Showing posts with label trading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trading. Show all posts

Sunday, January 4, 2009

What is Currency Trading?

In its basic form, currency trading, also known as "forex trading," is simply that--trading money.

It involves trading one currency for another, such as U.S. dollars for the Euro.
The exchange rate is known as the foreign-exchange rate, forex rate, or FX rate and is one of the largest markets in the world, trading trillions of U.S. dollars each day.

Currency trading gained enormous popularity in the 1990s, and continues today. One reason this type of trading is so popular is that it can be done from a computer, 24 hours a day. There are fewer currencies to trade with, which makes learning the practice much easier (as opposed to learning about the many stock options available). The most commonly traded currencies are the U.S. dollar, the Japanese yen, and the British pound.

Currencies are traded in pairs. The trader buys the one that he or she believes will appreciate in value over the other. Currency fluctuates as there is demand for it. Interest rates tend to be an indication of a currency's demand. The higher a country's interest rate, the higher demand. However, countries will sometimes try to create demand for a currency by changing interest rates. The well-informed trader needs to conduct research and make educated guesses on a currency's future.

[Why ForexGen]


1. Lowest spreads in the market with 0-1 pip spread in 10 pairs, no commissions, no swaps and instant account Activation.
2. Scandinavian quality with Swiss precision, funds secured and local agents in 18+ countries.
3. ForexGen offers Forex trading in the major currency pairs and crosses.
4. Low capital start, with $250 as a minimum account size.
5. Liquidity and 24/5 availability are the characteristic factors of the Forex market compared with other financial markets.
6. [ForexGen] offers a free trial Forex [demo account] that allows you to test your skills and practice without risking real money.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Training Your Currency Trading Skill For Better Exposure

Have you weaponed yourself before register into the market? Here is a trading tips that you can follow.
When you see the EUR/USD market trend move to a dip bottoms, check the trend history, place the order with stop & limit as ratio 1:4. If its losing, add a position to average the signals.
This will be a good chance for you to maximize for your potential profit. However, What we want you to"consider" is the trading technique. Do you notice that there's something goes wrong with the tips above? Look again, what will be the correct way.
If you were fooled by our trick and did not notice the wrong strategy, you are not weaponed yourself and you need this training. Even if you noted the problem, you must have some reason for having this book in your hands. Perhaps you have had evidence in the past that you do not trade welll. It may be that your brokers have told you that your strategy does not help you make


[ForexGen Live Accounts Contest]

Trade, Compete, and Win - Begins the 1st of Every Month!
ForexGen has the pleasure to announce the launching of its first monthly Live Accounts contest,
This is NOT a demo contest

this is a live trading [competition] open for all live mini account holders. At the beginning of each month, the slate is wiped clean and traders have a new opportunity to win the monthly prizes.

What makes this contest unique?


All prizes are CASH prizes with no restrictions on withdrawing the prize money! How Do I Enter?
You don't have to pay any fee to enter this contest, all [ForexGen] mini Accounts with a balance of "$1000" and a default leverage of 1:200 are entitled to participate in this contest upon their account holder request by sending an e-mail request on live.contest@forexgen.com

For more information about our current and future promotions, kindly contact one of our customers support agents at promotions@forexgen.com

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Risks By The Foreign Exchange On Forex

As it was mentioned above the trading on the Forex is essentially risk-bearing.
By the evaluation of the grade of a possible risk accounted should be the following kinds of it: exchange rate risk, interest rate risk, and credit risk, country risk.

Exchange rate risk. Exchange rate risk is the effect of the continuous shift in the worldwide
market supply and demand balance on an outstanding foreign exchange position. For
the period it is outstanding, the position will be subject to all the price changes.
The most popular measures to cut losses short and ride profitable positions that losses should be
kept within manageable limits are the position limit and the loss limit. By the position limitation
a maximum amount of a certain currency a trader is allowed to carry at any single time
during the regular trading hours is to be established. The loss limit is a measure designed to avoid unsustainable losses made by traders by means of stop-loss levels setting.
Interest rate risk. Interest rate risk refers to the profit and loss generated by fluctuations in the
forward spreads, along with forward amount mismatches and maturity gaps among transactions in the foreign exchange book. This risk is pertinent to currency swaps, forward outright, futures, and options
To minimize interest rate risk, one sets limits on the total size of mismatches. A common
approach is to separate the mismatches, based on their maturity dates, into up to six months and past six months.
All the transactions are entered in computerized systems in order to calculate the positions for
all the dates of the delivery, gains and losses. Continuous analysis of the interest rate
environment is necessary to forecast any changes that may impact on the outstanding gaps.Credit risk. Credit risk refers to the possibility that an outstanding currency position may
not be repaid as agreed, due to a voluntary or involuntary action by a counter party. In these
cases, trading occurs on regulated exchanges, such as the clearinghouse of Chicago.

