Currency Trading Beginner Tips

These are some of my favorite currency trader beginner tips. I've used these when I was starting out to break out from that newbie person into a more confident and profitable trader. This is a great opportunity for you to learn the necessary skills to become that better trader.

What do I need?

You need to have an overall game plan to do well. A game plan offers you the thoughtless process to action. You don't have to figure out what you're going to do, you just have to act according to the game plan. This allows you to focus more of your energy on the tasks that end up generating profits for yourself. Another great thing to note is that to grow you need to be able to evaluate how affective a technique is, so you need to test things over and over again. This is what a game plan does.

You should also get your hands on trading software like Forex Killer. This software packages acts like having your own employee. They take care of trades, so when you're away from the computer, you can be confident that you won't lose all your money. It also searches for profitable trends for you to exploit.

What should my margins be?

Well, it really depends on your skill. Starting out, everyone starts small. It is the best way to learn, without risking much. The problem is that you don't get a fair look at your skill from the results. Margins are so small, that the brokers cut actually is a significant amount of what you're making. This means your profits are a lot less than they would be if your margins were good. Obviously, start out small, but learn to grow to larger trades in time.

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Forex Factory - How To Prepare For Your Trading Session

The Forex Factory web site is a very popular site among developing Forex traders as shown by an Alexa rating of around 5,400 most visited sites on the web. Any site within the first 100,000 gets serious traffic!

Forex Factory provides 3 main services listed in my personal order of importance:

• Calendar
• News
• Forum

Calendar

The main attraction of the Forex Factory calendar of upcoming economic reports and fundamental announcements is that it is so visual and easy to read.

A color coding system gives an indication at a glance as to how volatile the announcement is expected to be:

• Yellow - Low Impact
• Orange - Medium Impact
• Red - High Impact

Another good feature of this calendar is the ability to customize the time to your own time zone. So instead of having to add or subtract a certain number of hours from GMT to arrive at the time of the economic report in your country, you can set the calendar according to your time zone and see the time accurately displayed.

This feature saves some confusion and prevents a newer trader from leaving a trade in around a volatile news report because of getting the time mixed up!

News

A number of news reports are featured daily from authorities and advisors in the financial markets.

Within a few minutes the trader can come up to speed on the latest economic factors that might impact the market.

Forums

The Forums at Forex Factory have a huge appeal as indicated by the thousands of users online each day.

The forums are divided into various themes including:

General Discussion

Trading Systems

Broker Discussion

Forex Beginner Questions and Answers

How To Get The Best From Forex Factory

For me, the calendar is by far the most useful feature at Forex Factory. I consult it each day in preparation for the next trading session and make sure I am out of the market around volatile news releases (flagged by the red icon) and also many times the medium impact reports (flagged by the orange icon).
The News feature is also useful to get a broad overview of market sentiment. At the same time caution is needed if you use technical analysis as your main trading tool as the comments and opinions of others can sometimes blur your own analysis and lead to flawed trade entries.

You may have detected a perfectly good trade setup and the trade is going well. Then as it starts to stall the comments of a news analyst come to mind and you exit prematurely from what could have been a very profitable trade.

So it is good to view the News objectively and coordinate it with your own technical analysis.

Forums - Be A Little Cautious

For newer traders the discussion forums can be helpful in bouncing ideas off other newer traders. One of the main benefits is encouragement and motivation from hearing how others are getting on.

However, as to whether you can get good trading tips and strategies from the forums is in my mind a little doubtful.

After I attended a Forex seminar run by a licensed professional who trades the Forex every day and is a fund manager, I noted his comment that the really successful Forex traders rarely have time to visit online forums and participate in discussions. They are too busy making money on the Forex!

So as long as you approach forum discussions with the realization that most participants are also in the learning stage, you can evaluate their comments and suggestions accordingly.

There is no doubt Forex Factory (forexfactory.com) provides an excellent group of services for newer Forex traders. Definitely use the calendar to the full and depending on your level of expertise, use the News and Forums features to gain a better perspective of daily market activity.

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