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Currency Trading Education – Find Out What the Gurus Aren’t Telling You About?

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

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It seems like every trading guru in the world is offering the exact same currency trading education. This is mostly due to the fact that they all believe in the same thing: Slap on a bunch of indicators on your chart and come up with a “system”. You don’t need a guru for that. Watch I’ll pull one out of thin air:

Put stochastics indicators, a couple of moving averages, and an MACD on your chart.

Only buy when the moving averages cross each other going upwards and when stochastics are oversold and when MACD shows positive price divergence. Now, only sell when moving averages cross each other going downwards and stochastics are overbought, and MACD shows negative divergence.

There, a system just off of the top of my head.

There are so many things wrong with this that I don’t even know where to start.

Let’s begin with the obvious fact that everything you just put on your chart is completely lagging. It’s all information telling you what has already happened. It’s great if you want to know what has has happened in the past and how these indicators reacted to them, but it doesn’t mean much for the future.

The other obvious problem with this: Did you notice you didn’t have to look at the price while trading this? Its not important for trading a system like this. That should be a major red flag. There is nothing more important than price when it comes to trading in any market. Frankly you could throw out every single indicator that’s on your charts, and you’ll be left with all the information you’ll ever need to trade forex successfully.

By: John Templeton

About the Author:
John Templeton has been a successful forex trader after learning how to trade price action. Once he understood that all he needed to trade forex was on a plain chart with no indicators, his profits soared. he created a course off of this concept called Trading in The Buff.



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Forex Trading Signals – Top 2 Forex Indicators That Can Help You Succeed in Currency Trading

Thursday, October 14th, 2010


If you are going to be a successful forex trader, you have to learn how to recognize forex trading signals that pinpoint when you should buy and sell your holdings. The great traders are able to pick up a trend at the very beginning and hold onto it until just before it begins to go the other way. However, you don’t have to be great to be successful in this market. If you can capitalize on the middle of this trend, you can make a nice, tidy profit. The secret of course, is to at least be able to recognize when that trend has struck and is going to be profitable for you to get in on. This is so called a forex trend system.

There are different forex trading strategies, but using indicator crossovers is the most

common and effective way to spot new trends. MACD and moving averages are among the more utilized technical forex indicators that are made used of when going with this method. There are a lot of services provided out there that provide you with pin-point entry price and exit price, be it forex day trading signals or a swing signals. But to know which are the better ones, it is advisable to search for some forex system reviews, so that you will not get into a pirate ship.

Now we discuss about you can find a forex trading signal. For example, if you have an EMA (Exponential Moving Average) 6 crossing the EMA 23, it is a perfect example of the long term trend crossing a short term trend. Therefore you may buy when the EMA 6 crossed up EMA 23, and you may sell when EMA 6 crossed down EMA 23. The same can be said of a MACD crossover. The more commonly used value of MACD is (12, 26, 9). You need to be able to spot these as early as possible and that only comes with practical experience.

Another example is the ADX indicator. It can be a very effective tool as you can make the most of it by noticing crosses at the 17 to 23 level. This is a flag that a trend is starting and that there is money to be made. When spotting this movement, take specific notice of the DI+ and DI- lines as they will give you the direction of the trend so that you can get your money invested on the proper side of the movement.

There are a lot of forex indicators based on trend. But the key is to make yourself familiar with them before you can become a more effective trader. One model all by itself has the possibility to be wrong. However, if you have supporting information of a positive trend on several models, you are more than likely looking at a very profitable situation and need to move on it.

Learning how to trade forex may be a steep process in the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, you should be profitable and start to build your wealth. By getting the free forex ebook that I have created for educating purposes, there is a effective forex trading system that generates good forex trading signals which most people are satisfied with. So do not miss the opportunity to get this simple and proven forex trading system for yourself.



By: Daniel S.

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To learn how to trade forex successfully using a simple, time-tested and proven forex trading system, download my FREE 56-page “Forex Trading To Riches” ebook at http://www.forextradingpower.com.

The author, Daniel Su, is the owner of http://www.ForexTradingPower.com where you can get free premium forex trading tips and resources. Daniel Su specializes in teaching real people how to trade the Forex market for long term financial success.



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Intermarket Analysis Suggests More on the Upside in June U.s. Treasury Bonds

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010


June U.S. Treasury Bond futures (USM8) have been trading generally sideways at higher price levels for the past two weeks, after having backed off just a bit from the March high of 121 1/32. The overall technical picture for T-Bonds remains bullish despite the recent sideways trading range on the daily chart for June T-Bonds.

Using Inter-market Analysis, one can predict T-Bonds producing a bullish crossover by reviewing the Actual 10-day SMA Close line vs. a prediction. This suggests T-Bond futures prices will trend higher in the near term. The last bullish line crossovers occurred in late February, and prices did proceed to trend solidly higher for the next three weeks. One can also see on daily charts for June T-bonds that the bearish crossover signals have worked well for providing sell signals. On January 28 the Predicted 4-day EMA line produced a bearish crossover by moving below the Actual 10-day SMA Close line. Prices then declined for the next three weeks, into the late February low.

Also, inter-market signals have show bullish indicators. The Predicted Neural Index (PIndex), a proprietary indicator, predicts whether or not a three-day simple moving average of the typical price will be higher or lower two days in the future than it is today. The Predicted Neural Index compares two three-day moving averages to one another todays actual three-day moving average with a predicted three-day moving average derived from inter-market analysis data.

When the predicted simple three-day moving average value of typical prices is greater than todays actual three-day moving average value, the Predicted Neural Index is “1.00,” indicating that the market is expected to move higher over the next two days. That type of information can be very helpful in establishing short-term positions in forex and other markets ahead of moves such as Tuesdays strong rise in the USDX.

For more information on a foundation of inter-market analysis, there are many good books out there- just type in inter-market analysis in any search engine. Also, try tradertech.com and tradingeducation.com for additional knowledge.



By: Erik Cocks

About the Author:

Erik is a day trader using Intermarket Analysis as a trading foundation. He uses VantagePoint software to predict market moves in the Forex, Futures, and commodities markets.



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Using Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010


Moving Average Convergence Divergence, acronym MACD and pronounced Mac Dee is one of the simple and most reliable technical tools in your trading arsenal as a currency trader. MACD is a trend following momentum oscillator or indicator and is used often by most of the traders.

MACD shows the relationship between two moving averages of recent prices. It is a lagging indicator. Most technical indicators are lagging which means they are slow. They just tell you what just happened after the fact.

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