You should consider whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Want to become a Forex Trading expert? Well, this might be your lucky day!!? We have finally decided to put all of our experience and knowledge into this Forex Pdf.

This Forex Trading PDF is written in such a way that even complete beginners can understand it and learn from it. In other words, we have read tons of Forex books, opened and closed thousands of trades; have filtered out? all the needed basics for beginner traders, and simplified them. This means that a trader client can multiply his or her account value by a factor, normally between and , in order to come to the amount that can actually be used for trading.

So if you have deposited 50, US dollars, Euros, Aussie dollars or whatever your local currency is , and you are allowed leverage of you will, in theory, be able to place a single trade that has a value of 5,, five million or 5. It is not unreasonable that it will move up a cent, to 1. In the expectation that this will actually happen, 5.

This would cost 6. Later, if the view taken turns out to be correct, the original 5. The account would have been doubled. Now, it is also possible, and approaching a certainty in the long run, that the move on the day would be against the position.

All that would be required in that case to completely wipe out the account - to lose everything - would be for the change in the rate to reduce by one cent, instead of increasing by that amount. This would represent total disaster.

The broker has a computer system monitoring all accounts on its books. This is programmed to close out positions where equity has reduced to below a certain figure, which will never be negative. In this case the loss is locked in. This is the danger of leverage and a clear indication that it must be used sensibly. Like all loans, this attracts charges, including interest. Therefore, if a position is held overnight, an overnight charge will be applied on top of the commissions, which are debited at the points in time when the position is opened and closed.

In order to illustrate this, another element needs to be defined: the stop loss level. In the above case, the strategy might define this, based on our research and in order to create the best probability of being profitable over time despite such a loss on a single trade, to be at the level of 1. Now all the information needed to define how big our position should be is known. Some brokers require position sizes to be in lots, or amounts that are made up of round one thousand figures.

In such a case the above would be rounded down to k. Except to define a limit, leverage should be irrelevant Notice that the leverage allowed, in this case , does not figure in the calculation at all.

Stop loss orders are very important. There are a number of inviolable rules attached to them. The first of these is that they are always, but always, used. Placing an order without a stop loss 43 is an act of lunacy. The second rule is that they are only moved in the direction that will either reduce potential loss or increase profit. The Omicron Forex software strategy carries out the above calculation automatically without the need for any inputs in the way of exchange rate which is available to it instantaneously , stop loss level which it calculates by reference to the trading plan that it incorporates , or equity size money or money equivalents in the brokerage account , which is data it can obtain itself from the client account when the calculation needs to be made.

The reason for this is that they have come to the conclusion that all asset classes in our global economy are correlated move in harmony with each other. Traditional diversification involved investing in things that could be expected to do well when the others were doing badly. Think of a shop stocking umbrellas to favour winter revenues and something like barbecues to drive income in summer. The diversification under discussion here is very much on the micro level.

Individual currency traders might also decide to get involved in equities, for example, as a form of diversification, or may have property holdings for the same reason. That type of activity is beyond the scope of this manual. Here multiple currency pairs are used in an attempt to improve the risk profile that would be present if trading was confined to one currency pair only. Our diversification can be expected to work because the currency pairs used, while they might be correlated, are not perfectly so.

See the section on psychology for examples. Do not confuse past and present Another potential problem with diversification, but only for those traders whose mindset allows them to confuse the past with the present, is that sometimes when there are a number of positions on and one of them is going nowhere, regrets tend to surface for having placed the nonperforming trade.

They forget two things: one, that they are looking at the situation with the benefit of hindsight and two, that anything can happen in the future - the turkey they think they are looking at now could easily become a beautiful swan in a short time.

Of course it could also become even worse, suffer a decline and go into reverse, but that is what our stop loss order is there for. In practice, basically because of the possibility that losses will be incurred on one pair while another is making profits, the net outcome over time will not be that much different than if there was no diversification.

