Forex Technical Analysis – Basics you Need to Know
- May 14th, 2009
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Forex technical analysis is the most effective and most time efficient way to make money in forex and studying forex charts can lead you to success but you need to know some basics refrain common forex myths and do it correctly and that’s what this article is all about.
Let’s look at some key points to think about when getting your forex trading strategy together and suing forex technical analysis.
History Repeats Itself
Human psychology is constant and forex chart patterns repeat themselves over time but you need to comprehend one key point – they don’t do so with scientific accuracy.
There is a large market for courses who state they can but they can’t – so don’t start for this myth. Forex trading is a game of odds not certainties.
If you can learn to trade the odds, you can have more winners than losers, execute your trading system at the right time and enjoy currency trading success.
Forex charts also make studying the news irrelevant.
Many traders simply believe newswires and brokers and the arguments and views are convincing but that’s all they are – views and there more often than not wrong.
Trading the Reality
While the fundamentals are important, it’s very hard to judge their impact and how the participants view them. Forex technical analysis simply assumes that all fundamentals will show up swiftly in price action.
The forex chartist therefore doesn’t concern himself with why prices are moving – he simply trades the reality of price change and wants to make profits by locking into and holding trends when they occur.
Keep It Easy
The ideal forex trading systems are easy and easy to understand.
A complicated trading system is unlikely to be successful.
Why?
Because if you make it to easy there will be too many elements to break.
Be Objective
Ignore subjective tools and make your system rule based this means that you will stay neutral and hold your discipline. Most people don’t change in forex trading because they have poor methods – they change because they have poor discipline.
If you don’t have the discipline to follow your system you have no system – period.
The basis of any good forex technical trading system is built on the following
1. Using support and resistance
This lines up areas that are important in terms of the market and you can look for them either to hold or break.
2. Confirmation
You can't predict if levels will hold or break so don’t try.
You need to get confirmation that they do by a clear break or an indication of a change in price direction away from the level in the opposite direction to show they hold.
For this you need to learn to use confirming leading indicators – we don’t have time to go through them here, simply look up momentum oscillators in our other articles.
3. Money management
All systems need robust money management and this is not simply placing a stop – it also involves knowing when to trail it, lock in profits and also take into statement the overall statement equity and its protection.
FINALLY
Forex charting is a great way to make money, enjoy currency trading success and you should essentially think of yourself as a ships captain.
Just as the ships captain uses charts to get from A to B, steer a dangerous ocean and make a living you can to use them the correct way and you can make huge forex profits – use them the wrong way and you will drown, its as easy as that.
Forex technical analysis used the right way can give you a life changing income in around 30 minutes a day. you can learn the basics in a few weeks so get studying and make technical analysis part of your forex education.
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