Is Forex Right For You?

The Foreign Exchange Market (also known as Forex )

The size of Forex has now made any other investment market smaller to a great extent. It is becoming more and more popular every day.

Forex traders can make exchanges 24 hours a day 5 days a week, from Monday to Friday. There are many opportunities for the forex trader in the Forex market because of the constant movements of the exchange rates.

Traders can make profits both when the prices are high and low. Anyone can learn how to trade on the market. But it is very important to get the proper training and education before you start doing any live trading. The good thing is that anyone can practice with a demo account before starting any live trading. The good thing is the amount of money someone needs to place a trade is all that they can lose. Unlike other markets it is possible to start trading with only $100.

The transaction cost is very low and the market is the most liquid of all markets, so the trader can enter or exit it in almost any condition. Because of the forex market's twenty 24 hours trading, Orders are processed quickly without slippage. It is easy to find good brokers, with a little research who will close some or all of open positions if the account's fall below the level required to hold the positions. Everybody can trade online from home. It is a great opportunity for people who want to work from home, All that is needed to start trading is a computer with Internet access and a proper training.

The market is so huge in forex that it is impossible for anyone to control the market price for a long time. Trading currencies is much simpler than stocks. There are only a few major currency pairs. There is no waiting for months like in futures market. Trades in forex rarely take more than two days. The huge marketplace will grow bigger as more people are joining it every day.

Forex Day Trading - The Most Important Fact You Need to Know

If you are considering forex day trading, there is one fact you need to know above all others and its enclosed in this article.

The fact is that if you try it the odds are you will lose your money and lose it quickly.

Why?

Because all volatility within such a short space as a day is random and support and resistance levels are meaningless and you will may as well flip a coin. Of course if you think about it its obvious why:

You have millions of traders trading trillions of dollars each day and this mass of people and what they do cannot be measured in such a short time span as a day or less.

You will see a lot of day trading systems on the net and they all claim to make money - but there is a problem - none of them do, because none of them have been traded.

They all produce a track record in hindsight knowing the closing prices!

Well that's hard - if we all knew tomorrows price today we would all be rich but forex trading is not that simple. Whenever you see a day trading or forex scalping system with a track record look at the disclaimer and you will normally see the one below or a similar one:

"cftc rule 4.41 - hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain limitations. unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not been executed, the results may have under-or-over compensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profit or losses similar to those shown".

Of course if you put this disclaimer on you can say anything you like and many vendors do. They know the system wont make money (that's why they have the good sense to not trade it themselves) better to sell it and make a guaranteed income by appealing to naive and greedy investors.

Day trading is a good story but that's all it is and it doesn't work in practice. I quite like Harry Potter as a story but I don't think I can fly!

If you want to make money in forex trading understand one key point:

You need to use data that allows you to calculate the odds and that means swing trading or long term trend following - where the data can be used to help you time your trading signal and enjoy long term currency trading success.

If you want to day trade the odds are not on your side and you will lose and if you don't believe me try and find a day trading system with a track record audited of trades and profit and loss and you simply won't get one.