FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

09/25/2008
Why are we seeing wider spreads in FX?
The credit and stock markets have been boiling over recently and especially over the last few days. This volatility is also clearly evident in the forex markets, where we are seeing wider spreads on spot prices and roll over rates. Spreads are perceived as a charge by the broker or bank, but this is not 100% accurate. The bid offer spread is a reflection of the liquidity in the overall market; not just one bank’s liquidity. The more players in a particular market the narrower the bid / offer

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

09/22/2008
Using trailing stops in a trading System
This article is taken from the Trader's Journal magazine (September 2008 issue) The author, Charles ‘Chuck’ LeBeau, began trading his first commodity system in 1963 and has been an active systematic trader in the stocks and futures markets for more than forty years. He is the co-author of Computer Analysis of the Futures Market (McGraw-Hill, 1991). It is considered to be a classic work in technical analysis and is published worldwide in seven languages. Chuck LeBeau discusses the use of exit

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

06/16/2008
Using Stops effectively
This article is taken from the Forex Journal (May 2008 issue). The author, Sunil Mangwani is a Physics graduate with a Diploma in Financial Management. He has been trading the Forex market for the last 6 years and devises simple trading strategies based on his vast knowledge and in-depth study in the field of technical analysis. Sunil Mangwani will be key speaker at the FXstreet.com International Traders Conference in 2008 October 29-31 - Barcelona (Spain) Sunil Mangwani leads a discussion on

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/22/2008
Futures Trading Strategies: Aggressive trading strategy
In the following examples we will use the e-mini S&P to illustrate our AGGRESSIVE day trading strategy. All trading strategies are based on our ingenious template . Keep in mind that you can increase the daily profits by simply trading multiple contracts. Example: If you want to make $600 per day you could either trade six contracts using the conservative trading strategy, three contracts using the medium-aggressive strategy or two contracts using the aggressive strategy; depending on your

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/22/2008
Futures Trading Strategies: Medium-aggressive strategy
In the following examples we will use the e-mini S&P to illustrate our MEDIUM AGGRESSIVE day trading strategy. All trading strategies are based on our ingenious template . Keep in mind that you can increase the daily profits by simply trading multiple contracts. Example: If you want to make $600 per day you could either trade six contracts using the conservative trading strategy, three contracts using the medium-aggressive strategy or two contracts using the aggressive strategy; depending

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/22/2008
Forex Trading Strategies: Forex Aggressive trading strategy
In the following examples we will use the $EUR-USD to illustrate our AGGRESSIVE day trading strategy. All trading strategies are based on our ingenious template .

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/22/2008
Forex Trading Strategies: Forex Conservative trading strategy
In the following examples we will use the $EUR-USD to illustrate our CONSERVATIVE day trading strategy. All trading strategies are based on our ingenious template .

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/22/2008
Futures Trading Strategies: Conservative trading strategy
In the following examples we will use the e-mini S&P to illustrate our CONSERVATIVE day trading strategy. All trading strategies are based on our ingenious template . Keep in mind that you can increase the daily profits by simply trading multiple contracts. Example: If you want to make $600 per day you could either trade six contracts using the conservative trading strategy, three contracts using the medium-aggressive strategy or two contracts using the aggressive strategy; depending on

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/04/2008
How to create a trading plan - ITC Presentation
Rob Booker's presentation at the International Traders Conference (ITC), held in Barcelona in October '07. Duration: 60'22' Summary Why Trade? What Markets? What FX Pairs? Risk Management Salary Psychological Profile

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/04/2008
My Kind of Trading - ITC Presentation
Torsten Kroeger's presentation at the International Traders Conference (ITC) , held in Barcelona in October '07. Duration: 49'59'' Summary · "BWILC", what‘s behind it · Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Fundamentals.... · My Trading Tools · My Approach · Any Questions?

