Saturday, December 13, 2014

To improve your Forex Trading: Use these Steps

Whether you're new to Currency Trading or a seasoned trader, you can always improve your trading skills. Education is fundamental to successful trading. Here are six steps that will help hone your Currency trading skills.
Successful professional traders do three things that amateurs often forget. They plan a trading strategy, they follow the markets, and they diarize, track, and analyze each of their trades.

STEP 1
Strategize, Analyze and Diarize

1.      Plan How You Will Trade
You may have heard the adage, "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail." This is particularly true in Forex speculation.

Successful traders start with a sound strategy and they stick to it at all times.

·         Choose the currency pairs that are right for you.
Some currency pairs are volatile and move a lot intra-day. Some currency pairs are steady and make slow moves over longer time periods. Based on your risk parameters, decide which currency pairs are best suited to your trading strategy.
·         Decide how long you plan to stay in a position.
Based on your currency pair selection, plan how long you want to hold your positions: minutes, hours, or days. Remember that depending on your account type, having open positions at 5:00pm Eastern Time may incur rollover charges.
·         Set your targets for the position.
Before you take a position you should establish your exit strategy. If the position is a winner, at what rate will you cash out? If the position is a loser, at what rate will you cut your losses? Then, place your stops and limits accordingly.

2.      Follow the Forex Market
Use Forex charts and Forex news to monitor market information and technical levels that affect your positions.

·         Use Forex Charts
Charts are an indispensable tool to improve trading returns. You can easily recoup the money spent on a charting package from a single well-placed trade based on the analysis from professional charts.