Forex Guide: Things That Every Beginner Traders Should Know Before They Start Trading in Forex

it's a fact that forex trading became a highly preferable investment method in the last decade. Combined with the internet as a global 24/7 network forex is reachable to everyone. I'll not give you about the basic explanation of forex trading in this article.

Forex trading is basically just an investment

As any other investment, there are always benefits and risks beyond forex trading. Many people/organization, especially forex brokers, its affiliate and those who earn their income by providing some forex related services says that forex trading have so much advantages compared to other investments; Forex is easy, with its non-stop 24 hours market, its wide range adjustable leverage, its automated trading platform, its offered better opportunity for income resource, and many more -- you name it as much as you want to...

Blinded by its 'beautiful dream imagination', many small/personal traders, especially for the new ones forgot that forex trading is basically still an investment program. Traders should never have a thought that forex trading is an income resource.

Common Beginner Traders Scenario

Beginner forex traders are usually follow the trend of forex trading without preparing and providing them self with an adequate understanding about what's inside forex trading. Their common scenarios are:

1. Know about forex trading

2. Have an interest in forex trading

3. Looking for an easy and profitable forex services

(Usually by looking for some services with less margin, high leverage, automated trading platform, and less risk? - which is too good to be true)

4. Start gambling with their trades

5. Unable to achieve profits as what their imagination

6. Repeating scenarios 3, 4 and 5

7. Repeating scenarios 3, 4 and 5 again... and again...

8. Realizing that they are loosing too much or that their imagination along these days/weeks/months is wrong (i doubt that it would reach years)

9. Give up and quit their trading for good.

Where did they do wrong in above scenario? Is that wrong to always searching for a better service to back up our trade? In my point of view, there are no mistakes in that scenario at all. But it's just incomplete, and that's the most dangerous mistakes made by most beginner traders.

How to Overcome Traders Mistakes and Begin to Make Some Profits in Forex

The facts are, there are just 5% of forex traders which successes with their trading. To become as they are, we should insert step 2.5 in scenario above. This step will simplify above scenarios by eliminating the fourth and eighth and changing ninth step became TRADERS GOAL ACHIEVED.

2.5 Preparing yourself with a solid basic knowledge of forex trading

- Know about the fundamental of forex trading

- Learn about what and how forex market really is

- Train yourself to getting familiar with the technical analysis in forex trading

- Learn how psychological factor affecting in the trading and define our best trading personality

- Be aware in our risk and money management

- Develop your most effective unique trading system based on your knowledge.

We should keep in mind deeply that forex trading is an investment. There is no way that we could be a master in some investment that we've just dive in to for days or weeks. We have to do it by the right way, and don't forget to eliminate your rush in the goal achievement. You will surely find your best trading system that suits you, I guarantee that. But it would cost you some time for several trial and error system testing while you developing your experience in forex trading.

By using an analogical approach as a computer, forex broker is the application programs and operating system. We do need them to make sure that all we need its done, served and executed properly. But, how good the computerization execution speed and its performance are depends on the basic computer specification, which analogically as you.

How to Get Yourself Completely Forex Prepared

Learning and education materials are world widely spreading around us.

1. The first and the most value added a resource of forex trading is through book reading. Forex and investing categorized books are availabe in countless numbers in many bookstore and online bookstore. You should pick some of them to educate yourself with valuable knowledge of the theory beyond forex trading.

2. Try to get into some traders forum to know more about forex trading and the markets. Forex forum also a place to give you an information for forecasting the crowd psychological factor to forecast the currency price movement by examining on how do other traders react in some financial forex related world events.

3. Get a forex course. An expert forex traders or forex broker are offering this kind of forex educational method. The course are usually about the basic knowledge of forex, technical analysis technique usage and its tools, an expert trading advice or maybe in how to develop a particular tested forex trading system which profitable (if done right and backed by your forex basic knowledge).

4. Forex magazine subscription. Some forex magazines are published weekly, monthly and others might be yearly. These materials usually give you information about the updated forex market behavior overview and analysis which can be use for the input of the fundamental analysis of your forex trading.

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Start Trading The Forex Market?

