MLP (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

If you are interested in investing in companies that are involved in the production, transformation and distribution of commodities, than one of the best ways to do so is through investing in the Master Limited Partnership (MLP).

So how do you go about investing in an MLP? The shares that an MLP issues are called Units and the investors who own them are known as Unit Holders. MLPs are public entities that trade on public exchanges. An MLP issues shares that trade on an exchange just like a company stocks that trades on an exchange. You can invest in an MLP by buying its shares on an exchange. You can instruct your broker to buy the units of an MLP that you are interested in investing.

Right now there are not many MLPs in the market. You will only find 3-4 dozen MLPs listed in the different stock exchanges. When you invest in an MLP, you are essentially investing in public partnership. There are tax advantages to investing in MLP. Unlike regular corporations, an MLP is only taxed once. Now most of the MLPs trade on the New York Stock Exchange. A few MLPs also trade on the NASDAQ and the AMEX. Tax exemption on MLPs gives them certain benefits that other companies in the same industry lack. There is a tax exemption on MLPs. You must be curious how this tax advantage works out. Because of

There is a tax exemption on MLPs. You must be curious how this tax advantage works out. Because of Congressional Legislation, any MLP that derives 90% or more of its income from the production, distribution and transformation of commodities qualifies for this tax exempt scheme.

Tax exemption means that MLP have to generate a lower rate of return as compared to other companies competing with it in the same sector. Since an MLP has got the tax exempt status it will only have to generate only $1.54 for each dollar that you invest in it. Suppose you invest $1 in the stocks of a regular corporation and you are in the 35% tax bracket. Corporate tax is 30% of its before tax income. This means that for each dollar that you invest you need to get at least $1/ (1-0.35) =$1.54 just in order to breakeven. So the corporation will have to generate $1.54/ (1-0.3) =$2.2 for each dollar that you invest in order to return you $1 after tax profit.

However, most GPs do a good job of running the MLP as it is in their financial interests. Now you must know as a limited partner in an MLP, you have limited voting rights. This means when you invest in an MLP, you are giving away the keys of ownership to the GP. This means you are out of the decision making in an MLP.

Investing in MLP units can give you quarterly cash flows as well as appreciation of the unit price. An MLP is obligated to distribute all available cash back to its unit holders on a quarterly basis, so you will be getting a quarterly income from your units. Secondly as the MLP expands and grows overtime, its units may give you capital gain as well. - 31876

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The Facts You Must Know To Day Trade Forex

By Howard Tyleren

When you choose to day trade forex you are for the most part not investing, only trading. All trades are closed out that day without carrying any trades over to the next session. Nothing is held overnight. To get technical that would be considered swing trading or investing. We are looking to get in the market, make a quick return and close out.

I put day traders in one of two camps. Either they work for a large trading institution making trades for large investors. Or they are personal traders working from their house, making trades in their pajamas.

The expert trader working for the big investment company does have the advantage in resources. A great deal of money to leverage, trading tools we can only dream of, the knowledge of other traders at your disposal, even a direct trading channel. But no need to get disheartened if your working from home. We now have access to a great deal of information and software via the web that can aid us in our trading adventure.

The web has a great deal to offer if the way of forex signals, forex trading applications, forums and chats with other veterans, even live courses to study from. At last we are on the same level as the trader at the big financial firms. The large pool of money is the only thing that sets us apart. With all that money accessible is the chance to lose all the money. This level of risk is not for inexperienced traders just starting out.

Let me start out by suggesting that you study everything that you can before you start this voyage. Dont get impatient even if you have cash burning a hole in your pocket. Study every article you can find on the web. I would even take some of my initial trading funds to invest in some foreign exchange courses or methods to really get you going.

Now that you are exploding with forex knowledge it is time to move onward, but still slowly and with care. It is time to fire up a demo account. This lets us go through our trading methods live with pretend funds. Most brokers will let us demo for no cost and even let us try out the tools they offer their clients. We want to try out different methods and signals here before we truly trade with our own funds.

So now we are ready to trade but we still want to have a solid money management plan in place. Use a tiny percentage of your account for each and every trade. This allows you to manage your risk and still make a profit as the account grows. It doesn't matter how great an approaching trade looks you don't want to lose everything on a gut feeling.

