Sunday, November 30, 2008

World Class Forex Trading Powers in 32 Seconds - Part 1

How do you world class trading powers in 32 seconds? First things first. Is it possible to get those trading powers in 32 seconds? It really is but let me hopefully give you a little bit of perspective before we really dive into how exactly to get these trading powers. I want to make a little bit of comment first. The reality of life is most everybody would like to go to sleep and wake up rich. I would to. Let's face it. Most of us don't like the idea of toiling away 20, 30 years to make our money. It doesn't make any sense so I think we are all on this quest for short cuts and getting places faster; getting places so we can eventually do what we want to do.

Most of you probably heard the old clique story about the executive who goes to the Caribbean and is supposed to be enjoying himself on vacation and he just can't seem to do it. He finally is tossing and turning one night. He goes out on a local dock very early in the morning and he is just sort of watching the sun rise and this guy comes in on a boat and he is fishing. So this guy goes into this explanation as to how he can increase his operations, get a boat and another boat and hire people and retire. So the guy asks him well, what do I do when I retire?

He says well, you can go to a tropical island and fish all day. Well the guy said, that is what I am doing right now. So we have got to put some perspective into our life. As you go through this process and you start to know me, you're going to realize that I am really big on getting rid of excuses. What I find gets in the way of traders in particular, are some of these excuses and I am hopefully going to help you break through a lot of that. What you are going to be introduced to here is that this just isn't a trading program.

I believe to the core of my being that trading is one of the greatest things that you can do, not just from a financial standpoint but from a personal standpoint.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Mental Toughness

If you want to be a winning trader, you have to learn to handle extreme levels of stress. The markets are often chaotic and unpredictable; they are, no doubt, stressful. You mind has limited resources; when you feel stressed, a great proportion of your resources are devoted to managing the stress. You tend to have little energy left with which to focus on trading. It's a lot like "cramming" for an examination in school. It takes twice as long to learn material when you cram. Why? It's because you are more stressed when you are trying to learn under duress.

When you're struggling to cope with the wildness of the markets, you are similarly trying to perform under duress, and under less than ideal circumstances. As you push yourself to the limit, you use up mental and emotional energy. As you use up resources, there is little mental and emotional energy left for trading smoothly, easily, and with retaining your poise. You are more prone to panic, and may ride an emotional roller coaster as you face winning and losing trades. You may even begin to panic and behave irrationally. It's essential for survival to be able to cope with the ever-increasing demands of the markets.

Research has proven that, if you can learn adequate ways to cope with stressful situations, events that usually produce stress need not necessarily produce the stress response. You can develop "mental toughness." The mentally tough person can endure high levels of stressful events, yet not feel stressed out. Coping with stress is similar to weight lifting. If you lift more than your body can physically handle, you can damage muscle tissue. But, if you never push yourself to the limit, you'll never develop additional strength. Just as you build up muscles gradually, you gradually build up your ability to handle stress.

The key is to learn how to handle greater levels of stress, but also to find time to recover. When it comes to the markets, for example, it's tempting to trade all day, then work late into the night back testing and trying out new trading strategies. However, working tirelessly at such a pace is bound to wear you out eventually. It is very important to rest and recover. That doesn't mean shrinking back from the markets, but learning to deal with the pressures of the markets at a gradual, realistic pace.

By pushing yourself to greater levels of challenge, but at the same time resting and recovering, you can build up mental toughness in the same way that a weight lifter can handle greater and greater physical loads.

There are some basic steps that a person can take to prepare for stress and become adjusted to it. First, as I've stated many times, it is essential to get as much rest and relaxation as possible. People who do not get the proper amount of sleep have limited psychological resources to cope with daily stressful events. Getting extra rest is important. This may mean taking planned naps during the day to rejuvenate. Don't make the mistake of thinking that you'll be "missing out" on a trading opportunity by taking a break. Look at it this way: how much are you going to make if you are too tired and wiped out to focus on the market action and trade easily? The proper amount of rest can increase your ability to cope with stress.

Second, it is also important to exercise and eat correctly. Emotions are physiological responses. The more energy the body has to cope with stress, the more "tough" the body can be when extreme levels of stress are encountered. Regular exercise helps the body and mind release pent-up stressful emotions. By making sure you allow your stressful emotions to dissipate, your body and mind will recuperate and be ready to deal with extreme levels of stress.

Joe Ross has been trading for more than 50 years, and is a well known Master Trader. He has survived all the up and downs of the markets because of his adaptable trading style, using a low-risk approach that produces consistent profits.

