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JEAY SINDHU DESH

JEAY SINDHU DESH

Monday, June 1, 2009

4 Guidelines for Forex Trading I Follow

Forex trading may become a much easier activity if you follow your own or someone else’s well-formulated guidelines. I’ve based my guidelines on my past Forex trading experience and knowledge gained listening to some of the best stock and Forex traders. What’s important is that the guidelines are not the laws and rules — they are not the only way to success, they just help the traders in their endeavor. Here’s the list of my four Forex trading guidelines:

  • Risk only 3% of the total trading capital with each trade. Generally it’s quite hard to come up with the comfortable risk percentage value for your trades if you want to keep a good money management and still let your funds grow at a nice rate. For me 3% is the optimal level — safe enough to save and high enough to gain.
  • Reward-to-risk ratio should be no lower than 1. Many currency traders prefer trading with the ratio not less than 2 or even higher. That’s a problem of risk/gain balance too. For me the opportunities with the ratio above 2 are very rare — maybe, because I prefer high accuracy trades. If your accuracy rate is far from 90% than sticking to reward-to-risk ratio of 2 would probably be a better decision.
  • Don’t leave the positions open through the weekend. The weekly opening gap can be a killer. Don’t underestimate it. As a swing trader, I prefer to open my positions in the beginning of the week and I always close them before trading ends on Friday. The gap in the price rates that usually occurs after a weekend can make your stop-loss trigger far from the levels you planned it to.
  • Wait before opening a new order after you’ve just traded. If you jump into another position right after you closed or opened a previous order is a straight road to overtrading and an empty balance. I always wait some time analyzing opportunities and resting from the Forex market before setting up my next order. Maybe, for the extreme scalpers this isn’t a best decision, but for the absolute majority of the medium-term Forex traders it is.

Heiken Ashi Trading System

Heiken Ashi (or Heikin Ashi, Heikin-Ashi) is the method of representing the charts using the Japanese technique of the balanced bars. Compared to the traditional Japanese candlestick charts the Heiken Ashi charts are more easily read, provide clearer picture of the market and allow easy trend spotting. What is good about this method is that it’s included into the standard set of the MetaTrader 4 indicators. You can find it there under the Custom submenu. I won’t explain how to calculate those candlesticks here because MT4 does it all automatically for you and you don’t have to worry about how those candles are drawn. Here I will tell you how to use Heiken Ashi in trading the trends. You can see the example Heiken Ashi chart:

Heiken Ashi Chart Example

As you see, white bodies are the uptrend candles and the red bodies are the downtrend candles. The upper shadows are usually absent on the downtrends and the lower shadows are absent when the trend is going up. There are 5 Heiken Ashi scenarios for trends:

  1. Trend is normal. Rising white bodies signal ascending trend and falling red bodies signal descending trend.
  2. Trend is getting stronger. Rising longer white bodies with no lower shadows for ascending trend; falling longer red bodies with no upper shadows for descending trend.
  3. Trend is getting weaker. Candle bodies become shorter and for ascending trends lower shadows occur, for descending trends — upper shadows.
  4. Trend consolidation. Small candle bodies with both upper and lower shadows.
  5. Trend is changing (not accurate signal). Very small candle body with long upper and lower shadows.

That’s all you have to know to trade on the trends successfully if you are using Heiken Ashi charting method. But I also recommend reading some other article on Heiken Ashi if you want to learn more about using it.

Daily Technical Analysis 01.06.2009

EUR/USD



U.S. dollar continued to man in the Asian session, as we expect to maintain and test the downward movement of price in the area of support at 1.3722, which now appears stable enough to reduce a significant growth of green money. In support of the estimates appear to fall down values of stochastic indicator and MACD. In the opposite option, enhancing the confidence of traders in the green money will direct cost to resisting 1.3860 and 1.4050.

USD/JPY




U.S. dollar rise in price by almost one cent against the Japanese currency during the Asian session, as the expectation is directed to test resistance at 96.70, in the case of addressing, the path to the next key level to 97.80 will be opened. In the opposite option, move in the direction favorable to the yen will give support to the daily movement in 95.50.

GBP/USD






U.S. dollar appreciation against the register pound in Asian session, after the end of U.S. session yesterday, the currency pair recorded its highest value since November. New growth of sterling will aim at overcoming the top 1.6080 and the test area at levels around 1.6490. In the opposite option, a new appreciation of the U.S. dollar will direct the daily movement in support to 1.5775.