The following forms of credit risk


1. Replacement risk occurs when counterparties of the failed bank find their books are subjected
to the danger not to get refunds from the bank, where appropriate accounts became unbalanced

2. Settlement risk occurs because of the time zones on different continents. Consequently,
currencies may be traded at the different price at different times during the trading day. Australian and New
Zealand dollars are credited first, then Japanese yen, followed by the European currencies and
ending with the U.S. dollar. Therefore, payment may be made to a party that will declare insolvency (or be
declared insolvent) immediately after, but prior to executing its own payments Dictatorship risk.

Dictatorship (sovereign) risk refers to the government's interference in the Forex activity.


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Thursday, December 18, 2008

What makes a good Trading Strategy?

Emini futures, electronically traded, smaller units of "full grown" futures contracts are among the most popular trading instruments out there. Their popularity is especially high among retail traders whose funds tend to be limited.

You don't need much money to open and fund a futures account these days if all you want to trade are eminis. Some futures brokers, especially those specializing in retail emini traders, offer margins as low as $500 per contract for intraday trading, which means that if you can afford $3,000, you should be well equipped to trade with 1 or even 2 emini contracts.

But to be able to make money, you still need a method to extract it from the emini market. You need a strategy or a system, the latter being basically a strategy that has been examined over a longer period of time in a systematic manner and has been determined to have a positive edge. That's what we are after: the positive edge as without it we cannot succeed.
No all emini trading systems are born equal. Some are better than other. Those that make more money over the same period of time are considered superior, to put it in a simple manner, but that's not all.
While making money is the main and practically the only goal of a trading system, there are better and worse ways way to do this. Of two really good emini trading systems that make as much money per quarter, one may still be better than the other if it accomplishes this goal in a smoother manner. To measure this smoothness, we often use the mathematical concept of standard deviation and by doing so, we way arrive at what is called the Sharpe ratio. The smoothness in question is a good thing as it translates into less stress when trading for we experience smaller drawdowns. That's one characteristic of a good trading system: small drawdowns. We also would like the drawdowns to be as short lived as possible, so by this standard, a system with more prolonged drawdowns, but the same money making power as another one, will be considered less desirable, less attractive.

We also often measure the drawdowns by the number of consecutive losing trades and the flat periods during which we are not increasing our funds, by the average time between the same peaks in the system equity curve, a line that shows how trading profits are being accumulated

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Forexgen Trading Alert


Forex trading alert is an idiosyncratic service and it uphold currency
traders very close to the speedily changing forex trading capital market even when they are far away from their screens by using the certain parameters of their forex trading strategy to set forex alerts appropriately on rates and mechanical indicators, plus to generate modified reminders for imperative dates or events. Unlike any other forex trading market, the forex offers trading services 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Of course you can take the time to watch this Forex market by yourself, but who has the time. More outstandingly, the factor to be noticed here is the knowledge and the know-how for constantly making a profit.

Initially, only a couple of well-used and established methods, which provide the best overall returns, are used. One method utilized is a scalping forex strategy where it is uses super-tight stops for lesser profit objectives since it lessens the forex risk to a minimum. You are in the forex trading market repeatedly for a few hours. Secondly, Forex Alerts does not use mechanized programs in order to make a large number of alerts, most of that might not be money-making at all. This is how the Forex trading alerts give the highest quality alerts.

By receiving live forex trading alerts from a team of expert forex traders the professionals or some other persons tell you when it is good to trade the foreign exchange market. In fact it is that it could take some years for you to study how to successfully trade the forex market. Also you would have to spend immeasurable hours watching the forex market. You get notification by email instantaneously with Forex alerts and that email could get directed to your mobile phone as well or PDA.
We question only a few choose foreign trading exchange alerts for a week, but these alerts are more probable to offer constantly profitable outcomes. The aim is not to trade more recurrently; but the aim is to trade more advantageously. Forex traders have been trading the Forex markets successfully for years and years, and their strategies have now been developed into a forex charting system in a helpful manner allowing for retail currency traders.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Forex -A Basic Understanding

The Forex market has been available to individual traders for nearly ten years now. In the past, it was only available to large financial institutions, such as banks, big companies, multi-national corporations and top currency dealers. However, now that it's open to individual traders, it's become a hot topic that many new traders are eager to learn more about.

So what is it? Forex is short for foreign exchange. Forex trading is trading in the currencies of the world through the Forex market, which is the largest financial market in the world. In fact, it generates trillions of dollars of currency exchanges everyday.

In addition, it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, making it the most liquid market in the world. Though trading starts in Sydney and ends in New York, Forex trading is not centralized in a single location. This means you can trade in Forex market whenever you wish, regardless of the local time. A big advantage for traders, especially for those in search of optimal liquidity.

Trading in Forex requires trades to done in pairs. When you purchase a currency, you sell another currency at the same time. The most commonly traded currency pairs in the Forex market are: USD/GBP, USD/JPY, USD/CHF, and GBP/USD. As you can see, each currency is represented by three letters. USD is the United States dollar. GBP is the British pound sterling. JPY is the Japanese yen. CHF is the Swiss franc.