Joe is the creator of the Ross hook, and has set new standards for low-risk trading with his concept of "The Law of Charts." Joe was a private trader for most of his life. In the mid 80's he shift his focus and decided to share his knowledge. After his recovery, he founded Trading Educators in 1988 to teach aspiring traders how to make profits using his trading approach. He has written 12 major books on trading. All of them have become classics and have been translated into many different languages.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. He did his Masters work in Computer Sciences at the George Washington University extension in Norfolk, VA. Joe still tutors, teaches, writes, and trades regularly. Joe is still an active and integral part of Trading Educators.

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

The Emotional Day Trader Versus the Robot

Ive spent 4 years now day trading the forex market. Day trading in the Forex market can be both stimulating and stressful. With trading of currencies occurring in such short time spans in this type of trading strategy, you have to keep on the ball at all times - otherwise, you'll end up losing more than you make. Other trading strategies are available (i.e. scalping, swing trading, long-term trading), but day trading can offer you real excitement and some big profits if done properly.

Reign in your emotions

Whether you're investing in the stocks, real estate, or the Forex market, you should maintain a level head at all times. If you bring emotion into the equation, it can negatively influence your investment earning potential. That's especially true in Forex day trading, as the numbers constantly change as positions are opened and closed within minutes, and even seconds at times. If you don't stay focused, you'll trade on a bad deal or miss out on a great opportunity. For example, if you place a trade to sell a currency at a certain rate and one hour later the bid price (rate at which you can sell the currency at) substantially increases, you might be overcome with emotion that could negatively effect your future trading. On the other hand, if you buy a particular currency and two hours later the ask price (rate at which you can buy a currency at) goes even lower, you'll also be pretty upset. In both scenarios, it's best not to harp on "what you should have done," but how you can make profits in future deals. Otherwise, you'll be stuck in a negative frame of mind that can cloud your decision making process in the future.

Besides punishing yourself for past mistakes, market greed is another potential killer to successful day trading. Suppose you happen to be on a winning streak and you believe that the market will continue to go in your favor. The trading signals say otherwise (i.e. overall economic indicators weakening), but you're so caught up in your winning ways that you forget to pay attention to the numbers. You place your trades even though the current indicators are not in your favor and you start to lose some of your gains. What you should next time is to walk away from the trading and close out the day with a profit.

Robot Trading

The future of trading is to look to the robots that can automate your trading. Take emotions out of the equation and you can make money without being glued to a PC constantly. Expert advisers such as pointbreak are producing consistent results over time with great money management.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

My Online Curreny Trading Experiences

I'm going to share a little about my online currency trading experiences that I have learned a lot from. I actually started to get into this business a few years ago and let me say that I wasn't very good. I had a lot of bad trades and I wasn't even sure I could get this to work. I sticked with it and worked hard, since I really wanted this to work and one day, everything just started to click. I just started to understand fully what I was doing and I could easily spot a good trade.

I think the best piece of advice I could give you is to diversify as soon as you figure out how to make a profitable trade. The problem for a lot of people in this business is that they stick with one pair and typically trade for the short term. I think both are good moves though. When you stick with one pair, you can really learn it and when you trade short term, your money is in and out very fast. The problem is that it builds no security. If that pair because unprofitable, than you become unprofitable. Online currency trading needs to be a balance of trades, so you can profit with less risk.

Take the time to appreciate your demo. It's not a tool to test out how you can make millions with a strategy. It isn't for that. It's meant to practice the routines and behaviors of a smart forex trader. That is the only way it should be used.

Street Smart Forex is a new unique way at looking at the online currency market. There is a huge opportunity to profit, but you need to look at the world a little differently to achieve that. A street smart attitude is the key to winning over this market.

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Monday, November 3, 2008

My Forex Trading Methods

I'm going to show you some of my forex trading methods that I've been using for a while now to enable myself to be able to make more money in this market. This business over three trillion dollars a day moving around and we all have a chance to see some of that money come to us. You have to be willing to learn how to do this right and have the determination to suffer through the inevitable learning curve that brings losses. If you're willing to do that, you'll appreciate my advice that much more.

How To Properly Cut Your Losses

This seems like an easy task for me, but I guess I've been doing it for a while now. A lot of people get emotionally invested in a trade and have the hardest time letting go . You have to understand that your ego isn't in a trade and cutting your losses is just business.

The trick doing this is to take the emotion out of it. Before I even make a trade, I decide on a stop loss point. This is a point I decide I will sell the currency if it goes down so far. It's just an objective way of doing it before you emotionally invest yourself in the trade. This will protect from those bad trades that just seem to suck out money from your good trades. This is the precise skill that separates the rich traders from the poor and if you can do it, you'll be that much better off.

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Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Hidden Secret of Technical Analysis

Did you know that there is a whole 'other world' of technical analysis that most novice traders are either totally ignorant of, or fear to go due to the fact that it might actually require some work?

Well, there is! And I'd suggest that if most novices fear to go there, then perhaps it might be worth some investigation.

