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Foreign currency exchange, the greatest game in the world with a daily trading volume of over a trillion and a half pounds (thirty times larger than the volume of all the U.S. equity markets combined), has it’s share of winners and mostly losers. Do you want to learn how to be in the winners circle?

Like any game it’s important to know the rules in order to win. You don’t have to be a professional to enter the sport, but you should have a basic understanding of the game and how it’s played. Most of this can be learned for free from the online brokerage houses who also give you free trading software so you can actually practice playing the game and gain your confidence and skills before plunking down your real cash in the big leagues.

As in any sport, the most important thing to do is practice before you actually play in the real game. I can’t stress that enough. Practice, practice, practice makes perfect. The only thing it will cost you is your time. When you think your ready to step on the playing field, start small. Most brokers will allow you to start trading in mini accounts with as little as 300 pounds.

And now for what you’ve been waiting for, the secret to winning at Forex. You need to have a trading strategy. In other words you need to know what to look for and how to trade to make money. Work out a basic game plan you expect to follow and never let your emotions influence your trades. Rule number one is never to risk more than 2% of your account balance on any one trade. That way if you have a streak of bad luck you will not wipe out your account. Rule number two is that if you have a string of five loses in a row, stop trading real money and go back to demo trading until you have demonstrated success for at least a week. Only then do you go back to trading with real money. Rule number three is to employ strict trading rules that you stick to no matter what and do not trade wildly. If you preserve your capital from big risks you will allow it to grow steadily and consistently. Don’t try to make a killing in a short time and you can reasonably expect to grow your account by 10% a month or more.

Remember to have fun with it and learn a little more each day. This could turn into a lifelong professional career.

Wishing you success,
Edward Karniewicz

Are you constantly surfing the internet looking for a forex trading strategy? Are you confused as to what course to start with? When you want to get involved with Forex trading, you have to figure out approximately how much money you would like to commit to trading, and then find a low cost course which will educate you to get started.

If you want to get started in trading really soon, one way is to buy a course online that teaches a specific method of trading, such as using Fibonacci ratios, Elliot waves, or other indicators that gives you a high probability of placing a successful trade. Then, you need to study and test the method on a demo trading account until you are profitable.

Here are two rules to always follow:

Rule #1: Paper trade, Paper trade, Paper trade. Please dont jump into the market with real money until you are confident and totally comfortable using the trading method. One surefire way of losing all of your money is to jump into the market too soon, before really testing a trading method.

Rule #2: Plan your trades, and trade your plans. As traders, the only way to test a trading method is to stick to it religiously. Therefore, its imperative to write down your plan or method for finding a trade, and stick to it. Just like anything we do in life, proper practice through paper trading will make you able to enter the markets with confidence and will ensure you dont lose your trading account.

Things to look for in a Forex Training Course:

When purchasing a course, check to make sure that it doesnt cost more than you have to invest in the market. If you have 1000.00 to invest, then spending 800.00 on a forex course isnt such a good idea, because you need 300 to open an account. Try to spend less than half of the money you want to start investing with on a Forex course.

Next, make sure that the course teaches you to trade independently without the need to subscribe to a service. Some courses just teach you how to use their trading system, which requires a paid subscription. Many times, the subscription trading systems dont reveal the method that they use to determine when to enter and exit a trade. So, if this subscription service goes out of business or their system stops working, then you are back to square one, without the knowledge of how to enter or exit a trade. As a trader, its important to know the method you are trading with. As my mentor told me, Its never a good idea to put your fate in someone elses hands.

If you find a course that meets the above criteria, then go for it, start your education today. Lastly, take your time. The market is always there. The more you practice, and educate yourself, the more profitable you will become.

Wishing you Success!

David Molina

This is a fascination. Here is a wide open field that almost anyone can take advantage of. It use to be only for the mega rich people, the big corporations and banks. They are trading foreign currency’s..

Can you imagine this is a 1.2 trillion pound a day being traded. Thats 1.2 TRILLION a day.
Now with the Internet you you too can trade the foreign currency’s. You can set up a account with as little as 300.00 up to whatever. Regular accounts usually start with 3000.00. You are able to leverage you funds 100 to 1. SO you will be controlling 10,000.00 or one lot in currency’s for 1,000.00 and for every pip on movement you can make 100.00. With the mini account you will control 1 tenth of a lot. 1000.00 for 100.00 and your pip is worth 1.00. Just so you will understand a pip is what an increment movement in a currency is.

You buy it if you think it will go up and sell it if you think it will go lower. Of course there are charts and all kinds of ways to tell what is going to happen. It just takes learning the in’s and out’s, ups and downs.

There are a lot of different currency’s but here are the main ones that are traded.
USAYEN USA Japanese GBPUSA British Pound
USAEURO USA Euro is European USACHF Swiss Franc
USACAD USA Canadian EUROYEN

There are no commissions and no fees only narrow Dealer spreads. These spread vary depending on the trades. Major pairs are 3 to 5 pips. You will learn more about all of this when you start out. The wisest thing to do is to start out with a demo account or what we call a paper account where you do everything as if it was real money but it is only on paper. So you get to learn the in’s and out’s and learn to read the charts and how to understand the fundamentals. These are the world events that effect the currency’s.

There are many different strategies. Each have their strength’s and weaknesses. They each deal with different ways at looking at the charts and their movements. Want some ideas? There are Scalping
trades, surfing charts, sailing and many more. It fun and exciting, and sometimes a drag. Sometimes you will win 100 to 500 pips. Then there are times you will lose pips too. YOU will never win all the time. But thats where there account management comes in. You learn to control your risk taking.
Usually the biggest sin or failure comes when you let your emotions become involved. EVEN the big shots sometimes let their emotions get involved. Most the time it doesn’t work and will cost you.

So with good account management understanding the various charts you can take 300.00 and turn it into 6000.00 in 6 months or less.