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How to become a Full time forex trader

March 11th, 2010

My success and journey to become a full time forex trader started when I finally started to recognise the repetitive behaviour of the daily forex price charts. This article will talk briefly about my trading journey and where I am today as a result.

The Beginning

In the first 3 years of forex trading, I feel I had been an extremely motivated market student, undergoing intense forex training and study as I could fit into my life. My focus was to learn trading as many trading strategies, with the common goal to make money and quit my job. Like most traders, my early forex trading account statements where poor, in fact, I blew up many small accounts whilst learning the do’s and don’ts. The tables only turned when I discovered an extremely simple methodology to identify trading setups from daily price charts.

When My Forex Trading Changed

There was a transition period in my forex trading career when I started to move from the 1 hour charts to the 4 hour charts and then finally to the daily charts. I couldn’t believe I had been overlooking the higher timeframes for so long, and yet they offered some very clear, very simple trading setups which repeated often enough to recognise easily. After watching just the daily charts for several months, I began documenting the price patterns, and my observations. What started as an exercise became my trading method and plan. Everything was now revolving around the higher timeframes which made the chart clear and clean. Things in that initial trading plan included, basic trend definition, plotting key levels, finding single and multiple bar price signals. Over time, I found that the largest players in the market where also using horizontal lines to trade from very often, in fact, It was when I also started to trade based off simple horizontal levels that my account started to soar.

Keeping trading simple

Whilst there is no way a trader can trade just horizontal levels or just trade one price action signal and make money, the core foundation of my success lies in learning how markets react and trade around key chart levels and specific price action signals. I can certainly deduce that all traders who make serious money think in a very simple manner, me included. The daily chart allowed me to live a healthy life, with less stress, thus increasing my trading performance as well. So the message is very clear, continue to keep it simple, and keep using the same method, don’t deviate to another method, just keep mastering it and believing in it. That’s how I did it.

Why Price Action?

Price Action removed all the noise and mess of the charts. I now look at raw price charts with only 1 or 2 longer term moving averages to assit with trend definition. The entire method is based around simple, concise trading rules. I learned that markets rotate very often, and rarely move in one direction for very long, thus why I have learned to work within the market true structure. I let trades come to me as I wait in ambush for the perfect setup. Price Action is not only your ability to read a chart, it’s your ability to maintain a simplistic outlook on price and its expected direction. Patience is required, because daily charts move slowly!

Where I am today

The journey for a trader is long, it can’t ever be easy, however, there is a serious argument to what can and can’t work in terms of a trading style. You need to learn to “read price action”, not just learn a system or method. The trick is to keep it simple, but also keep learning to read price charts. Now that I am doing well in my trading endeavours, It is my duty to educate aspiring traders, to guide and assist them. I feel that if you just start to clean up your chart, remove the indicators, and look at the raw daily price charts, you’re going to discover a world that you never knew existed. The world of “price action”.

Nial Fuller is a Full time Forex Trader, and Market Coach. He runs an education website for traders: Visit http://www.learntotradethemarket.com/ for Full Time Forex Traders.

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Winning the Battle at Forex Trading one day at a time

March 10th, 2010

You need the right attitude to succeed in Forex trading. If you are looking to create a substantial fortune from your ventures in Forex Trading, then you should treat each and every transaction as a mini battle that requires skill, determination and experience in order to win. Major successes are built by smaller successes stacked one on top another. This principle also holds true for Forex trading. Essentially, the resulting structure will be just as good as the individual bricks that make it up.

The Building Blocks of Success

If want to generate large amounts of profit by Learning Forex Trading, then you have to think about what needs to be done to start making your daily transactions a success. Now, how do you achieve this goal? The first step is relatively simple. Remember, previous successes in an area usually leave clues. To be a success in Forex trading you have to learn from your predecessors, those who have made it big and are creating fortunes for themselves.

By leveraging as much of the experience and knowledge of those who have gone before you as possible, you are spared at least some of the pain from going through what would be a steeper learning curve of trial and error. You will still require strength of character and high levels of patience to get through, but at least you won’t be traveling completely in the dark. 

