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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Basics of Forex Trading

By Ivan Tan

The trade of foreign currencies more correctly known as the Forex trading is gaining importance nowadays. The trade is based just on the fluctuations of the market value of the currencies and because of these changes in the values the traders can make big gains. The trade is not a sort of gambling or the gains are not based on flukes but on critical thinking and planning. Forex trading needs aw lot of patience and homework. For a trader to become successful in forex arena he must have all the arsenal in his armory. The training in forex training and the basics learned plays a crucial role in the success of a trader and the tutorials essentially contains many basic points to be learned by the student.

Never rely on flukes:

A fluke is always a fluke, never is it sustainable or is it considered as an everlasting factor. Once gaining substantial money upon speculative trade is a good thing and may or may not repeat itself. The point to be remembered is that without good grasp over the subject and the current affairs the forex trading is not advisable. To get excited over a fluke and rely just on the fortune can lead to disasters.

Being up to date:

Any forex trader has to be up to date regarding the current affairs. The trader must be keen to search for the information regarding the currency he trades with. A wavering personality never succeeds in making a decision. Only proper knowledge about the currency forecasts make a trader confident to trade the correct currency at the right time. The study process has to be strong and the trader must find time each and every day to learn about the currency forecast. Studies makes the trader confident and practice makes him prefect. The trader can realize what he has observed without doubt if he is confident about the data available with him.

Plan the "Sell-out"

Trade is always subject to risks. A forex trader may buy a currency observing that the value of the currency is at a rise. The value of anything in the market cannot increase infinitely. The value may reach an asymptote level and then start declining. Any forex trader buys a currency seeing its value increasing. However it is not safe to keep the currency for a long period. The currency has to be sold out. The trader must sell out the currency when the value reaches a profitable value. The sell-out time has to be planned. The trader must have a strategy to sell out the currency at a maximum profitable level. This is a capability to be built individually. Thus planning the sell-out is a crucial factor to sustain in forex trade.The strategies can be of two types. The trader can sell-out his currency when he gets a certain percentage of profit. The second strategy is to comprehend the timing and the factors which initiate a currency to start ascending and to properly calculate the time of recession, thus the currency can be sold out before the recession starts.

Plan the loss percentage:

This means that the trader must have an idea that how much he can afford to loose. The trader must plan the percentage say 25%. If the trader feels that the recession will continue and that the loss will thus be more he has to sell that particular currency. The trader cannot hold the declining currency for long since it affects his investment in other currencies that is on an ascending mode. The main point is that never loose heart after a failure. The factor of risk is predominant in trades such as forex.

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