The real benefit is that it tends to smooth things in the interim. Drawdowns losses incurred on a daily, weekly or monthly basis will be less severe at any given time than they otherwise might be, while periodic interim surpluses that might otherwise be present will be smaller. This is good for the psychology of trading, because there are few things more debilitating than facing large drawdowns, at the time they are experienced. It takes a lot of faith and sangfroid not to be affected by these for the simple reason that no matter what your system has tested like in the past, the future is, as always, an unknown country.

And here is where risk management and capital retention come together with a bang: when you diversify into one or more additional currency pairs, you must make sure to reduce position size for each one. You might decide that the benefits of diversification are such that the reduction does not need to be pro-rata. For example, if you include five pairs, you might only reduce your risk amount so that each pair had a quarter of what you would be prepared to risk where there 45 was no diversification, meaning that your overall aggregated risk will be larger than if your entire stake was in one pair.

Mark Douglas: The Disciplined Trader Probability theory was developed by early mathematicians as a means of assisting their aristocratic clients to prosper at the gaming tables. It was very quickly realised that the host, the person who controlled the roulette wheel or the blackjack bank, could build an advantage for themselves into the rules of the game.

With a properly balanced wheel the odds in favour of any number winning are exactly equal but if there is one position on which only the house can win then, over a large number of plays, the house will always come out ahead. In Europe there is only one zero on a roulette wheel. In the US there are two, making US roulette distinctly more disadvantageous to the player.

In Blackjack or Vingt et Une, or Pontoon , the advantage for the banker comes from the fact that if a player goes bust reaches a position where his cards add up to more than 21 , the house wins, regardless of whether or not the banker goes bust at the end of that particular game. The lesson is clear when applied to trading. As the future cannot be foretold, in order to consistently make profits traders must have an edge which, in the nature of things, can only come when the activity is viewed on a long term perspective and over a number of trades.

In equity trading, the market specialist on the NYSE or market maker on the NASDAQ holds inventory of stock and normally takes the other side of trades that are made by private participants through their brokers. In addition to that, the broker often holds stock as well and can also be the counterparty. This gives all these entities an opportunity to define an edge for themselves, which has to be, by definition, at the expense of the trader. Far more preferable, from the point of view of the private trader, is to do business with what is 47 known as an Electronic Communications Network ECN broker.

Here all trades should be made directly between the party that wishes to buy and the one that wants to sell. All the broker does is facilitates the trade. His profits come from commissions, the spread the small difference between the buy and sell price and any charges that are applied to leveraged positions that are kept open overnight.

If the trades description acts in various jurisdictions have any meaning, this should turn out to be the case in practice. Positive expectation If the specialist, market maker and broker are all taken out of the equation and trades can be made directly between the buyers and sellers, then the way is at least open for individual traders to define an edge for themselves. Key to this is a positive expectation. This can come about in a combination of two ways: ensure that each winning trade is more profitable than the loss on any losing trade, and win more trades than are lost.

The trading plan programmed into the Omicron Forex trading software puts this into action by ensuring that the loss on any trade can be no more than between 0. The first thing that happens in any winning trade is that one half of the position is taken off when the profit reaches one percent of equity, while at the same time the stop loss order is moved towards the break even position, the exchange rate at which the trade was entered.

Even at this stage profit has been locked in minimum 0. Fundamental to this is the ability to trust the broker to act on the provisional order that has been placed to achieve the outcome described. This is not always the case — brokers and their systems have been known to fall down in this area.

This is why it is necessary to choose one that you can have confidence in. This procedure has an importance that is on the same level as always using a stop loss.

Think in probabilities - any given trade is not significant, and the future cannot be foretold. Therefore unrealised or paper profits attain a greater importance than they otherwise might appear to have.

What this means in practice is they must be protected. Taking off some proportion of a trade, and moving to break-even at the earliest time, therefore becomes something that should, in principle, be done.

The successful trader does not allow this to be the case. To believe that part of your equity, which is what a paper profit constitutes, can be gambled with because it was not there earlier in the day when trading started is a major psychological mistake to make. Just as paper profits must be protected like newborn babes, so losses must be ruthlessly and clinically cut down before they have a chance to develop. The following is an example of the kind of trading combination you should aim for.