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/04/2008
Forex Arbitrage - ITC Presentation
Ron Schelling's presentation at the International Traders Conference (ITC) , held in Barcelona in October '07. Duration: 57'25'' Summary · Introduction · Time & Price · Correlation · Forex Ranking · Forex Basket Arbitrage · Fx-Quant

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

04/03/2008
Currency Relations
In the world of trading, the characteristic of each currency pairs hold a certain correlation with the other pairs, and it’s worth taking the effort to study these. since each of them exhibit distinct identities. Some currencies exhibit similar movement patterns, while some have opposing patterns, both of which can help a trader confirm price movements. The closest relation can be found between the EUR/USD & USD/CHF. The price movements of these two currency pairs are absolute mirror

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

02/20/2008
The 3 Duck's Trading System
A simple system that will improve you trading. By Andy Perry Captain Currency A common sense approach to price observation Buy when prices are going higher and sell when prices are going lower. In a nutshell this is my goal when I am trading the forex market. But the above statement of buying when prices are going higher or selling when prices are going lower may be too broad and therefore it may need some guidelines and rules, this is where The 3 Duck’s Trading System comes into play. The

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

02/15/2008
Releasing the Code to the Schaff Trend Cycle
Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) is a popular indicator commonly used to identify or confirm price direction and market turning points. It was created by Doug Schaff and is based on the assumption that currency trends accelerate and decelerate in a cyclical pattern that can reflect the dominant price cycle of any currency in any timeframe. Developed in 1999, the STC is one of the most widely used Forex indicators today. Schaff created the STC “in order to improve upon the MACD and Time Cycle

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/21/2008
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
This article is taken from the Forex Journal, a special edition by Trader’s Journal magazine in Nov 2007. The author is Ed Ponsi, who is the President of EdPonsi.com and FXEducator.com. He is a dynamic public speaker who has appears regularly on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business Network. An experienced professional trader and money manager, Ed has advised hedge funds, institutional traders and individuals of all levels of skill and experience. Do you know how to read what some advertisers in the

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/21/2008
Ranking Forex Markets
This article is taken from the Forex Journal, a special edition by Trader’s Journal magazine in Nov 2007. The author is Ron Schelling , an independent trader in The Netherlands with over 20 years experience in Forex, futures and arbitrage trading. Ron Schelling shows how to reduce risk in currency trading by ranking the markets according to an objective ratio analysis: We all know that the Forex market is a huge market with many traders and players around the world trading privately or

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/21/2008
Stop Hunting with the Big Players
This article is taken from the Forex Journal, a special edition by Trader’s Journal magazine in Nov 2007. The author is  Boris Schlossberg, who is the Senior Currency Strategist for Dailyfx.com. He is the co-author of Amazon’s #1 investing book Millionaire Traders – How Every Day People Beat Wall Street at its Own Game Boris Schlossberg shows how to exploit the ‘stop hunters’ in the Forex markets using a simple, mechanical method that only requires a price chart and one indicator Foreign

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/21/2008
Using Non-Time Based Charts for Short-Term Forex Trading
This article is taken from the Forex Journal, a special edition by Trader’s Journal magazine in Nov 2007. The author is Dr. John Clayburg. A trading system developer and trader based in Western Iowa in the U.S. More information on the Universal System and other self-adaptive automated systems and indicators Have you ever considered using non-time based charts in your technical analysis? Dr. John Clayburg talks about the advantages and disadvantages of doing it: Daily bar charts have been part

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/18/2008
Price and Time
This article is taken from the Forex Journal, a special edition by Trader’s Journal magazine in Nov 2007. The author isAndy Bushak. A full-time trader and seminar leader. Andy’s early career includedgraduation from the United States Naval Academy, five years in SurfaceWarfare, a stint as a professional football player and with Hewlett-Packard. He started trading full time with a handheld QuoTrek (theoriginal) and doing charts by hand. His method was simple: Elliott andFibonacci. Andy Bushak

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/18/2008
Three Steps To Short-Term Trading Success
This article is taken from the Forex Journal, a special edition by Trader’s Journal magazine in Nov 2007. The author is Toni Turner.  A popular speaker in the financial arena and the best-selling author of A Beginner’s Guide to Day Trading Online and Short-term Trading in the New Stock Market. Toni Turner discusses her market checklist designed to evaluate market conditions and two market set-ups for trading stocks. Using these tools as the foundation of a trading plan could greatly

