You can be a profitable trader by basing on fundamental analysis. Take a long term view of where a particular currency is heading by looking at the current economic situation of the country and the future economic forecasts.

Another method is to trade the economic news releases that occur daily. This is a much more short-term method and is quite difficult to do, but it’s definitely doable. Although this is not what I am particularly good at, but I do know a couple of forex traders who make profits trading the news. After all you can get some volatile swings immediately after major announcements, which presents some good trading opportunities.

Finally, there is more method of trading, and that is trading the currencies based only on price.

A trader told me once that the best indicator, and the only one you really need is price, after all the price will tell you what has happened to a currency’s price in the past, and viewed correctly it can be used to predict where it is likely to go in the future as well.

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National and international political events, elections or changes in government trade policies will affect the value of the currency. Prices of sensitive commodities like oil and gasoline are an important fundamental indicator as high prices can hurt consumer spending and confidence, and curtail the activities of certain businesses and government services.

Disasters, be it natural disaster or human created ones like terrorist attacks or military actions will generally have a significant impact on the Forex market as a whole.

Last but not lest the Central bank of a country plays a key role in of the value of the currency in the Forex market. This is because the central bank has the responsibility of changing the country’s “base” interest rate. A central bank has to find a fine balance when setting interest rates as it wants to maintain growth in the economy, but at the same time it has to be careful to curtail inflation. The bank’s decisions on whether to raise, cut, or hold the interest rate fuels speculation in the Forex market, where the value of a currency, or group of currencies, changes in real time.

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Fundamental analysis looks at the intrinsic value of a nation’s currency based on the economic news that reflects the strength of a country economy.

And fundamental indicators are such news that will reflect the strength of the country currencies in relation to others. Normally, what are included in the indicators are statistical data on employment, housing, interest rate, international trade figures, retail sales, GDP and manufacturing. The performance of these indicators will have an effect on the value of the country’s currency.

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You may already have some formula or indicator for setting stops but do you follow it every time?  Here are 2 ways where you will set stops and be able to follow and profit from trades.

1. Observe the minimum profit target that you set before exiting from any and all trades

2. Clarity of rule. The rule that you set must be clear and that you can identify and repeat every time you trade.

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Imagine if you have to close all your trades manually and set mental stop losses and profit targets? You would have to wake up at night to see if your profit target is reached if you are holding an overnight targets. The possibilities of missing an opportunity to close a position before the price retraced back to the initial entry point is high for the fact that you are away from your PC.

If you want a peace of mind when you are away from the computer and want to increase your profits, no matter what broker or trading platform that you are using, the first thing you must learn is how to place stop loss and limit orders.

Trust me there’s no better feeling than getting up in the morning and seeing that your limit order was triggered overnight and your profit target of 100 or 150 points achieved whilst you were sleeping.

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• Fundamental Trading
• Technical Trading

The differences in the 2 are as follows:

Fundamental Forex trading involves the analysis information such as key economic data which includes reports from governments, current event news coverage and any other data that the fundamental analyst considers useful. Fundamentalists consider that currency movements are mainly affected by economic and political conditions and events. Whilst central banks have been known to get involved in the currency markets, this has become less common in recent years. Fundamentalist Forex trading looks at interest rates, inflation figures, balance of trade figures, Gross Domestic Product, retail price indexes, producer price indexes amongst other factors.

Technical Forex trading is primarily based on one of two tools. Charting tools are, as the name suggests, charts of past currency movements. As with any chart, you can add in trend lines to help smooth out the minor fluctuations and allow you to see the bigger picture. Of course, charting is a lot more complicated than mere trend lines but there are software programs out there that will help with your chart analysis. Once you get deeper into charts, the other main technical Forex trading method is the use of Quantitative Trading Models. These use math to analyze the markets and identify opportunities for trading. Technical trading uses past data to predict future movements in the market.

Before you go into Forex trading you may want to select the style that fits you. But whatever you choose you must also take into consideration the amount of time that you have available for analysis and the kind of help that you can get from forex software.

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Because of the time differences between countries, Forex transaction is 24 hours a day event, except on weekends. And there are people in different part of the world that make money from trading in Forex.

The market for currencies is extremely liquid, thus you are able to buy and sell on demand and make money from the difference between the buying and selling price of a currencies pair. The difference between the buying and the selling price is known as the “spread” – the smaller the transaction size the bigger the spread.

Currencies on the Forex market are traded against each other and each market is separate. The market for the currencies pair like Dollar against Euro is separate from the market for the Yen against Pound. But the market for Dollar against Pound will reflect what is happening in the other markets that the 2 currencies are operating in.

These may sound complicated but the basic is that prices are a reflection of supply and demand for individual currencies. If a currency is in short supply but high demand then the price for that currency will go up. And if investors lose faith in a currency then the price of that currency will go down.

Exchange rates are influenced by a mixture of the flow of money, interest rates and inflation expectations.

Economic factors and political conditions of a country will also influence the price at which a currency is traded. Future expectations also play a part, e.g. if it is expected that a country will implement an interest rate change this is likely to have an impact to the currency price.

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