Your systems should be designed so that you have a reasonable expectation of something like it happening on a regular basis, although there is certainly no guarantee that this will be the case. The following is not even an indication of a typical week. The occasional profit foregone because the trailing stop algorithm has stopped out the trade too early, which becomes apparent in hindsight, is nothing more or less than the cost of doing business.

All it means in reality is that you must be constantly testing, testing, testing and, very importantly, doing this over extended periods. It could have made more but it is programmed to refrain from new trades when there are currently open positions under management. The example here deals with only one pair but in practice five pairs would be involved in trades simultaneously in order to get the benefits that accrue from diversification. No day in that week was judged to be unsuitable for trading.

In other words, no day was known in advance to be a day when there was a probability of bi-directional volatility of a type that would trigger the trades and their stops in rapid succession. Even though the overall short term trend favoured the trade, a very short term reversal was enough to close it out. It lasted for 20 hours. The losses were 0. This trade would have been terminated at the close of London trading on the Friday in accordance with the policy of not holding trades over the weekend.

It might also be worth reiterating at this point that there is total indifference as to the direction of each trade. One of the wins was a SHORT trade and the other was LONG.

There were more losses than wins, but the week still came out well ahead in terms of percentage profit. This is because there is a positive expectation at all times. The net result for the week in Profit and Loss terms is below: 53 An outcome that represented a profit of 4. Many professional traders would be delighted to make this amount monthly, particularly if they could do so consistently.

Back-testing Making sure that more trades are won than lost is somewhat more difficult but this is where price action research comes in. The automated strategies, under the control of the same software that places the trades, are applied to price data going back over time, often for many years.

Data broken down into periods of one minute is available for these blocks of time. It is the later data that is most important because it is this activity that will best approximate to what is likely to happen in the immediate future.

There are various things that must be taken into account when this research, known as backtesting, is being carried out. One is to ensure that different time zones and periods of the year are taken into account. Even though the data used is always recorded by reference to Greenwich Mean Time GMT , the various trading centres of the world operate in different time zones. When using 30 minute charts, as the Omicron Forex breakout strategy does, such things can have high significance. While manuals like this can show what is possible and how it can be carried out, there is no substitute for achieving the work-rate yourself.

You need to be able to see prices changing in the historical tester. You need to be able to change the strategy parameters, one by one, and note the effect it has on the outcome over a significant period of time, much more than a few days or a month.

You must train yourself to recognise and avoid the phenomenon of curve-fitting, which means allowing yourself to be convinced that changes made that are effective in the short term can be extrapolated to the longer term. They cannot. The historical tester allows for back-testing to be done in visual mode, when activity is so speeded up that 30 minute bars can open and close in seconds.

As well as providing the answers to research questions this makes available a tremendously vivid representation of the behaviour of prices and highlights, in particular, the need to maintain the discipline required to allow each trade to take its course as part of an overall strategic plan which is based on probabilities.

Scott Fitzgerald: "The Crack-Up" A fundamentally important requirement for trading, whether it is Forex or anything else, is the ability to maintain discipline. This sounds great, but what does it mean in practice?

It means having a plan and sticking to it. It means realising that, in the context of a well tested strategy, any one trade is verging on the insignificant. Knowing this, no trader would intervene, for example, to move his or her stop out of sequence to that specified in the plan.

They most certainly would not make policy on the fly and do something like increasing the stop loss distance after the trade had been placed, for any reason. Trading in a methodical manner in accordance with the plan, and having the discipline to do it continuously, is known as systematic trading. The opposite of this is discretionary trading.

Here a trader will watch for opportunities and act on them. The trigger for entering a position might be a news story, a remark by a commentator or nothing more sophisticated than gut feeling. This type of trading is not recommended some market commentators seem to be there as contrarian indicators - one would make more profit by doing precisely the opposite of what they recommend , but it can be very difficult at times to stay on the train tracks that are mandated by systematic trading.

Automated routines are one way of helping to overcome this difficulty. At the very least, if you find yourself intervening in the operation of one of them you will know that discipline has been breached.

