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Making money online is as simple or as complicated as you make it out to be.

Yet this doesn’t mean you will make money online with Forex trading straight away.

Let me ask you a question,

Would you walk up to Bill Gates and ask him… “How do I make money”?

Of course you wouldn’t! That’s ridiculous!

However, if you wanted to make money like Bill gates does then you need to educate yourself and learn the exact skills he developed to achieve this.

And with Forex trading it’s exactly the same.

You don’t just walk up to a successful Forex trader and ask him “how do I make money”, what you do, is you educate yourself and learn how to do exactly what that trader does.

You need to learn skills. Skills are what make you money in any business endeavor, including trading Forex.

So the correct question would be:

“Which skills do I need to learn for me to make money with Forex trading?”

And here is the answer to that question:

For you to make money trading Forex, you must learn the simple (yet commonly overlooked) skill of price reading, also known as price action trading.

So let’s get cracking with some Forex trading lessons!

Lesson # 1: “How do Financial Markets Move?”

All financial markets move exactly the same. They move in waves, just like the ocean does.

Within these waves, markets trend up and down over and over again.

They trend up with higher swing highs and higher swing lows.

They trend down with lower swing highs and lower swing lows.

And within these trends two very specific movements occur over and over again:

Impulsive moves and corrective moves.

So in essence, markets move in waves, waves move in trends, trends do impulsive moves and corrective moves. And that’s it! This is the most powerful skill you should master, interpreting price movements based on the above explanation.

Why? Read the next lesson to find out.

Lesson # 2: “How Are Trading Systems/Methods Developed?”

All highly consistent profitable trading methods are based on the above concept.

You see, if you want to trade like a pro you need to trade *with* the pros. It is that simple.

So, what do pros do? They trade trends! Be it intraday or intraweek trends.

However, let’s take it one step further:

Pros only trade ONE movement within a trend, and that is the impulsive move.

And guess what! All methods are based around this simple concept:

Trade the impulsive moves within a trend. Go with the institutional order flow!

And if you learn to trade like this you will automatically be able to trade any method you like, be it 123 patterns, be it Elliot waves, pullback trading, Fibonacci trading… you name it you can do it!

Lesson # 3: “So How Do I Go Trade Forex?”

1. – Learn market movement analysis to identify impulsive and corrective moves within a trend.

2. – Learn proper trade and risk management principles, irrelevant of how you trade Forex.

3. – Learn good entry and exit techniques.

Just remember, you want to learn how to get into the impulsive moves at the right time.

But you never know when a correction has been completed.

So how do you get into a low risk high probability trade when the impulsive moves start?

Well, that is where further education comes in.

Just remember to ask yourself the following:

“When will the corrective move be completed and *how* do I identify this?”

If you seriously want to make money online trading Forex, and eventually with experience and determination become wealthy, then you must learn the above skills which over time will give you a hugely successful money making home based business many will drool about.

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Forex Trading Alerts

Forex trading alert software continuously monitor the market for high-probability real-time buy and sell opportunities. Based on approach algorithm the alert tool make precise trade entry and exit signals and automated trailing stop-losses. If you have subscribed to one such forex trading alert software services, it will send you an alert or notification by email or SMS in your cell phone. Forex trading alert software, in many cases are offered as a free service to the customers of an automated forex trade execution platform.

Forex trading alert software prepares real-time alert to buy or sell a specific currency pair. Depending on a buy or sell alerts and either email or SMS notification you can make your trading decisions.

The alert may also include a stop-loss and limit information. So you can avoid continuous monitoring of the market as the auto trading platform would execute your trades which you have already set. These alerts often come at the very beginning of a currencies movement or when key support or resistance levels are broken and tested.

Some forex trading alert software needs installation in your system. Once installed, this software automatically monitors the parent network and notifies you of any new report. These alerts are generated after detailed research, application of different technical analysis, like Fibonacci or Elliot waves, and after obtaining feedbacks from other market indicators.
Forex Trading Alerts
Forex trading alert software should have systems for fast notifications, auto-update, and instant access to market reports and information. The alert software, in many cases, prepares targeted information bulletin for longer term, positional trader, day traders, and average traders.

Before major economic announcements, which may influence the market, the forex trading alert software should ideally send you a pop-up message reminding you of the release.

Forex trading alert software can be customized to receive trade alerts for the currency pairs of your choice. You can enable or disable entry points to your mobile phone.

Many forex trading alert software allows you to add more than one email id or mobile phone numbers and you can receive the notifications in all of them. You can turn the alerts on or off at any time. Forex trading alert software may come with light flashes which are easy to follow and execute. Stop what you are doing RIGHT NOW and get your Life Changing Forex Trading Alerts Program. It’ll change your Life Forever!

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1. Focus on one or two Currency Pairs

First, focus on only one or two currency pairs. When you’re new to forex trading, it’s tempting to see opportunities in every pair, even ones you’re unfamiliar with.

When I first started trading, I tried some of the more unusual currencies, like the NZD, AUD, and CAD.  I didn’t know anything about the currencies, so I found myself watching news events for a dozen countries, analyzing all manner of charts, and losing my shirt in new and exotic ways. I got into trades after they’d already passed and got hit by news events I never heard of. I managed my money very poorly.  In short, my concentration, capital, and time were spread too thin.

Now I watch only a few pairs at a time, and they are usually overlapping pairs, such as the euro/yen and the euro/dollar. I see trades developing much sooner, and I’m better prepared to take advantage of them, as well as manage them once I’m in the trade.