USD/CHF





The currency pair is trading near support at 1.0920, which in the case of endurance will allow for new growth of green money and will activate the double bottom formation with targets resistance at 1.0928 and 1.1057. In the opposite option, passing the price back below 1.0920 will direct the daily traffic to support 1.0805.

What is Forex?

If you would go out on a dinner with your friends or family and you mentioned that you were trading on the Forex market most of them wouldn’t know what you were talking about. The worst thing is that most of the Forex traders that join the Forex market don’t know what they are doing. Understanding what Forex is, is the first good step to your success at Forex trading.


The foreign exchange market (Currency, Forex, or FX) is where currency trading takes place. It is where banks and other official institutions facilitate the buying and selling of foreign currencies. Forex transactions typically involve one party purchasing a quantity of one currency in exchange for paying a quantity of another. The foreign exchange market that we see today started evolving during the 1970s when world over countries gradually switched to floating exchange rate from their erstwhile exchange rate regime, which remained fixed as per the Bretton Woods system till 1971.

Today, the Forex market is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, corporations, governments, and other institutions. The average daily volume in the global foreign exchange and related markets is continuously growing. Traditional daily turnover was reported to be over US$3.2 trillion in April 2007 by the Bank for International Settlements. Since then, the market has continued to grow. According to Euromoney's annual Forex Poll, volumes grew a further 41% between 2007 and 2008.

Forex Turnover

Forex Turnover
Main foreign exchange market turnover, 1988 - 2007, measured in billions of USD.
The purpose of Forex market is to facilitate trade and investment. The need for a foreign exchange market arises because of the presence of multifarious international currencies such as US Dollar, Pound Sterling, Yen, etc., and the need for trading in such currencies. Since you aren’t buying anything physical this kind of trading can be confusing. When buying a currency think of it as buying a part in that particular country’s economy because the currency rate reflects the economical situation of the country when compared to others.

Currencies

Currencies
List of most popular currencies on the Forex market

Forex used to be a closed market because only the “big boys” because you needed between 10 and 50 million $ to open an account. But today, with the development of internet, online Forex brokers have the possibility to offer their services to “little” traders. All you need to start is a computer, fast internet connection and information which you can find on this page also.

This enormous market is like the dangerous sea where you can meet lots of sharks and dangerous waters but at the same time it is the only one where two weeks of trading can hypothetically bring you $1,000,000 out of $1,000 of initial investment.

This is certainly hypothetically because a lot of newbie traders deal with their trades as gambling, that surely bring them to having nothing in the end. You should always keep the phrase "be careful!" in your mind. This market would give you its profit possibilities only if you learn the basic things hard and make lots of demo trading.

The statistics is that as much as 95% of traders come to losing their money at Forex, 5% have profit and less than 1% of traders make large fortune at Forex. You shouldn't produce, sell or advertise anything trading at Forex. Your assets are your knowledge, experience and a small amount of cash.

This market is a platform for banks, transnational corporations and individual traders to change the currencies they possess into other ones. This is the spot Forex market. At this market you can trade with up to 1:400 leverage which means that you'll get $400 on your account for each dollar invested. So, you can trade with the $400,000 sum having invested $1,000 onto your account.

Forex is unique among other world markets because in any time of day and night, somewhere in the world, a financial centre is open for business, banks and corporations exchange currency all the time, with a little lower frequency during the weekend.

Why to trade on Forex?

1. There is no commission fee for trading at Forex.
2. There is no intermediary, you can trade directly at Forex.
3. Forex is open 24-hours a day.
4. Nobody can influence the market for a longer period.
5. High liquidity.
6. Free demo accounts, analysis and charts.
7. Small accounts that allow everyone to try out his luck.

Hope this has answered a lot of questions you were asking yourself about Forex and that you can now start trading. Also make sure that you check out other articles on this blog which can help you earn your fortune.

Good luck to everyone!

Forex Trading Weekly Forecast - 06.01.09

US Dollar: Will Heavy Event Risk Stem the Bleeding?

Fundamental Outlook for US Dollar: Neutral

- Consumer confidence rises to an eight month high; but is this optimism warranted?
- Durable goods orders jump and housing statistics continue their slow improvement
- Despite a positive revision to first quarter growth, the US economy trudged through its worst six months is 50 years

The statistics on the US dollar are ghastly. Through the month of May, the world’s most actively traded currency plunged 547 pips or 6.5 percent on a traded weighted basis to its lowest level this year. With the momentum building, there was no shortage of reason to sell this currency. The 1Q GDP revisions confirmed the country’s worst six month period of economic activity in 51 years. Policy officials warned that a recovery could be pushed back into 2010. Rising national debt levels intensified speculation that the US sovereign debt rating was in jeopardy. And, once again, international calls to abandon the US dollar as a reserve currency were amplified. All of these are legitimate concerns; but none of them are new or immediate problems. This is what is important to remember heading into the coming week. Risk appetite will no doubt has its influence on the greenback; but a dense list of high-level event risk (from the US docket and abroad) will cast the battered currency in a more objective light as we see where the US really stands in the global scale between economic depression and recovery.

