The Benefits of Trading the Forex Market

Historically, the FX market was available most to major banks, multinational corporations and other participants who traded in large transaction sizes and volumes. Small-scale traders including individuals like you and I, had little access to this market for such a long time. Now with the advent of the Internet and technology, FX trading is becoming an increasingly popular investment alternative for the general public.

The benefits of trading the currency market:
It is open 24-hours and it closes only on the weekends;
It is very liquid and efficient;
It is very volatile;
It has very low transaction costs;
You can use a high level of leverage (borrowed money) with ease; and
You can profit from a bull or a bear market.

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Forex Avenue: The Road to Riches

In my continuing quest to provide visitors of my site with a large amount of options to chose from when considering working from home I have done some research on Forex trading. I first learned of Forex trading while pursuing my MBA program. For those of you who have never heard of this, Forex trading is the exchange of foreign currency. I know I would have never even know this was an option for making money had I not found out in class. Most of the really big corporations have departments of people that do this for a living because it can be very lucrative if done correctly. The best news I have learned about this process of exchanging currencies is that many of the websites that you can sign up with to do this offer free trial accounts to help you learn before you invest your money into trying it.

You won't make any money in the trial accounts if you do well, it is just pretend money essentially but with the real market conditions. If you do well in the trial account you will know if this is something you want to try on your own. Benefits to Forex trading are that is can be done 24/7 whereas the stock market is a business hours only exchange. It is 24/7 because it is done with countries around the world so clearly there are countries that are awake and working while we sleep. Another benefit is you are in control of the trading on your account. You do not need to hire a licensed broker to make your trades and charge you fees. Along those same lines, anyone who does any investing most likely knows that some funds require you to own then for a certain period of time or pay early withdrawal fees. You do not need to concern yourself with this either. One last benefit that I would like to point out is the fact that Forex is not really subject to the same kinds of swings in the market that stocks are subject to. Of course if you always buy and sell the same currencies then there will be market swings. But, because there are hundreds of currencies out there, there is always going to be something for you to make money on because while one currency is up in value another one is down and vice versa.

There are many resources available to someone interested in becoming involved in this type of training. The Federal Reserve Bank's website is just one example of the information available — http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/foreignex.html. Here is another article that you will find helpful in starting out in this field. http://www.forex.com/pdf/pro2.pdf . I have also included one of the sites that does offer a free lesson. While there are many benefits to this type of training, as I mentioned above, there are certainly risks involved as well. There are risks with exchange rates, central banks in foreign countries, and risks involving interest rates and credit. Forex is quickly becoming a popular way to help diversify your investment portfolio. If you are good with understanding investing concepts and enjoy doing it this may be the home business opportunity for you. Just do your research and try to find one of the sites offering the free trial account to practice with and you are well on your way down the Road to Riches.

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Why Trade the FOREX?

My purpose for writing this article is to demonstrate to you the advantages of trading on the Forex market.

However, there is one myth that I want to dispel before I go further. The myth is that there is a difference between trading and investing. To dispel that myth I quote from Al Thomas, President of Williamsburg Investment Company, who wrote "If It Doesn't Go Up, Don't Buy It". He said "Everyone who invests is a trader, only the time period is different." It is a lesson that I took seriously after taking a beating in the stock market in 2000. So now, let's compare features of currency trading to those of stock and commodity trading. Liquidity — The Forex market is the most liquid financial market in the world around 1.9 trillion dollars traded everyday. The commodities market trades around 440 billion dollars a day, and the US stock market trades around 200 billion dollars a day. This ensures better trade execution and prevents market manipulation. It also ensures easily executable trading. Trading Times — The Forex market is open 24 hours a day (except weekends) which means that in the US it opens at 3:00 pm Sunday (EST) and closes Friday at 5:00 (EST), allowing active traders to choose the times they want to trade. Commodities trading hours are all over the board depending on which commodity you are trading. Including extended trading times US stocks can be traded from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm (ET) on weekdays. Leverage — Depending on your Forex account size, your leverage may be 100:1, although there are Forex brokers that offer leverage of up to 400:1 (not that I would ever recommend that kind of leverage). Leverage in the stock market can be as high as 4:1, and in the commodities market, leverage varies with the commodity traded but it can be quite high.

Because the commodity markets are not as liquid as the Forex market, its leverage is inherently riskier. Although I was never shut out of a commodity trade by the day limit, the fear was always in the back of my mind. Trading costs — Transaction costs in the Forex market is the difference between the buy and sell price of each currency pair.

There are no brokerage fees. For both the stock and the commodity markets, there are transaction costs and brokerage fees. Even when you use discount brokers, those fees add up. Minimum investment — You can open a Forex trading account for as little as $300.00. It took $5,000 for me to open my futures trading account. Focus — 85% of all trading transactions are made on 7 major currencies. In the US stock market alone there are 40,000 stocks. There are just over 200 commodity markets, although quite a few are so illiquid that they are not traded except by hedgers. As you can see, the fewer number of instruments allows us to study each one more closely. Trade execution — In the Forex market, trade execution is almost instantaneous. In both the equity and commodity markets, you count on a broker to execute your trades and their results are sometimes inconsistent. While all of these features make trading the Forex market very attractive, it still requires a lot of education, discipline, commitment and patience. All trading can be risky.