The beginner has plenty of tools out there these days to contend with the veteran day trader. No need to leap right into this. Take your time to learn. Do your homework and try out your strategies on a demo account first. With anything involving making money, risk is inherent. Let's realize and control that risk before we even start. Keeping these things in mind will give you a head start allowing you to day trade forex. - 31876

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Master Limited Partnership (Part II)

By Ahmad Hassam

As said, this has to be done on a quarterly basis. The reason MLPs exist is to distribute all available cash back to the MLP unit holders. The following factors are considered before determining the amount of cash distributed to each individual investor:

1) The difference between the total cash flow and the cash flow ploughed back into the MLP for futures growth. 2) How many units you hold as an MLP investor. 3) The incentive distribution rights created for the GP.

So once you decide to invest in commodities, you have many investment options like mutual funds, stocks, ETFs as well as MLPs. You must do your due diligence while making your investment decisions. There are always pros and cons of each investment vehicle!

You can invest in commodity stocks, you can invest in commodity ETFs, you can invest in commodity mutual funds. The possibilities are many. So investing in an MLP is just like investing in stocks. Investing in MLPs is quite simple. Since an MLP is a publicly traded entity. You can simply invest in an MLP by calling your broker and telling him or her how many units of a particular MLP you are interested in buying.

Something like 50 MLPs is being publicly traded in the United States. Out of these 50, 40 are energy MLPs meaning that they are involved in the storage terminals, pipelines, transportation, refining and distribution. Majority of MLPs trade on NYSE with a few trading on NASDAQ and AMEX!

Most of these MLPs engage in infrastructure investment that can pay a steady stream of revenue overtime. Moreover, investing in pipelines and other energy infrastructure offers steady cash flow streams for an MLP. You only need to remember this 90% of the income that comes to an MLP should come from the production and distribution of commodities for these MLPs to have the tax exempt status.

So when you invest in an MLP, you should look for answers to the following questions: 1) How much is the cash flow? And so on. 2) What's the historical payout of the MLP? If your brokerage firm has published some research on the MLPs, you can reference that.

Don't forget there is always some risk involved in any investment. The more return you demand, the more risk you will have to take. Now investing in MLPs do come with some risks like most of the infrastructure is like pipelines and drilling rigs that are vulnerable to natural disasters and earth quakes like the Hurricane Katrina, so any such event can have a negative impact on your investment.

Another factor that you need to take into account is the liquidity of your investment. Since the MLP is fairly small at this moment, there can be liquidity issues in withdrawing your investment from an MLP. These are some of the risk that you can face while investing in an MLP. There is another risk related with the management. You don't have much say in the management of the MLP. Running an MLP is basically a GP show. If you are not satisfied with the performance of the management or its policies only thing that you can do is to withdraw your investment from that MLP. - 31876

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Staying on Top of the Forex Market: Trade In, Trade Out

By Tom K Kearns

Trade - Noun: The business of buying or selling commodities; commerce.

Verb: To engage in buying or selling profit

Adjective: Of or relating to trade or commerce.

The American Heritage Dictionary made it clear enough. Trading and traders, the word alone gives me the chills even though it is spelled differently.

"I'm a trader."

Eh, shouldn't hold them accountable for whosoever made that name up, however convenient it may be. The trade corporations have lived and thrived in the productions. Some succeed, while others fail horribly. There is a passion that trails along this forte, and in the beginning stages the drive seems to derive from an implanted thought of thinking that you only have one day to live so you must prevail. Once established you can slither into other facets of trading that can propel you into new realms yet unknown. Finding your niche is where it's at. Communication is the key to its success, and determination sits on the shoulders like the good and bad angel, aiding or debilitating in the victory.

Basic types of trading styles.

"Develop a trading plan" seems to be the ideal phrase in browsing through trading websites, giving you the breakdowns of how great their system is or which would be best for an individual or the mass. Well come to find out there are a lot of trading styles, sectioned off into categories and then those categories are sprouted out to mini categories. Let's keep it simple and knowledgeable shall we.

1) Automated Trade: This sounds uncomplicated enough; carrying out multiple entries and exits, monitoring markets, finding profitable targets, trailing stops and protective stops, and completing the details of orders without any need for manual, a person's fingers, to type it in. So, basically a computer that does everything for you.