This is an advance over making an intervention and being under the illusion that it was part of the strategy just because you considered at one stage making such a change in the plan but decided, for now, not to. A proper plan is not, repeat not, modified in the heat of the moment. Discretion required Having said all that, there are times when discretion is required.

This might sound like a contradiction but there is nothing illogical about making an element of discretion part of the plan. After all, it has been recognised that, helpful as automation is in trading, the idea of a true Forex robot, set to run once and never to be monitored or managed, is the proverbial non-runner — a recipe for account disaster.

And, given the unbounded nature of the complexity of trading, is likely to remain so. In the example below, a scheduled announcement has been made by the US Federal Open Market Committee FOMC , basically to the effect that they were leaving interest rates unchanged, at GMT, or in New York, on June 20 These announcements take place on what has become known as Fed Day, which occurs about 11 times per year, and is always scheduled well in advance.

These would have blown any new trade taken at the opening of London or NY out of the water. It was known that the announcement was coming up, and when, and also the tendency of the market to behave in the way it did on such occasions. There is no point at all in knowingly sending your troops your equity funds into a hail of bullets. Therefore, we have to find another way of dealing with such events. Experience has shown that certain announcements, for example US quarterly GDP figures, can be accommodated by waiting until some hours after the announcement before setting up a trade.

Working out the characteristics of the way the market is likely to behave for different scheduled events, and the way the patterns change over time, is where the real work is involved in currency trading.

Spend a lot of time doing just that - in Forex, this is where having a good work rate is important. Of course there are also times when it is impossible to anticipate developments. Below is an example of a trade that started off well on the release of German business confidence data, which was deemed a positive for the Euro. Note well that it was not necessary to have been aware of this beforehand. The system is designed to latch on to movements such as this when they occur, for whatever reason.

The Euro started to rise against the US dollar. So far, so good. Then, at about GMT the EU Commission came out with an announcement that it expected the euro zone the bloc made up of those countries that use the euro as currency to go back into recession.

This was perceived, for a short time, as negative for the euro. The system had set itself up on that day on the GMT bar and the downward swing caused a short order to be triggered. This was stopped out for a loss when the market had second thoughts about the EU Commission announcement and 58 continued its original rise based on the earlier good news. The Omicron Forex breakout strategy caught this new rise as well, for a profit, but the roller coaster ride of that day did do a small amount of damage because the default stop was hit on the original short trade.

Dow Jones Newswire report explaining one reversal, but not two. Other considerations: support and resistance It is tempting to second guess the system and, for example, to change the way the software sets up the conditional orders after they have been placed but before they are actually filled. This might happen when you notice that major support or resistance levels are coming into view. However, this is to second guess matters. Attempting to predict market direction is nearly always a mistake.

For this reason you should confine yourself to using discretion only in order to 59 decide when to sit out a trading day, or to make the trigger bar of the system one that comes into being on a high impact announcement day a number of hours after the event that has the potential to increase short term bi-directional volatility. The decision on whether or not to do this will be based on research into how the price acted on previous, similar, occasions.

Two types of volatility Volatility is the measure of the rate at which prices or exchange rates change. This has little to do with the volume of business — volatility can be quite high during times of thin trading, because relatively small traders have the ability to move the market on those occasions.

For the purposes of the Omicron Forex breakout strategy, distinction is made between two types of volatility. The bi-directional kind, which can hit the stops in rapid succession, is a major issue for all breakout trade methods and efforts are put into avoiding the markets when it is high.

Unidirectional volatility, where the price takes off in one or other direction and just keeps on going, is a different matter. This kind is loved by breakout traders and they often experience feelings of dismay when it is found that they are not in the market when it happens.

William Shakespeare: Hamlet The psychology of trading is yet another concept that a lot is heard about but which all too often remains just that, a concept. The best way, and some would argue the only way, to gain an understanding of what it really means is to indulge in a great deal of screen time — time spent trading with either a live account or a demo account where you never reset the account values.

Or using an automated strategy on historical data with visual output. What can be done here is to explain what you would be expected to find out under such conditions.

The purpose of trading, contrary to what new entrants to the activity might think, is not to make money. Far more important than this for the human psyche is the need to be proved correct — it just happens that very often the accumulation of profits defines and measures what success looks like.

