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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Where Do I Learn Currency Trading If I Want to Become a Highly Profitable Trader?

By William Alheim Jr

The art of exploiting the Foreign Exchange Markets (Forex or FX) is thankfully a skill that can be taught by an instructor and learned by a student. As opposed to becoming a concert pianist, which can be taught by an instructor but almost never learned by the student. Another analogy my father used to make, is; "You can train a mule forever, but he is never going to win the Kentucky derby." It is very possible, if not probable that you can learn currency trading and make serious amounts of money if you become dedicated to that task.

Learning Forex trading is a relatively inexpensive and non time consuming process. Inexpensive, that is if you have a little money to invest in your future, if you don't have any money then you need to get some before beginning your education. The basic online currency trading courses start in the range of $100 and go up to $600 for the full fledged mentoring programs.

The courses are advancing and improving each and every day. They are almost always instructed by a full time professional currency trader who is just doing it in there down time to make a little extra money. What do I mean by "down time?" The vast majority of the time a professional FX trader spends at their computer isn't trading, but waiting for their specific computer programming to kick in and recommend a trade. In other words, it is kind of like being a policeman on a steak out, which is 95% boredom and 5% adrenaline rush.

Some of these courses supply an incredible amount of information and products for a nominal price. One recent upgrade by a highly reputable course happened this past week. Now, not only do you receive the instruction, you also obtain the software packaged specifically developed for this course, which if purchased alone would cost in the $100's. And on top of that they send you daily signals before the market opens and though out the day if something good pops up. You try signing up for signals from a big time Forex signal providers and see what it cost; it can run into the $1,000's per month. And you receive all of that for $50 a month or $500 a year. When I read that I said to myself, "that is just unbelievable the improvements that are coming up with constantly."

The market is very competitive for the suppliers of these programs and they are getting better all the time. The reason they are doing this, of course is that private investor entering the currency markets is growing continuously. It does not take the novice investor too long to determine it is much less expensive to take a course and learn what they are doing as opposed to gaining that knowledge through trading and dropping a few $1,000 in the process.

There is a lot more information I could provide about how to learn currency trading, but you really need to investigate the individual courses for yourself and try to find the one that meets your needs. If your thinking about entering the Forex markets you can pretty much just forget about learning all there is to know on your own, that is unless your rich and don't mind losing a substantial sum to gain that knowledge. In addition, if you watch what these instructors are doing to create a niche for themselves in the market you will find the value they are providing is increasing on a daily basis.


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