2) A system that is based on currency of the foreign exchange, Carry Trade. Low or high yielding currencies that investors borrow; when the global currency is on the short, retracting. The investors may have to pay up which is not so great about this section, by this I am referring to the foreign exchange rates inconsistency. The investor may have to pay back with less valuable money on a more expensive bill since the exchange rate varies.

3) The buying and selling of various financial instruments such as stock, options and futures, is Day Trade. With their main goal being to make a profit off the difference between buying prices of the item, day traders branch off into diverse specialties. Not working overnight shifts or when the market is closed is the significant fad that stands out about day traders; hence the term "day trade". - 31876

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Forex Trading Tips - Do You Understand The Fundamentals?

By Mark Green

I view fundamentals as a technique of qualitative analysis of economic situations and events that affect a countries currency, it is not easy to master by any means; it deals with a lot of underlying effects and consequences of decisions from the central bank, government and political news, major bank policy changes, major economic events, and world trade news and how this information from different sources may change money market decisions in the forex.

For the beginning trader who would, and rightfully so, just want to plunge into the forex market ready to trade, it can be daunting to learn. That said any good trader will tell you that it would not be wise for any forex trader beginner or otherwise to completely neglect this method to analyze forex market currency pairs and that to truly excel you really must understand both fundamental and technical analysis techniques. Hopefully this article may change your perspective on the techniques and how they are used.

The most important indicators in fundamental analysis are: the country's interest rate, employment figures - which are usually publicly released every quarter but this may vary by country, trade balances; budgets; which are both normally released at the end of every fiscal year, and GDP (gross domestic product) figures. As all currencies of the world are controlled by the central banks of their respective nations, fundamental analysis aims to measure the supply and demand of a currency using the indicators I mentioned earlier. Also calendars of various economic events that can affect a nations currency prices are available all over the internet for discerning scrutiny; this is a good place to start for a fundamentalist.

Having used these indicators and determined interest rates, a trader may open a position(s) where they will sell the currency of a country in which its central bank has lowered the interest rates or whose interest rates are declining; and then buy a currency of a country in which the interest rates are high or are climbing. Interest rate changes last for as long as they are in effect hence the question of time and intervals as in technical analysis is unheard of by fundamentalists. Big investors take full advantage of this and go a step further and buy a country's depreciating economy's currency at a low price, and then fund that nation's boom by investing heavily in industry knowing labor and costs are significantly low, then to top it all up as if they were masters of a flawless symphony, sell the currency back when the economy picks up (boom-to-bubble) at high prices.

In conclusion if you understand the underlying reasons of why a nation's currency trend is moving in a particular direction based on information you derive from comparing money supply (i.e. inflation rates) with previous baseline periods, interest rates of major global economies, and analyzing balance of payments of the nation whose currency you wish to trade in, you will be able to tell when to enter, participate and exit from a bubble early before it destructs. I hope this article has bettered your understanding of fundamental analysis and that you found it informative and useful. - 31876

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Forex Trading Strategies And Basics For The Beginning Trader

By Tom K Kearns

Forex trading involves a lot of different aspects when it comes to being able to develop profits. Those who do very well in the market tend to do exceedingly well. Since more than 90% of traders are broke by the end of the day it would make sense that you will want to understand as much as possible going into the Forex trading market.

It is not enough to hope and wish that you get lucky. This isn't a trip to Atlantic City in the middle of the night and you aren't sitting in front of the penny slots. If you are a gambler and always want to push the envelope in the hopes that you'll get your money back you are not likely to do very well in the Forex trading market.

Just like every other potential trader you will need to assess your own personal sense of risk tolerance. Being able to remain in control of your own decisions, being able to walk away from a loss without battling your inner gambler is a good sign of self control and self respect. Tolerance for risk is worth paying extra close attention to so that you can begin your trading day with a clear cut rule for things like a daily loss ratio.

Decide how much of your account you can afford to risk before trading starts for the day. If you end up just draining your account you will feel a need to refill it, even if you feel you have a little extra to pour into this endeavor. It won't take long before the self imposed limits start to mean nothing to you. You may even find that you are speeding through your retirement savings or the money you set aside for Junior's college funds.