Psychology is all about perceptions. What each has is a mental image that is the result of the interpretation of the signals received by the senses, as related to and interacting with experiences that have been acquired during life, particularly those from early on. Therefore, if you can convince yourself that being correct in your trading activity is not about making money, at least from the very start, and instead is about training yourself to work within parameters that define success whether or not you are profitable, you will be better able to proceed.

Essential tools for peace of mind Tools that enable you to achieve this include a trading plan, a strategy that is based on the probability of being right in aggregate over a period of time rather than in any given trade, and a gradual, methodical approach to the amounts that you invest in your trading. The first thing to do is to define and live the parameters for your trading. The trade went the wrong way — so what? What you have is a successful 61 application of one part of your strategy.

So long as the same can be said for all other parts, this is all that matters because you are in for the long haul, you are conscious that the results over many trades are what count and you are thinking in probabilities. Of course, it is important that you have confidence in the other strategy elements as well.

But you know that the next trade you take will be mandated according to research that has proven that such methodology worked in the past. The standard financial products disclaimer that says that past performance is not a guarantee of future performance is certainly valid, but your trading is a tiny part of a market that has shown patterns continuously and, in the event that the market turns completely on its head, you have strong and effective money management techniques in place.

Yet more comfort can be provided by a level of diversification. Diversification in Forex Many currency pairs are correlated — in other words, their historical charts for any given period look similar, but, apart from special cases that arise from time to time, this correlation is far from perfect.

To best illustrate this it might be instructive to look at one of the special cases, where the correlation is as close to perfect as you can get, although negatively so. This was done because money was flooding into Swiss francs as a response to the perception that the Euro was in crisis and the consequent appreciation of the franc was hurting exports of Swiss manufactured goods. The pairs are said to be negatively correlated Remember, however, that this has not the same significance as if two equities were negatively correlated - the order of the currency pairs has been arbitrarily fixed by convention.

These two pairs have been more closely correlated in the past, but never perfectly. The same goes for many others and it is the small differences that provide protection in the way of diversification. Our strategy calls for positions to be taken on five pairs at present. Because of continuous research on the way they behave, this could change. Build up gradually as you gain confidence Yet another element for providing peace of mind is the gradual build up of the amounts that are committed to trading.

You should start with a demo account, where you will risk no money at all, although any profits you make will also be of the imaginary kind. As you gain confidence with your real-money account you can start to use a greater sum as your base equity, which are the funds upon which all percentages mentioned in these notes are based. Then, as time goes by and you get more and more in tune with what you are doing you can add to your account until you reach the amount that you wish, and can afford, to trade with.

Jesse Livermore: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Technical analysis is concerned with taking trades based on the way currencies are expected to perform when certain chart based technical signals are present. Fundamental analysis is about the way the markets react to financial, political and other such developments that take place.

When it comes to events in the outside world that might move the markets, there are two basic categories to be taken into account — scheduled and unscheduled. However, our only interest in scheduled events is for the likelihood of them resulting in bi-directional volatility. It is normally not possible to know what announcements will contain and, even after they are known, what effects they will have on the eventual direction of the markets. And it is this last consideration that is important.

There is no scarcity of pundits who are willing to attempt to predict things, and to attempt to anticipate what a currency pair will do if they are right. The reality is that they have, by this practice, simply magnified the chances of being wrong. They might get the prediction right, but be wrong about the market reaction. On the other hand the prediction might be wrong, in which case they lose credibility.

It is far better to concentrate on what the market is actually doing in the aftermath of any development. This requires the study of present tense price action, which we trade with just one eye to how market participants have reacted in the past to the fundamentals. They can certainly surprise you. On the other hand, expectations of these reactions by others can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Past, present and future There are many technical indicators and techniques based on the way they form themselves for picking market direction, most of which have come from the technical analysts that study and trade the equity markets.

Technical indicators include Stochastics, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Floor Trader Pivots, Ichimoko Clouds and many, many more. Each and every one of them suffers from one drawback — they are all lagging indicators.

