Thursday. Renewed US Dollar weakness offsets the risk-off market environment, supporting the pair ahead of the key US GDP and PCE inflation data.
GBP/USD extends recovery above 1.2500, awaits US GDP data
GBP/USD is catching a fresh bid wave, rising above 1.2500 in European trading on Thursday. The US Dollar resumes its corrective downside, as traders resort to repositioning ahead of the high-impact US advance GDP data for the first quarter.
USD/JPY keeps pushing higher, eyes 156.00 ahead of US GDP data
USD/JPY keeps breaking into its highest chart territory since June of 1990 early Thursday, recapturing 155.50 for the first time in 34 years as the Japanese Yen remains vulnerable, despite looming intervention risks. The focus shifts to Thursday's US GDP report and the BoJ decision on Friday.
Editors’ Picks
EUR/USD extends gains above 1.0700, focus on key US data
EUR/USD meets fresh demand and rises toward 1.0750 in the European session on Thursday. Renewed US Dollar weakness offsets the risk-off market environment, supporting the pair ahead of the key US GDP and PCE inflation data.
GBP/USD extends recovery above 1.2500, awaits US GDP data
GBP/USD is catching a fresh bid wave, rising above 1.2500 in European trading on Thursday. The US Dollar resumes its corrective downside, as traders resort to repositioning ahead of the high-impact US advance GDP data for the first quarter.
Gold price edges higher amid weaker USD and softer risk tone, focus remains on US GDP
Gold price (XAU/USD) attracts some dip-buying in the vicinity of the $2,300 mark on Thursday and for now, seems to have snapped a three-day losing streak, though the upside potential seems limited.
Injective price weakness persists despite over 5.9 million INJ tokens burned
Injective price is trading with a bearish bias, stuck in the lower section of the market range. The bearish outlook abounds despite the network's deflationary efforts to pump the price.
US Q1 GDP Preview: Economic growth set to remain firm in, albeit easing from Q4
The United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is seen expanding at an annualized rate of 2.5% in Q1. The current resilience of the US economy bolsters the case for a soft landing.
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