Never, ever should you permit yourself to make a move with your emotions guiding your intellect. Market trends are derived directly from the market psychology. The more you can learn to recognize developing market trends the better off you're going to be able to call your trades. Since both the trends and the psychology travel in cohesive cycles, you will learn how to anticipate issue before you end up losing money.

While you are practicing the idea of self imposed limits and ample control, look just at the Forex trading trends that are unfolding right in front of you. While you might not see everything there is to know about the trading psychology, but you'll be able to start with a firm picture of the overall trends. From there, you can start to notice mini patterns and begin to see definite signs of potential.

Most of the time you'll be able to start noticing trends that match with certain aspects of most trading psychology, which will help you understand what is about to happen in the market. When there is a high level of confidence among the traders, the activity increases and the profits start climbing. It only takes one shaky investment to tank to encourage a change in the market psychology. If the investment was "supposed to" do very well but it left enough traders high and dry, the confidence is then shaken.

Yet there are many successful Forex traders out there creating their own personal profile that will enable them to trade with a high degree of confidence for many years to come. The Forex trading market can offer you extreme wealth or it can provoke you to siphon through retirement and college funds. Good trading choices start with good personal choices, and good financial choices. - 31876

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Trading Crude Oil Futures (Part II)

By Ahmad Hassam

You might have heard some of your friends talk about trading crude oil futures. You must have been surprised because many people think that trading crude oil futures is only for the hedge funds or really wealthy people. Well, you can trade crude oil futures if you want to. But don't do it without getting a good training.

Ever heard of Light Sweet Crude? Light Sweet Crude is the high grade, low sulfur content crude oil that is more easily refined than the thicker oils. Now oil coming out of some of the Venezuelan and Saudi Arabian Oil wells contains high sulfur content and requires special refineries that only process the high grade sulfur crude oil.

At NYMEX, crude oil futures contracts based on Dubai Crude Oil, Brent North Sea Crude Oil, differential between the light sweet crude oil and the four domestic grades of crude oil as well as oil options are traded.

At NYMEX, you can trade crude oil futures contracts based on Dubai Crude Oil, Brent North Sea Crude Oil, differential between the light sweet crude oil and the four domestic grades of crude oil and a few more. Oil options are also traded on NYMEX. Now Dubai Crude Oil Futures contract is very popular. So, NYMEX offers you a host of futures as well as options contracts based on crude oil.

A barrel of oil contains 42 US gallons. Crude oil is traded in US dollars per barrel. In other words, the price of crude oil is quoted in US dollars per barrel. Now trading at NYMEX can be open outcry during the regular treading hours as well as electronic web based trading after hours.

Open outcry or electronic, it doesn't make a difference to you. Most of the traders now day trade futures contracts from the comfort of their homes. Open outcry trading takes place between 10: 00 AM EST to 2:30 PM EST. After hour trading takes place on NYMEX ACCESSS system, an internet based trading platform starting at 3:15 PM EST Monday through Thursday and ending at 9:30 AM EST the following day. Sunday trading starts at 6:00 PM EST.

Open outcry trading takes place between 10: 00 AM EST to 2:30 PM EST. After hour trading takes place on NYMEX ACCESSS system, an internet based trading platform starting at 3:15 PM EST Monday through Thursday and ending at 9:30 AM EST the following day. Sunday trading starts at 6:00 PM EST. It's always good to visit the website of the exchange to know more. You can visit the website of NYMEX and read a more about the crude oil trading that takes place at that exchange. Trading oil markets requires constant vigil on your part in monitoring the global supply and demand of crude oil. You will need to know which country supplies how much and what the productions quotas are for the time being. This is pretty scary stuff. Now you must know this thing that real companies have huge trading desks with hundreds of traders all betting on the price of oil. Oil markets are about real people trying to figure out how much oil they would need in the next few months to years to run their businesses regardless of whether they are suppliers or users. Trading crude oil futures contracts require you to be in tune with the market sentiment. Trends in crude oil market don't develop suddenly and they don't reverse suddenly. This is something good for you as a crude oil futures trader.