This means that they form and reform based on what has already happened, not on what is happening now. There are only three tenses — past, present and future. Studying the future is ruled out because, no matter what, nobody is clairvoyant - it is impossible to foretell what will happen.

That leaves the past and the present. The past is gone and will never return. Even though patterns, of a sort, appear and reappear on charts of prices and exchange rates against time, they are never identical. What is happening now, of course, can stop happening and reverse, but activity in the present rather than the past has a better chance of signifying the way forward, and if things do turn around, risk management systems are in place, and are well tried and tested.

Chart patterns, and support and resistance Apart from the lagging technical indicators there are recognised chart patterns, such as head and shoulders formations, double and triple tops and bottoms, flags and pennants, that do seem to command respect, probably because so many traders believe in them. Support and resistance levels, which are signified by repeated failed attempts to breach them, also work, at least temporarily.

What always surprises is the degree to which these form at round numbers on the chart. By any standards, a round number should not have any particular significance, just as the millennium year of had no significance in terms of natural phenomena, and in any event was celebrated at the wrong time due to ignorance of the importance of zero on the number line.

These things are relevant only because of the way the human mind works but that, of course, is a valid consideration in trading because all other traders are human, or at least have had their software written by humans. That support and resistance levels are respected is only important if they actually result in a change in the trend.

A support line that is eventually breached is one that the trader will be happy he or she did not react to. There are scalpers who operate in the very short term, and who watch for these and act on them, but this is high octane stuff. Other chart patterns are those made up of the relative positions of open, close, top and bottom of candlestick bars.

These have various names, such as exhaustion bars or pin bars , where the open and close are near the top or bottom of a long bar, inside bars which, as the name suggests, are formed within the top and bottom of the one that preceded them, and the Hikkake pattern, which is a combination of inside bar and a false move outside of the so called mother bar, or the one before, and which helps define, the inside bar.

These patterns are said to have predictive powers about either a reversal or a continuation of a trend. These are in direct contradiction and the problem is you cannot really tell which of them it is until after the fact, when it is often too late to take advantage. Key dates in the trading calendar Fundamental analysis of currency markets takes in such things as the political, fiscal, monetary 67 and commercial health of the economy whose currency might be considered as one side of a trade.

While these things certainly change and influence exchange rates in the long term, all market participants are now carefully watching what are considered to be leading indicators.

The market can react very quickly indeed to an announcement that might have a bearing on future trends. So it is important to be aware of the times at which important announcements will be made. Some of these are on fixed days every month, such as the U. non-farm payroll report which is released at EST on the first Friday of the month, to cover the previous month, by the US Department of Labor.

The day before, a private company, ADP Payroll Services Inc. Both of these are watched carefully, and are perhaps the announcements which, at the time of writing, can be expected to have the biggest effect on currency pairs that include the US dollar, although there are others that can sometimes have a greater impact. The market reaction is nearly always a dramatic increase in bi-directional volatility at the time of the announcement, often with strong uni-directional moves or even new trends developing in the hours and days that follow.

This list is not exhaustive, nor is the importance of each announcement fixed. Sometimes an event in this list will cause hardly a ripple, while at other times one or other will be awaited with bated breath by participants. This normally coincides with times of crisis, or perceived crisis, in an economy. For example, during the Euro crisis that started in , sovereign bond auctions, 68 which are normally regarded as routine events, came to be carefully watched for the interest rate that had to be paid and the take-up of the offering, if the Euro zone member state involved was perceived to be a potential bailout candidate.

Potential high impact events for Forex trading In addition to the above there can be totally unscheduled commentary from influential people like, for example, leading members of one or other of the central banks. These are, by their nature, impossible to predict. Again, a person perceived to be influential can say something on one occasion that is ignored, while at other times what might appear to the private trader as an innocuous comment from the same individual can move the market. All the majors are interlinked, to a greater or lesser extent, but actions of the various central banks, for example, will obviously have a greater impact on their own currencies.

Interest rate differentials — the Carry Trade Normally interest rate moves are an indication of the strength of an economy, and they impact Forex for this reason. Often, though, they are of supreme importance to those that participate in what is known as the Carry Trade.