HOW TO READ FOREX PRICE CHARTS? Forex Price Charts, what DO they mean and HOW to use them? Important numerous facts as discipline, trading rules, not being greedy etc., but one of the most important things is:
LEARN to read the charts as Charts represent the lifeblood of the market.
I admit that reading charts, and interpreting patterns, are more an art than a skill. Base and apply your entry and exit decisions on YOUR OWN combined methods of technical and fundamental analysis.
FOREX charts, are easier to interpret and to use. They reflect a slower moving, stable economy of a country, compared to the stock market, with its daily drama of company reports, Wall Street Analysts and shareholder demands.
Unlike stocks, currency charts do not spend much time in trading ranges and have the tendency to develop strong trends. Furthermore, Forex with its 4 Mayor currencies is easier to analyze than tens of thousands of stocks.
(Mayor currencies are: USD/JPY, EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/CHF)
The complimentary FREE live charting software, with the ultimate cutting edge technology provided by http://www.fenixcapitalmanagement.com/ , will be absolutely sufficient for you to analyze and watch any one currency pair. Understanding just a few basic points about the technical analysis of currency chart can lead to increased profit potential.
Pricing - Price reflects the perceptions and action taken by the market participants. It is the dealing between buyers and sellers in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) or “interbank” market that creates price movement. Therefore, all fundamental factors are quickly discounted in price. By studying the price charts, you are indirectly seeing the fundamental and market psychology all at once , after all the market is fed by two emotions - Greed and Fear – and once you understand that, then you begin to understand the psychology of the market and how it relates to the chart patterns.
Data Window Chart – FCM and most online charting stations, when you click on a price bar or candlestick, it will display a small box of data usually called a display window which will contain the following items:
H = Highest Price
L = Lowest Price
O = Opening Price
C = Close Price (or Last Price)
The most common types of price bars, used in FOREX trading, are the Bar Chart and the Candlestick chart:
Bars Charts -
Price bars are a linear representation (a line) of a period of time. This enables the viewer to see a graphic representation summarizing the activity of a specific time frame. As an example, I use 10 minutes, 60 minutes and daily time interval for my systems. Each bar has similar characteristics and tells the viewer several important pieces of information.
First, the highest point of the bar represents the highest price that was achieved during that time period. The lowest point of the bar represents the lowest price during the same period. Regular bars display a small dot on the left side of the bar which represents the opening price of the period and the small dot on the right side represents the closing price of the period.
Candlesticks - Japanese Candlesticks, or simply Candlesticks as they are now known, are used to represent the same information as Price bars. The only difference is that the difference between the open and close form the body of a box which is displayed with a color inside. A red color means that the close was lower than the open, and the blue color represents that the close was higher than the open.
If the box has a line going up from the box it represents the high and is called the wick. If the box has a line going down from the box, it represents the low and is called the tail.
Many interpretations can be made from these "candlesticks" and many books have been written on the art of interpreting these bars.
Chart Intervals & Time Frames:
A chart Time Scale & Period, or time frame, basically refers to the duration of time that passes between the OPEN and the CLOSE of a bar or candlestick.
For instance, with your broker software, you will be able to view a currency pair, in a 1-hour time frame over a 2-day period, 5-day period, 10-day period, 20-day period and 30- day period.
Most of the short-term time intervals (5-min and 1-min charts) are used for entry and exit points and the longer- term time intervals (1-hour and daily charts) are used to see where the general trend is.

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How To Increase Your Personal Cash Flow

Financial independence or freedom does not just happen by accident. Many people are waiting to win the lottery. Sorry to disappoint you, but that will not happen. Financial independence requires that you take deliberate steps.
An important step along the path to financial independence is increasing the amount of money available to you. This money can help you reduce debt and also help you to build a nest egg. There are two ways to achieve this goal. One way is to manage your expenses, and the second way is to increase your available income.
How to manage expenses
Make every attempt possible to spend less than you earn. This may seem obvious, but it is very difficult for many people. If you keep spending more than you earn, you will always struggle financially. If you develop a habit of spending less than you earn, you would have taken the first step towards financial independence.
Create a budget by looking at your monthly expenses. Differentiate between your wants and your needs.
Take a good look at all your insurance policies, like auto, home owners, and medical. Try and increase the deductibles on your insurance policies to an appropriate level. This will reduce your premiums, and hence increase your cash flow.
When doing your grocery shopping, look out for store brands. They are less expensive.
Earn tax deductions by starting your own business. Some of the tax deductions you may be able to make are:
• Self-Employment Tax Deduction
• Home Office
• Health Insurance Premiums
• Meals and Entertainment
• Internet and Phone
• Interest on Business Loans and Business Credit Card Interest
• Car
• Travel
• Education
Please do not consider the above as tax advice. Always seek tax advice from your tax consultant.
If you are considered to be on low income, talk to the utilities companies. They may consider giving you a discount on your utility bills.
How to increase your available income
One of the ways you can increase your available income is to take on a second career, or part-time job for additional income.
Look through the house and find things in the house you can sell either on eBay or in a garage sale. You will be amazed at the amount of money you can make from this. You can sell things like dvds, furniture, electronics, books etc. You will make extra money from the sales, and also create additional space in your home!
You can offer a service that other people would pay for. For example you can offer services like teaching, translating etc to make some extra money weekly.
You can also be a part of focus groups online by taking surveys and sharing your thoughts about certain products and services. Be careful about the online surveys though, many of them ask you to pay money upfront and offer you little or nothing in return.
Consult your tax consultant about adjusting your W-2 allowances if you are expecting a tax refund.
Thoroughly go through your last three years' tax returns to make sure that you did not miss out on any deductions that were available to you. If you missed out on deductions, file an amendment to your taxes.
Of course you can always ask your employers for a raise at work, or offer to work additional hours for overtime pay.
Once you are able to create additional income, you can now begin to invest in order to achieve financial independence.

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