Referring to the dollar’s own calendar, fundamental traders will respond to a wide range of proven market movers. The scope of the list will cover nearly every facet of the US economy and will therefore better qualify speculation as to whether the there are signs of ‘green shoots.’ This is a misleading and perhaps overused term that allude to the beginning signs of growth. Like the rest of the world, the United States if far from growth; and what speculators benchmark now is the deceleration in the pace of contraction. Topping the list for potential impact (as it usually does) is the monthly non-farm payrolls report. The consensus from Bloomberg’s survey economists projects another 521,000 jobs lost through May. It is first interesting to note that the spread on expectations has grown to be relatively tight (forecasts range between a 450,000 and 600,000 drop). More important though is the pace of job losses. If this figure prints as expected, it would mark the second month that the rate of payroll reductions slowed and it would be an overall, significant improvement on January’s record breaking 741,000. As the leading indicator for economic health, a steady improvement of this caliber could single-handedly convert a bulk of the market to believers that the world’s largest economy is on track to recovery ahead of its major trade partners.

Nothing to scoff at itself, the rest of the data crossing the wires over the coming week will cover the health of the individual sectors in a little more detail. Consumers – whose spending accounts for 70 percent of the economy – will evaluated through personal income, spending and credit figures. If we are to expect a genuine economic recovery before the end of the year, we should see a turn in these figures relatively soon. From the business side of things, the ISM manufacturing and services sector surveys are due on Monday and Wednesday respectively. The outlook for factory activity has been negative for 15 months now and services seven – though the reversal since the end of 2008 has been relatively aggressive. Finally, the pending home sales figure will be a lagging indicator for the housing market, but consistent improvements from data in this group will eventually pan out to a true revival.

Alone, the round of US data will gauge how the American economy is performing compared to last month, last quarter and last year. However, for currency traders, the Forex market is a relative game in which the pace of US growth and returns must be set against its global counterparts to gauge the strength of the dollar. In this capacity, we must set the dollar against the backdrop of the major releases from other economies next week. The list of notables includes: the RBA, BoC, ECB and BoE rate decisions; Canadian 1Q GDP; Australia 1Q GDP; Swiss 1Q GDP; Canadian employment; and 1Q Japanese capital spending among others.

Euro Outlook to Depend on ECB Rate Decision, S&P 500 Performance

Fundamental Outlook for Euro This Week: Neutral

- Euro Zone inflation registers at 0.0 percent ahead of ECB Rate Decision
- Euro Zone Consumer Confidence bounces, has sentiment truly turned?
- EURUSD defies technical forecasts, where’s the next turning point?

The Euro surged to fresh year-to-date highs against the US dollar, but sharp Greenback declines overshadowed the Euro’s relative underperformance versus the British Pound and other key counterparts. The EUR/GBP exchange rate languished near year-to-date lows despite the surge in the EUR/USD, and the Euro was actually the third-worst performing currency of the G10. Unimpressive European fundamental data certainly did little to bolster the domestic currency’s cause. Negative surprises in German Gross Domestic Product figures and Euro Zone Consumer Price Index data hardly proved constructive ahead of the coming week’s European Central Bank rate decision. Market attention now turns to the flurry of central bank rate announcements in the days ahead. The ECB is widely forecast to leave rates unchanged, but FX traders will pay especially close attention to any noteworthy shifts in rhetoric from the regional central bank.

Market prices and economist forecasts overwhelmingly point to unchanged European interest rates through the coming meeting, but financial markets will listen closely for details on the ECB’s announced €60 billion in covered bond purchases. As central banks around the world have enacted fairly aggressive unconventional measures to boost money supply, many have criticized the ECB as being slow to react to deflationary financial conditions across the Euro area. The €60 billion in bond purchases pales in comparison to the US Federal Reserve’s massive Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) program, but it’s at least a start. All the same, the Euro may have actually benefited from the domestic central bank’s relatively muted response to the global financial crisis. Fears of overly-aggressive monetary and fiscal expansion have played a fairly significant part in ongoing US Dollar weakness. If the ECB were to announce similarly aggressive monetary measures (highly unlikely), the Euro could likewise fall against global counterparts.