When institutions change large amounts of their money into another currency they are interested in something other than the appreciation of that currency unit against the one they held previously.

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Unlocks access to the leading crypto trading analysis, signals and trading tools. World class development team backed by Quant developers and VC investors. Our Forex trading PDF, it is widely believed that forex is one of the biggest and most fluid or liquid asset markets in the world. Sometimes referred to as FX, currencies are traded 24 hours per day — 7 days per week. In simple terms, refers to the process of exchanging one currency to another — and generally speaking, this will be for tourism, commerce, trading and many other reasons.

In this forex trading PDF we are going to talk about what forex trading is and some of the commonly used terminology in the industry. Essentially, it is the action of selling or buying foreign currencies. Of course, these are all used by banks, corporations and investors for a variety of reasons like profit, making a trade, exchanging foreign currencies and tourism.

One of the major benefits with forex trading is that after opening a position, traders are able to put in place an automatic stop loss as well as at profit levels this closes the trade.

The forex market is a place to buy or sell against each other a variety of national currencies, globally. Wherever two foreign currencies are being traded, you can be sure that a forex market exists regardless of the time zone. In this section of our forex trading PDF, we are going to run through some of the most commonly used forex trading terminologies in the industry.

The pip represents the smallest amount possible a currency quote can alter. For instance, 0. The differentiation between the sale price and the purchase price of a currency pair is known as the spread. The least popular least commonly used currency pairs usually have a low spread.

In some cases, this can be even less than a pip. When trading the most commonly used currency pairs the spread is often at its lowest. The total value of the currency pair needs to surpass the spread in order for the forex trade to become profitable.

In order for forex brokers to increase the number of trades available to its customers, they need to provide capital in the way of leverage. Before you can trade using leverage, you must sign up to a forex broker and open a margin account.

Contingent on the broker and the size of the position, leverage is usually capped at if you are a retail client non-professional trader. Some offshore forex brokers will offer much more than this if you are seeking higher limits.

It is because of the aforementioned example that you should exercise caution when using leverage. Should the worst possible scenario happen and your account falls below 0, you should contact your forex broker and ask for its policy on negative balance protection. The good news is that all forex brokers which are regulated by ESMA the European Securities and Markets Authority will be able to provide you with this extra level of protection, ensuring that you never become in debt with your broker.

Margins are a good way for traders to build up their exposure. Put simply, in order for a trader to maintain position and place a trade, the trader needs to put forward a specific amount of money first — this is the margin. Rather than being a transaction cost, the margin can be compared to a security deposit. This will be held by the broker during an open forex trade.

It is commonplace for forex brokers to give their customers access to leverage see above. In order for you to lower your risk of exposure and offset your balance, you might consider hedging. This is a procedure which involves traders selling and buying financial instruments. When there are movements in currencies, a hedging strategy can reduce the risk of disadvantageous price shifts.

The protection of this technique is often a short term solution. Traders often turn to hedge in a panic as a result of the financial media reporting volatility in currency markets. This is usually down to huge events like geopolitical turmoil conflict in the middle east , global health crisis COVID and of course the great financial crisis of To counteract negative price movements, market players will tactically take advantage of attainable financial instruments in the market.

This is hedging against risk in its truest form. Hedging will give you some flexibility when it comes to enhancing your forex trading experience, but there are still no guarantees that you will be totally protected from any losses or risks.

While it can take some time to get your head around heading in the forex markets, the overarching concept is that it presents both outcomes. That is to say, irrespective of which way the markets move, you will remain at the break-even point less some trading commissions.

More specifically, the spot trade is a spot transaction, with reference to the sale or the purchase of a currency. Essentially, spot forex is to both sell and buy foreign currencies.

A good example of this is if you were to purchase a certain amount of South African rands ZAR , and exchange that for US dollars USD. If the value of the ZAR increases, you are able to exchange your USD back to ZAR, meaning you get more money back in comparison to the amount you originally paid. CFD is basically a contract which portrays the price movement of financial instruments. So, without having to own the asset, you can still make the most of price movements, whilst also avoiding the need to sell or buy vast amounts of currency.