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Investing in Forex

Investing in foreign currencies is a relatively new avenue of investing.

There are considerably fewer people are aware of this market than there are people aware of several other avenues of investing. Trading foreign currency, also known as forex, is the most lucrative investment market that exists. There are several factors that make this true among which, successful forex traders earn realistic profits of one hundred plus percent each month. Compared to some of the better known investment markets such as corporate stocks, this is an unheard of return on investment. It's very necessary to mention here that a person who invests in forex must, without exception, make it a point to learn the detailed, but simple strategies and information surrounding the market. This very fact is what makes the difference between successful forex traders and other traders.

A few additional points, which create such powerful leverage for investors within the forex market are: The amount of capital required to begin investing in the market is only three hundred dollars. For the most part, any other investment market is going to demand thousands of dollars of the investor in the beginning. Also, the market offers opportunities to profit regardless what the direction of the market may be; In most commonly known markets investors sit and wait for the market to begin an up trend before entering a trade. Even then, investors, as a rule must sit and wait some more to be able to exit the trade with a nice profit. Given that the forex market produces several up, down, and sideways trends in a single day, it can easily be seen that forex stands head and shoulders above other markets. Additionally there are trading strategies, which are taught that provide for compounded profits; these are profits on top of profits. In addition, free demo accounts are available within the industry of forex trading, which facilitate the sharpening of skills without the risk losing any capital.

And the advantage regarding the time factor in trading foreign currency is a very attractive point for any investor. Compared to one of the most sought after avenues of investing, which often requires forty or more hours each week, namely in the real-estate market, the forex market requires a much smaller demand on the investor's time. Forex trading requires approximately ten to fifteen hours each week to earn a full time income. It's easy to see that the advantages and great leverage that exist in the forex market make it among the most lucrative, time liberating, and easy to enter by far.


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Support and Resistance Levels

Support and resistance are respective price levels at which prices stop going down or up.

Support levels indicate the price at which most traders believe that prices will move higher. Resistance levels indicate the place where the most of traders feel prices will move lower.
Trading ranges are formed by support and resistance levels. A trading range can play an important role in determining support and resistance as turning points or as continuation patterns. In a trading range, price fluctuates in a narrow band with no clear trend. Buyers take long positions when the prices move to the support level, and sellers go short at the resistance level.

Support and resistance does not always hold. A break below support level signals that the sellers have won out over the buyers, and bearish movement can be seen to follow. On the other side, a break above resistance level indicates that the bulls have won out over the bears, and the following uptrend can bring market price to a new high.
Here is an example in the forex market. Resistance for the EURUSD is located at 1.4975. The market bounces around below this level and forms a sideways consolidation for several weeks until both buyers and sellers think that fair rate of EURUSD is higher than 1.4975. The market breaks out of its trading range on 26-Feb-2008 and moves higher until most of the traders agree that fair rate is 1.5700.

Sometimes we can see the price pulls back to the previous resistance level, and then rally again. Why does such interesting thing happen? If the market trades back down to the previous resistance, buyers who missed the earlier breakout will see their second chance to go long. So the market rebounds up off this level which has now turned to support.

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Applying Cycles to Charts

In a recent article I described the influences cycles have on price and how it is possible to identify approximate time areas where the underlying price trend will reverse. Through observing when these reversals are likely to occur in the future it is possible to forecast several months ahead of one of these turning points when they will occur and thus understand the underlying direction for the intervening period.

What we now need to do is understand how these can be applied to the chart.
It is a manual process and not one which you can program to do automatically, but with a degree of trial an error it is normally possible to organize a logical framework of cycles. For this it is important to remember one of the basic principles of cycles – that of synchronicity – which dictates that cycle lows will normally occur at the same time and that two smaller cycles will fit into one larger cycle.
By opening a chart and clicking on the cycle icon it is then a simple matter of clicking on the bottom of the chart to apply the basic cycle:

Once applied the default cycle length of 10 is applied to the chart and almost certainly this will not be the most appropriate length for the chart. By double clicking on the cycles a cycle format window appears and allows you to change the color and cycle length. After clicking on “OK” the new cycle length will appear on the chart.

Now the initial process of applying cycles is a matter of trial and error. The first things to do is “eyeball” the chart to try and identify the larger price lows and the intermediate price lows in between to check they are roughly centrally located between the larger cycle lows.
For example, on the weekly USDJPY we could begin by applying the red cycles and then checking the cycle lows between by reducing the cyclic length by half and sliding the cycles along by the “handle” at the very bottom of the cyclic arcs.

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People are introduced to the exciting world of foreign exchange in many ways: friends, current events, newspapers, television, and many others. For those of you who are new to forex, the following guidelines cover the basics of currency trading.

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