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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

How to Stay on Top of the Forex Market With Forex Alerts

By Krzysztof Sroka

Currency exchange covers the entire world and all twenty - four time zones, so Forex is a twenty-four hour and five days a week market. It is by far the biggest market in the world.

It is very difficult to forecast the Forex market and but like forecasting the weather, predicting the Forex market is sometimes a guessing game, and often an adventure. Many traders have different ways to forecast the market. There are no perfect methods. If someone tells you otherwise, he is probably just trying to scam you. If you can be 65% correct in Forex it is a great achievement. To become a profitable trader, learning proper money management and discipline is more important than any trading methods.

There are two main ways of forecasting the market: fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Some traders use one of them, and some a mixture of both of them. There is lots of information and articles about fundamental and technical analysis.

There are also traders who use computer programs to do automatic or automated currency trading. Those programs use technical analysis and they are becoming better and better, but they are still not good enough to skip proper education about currency trading.

In this article I would like to talk about Forex alerts.

What are Forex alerts?

A Forex alert is a message sent to the user informing him of the latest developments in the Forex market, often recommending action of some kind. These alerts can be sent via e-mail or mobile phone. They are available from many online brokers and other companies.

Even if you limit yourself to the most popular markets like United States, Euro zone, Great Britain, Australia, Japan and Switzerland you still have many currency pairs to keep an eye on.

Forex market is also very volatile so situation can change very quickly.

There are two main kinds of alerts. Some sites simply send out alerts every 24 hours, offering the latest info on the Forex market. Others send alerts only when something crucial happens. These systems use formulas of their own to determine when to send alerts and they could charge much more for their alerts. It is always a trader's decision what to do with the alert.

Some brokers include Forex alerts as part of their service, while others charge for them. Some are part of a wider alert program that also handles your stocks and bonds.

Many Forex currency traders who use Forex alerts are very fond of them, but no Forex system is perfect and an intelligent trader will always do some checking to make sure that the latest alert did not miss something.

Forex alerts are very helpful for busy traders, helping them to trade without having to constantly watch the Forex rates, so it is a good idea to try them.

Whatever the alerts or systems you are using, it is most important to trade with discipline and proper money management.


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1 comment:

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