Learning to Trade Forex

By Gerald Greene | May 26, 2008

Learning to trade forex is very easy. Learning to trade forex well and at a profit is much more of a challenge.

There are several outstanding reasons why learning to trade forex is a worthwhile educational project. Forex, or foreign exchange trading is the granddaddy of them all in the trading field. Daily volumes are into several trillions of dollars. The huge size of the forex market reflects the basic use of money by everyone in the modern world. This massive activity every business day means that the skilled forex trader has a virtually unlimited pool of money to tap into almost at will.

After learning to trade forex successful forex traders can make hundreds, even thousands, of dollars a day right from their home computer. One of the most successful forex traders of all time, George Soros, once made over a billion dollars in just a few days time by correctly forecasting that the Bank of England would not be able to defend an overvalued British Pound.

Once Soros had completed his analysis he didn’t just sit on it, he took massive action and placed a large short position against the Pound. As the Pound went from around 2.000 to 1.5000 Soros made his huge fortune.

So to come back to the few good reasons to why learning to trade forex may be a good idea for those who have risk capital to trade with:

1. The forex market is where the big money is. There are no predefined limits as to what a skilled trader can make from trading forex.

2. The forex market is worldwide and in major currencies quite active. You can trade forex around the clock five days a week.

3. The forex market is highly liquid. This means that there is always a dealing quote at which you can buy or sell active currencies.

4. Forex trading usually comes at you in a hurry. Your trade will most often move into a profit or hit a stop loss point within a few hours, sometimes within minutes or even seconds.

5. Currencies usually trend one way for long time periods. It is not unusual for a currency to have a major trend in one direction for three to five years at a time. When you trade with the major trend this gives you a trading edge.

If there is one point above all others about learning to trade forex it is this one. Your chances of having a successful outcome to your trade are increased tremendously when you trade with the major trend. When you enter your trade on a reaction (correction) within the trend your odds of completing a successful trade increase even further.

For example, let’s say that you have identified the Euro as being in a major uptrend against the US Dollar. This is easy to do by looking at a long term chart of the Euro against the US Dollar. Instead of immediately rushing into the forex market and buying the Euro you wait until a correction takes place, as they often do, and you buy the Euro on a pullback to its long term trend line. This takes some patience and discipline to do but the payoff can be huge.

As the major trend kicks in your Euro position is immediately in profit. Then you have the pleasant decision to make as to when to take your profit. Learning to trade forex can be broken down into a series of decisions like this.

The key to learning to trade forex at a profit is careful analysis as to the direction of the trend and then waiting for a good entry point. Patience and discipline are the hallmarks of the most successful forex traders.

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