The first three letters of a currency pair represent the currency you used for the investment, while the last three letters represent the currency in which you invested. For example, USD/GBP means you used United States dollars to purchase British pound sterlings.

To get started in the Forex market, you'll need a computer with a high speed internet connection, a funded Forex account, and a trading system. Most individual Forex traders will also use a broker, an individual or company that offers assistance to the trading process.

A broker earns his money off a small commission from your trades. In addition, although he'll be trading your funded account, all decisions will remain yours, assuming that's your wish. Here's what else a Forex broker can do for you:

- Offer you advice regarding real time quotes.
- Offer you advice on what to buy or sell based on news feeds.
- Trade your funded account basing solely on his or her decision if that's your wish.
- Provide you with software data to help you with your trading decisions.

Many experts say that you'll never really understand how Forex works until you've traded in the market. To help you gain this experience without having to risk your money, you can set up a demo account at many of the Forex educational sites available on the Internet. You can also invest a modest amount for a Forex simulator, which allows you to explore a never-ending variety of market conditions and see the impact they've had on currencies in the past.

There's no question Forex offers the trader the opportunity to earn a boat load of money. However, as with any other form of trading, and particularly because this is such a liquid market, it does have its risk. No trader will make money on every trade, and even seasoned traders can get caught and face substantial loses if they aren't careful and wise.

Live Accounts Contest

ForexGen has the pleasure to announce the launching of its first monthly Live Accounts contest,
This is NOT a demo contest

this is a live trading competition open for all live mini account holders. At the beginning of each month, the slate is wiped clean and traders have a new opportunity to win the monthly prizes.

How Do I Enter?

You don't have to pay any fee to enter this contest, all ForexGen mini Accounts with a balance of "$1000" and a default leverage of 1:200 are entitled to participate in this contest upon their account holder request by sending an e-mail request on live.contest@forexgen.com including their "live Account Number".

Winners will be announced by the 15th of the following month. For more information about our current and future promotions, kindly contact one of our customers support agents at promotions@forexgen.com

Learning the Ropes of Forex Trading

There are so many places that in todays world to find information on forex trading that it can be quite frustrating and leaves many wondering if what they are buying into is really the best forex education available. A person can learn about forex trading from websites, downloadable software, books, CDs and a myriad of other resources. While we can't say exactly what the best forex education is this article does aim to expose some training resources that have performed well for others.

First on our list of best forex education products is The Ultimate Professional Trader Plus CD library. This is a package created by Online Trading Academy. It is quite an extensive package containing not one, but 24 CD's that will educate the student on many aspects of the forex market ranging from the fundamentals of forex trading, to advice for those seeking to learn forex trading as a business. With so much to offer it is easy to see why this has made our list for best forex education.

Our second pick is called Forex Trading for Maximum Profit: the Best Kept Secret off Wall Street. The package includes a book and CD-Rom. This series created by Raghee Horner is directed at students who have a basic understanding of forex trading trend lines and can tell the differences between the major and minor trends in the market.

The CD-Rom included with the book illustrates trading techniques and many of the author's own successful trading systems. The book on the other hand explains much of the process of placing orders and also attempts to prepare the student for the ups and downs of trading on the forex market. Raghee Horner is referred to by many as a master teacher of forex trading and his series is regarded as one of the best forex education programs available.

Apart from the above traditional courses there are countless websites that offer some of the best forex education that can be found for a reasonable price. Many even offer free demo accounts that use real life trends from the forex market to simulate how you would have done if there were real money involved.

One particular site, Hawaii forex, offers not only free demo accounts, but also free "webinars". This site also sells a basic forex trading educational package and a "power course" to learn about forex trading signals.

Another site, Advanz Forex offers some of the best forex education online through the use of online courses that are intended to "kick-start," students into successful trading from day 1. For those who are in a hurry to learn forex trading, perhaps this is the best forex education package.

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Forex ECN Broker


ECN is an acronym for Electronic Communications Network. A Forex ECN does not operate a dealing desk but instead provides a marketplace where multiple market makers, banks and traders can enter competing bids and offers into the platform either inside or outside the spread, allowing traders to trade against each other and with multiple counterparties.

A trader might open a trade with liquidity provider "A" and close it with liquidity provider "B", or have the trade executed against the bid or offer of another trader.

Participants of the ECN send in competing bids and offers into the platform and the combined volume is usually displayed to traders at each price. Orders are matched between counterparties, usually for a small fee.

Why ForexGen?

1. Lowest spreads in the market with 0-1 pips in 10 pairs, no commissions, no swaps and instant account Activation.
2. Scandinavian quality with Swiss precision, funds secured and local agents in 18+ countries.
3. ForexGen offers Forex trading in the major currency pairs and crosses.
4. Low capital start, with $250 as a minimum account size.
5. Liquidity and 24/5 availability are the characteristic factors of the Forex market compared with other financial markets.
6. ForexGen offers a free trial Forex demo account that allows you to test your skills and practice without risking real money.