When a trend in the crude oil market develops, it may last for a few months to a year. It all depends on the global supply and demand situation of the crude oil. If you can spot a trend in the crude oil market in its early stage and ride it till its reversal, you can make a good profit. Now, just keep this in mind that crude oil prices are highly susceptible to global geopolitical situation and react violently to any political global uncertainty. - 31876

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Trading Crude Oil Futures (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

One thing should be clear to you. Energy markets will be a major focal point in the global financial makers and the global economy for many years to come. The key to understanding energy trading is to understand oil, natural gas, gasoline and heating oil futures.

NYMEX trades futures and options contracts for crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, coal, electricity and propane. NYMEX is also home to trading in metals. Trading in energy futures is centralized at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange.

Next to interest rates, energy and especially oil is the center of the universe not only for the industry but also for the financial markets. The relationship between energy and interest rates is very important to understand. This relationship ties together the two most important aspects of the global economy: energy (the fuel for growth) and the interest rates (the catalyst that powers borrowed money to do things).

One of the most important variables for any economy is the interest rates. Very high interest rates can make the economy come to a screeching halt as most businesses won't be able to afford high interest rate loans. On the other extreme, very low interest rates can make inflation too high in the economy. Now there is a relationship between the oil prices and the interest rates. The relationship between energy and interest rates is very important to understand. This relationship ties together the two most important aspects of the global economy: energy (the fuel for growth) and the interest rates (the catalyst that powers borrowed money to do things). Next to interest rates, energy and especially oil is the center of the universe not only for the industry but also for the financial markets.

High oil prices are considered to be inflationary and tend to slow down the economy. Low oil prices are always considered good for the economy. As a trader, you should know this fact that oil price rise often tends to slow down the economy and lower retail sales as well as consumer confidence with lower traffic on the highways. Sometimes the rise in oil prices leads to the increase in interest rates through the bond market and the actions of central banks and the other times the opposite happens. Rise in oil prices if often inflationary. Now all these effects have a time lag factor built in them. If the crude oil prices increase or jump suddenly like that in'73, it takes time for the increased oil prices to start affecting the other factors in the economy.

Now you need to understand the Peak Oil Concept. Peak oil is the concept that the world oil production has peaked and the production of oil will never be as high again. Oil prices and the interest rates generally move in the same direction when viewed over long periods of time.

Many oil wells have gone dry. US was a major producer of oil in the beginning of the 20th century but over time, depleted all its oil reservoirs. The last oil well went dry in Texas in the early part of'70s. Oil production in countries like Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria has peaked and is going down. Non OPEC sources of oil like North Sea and Mexico are also showing sign of declining production. There has been no major oil well discovery for the last few decades. Some people consider the Peak Oil idea as controversial but this concept is increasingly plausible given the state of the global oil industry. The peak oil concept is very important for you to know. This means that now in the next few decades, we will be witnessing an uptrend in the oil prices as the global demand increases and the supply is unable to catch up with the global demand of oil. When oil prices reach above $100 per barrel, it becomes too expensive for the industry as well as the private consumer. With this price level, chances are that more and more investment will go into the alternative energy industry. Now you should keep these facts in the background of your mind as a trader. In any case, most of the experts now agree that in the next 10-20 years, the oil production will peak and after that it will start declining.

1) The world runs on oil and any threat to the supply of oil often leads to rising prices. 2) Demand fluctuates but supply of oil is finite. As an oil trader your primary goal is to consider the effects of events on the supply of oil and correlate this effect with your charts. - 31876

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Knowing The Primary Trend

By Ahmad Hassam

A picture is worth more than a thousand words. Trading would be almost impossible without charts and technical analysis. Trading is all about anticipating and predicating rather than forecasting. Technical analysis is the best tool a trader can have.

The most important thing that you should in a market is its primary trend. Primary trend is the direction of the market that offers the least resistance forward making money. When you follow a primary trend in a bull market you look for strong stocks and in a bear market you look for stocks showing weaknesses. Knowing the primary trend and trading in its direction increases your chances of making money. So how do you find the primary trend and what tools you need to determine the primary trend? You use the following tools to determine the primary trend:

Trendlines: Knowing how to draw and use trendlines gives you an excellent start on any trade. To correctly draw a rising trendline on the chart, start with the lowest low on the chart and connect it to the lowest low preceding the highest high in the chart without bothering about the prices between the two points. Similarly to draw the down trendline, draw a line connecting the highest high on the chart to the highest high preceding the lowest low of the chart without passing through the prices between the two prices.