Learning from experience 

No one goes through a new venture without making some errors and facing unpleasant experiences. The earlier you meet these experiences, the better it is for you. You learn from these and make better choices in the future. This is an important point. There needs to be progression. Take notes if you have to, so you don’t repeat previous mistakes. If you find that the same negative thing is happening over and over again, then you need to stop. Draw up a plan. Look at it before you place any trade to keep yourself in check. This will help reduce any bad habits or impulses that might impair your ability to trade profitably.

Overcoming greed and temptation

Sometimes, greed takes you over and gains better control of your logical mind. You will be tempted to get into or out of the market prematurely while you are trading. This temptation will increase because you will often see examples of situations when you would have made some money if you had plunged in. This sort of haphazard approach will eventually get you into trouble. Living in fear of losing money is another challenge that needs to be met with when participating in Forex trading. Fear is never a good companion for this sort of endeavor. You can allay this a little by trading with small amounts at first or expendable income. The rest is up to you to find a way to overcome your fear of loss. Some of it will come with time. Remember, if you do your homework and prepare properly, you will perform better. You will also be able to notice your high level of performance. 

You want to ensure that luck has a reduced impact on your trades. Therefore, watch carefully and make sure you keep your emotions in check. If it feels like a dice throw, you are doing it wrong. 

Strike when the iron is hot 

Seize he opportunity when it arises, but never invest blindly without doing all the research to ensure you are trading in the right direction. Research need not take a long time for every trade. It might be a look at your charts, a minute’s investigation, or longer. You will get better at reading the signs as time goes on. By keeping up to date with the latest news is in the industry and the global economy you can increase your general awareness and use the information to help you trade better and more accurately. When the time comes, you must act. Failing to take action when the time is ripe will not do you any good. While not losing money is important, making money is also important. Strike when the iron is hot and you could be a success story. 

In your quest to making it trading Forex, you will undoubtedly face some challenges and losses along the way, but that should not be an excuse to quit. 

Donald Ogilve has been trading the Forex Markets for years. Check out his blog at ForexInitiate.com for tips and insights on Forex Trading. You can sign up for a Free eCourse and get useful Forex Trading Resources to help you trade profitably

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The Forex Market “Fundamental Announcements” come out at what time if I live in California?

March 10th, 2010
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Secret Forex Strategy that works Every Time

March 10th, 2010

Do you wonder how successful forex traders make profit every time they enter into any trade? No matter what the market condition is, no matter rates are falling or rising they always manage to make profits. The secret of their success lies in the way they think and enter into any trade. If you understand how and when they make purchasing and selling decisions it is very easy for you to copy them and you too can make profit in every trade you make in forex.

Before looking into the secret strategy of successful traders let us first look at why most of the novice inexperienced traders miserably fail in forex market. If you notice around you will see that most of the traders have a mindset of ‘buy low and sell high’ notion. While it may be true but it will entirely depend on guessing and predicting the future.

No one can predict future 100% correct, let us face it. And so it is futile to attempt to predict how market will move in future. Buying on support point and selling on resistance levels can go wrong at least 8 times out of 10. The reason is several factors play a role in market movements. It’s just not possible for any expert to predict the market future movements.

It is for this reason that experienced smart traders don’t bother to predict the future. They rather try and follow the trend. Their strategy will be to ‘Buy High and Sell More High’, and this works every time. You need not to care why market is coming up or why market is coming down. Simply catch a point while rates are moving up and enter the trade and come out of it the moment you see you are making minimum profit.

You can master this strategy with little practice and experience. It is a proven formula for making sure profits in every trade. If you want to be a successful in forex trading, make sure you visit this site for some valuable resources: http://www.commodityforex-onlinetrading.com

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is everything closed down at this time in the forex market? if so when do they open up?

March 10th, 2010

I don’t see any movement with any of the curriencies i have listed nzd, aud,us,cad,eur,jpy,chf,gbp, and it wont let me buy anything. WHat are the closing times for all of these? and if you are a trader and wish to help me to learn how to trade email me

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