What is technical analysis? For most novice traders it seems to be one of, or a combination of, the two following approaches:

a. The art of defining recent price action through classical charting techniques such as the Dow Theory definitions of an uptrend and downtrend, and recognition of patterns such as channels, triangles, head and shoulders, cup and handles, and on and on, or

b. The art of representing price action through the numerous indicators available on your charting platform, such as moving averages, stochastics, MACD, and on and on.

This is great. It's a good start. But the fact is that no matter how we define the structure of the market, whether based on Dow Theory, or Elliot Wave Theory, or through an indicator based approach, it is important to remember that this structure defines PAST market movement. It's a simplification that allows us to quickly identify what happened in the past.

Profits come from future price action though, not past price action. So having defined past price movement, these traders then use general rules associated with that past price action to justify an entry into the market.

For example:

* "The break below the neckline in a head and shoulders pattern is a great entry short, with a target equal to the distance from the neckline to the peak of the head." - so having identified a breakout down, they enter short.

* "A moving average crossover is an indication of a change of trend" - so identifying the EMA 10 crossing above the EMA 20, the novice trader enters long.

Once again, this is great - hopefully at least better than random entry. These general rules for entry are fine if you're satisfied they provide a slight edge, and you have a complete understanding of the probabilistic nature of price movement, and an appreciation for the necessity of position sizing and risk management. You may well make some profits.

However I'd suggest that there's a whole other world of technical analysis that you're not seeing. That still won't guarantee success (the elusive Holy Grail doesn't exist, so stop looking), but it will provide further opportunity to increase your edge. Use of this hidden world of technical analysis will allow you opportunities to enter lower risk and higher probability trades. Lower risk trades through getting earlier entries closer to support and resistance areas, so you can safely place tighter stops. Higher probability entries, through analysis based more closely on the truth behind price movement rather than a general rule for pattern or indicator based entry.

So where do we find this 'other world' of technical analysis?

Look behind your indicators, or behind the classic charting patterns, and what do you find?

Price action!

It doesn't matter how we define past price action - an uptrend, a downtrend, a range-bound sideways trend, a head and shoulders pattern, an ascending triangle, wave 4 of a five wave pattern. It's just a label that describes an approximation of past market movement.

The label is not important. What is important is the nature of price movement behind the pattern or indicator overlay.

Too many people will say that, because the price is above the 50 period moving average, or because the 10 EMA is above the 20 EMA, or because they have identified a structure of higher highs and higher lows, the market is in an uptrend. They apply a label - uptrend. And that's it, end of story. No correspondence will be entered into. The market is in an uptrend, and they're looking for trades in the long direction.

Looking beyond the "uptrend" to see how price is really moving can allow us to see the internal strength or weakness of the trend. It can provide you with an insight into the fear, doubt or greed of the market participants that create the price action, which then creates the price trend or pattern, or moves the indicators.

I'm not saying you necessarily have to get rid of your indicators - just recognize them for what they are - a useful approximation of the market.

And recognize that if you want to improve your edge, you may need to look behind the pattern, look behind the indicators, look beyond the label, and see what price is really doing.

* Is the volatility of price movement changing, and what does that mean?

* Is the momentum increasing or decreasing? What does that mean?

* Is the momentum of this price move greater or less than the preceding swing, and what does that mean?

* Is the momentum of this price move greater or less than the previous swing in the same direction, and what does that mean?

* Let's go even deeper, and consider the thought processes and psychology of the people who are long (or short) in this trade, and currently sitting on a profit. Where are they looking to exit? Where are they going to take profits? Where are they going to place their stops? What does this mean for future price action?

8 Let's consider the psychology of the traders who are currently fighting this move, sitting in drawdown, sweating on every tick and praying to the market Gods - "If you can just this once turn price around so I can get out at breakeven, I promise I'll never again take such a stupid trade". Where are these people trying to get out? At what point will the fear become so great that they'll just have to get out?

* Let's consider the psychology of the people sitting on the sidelines, having missed the start of the move. Some of these will be professional traders - where will they be identifying a low risk and/or high probability entry into this trend? Some of these will be novices - where is the absolute worst place to enter, having chased the market and entered simply out of fear of missing out on the move? Yes, some people do enter right at the very worst tick possible. Where potentially is that, and what does that mean for future market movement?

The answer to all these questions will make a great subject for future articles. For now I'd just like you to start looking beyond the indicators and patterns, and discover a whole other world of technical analysis - price action.

Examine the current internal nature of price movement - the speed, the momentum and the volatility. And consider how this is likely to influence the decision making of the novice traders who will be entering and exiting the market based on their own fear or greed.

And try to discover how you can use this information within your current strategy to lower the risk of entry, improve the probability of your entry being in the right place, and improve the management and exit of your position.

If you are interested in improving your current edge in the market, analysis of price action may be just what you're missing. Check it out now.

Happy trading

Lance Beggs

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