Most of Japan institutional investors as well as life insurers, along with Japanese margin traders and foreign funds seem to sell yen heavily, while the currency pairs reached their record lows. Nevertheless we hope for a successful trading start in this week.
Over the last two months, the South African Rand has plummeted, losing nearly 20% of its value against the US Dollar en route to a five-year low. It seems the currency has become the latest victim of the credit crisis and the resulting widespread risk aversion. The sudden exodus away from the carry trade, for example, has affected the Rand disproportionately, as many foreign investors had come to South Africa over the last few years to take advantage of the country's 12% interest rate.
Successfully trading the forex market on an intraday basis requires precision and a very careful selection of trades.
The enormous scope of the trillion dollar, 24 hour, globe spanning fx market presents a myriad of opportunities for the short term trader - however a day trader in this market must be aware of certain inherent factors to overcome.
Firstly, the bid ask spread in the fx market, normally at least 3 pips, makes trading on the shortest timeframe - in and out within seconds - very difficult.
The daily ranges can be very wide among certain currency pairs, presenting many opportunities for the day trader - however I feel that the intraday forex trader should look for specific technical and fundamental conditions before entering trades.
Secondly, due to the fact that there is currently no centralized exchange in the forex market, traders lack data on volume and open interest (the number of active contracts for a given security over a given time period)- important sources for traders in other markets - which causes a necessary shift in focus to other technical and fundamental factors.
While interbank dealers are able to see the order book and use this to their advantage, the retail fx trader can exploit their ability to react faster, and also with the knowledge that their trades will not move the market, as the trades of the larger institutions will.
The CME and Reuters are planning to launch a trading platform for fx in Q1 2007 - using CME trade matching and clearing technology - this will address the issues mentioned above (ie the spread will be tighter, you will be able to see volume etc.) and it will be interesting to see whether they can attract the liquidity and create a successful marketplace.
While both technical and fundamental analysis are important to the forex trader, we will begin with a focus on technicals.
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One should probably not use technical strategies to enter trades right around important economic releases such as the employment report.
Key levels of support and resistance will still come into play, after the fundamental data has played itself out in the market - but the short term technicals will hold little relevance.
If you want to enjoy Forex trading success then you need to pay attention to the 3 points enclosed, each of them is essential to making big profits so lets take a look at them...
The points we are going look at struck me when I was reading about how trading legend Richard Dennis taught a group of people with no trading experience at all, to trade in just 14 days.
They went on after their training, to make hundreds of millions of dollars in their trading careers and many still trade today.
This group learned quickly and while they had a good tutor, the three points that stand out for success from their story are these.
The system was essentially simple and was a long term, breakout, trend following system. Anyone could learn it and while it was simple that's why it worked.
All the best systems are, as they are more robust than complicated ones, with fewer elements to break, they are also easier to understand and have confidence in.
So keep your trading method simple and robust to win.
2. Money Management
The key to success in Forex and other leveraged markets is to make sure that you defend what you have, any successful Forex trading strategy is based on sound money management.
Dennis applied to the system strict rules that had to be followed in terms of money management. In fact, the system had far more losers than winners but because they were kept small, the gains when they came more than compensated for the losses.
Any trading system will take losses and you need to get used to this and make sure you cut them quickly with objective money management rules. Don't ever believe the myths you see online about losing periods not occurring, even the best systems lose for weeks on end and you have to trade through them which leads to my next point.
3. Confidence and Discipline is the Key
All the traders that Dennis taught found the system easy to learn - but found the hard part applying it with discipline and sticking with it. This is hard for all traders.
We don't like losing, as it hurts our egos and our emotions try and get involved but if you deviate from your system, you don't have one!
You must have the discipline to trade through losing periods, until you hit a home run.
You don't just get discipline - this comes from the right Forex education, self knowledge and confidence in what you are doing.
Get on the Road to Profits!!
You have seen that Forex trading is a learned skill in this article and you can win but you must pay attention to the points we have covered - but if you do Forex trading success can be yours.
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