Moving Averages: Support level is the price where the prices stop falling and the buyers step in overcoming the selling pressure. A break in the support level is an indication that more weakness may be ahead. Moving averages are sues to smooth out the market's trend over a given period of time and serve as an important support and resistance levels.

A break above the resistance level is an indication that the market is going strong. Resistance level is the price where prices stop rising and the sellers overcome the buying pressure. You should always keep this rule in mind that you should be out of the market by selling as soon as the key support is broken. On the other hand you should buy into the market as soon as the key resistance is broken.

Oscillators: Oscillators are graphic depictions of points derived from the mathematical formulas that are plotted below the price charts. Knowing these mathematical formulas is not important as a trader. What is more important to know is the fact that oscillators produce useful mathematical data that can help you tell whether the market is overbought or oversold and whether the momentum of the primary trend in the market is still strong or there is a potential change in the primary trend ahead? Two important oscillators that you should be familiar with are RSI and MACD.

Bollinger Bands: Bollinger bands are calculated by plotting points one or more standard deviations above and below the 20-day moving average. However, you can calculate Bollinger Bands with any moving average. Bollinger bands are also known as volatility bands or envelopes. Bollinger bands give you visual evidence when the market has travelled too far in any one direction. - 31876

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Santa Claus Rally

By Ahmad Hassam

Markets tend to react to the outside events. Markets react to the seasons. Markets react to holidays. Markets react to political crisis. Markets are what the people are thinking. The day before the President's day is the worst day and the day after the Easter is the worst day after. However, you should keep in mind that a lot of other factors also come into play and you have a lot of room for error. The next best holiday bets are the Labor Day and the Memorial Day because they fall before the first day of trading in September and June respectively.

Children love Santa Claus. Do the markets love Santa Claus? You must have heard about the Santa Claus Rally? Most of the folks usually feel fairly good about themselves around this time of the year. The best time of the year to own stocks is the Santa Claus rally which for all practical purposes is the 17 day stretch from December 21 to January 7. This is the best time of the year. People are happy and the markets are happy.

There is a low trading volume which tends to exaggerate the trend. If the economy is not doing good and is slowing down, FED tends to lower interest rates during holidays in order to go into the new year with less of a worry. However, when you are dealing with seasonality, you should keep these facts in your mind:

1) More and more people have real time access to information and larger amounts of capital than at any time in the past. The market is not longer static. The seasonal effect may get interrupted by other events.

2) End of the year is special. Companies want to show good performance at the end of the year. At the end of the year, institutional investors want to make their results look as good as possible to their shareholders and tend to buy the stocks and so on. Institutional investors like mutual funds, hedge funds and insurance companies have become important players in the markets. So in case of an event free environment, seasonal tendencies may hold up fairly well.

3) These are the times for day traders and swing traders. With fewer people willing to hold stocks for longer periods, it is very difficult to predict seasonality. The days of long term investing or what you call buy and hold are dead! Frequent market crashes have taught the investing public that investing for the long term is fairly risky. So there is more short term trading going on.

4) A lot will be written about the recent stock market crash. What were the actual causes of the recent stock market crash? Why so many big banks went belly up in matter of days. What was so special that made this liquidity problem contagious with banks all over the world? The recent market crash was the result of CMO and Default Swaps bringing down the banks and Insurance companies in ways that had not been anticipated or foreseen by the analysts. Many had assumed that derivate securities are safe. Infact they have highly unpredictable tendencies. Derivates and outside the market trading activities can result in highly unpredictable patterns.

Then there is a change in demographics also taking place. With the aging of the population, the overall trend will be towards more income producing investments. So with everyone talking about the seasonal tendencies in the market, it reliability becomes less diminished. - 31876

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Finding The Best Places To Buy Foreign Currency

By Pete Miguel

Knowing where to buy foreign currency is important in so many ways than one. It's a knowledge that's a must for everyone--whether you are traveling abroad, a forex trader, or someone who wanted to start your way into the foreign currency game. One of the most important things you need to take note of when it comes to buying foreign currency is that their values might change depending where you buy them.