Euro Zone economic event risk remains otherwise limited, and it will be far more important to watch developments in other economies. Interest rate announcements out of the Bank of England, Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of Canada, and US Federal Reserve will make for an interesting week in FX Trading markets. Though it is especially difficult to predict what effect these likely varied announcements will have on global economic sentiment, any signs of a turnaround in the recent global equity market rally could have especially noteworthy effects on the US Dollar. The traditionally safe-haven USD has fallen substantially on vast improvements in global risk sentiment, and Friday’s rally in the US S&P 500 left the dollar at the very bottom of its trading range. It will be critical to watch whether such risk-taking trends can be sustained in the face of massive global economic headwinds.

Japanese Yen Loses on Carry Demand, Data to Highlight Economic Downsides

Fundamental Outlook for Japanese Yen: Neutral

- The Bank of Japan upgraded their economic outlook for the first time since 2006
- Japan’s trade deficit shrank in April to 52.2 billion yen from -97.1 billion yen
- Japan’s all-industry index fell yet again in March by 2.4%, following a 2.3 percent drop in February

Unlike the week prior, there weren’t many major economic releases for Japan, and we ultimately saw the Japanese yen fall 0.6 percent against the US dollar, more than 2 percent against the British pound and Swiss franc, roughly 3 percent against the Australian dollar and Canadian dollar, and a whopping 3.9 percent against the New Zealand dollar. The moves were in line with a 3.6 percent drop in the S&P 500, suggesting that risk trends are still dominating Japanese yen price action, for the most part.

That said, there was a bit of optimism stoked about the Japanese economy after the Bank of Japan’s Monthly Report was released, as they upgraded their outlook for the first time since 2006. The report said that “economic conditions have been deteriorating, but exports and production are beginning to level out.” It is clear, though, that the BOJ sees foreign demand as being the only chance for recovery in Japan, as “private demand is likely to continue weakening with corporate profits and firms' funding conditions remaining severe and a worsening employment and income situation.”

This point may be highlighted over the next week, as labor cash earnings are forecasted to contract for the eleventh straight month and by the most in almost seven year during April as the index may post at -4.2 percent. Furthermore, capital spending is projected to have plummeted 27.1 percent in Q1, suggesting that businesses do not expect growth to resume any time soon and adding to evidence that job losses could continue to climb.

That said, traders should keep an eye on major equity indexes like the S&P 500, as a rally above its May 8 high of 930 would suggest that risk appetite may be high enough to lead FX carry trades higher. On the other hand, reversals in risk assets could set the stage for a sharp pullback in the Japanese yen crosses.

British Pound Remains Overbought After Rally Above 1.61

Fundamental Outlook for British Pound: Bearish

- UK mortgage approvals jumped during April, according to British Bankers Association
- A CBI survey showed the UK retail sales tumbled in May
- UK house prices rose by the most since 2006 in May, according to Nationwide Building Society

GBP/USD broke clear above resistance at the 38.2 percent fib of 2.0160-1.3503 at 1.6049 on Friday, as the greenback fell sharply across the majors. However, GBP/USD remains very overbought according to daily RSI, and while extremes can hold for days and weeks, the moves suggest the pair could turn lower at any time, making it dangerous to buy into the trend.

There will be a variety of growth-related indicators released next week, as the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the UK manufacturing, construction, and services sectors are due out. All of the indexes are projected to improve, but the big question is if they can breach the 50 mark, which would indicate an expansion in business activity. Services PMI was the closest to this level at 48.7 during April, and thus, a better-than-expected result could boost speculation that the UK economy is in for a consumer-led recovery.

On Thursday, the Bank of England is expected to leave rates unchanged for the third straight month at an all-time low of 0.50 percent. Based on the BOE’s last policy statement and the minutes from the meeting, we know that the central bank expanded their quantitative easing (QE) program by 50 billion pounds to 125 billion pounds (which happened to be by a unanimous vote), that the drop in Q1 GDP of -1.9 percent was worse than expected, and that CPI will likely will be below the BOE’s 2 percent inflation target in the medium term. The minutes also revealed that some members thought that “a case could be made for a larger stimulus,” but the high uncertainty of QE led them to believe that there was “no pressing need for the larger extension” at that point. Ultimately, how the British pound responds will likely depend on the BOE’s QE stance. Signs that the BOE may increase their gilt purchases could weigh heavily on the British pound, especially against the euro, while the opposite (steady rates, no QE expansion) could provide a boost to the UK’s currency, though the markets are just as likely to show no reaction in this case.

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