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

01/10/2008
A Practical Guide to Technical Indicators; Part 1 'Moving Averages'
Over the past decades, attempts have been made by traders and researchers aiming to find a reliable method to predict next action of the securities. As a result we have a variety of different fundamental and technical analysis methods and many theories today that really work. For the first pace I want to discuss technical analysis which is very popular these days. Technical analysis is a common method to evaluating securities and determining the next direction of the price through using chart

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

09/08/2006
Thoughts for a trading mentor
Harmonic Numbers - II Harmonic numbers are price swings that repeat with such consistency that they can be used to predict how far a price swing may go and where to place a stop when the trade is wrong. Harmonic numbers are best used for short term swing trading – from intraday to three or five day swings. In order to find harmonic numbers you should examine 30-minute charts of the stock you are following. Find the one price swing that appears most often. This will be the harmonic number for

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

09/08/2006
What to Look for in a Forex Training Program
Should new Forex traders take Forex trading courses or join a Forex training program? Definitely yes; by now you have probably heard that only 5% of traders achieve consistent profitable results when trading the Forex market. The main reason for this is the lack of education. Don’t get me wrong here, taking a Forex training program or a Forex trading course won’t guarantee profitable results, nothing can, but choosing the right Forex training program or Forex trading course will definitely put

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

09/08/2006
How To Increase Forex Profits 100% in 10 Minutes
How To Increase Forex Profits 100% in 10 Minutes This simple exercise will increase Forex profits 100% and works for 99% of all short-term FX traders – stop trading so much – widen out your stops – widen out your profit targets – and only trade in the direction of the trend indicated by 4 hour chart. 1) Stop trading so much Sure there are no commissions but the spreads are HUGE and believe it or not (well you’ll believe it after you do the simple exercise below) the spreads are reducing your

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

08/18/2006
Trade the News
Most traders intuitively know that major news events drive FX price action, but few trade the news proactively. In fact, most traders avoid news events simply because they lack the tools and information needed to trade the news effectively. Now, the introduction of a toolkit specifically designed to trade the news makes a new, compelling method of trading available to FX traders for the first time. Analysis Understanding the drivers of price action Context: the most critical element of any

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

09/05/2006
Forex Analysis: When to Trade
Forex Analysis: When to Trade One of the key elements of any trading systemis market timing. Many traders fail to account for timing when makingtrading decisions, and those who do often rely on their instinct ofmarket timing rather than empirical data. The sophisticated investoruses advanced timing techniques to optimize market entry and exit. Analysis • Hour: Which hours of the day will produce the best trades? • Session: Which trading session has the most action? • Day: What is the range for

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

06/28/2006
Forex Trading Systems
Mechanical vs. Discretionary Systems There are basically two types of Forex trading systems, mechanical and discretionary systems. The trading signals that come out of mechanical systems are mainly based off technical analysis applied in a systematic way. On the other hand, discretionary systems use experience, intuition or judgment on entries and exits. But which one produces better results? Or more importantly, which one fits better your trading style? These are the answers we will try to

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

06/28/2006
Introduction to Trend Following
If we were to spend some time speaking with others about what a trend is, we would likely get a range of different answers. Below are some potential answers you could encounter when asking others... A trend could be spoken of as... A price move in the market over any specific period of time. A series of new highs and higher lows or of new lows and lower highs. A favorite trending indicator showing a long or short signal. An upmove or downmove. An Elliott Wave formation. An astrological

FXstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies
Fxstreet.com: Education: Trading Strategies. Useful resources for those who want to explore new ways to approach the currencies market.

06/30/2006
Managing Option Directional Trades
Options provide great position management and risk control potential when using them to trade the market directionally. This goes beyond the simple fact that a long position in a call or put option has an absolute maximum risk equal to the cost of the option (plus commissions, of course). That, in and of itself, is a very useful thing. What this article discusses, however, are a couple of handy little things one can do while holding an option position to maximize the return and keep the risk