Using A Simple Forex Trading System
Post on: 30 Март, 2015 No Comment
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Anyone that is new to trading forex would love to find a simple forex trading system that can bring them a little pocket change. The simplest system that there is to trade forex is to buy low and sell high. That might seem ridiculous at first glance, but it really is the foundation for making money in forex trading. If you want to learn forex. and make money at it, you should really think about this.
Most new traders get caught up in the sales hype of making fast money in forex and they start out using extreme leverage and going for quick wins and they get eaten alive practically before their account deposit clears. Not to say that all forex brokers hope for this, but it’s a very profitable venture for them.
If you want to make money trading forex, you have to slow down and take it easy. Investing is a game of patience. You should seek the opportunity, and then let it develop. Most traders are either too afraid to wait, or too greedy to know when to call in their chips.
Your question by now has to be how will you know when you are buying low and selling high? You can actually do this on any chart time frame. but you’ll find it easier looking at daily or weekly charts. Look at the history of a currency pair. Currency pairs actually tend to range most of the time, so it’s pretty easy to see a pattern of movement when you look at the bigger picture. A simple system for you to use is place an order when the currency pair is in it’s lower range, with a stop reasonably placed outside the bottom of that range, and set a take profit order at the top of that range, and wait.
You might be saying to yourself, well that sounds easy, why doesn’t everyone just do that and make money. The easy answer is because it requires patience. You have to be willing to sit on that trade until you either are proven wrong by having your stop loss executed, or until you win by hitting your target. Most forex traders want to play with their traders, or make more trades in the meantime, and they end up sabotaging themselves in the process.
The basic rule of thumb is simple, don’t get yourself into any trades that will easily wipe you out. The term easy refers to the ability to be wrong by hundreds of pips. This is a particular trading style, more of a long term approach and an easier way to win. It’s not likely that you will ever pick an exact bottom or top, so don’t bother trying to perfect that art, it’s a costly learning experience, one that most people fail at. The way to win at forex is to accept that you can be wrong, and put a limit on it. If you add using low leverage. or no leverage to that, you can win.
If you started trading forex with the dreams of opening an account with $500 and getting rich, dump that notion right now. You can make money with forex investing strategies. but it’s not an overnight process. Making the money takes time and patience. There is no easy way around that concept. Most of the software you find on the internet will fail you and many signal services make their money from their subscribers rather than trading forex. This is because there are no easy answers. If there were there would be far more successful forex traders out there, but there aren’t, because it’s not something you can start and immediately become successful at.
A simple forex trading system is to buy low, sell high, protect yourself with a reasonable stop and be patient. You may be thinking that you will find something that seems easier, but this is the bottom line way to win. You can apply it to a short term range, or a long term range, either way, this is what trading forex is all about. Ignore the hype and use non emotional logic, and you will survive to trade another day.