Forex Start Me Up

1. Lack of patience
Patience is one of the most important qualities that any currency exchange trader needs to develop and it is especially true of scalpers who sit watching the market, sometimes for hours at a time. You didn’t have the patience to wait for the signal set by your system. [...]

What’s forex? This is a difficult question. There are so many sites and TV advertisements that mention forex nowadays. You almost certainly know it’s a way you can make money, but what exactly does it involve?
The word foreign exchange is short for FOReign EXchange. You will see it shortened even further to FX [...]

Knowing how to read candlestick charts is needed for both stock trading and foreign currency trading. Candlesticks are a record of price movements that will help a trader to identify trends and spot imminent breakouts and reversals or retracements. Many traders are able to develop worthwhile trading systems virtually wholly on the [...]

Robotic trading is everywhere in the forex market nowadays. Of course, automation is skyrocketing in a massive number of other areas too. However, if you look at stock exchange trading, for example, there is not nearly so much use of bots for trading as in the foreign exchange market. Why is this? [...]

Most forex brokers offering accounts to retail traders operate in one of two ways. It is unlikely that you’ll be signing up with a broker who has their own dealing desk. More likely, you will be having a look at either an ECN broker or a market maker. The spread on [...]