CFDs are also accessible in bonds, commodities , cryptocurrencies, stocks, indices and of course — forex. With a CFD you are able to trade in price movements, cutting out the need to buy them at all. This section of our forex trading PDF is all about forex charts. When it comes to a MetaTrader platform, traders can use bar charts, line charts and candlestick charts.

You can usually toggle between the different charts, depending on your preferences, fairly easily. The first record of the now-famous candlestick chart was used in Japan during the s and proved invaluable for rice traders. These days, this price chart is without a doubt one the most popular amongst traders all over the world. Much like the OHLC bar chart see below , candlestick charts provide low, high, open and close values for a predetermined time frame.

Live forex traders love this chart due to its visual appearance and the range of price action patterns utilised. This allows you to gain a better understanding of how live trading works before you take any big financial risks in the market. As the title suggests, this one is a bar chart, and each time frame a trader is looking at will be displayed as a bar. In other words, if you are viewing a daily chart you will see that every bar equates to a full trading day.

With this price chart, traders are able to establish who is controlling the market, whether it be sellers or buyers. OHLC analysis was the starting block for the creation of the ever-popular candlestick charts please further down.

It is a great tool for looking at the bigger picture when it comes to trends. The line chart arranges the close prices at the end of that time frame; so in this case, at the end of the day, the line will connect the closing price of that day. In this section of our forex trading PDF, we are going to talk about the different ways in which you can sell and buy a forex position as well as things to look out for.

When it comes to forex trading you can trade both short and long, but always make sure you have a good understanding of forex trading before embarking on trades. After all, forex trading can be a bit complex to begin with, especially when mixing long and short trades. In a nutshell, going long is usually a term used for buying. So, when traders expect the price of an asset to rise, they will go long.

When forex traders expect the price of an asset to fall, they will go short. This means benefiting from buying at a lesser value. To achieve this, you simply need to place a sell order. The current exchange rate of a forex pair is always based on market forces. This will change on a second-by-second basis.

As we noted earlier, you also need to take the spread into account, so there will always be a slight variation in pricing. For instance, if you exchange 1 USD for 17 ZAR, the sale and purchase price offered by your forex broker will be either side of that figure.

The currency pairs with the most notable supply and demand attached to them will be considered the most liquid in the forex market. The supply and demand aspect is thanks to the investment of importers, exporters, banks and traders — to name a few. The most liquid currency pairs are therefore the ones in high demand.

When you feel you are ready to take the plunge and begin live trading, you need to select a forex trading system. There is a vast amount of trading strategies for you to pick from. This is because investors, speculators, corporations and banks have been trading for decades.

In this part of the forex trading PDF, we are going to explain a few of the strategies available to you. If you want to buy and sell currency pairs from the comfort of your home or even via your mobile device , you will need to use a trading platform. Otherwise referred to as a forex broker, there are literally hundreds of trading platforms active in the online space. This makes it extremely difficult to know which broker to sign up with.

In the below sections of our forex trading PDF, we explain some of the considerations that you need to make. You should also look out for analysis tools available to you. In some cases, this might be embedded, while some offer tools such as technical analysis and fundamental analysis. This is because it will save you a lot of leg work having to move between different sites and sources of information. Some of the fastest and easiest trading platforms are MetaTrader 5 MT5 and MetaTrader 4 MT4.

Crucially, both MT4 and MT5 are fast and receptive trading platforms, both providing live market data and access to sophisticated charts.

It is essential before you begin trading seriously that you fully trust the trading platform you intend on using. This is especially the case if you intend on using a scalping strategy, for example. However, if you like to trade, it is vital for your peace of mind and your finances that you are fully confident with the fast execution of data transfer. This is also the case with the precision of quoted prices, and the speed of order processing.

All of these things are going to help you to have a successful forex trading experience. To enable you to make the most of new opportunities, the ideal forex broker will be available to you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, in line with the forex market opening hours. To save you from having to request that your broker takes action for you, your forex broker should enable you to manage your account and your trades separately.

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