As a beginner to forex trading, I believe that you should stick to one or two currency pairs. Which ones? I would advise you to go with the currencies that other beginning forex traders have traded most successfully.

2. Pick a Currency Pair that’s a Winner

A couple years ago, I reviewed success rates for the 18 pairs with significant volume, and these were the most – and least — successful for FXCM mini forex traders.

Let’s look at the worst first. The Seven Deadly Pairs all have one thing in common: high volatility. That means opportunities for big profits – but also large losses.  One of the seven deadlies, pound-yen is actually the fourth most popular currency among our mini traders.  Its very volatility – and its popularity as a carry trade – makes it very tempting. But it can be brutal.

In the past three years, it has moved as much as 1,000 pips in a single day several times. Whoever bet right realized a very big profit. Whoever bet wrong probably got a margin call. Approach the Seven Deadly Pairs with extreme caution, and only after you’ve learned with other slower moving pairs.

Now for the Friendly Five currency pairs. Notice they’re almost all Euro pairs.  They also have one thing in common, with the exception of GBP/AUD, — low volatility.  But which ones do you start with? The GBP/AUD has shown good results, but I still don’t recommend you begin with it. It is not highly traded, not very well known, and it has rather wide spreads. Actually, it seems to be the preserve of our best and most experienced clients – probably the reason it has shown good results.

The remaining 4 pairs are better known and, excepting the EUR/JPY, tend to be nicely range-bound.

Since these pairs have had strong support and resistance lines, they tend to create a lot of high-probability, low-risk trades. And, since they are very liquid, they have tight bid/ask spreads, making them inexpensive to trade, with spreads as low as 1 or 2 pips. As always in forex trading, you need to appropriately manage your risk as there is never a guarantee that profits will be made.

3. It’s Your Choice What to Trade

Of course, you might have a good reason for trading a currency pair not in the Friendly Five. For instance, when I started trading forex, I went with USD/JPY.

Why?  Simply because I had lived in Japan for two years.  I followed a lot of Japanese news and became familiar with their major economic indicators and events. So I thought I had a good head start on understanding the yen pairs.

As I began trading the yen, I got to know some of its price patterns. First of all was the patterns formed by the carry trade, the major factor in most yen movements in the decade before the financial crisis hit. Speculators around the world had been carry trading for years, borrowing low interest rate yen to buy high interest rate Australian dollars or British pounds and earning the interest differential. This trading seems to move the yen pairs in an almost predictable pattern.

You can see the gradual build-up, as speculators buy and create long positions, earning large amounts of interest. Then *THUD* the speculators get spooked all at once and cash out, and the price falls off a cliff.  I got to be familiar with this pattern, as well as the events that can trigger the price drop.

All that changed with the onset of the financial crisis in 2007.  Since then, I’ve learned the new patterns of risk aversion in the yen.  Since I watch the same currency all the time, I am familiar with its characteristics, even as they change over the years.

4. Forex Trading Research Is Vital

That much I learned by simply watching the price charts and actually trading.  But trading experience takes you only so far. To improve my trading I had to know a lot more about yen behavior and the Japanese economy. The importance of sales reports for Japanese convenience stores, for instance.  Or how during my evening hours, when it is daytime in Tokyo, an unusually large amount of volume comes from individual forex traders in Japan, and that they tend to be yen sellers.

To really learn forex I started to seriously research the pairs I wanted to trade. It was time well spent. And it was free. There are several forex information sites online, and while I might be prejudiced, I would recommend our own free FXCM research site — DailyFX.com, not only because it is so comprehensive but because it provides clear guidelines for forex trading.

When you use DailyFX, you discover not only a trading chart of any currency, but when a particular economic event happens, how important it is and its expected outcome.

5. Don’t Trade During the News

That brings me to one more vital point that might seem to contradict what I just said. You must monitor news events. And analyze news events. But you shouldn’t trade during news events – especially the ones that rattle the market, like GDP and employment releases.

The fact is that during news events, forex trading can be as capricious as rolling dice. In the run-up to the event or release, currency analysts will have published estimates of the outcome or the number. If the estimates prove to be wildly wrong, traders caught by surprise will often panic and take the market in an unpredictable direction – or no direction at all, “whipsawing” up and down, knocking out traders left and right with big losses.

Instead, wait until the market has settled a bit before picking a trade. That way, you’ll be with the large and responsible traders. They’ll wait for the mayhem to subside before risking their money, and so should you.

Another reason to avoid forex trading during news events is that liquidity often dries up and spreads widen, which means that getting in and out of trades can be very difficult. It’s much better to wait, since liquidity returns and spreads tighten again pretty quickly after the event.

6. Trade in Small Lot Sizes

My final tip for today. Realize that you will make bad trades, and plan accordingly.  Trading is a constant learning experience, and you want to make sure your early education as inexpensive as possible. So trade small and keep your leverage small until you’ve got the hang of it. Then make your bigger trades.  A Forex account that offers 1,000 unit “micro” lots is a good way to start.

7. Ready for a Forex Trading Account, Where Do You Start?

The best way to start trading is to open a micro account. It lets you begin with as little as .00 – and when you open any account with FXCM, you get a free interactive course that will take you through the basics of forex trading step-by-step.

8. Summary:
Start with only 1 or 2 pairs, until you get good at them
Choose good, low volatility, low spread pairs to start
Make sure you choose a pair you’re comfortable with
Do plenty of research to learn your pair
Do not trade during news events
Start small

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1st in a series of videos outlining the basics of Day Trading, Showing how an average joe can open an account with 5-20k and make 0-00 a day trading the market. Will show you how i do it, and answer any questions you have. Each day.