With the internet fast becoming a venue where a good amount of information can be obtained, the trouble of finding the best place to buy foreign currency has become easier than ever. You can look up lots of venues through the internet and also verify the validity of purchasing foreign currency from a specific place.

Purchasing Foreign Currencies on the Web

People have now started to take interest with buying their currencies online. Traders and frequent travelers alike have mostly preferred this venue because it allows them to easily purchase their items online. A few clicks is all it takes for people to finally get the money they need so the time it takes to accomplish transactions are easily cut down. Another thing that you can benefit from buying your foreign currency online is that you can make a plethora of choices right then and there. If you are not quite satisfied with the values being offered in one place then you can easily try looking for other possible options.

However, you should be vigilant as well when purchasing foreign currencies online. You need to check the legitimacy of the sites you arrive at. Spending a little more time to conducting further research and investigation towards your prospective website to do your purchasing is always a must. In addition to checking the website by itself, it would be wise to join some forum sites and communities so you can ask for feedbacks about a certain forex website.

Buying through Banks and Money Changers

As you start your trading business, banks are one of the easiest way to get your currency capital. You can do this by exchanging a portion of your current account to the foreign currency in which you want to begin to trade. Doing it this way also minimizes risks because you can put a limit to the transaction through banks and you are also sure that you are dealing with a verified institution. Banks can also allocate a currency loan for you to help jumpstart your business--but this might be dependent on your current credit history.

Both money changers and banks are very good resources to get the latest currency values you need which is surely helpful for you during travels. Money changers are mostly visible within airport locations and within commercial places when you go visit different countries. It is always a wise move that you do your study and research in advance even before the schedule of your visit in a certain country on what are the most credible money changers to find around. This attitude will save you from possibly unpleasant transactions you could be encountering, so be vigilant always. - 31876

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Great Penny Stocks To Watch

By Bo Miller

In today's market, there are always up and coming penny stocks to watch. Investors are intimidated by the high prices of stock on the NASDAQ and NYSE. Instead of investing huge amounts of money in blue chip stock, they are turning to their small business counterparts on the penny stock exchanges. These penny stocks are known for their rapid growth and ability to make a lot of money in a short period of time. However, this market is better known for being the highest risk investment you can make.

Let's face it; most of America is fighting to survive the current recession. Those who have money are not confident in traditional stocks. That low confidence makes it very hard to part with the $5,000 or more required to buy 100 shares of many popular stocks on the NASDAQ or NYSE. The penny stock entry costs of $200 to $1,000 are much more acceptable when times are tough.

Most of America is sick of seeing corporate executives being paid hundreds of millions every year to run a company. What's worse is the behavior of these large companies. They have been greedy years and are now paying the price. Many of them are being bought out by competitors for pennies on the dollar. Either that or they are just going belly up as a result of decades of corruption. It's not surprising that American investors are looking for a better place to invest their hard earned money.

On the other hand, the penny stock market is made up mostly of small businesses like the farm down the road or a family run oil company. They are good hard working people who make a living running the small businesses in this market. They general take their company public for one of three reasons: They need funding to expand their small business. They need a tax break and want to share their profits with employees or other people. Or they were scammed by a penny stock broker into a costly IPO and can't back out without losing their company.

This growth is usually slower than that of their large business counterparts, as is the growth of their stock value. However, overtime that growth can add up. Further, some companies on the penny stocks will grow naturally from a small business to a large player. Along the way, the value of the stock in the company will grow too. When this growth happens it's usually very quick. Sometimes it will plateau in as little 24 hours, so penny stock investors have to be prepared to sell quickly.

Just be careful when investing in penny stocks. These companies aren't as well regulated as the big boys on the stock exchange. Because of this lack of oversight, it's easy for people to game the system and make it look like a company is growing fast. When they do this, the stock prices rise. At some point in time, these scammers dump their shares at the new rate and walk with the cash. This can make your shares worthless overnight.

In general, there are several penny stocks to watch. Each of these is a great long term value. They provide a chance to make a quick return on the market. Beyond the return, they also offer investors a chance to help the small businesses that carry the US economy. They even make us feel better about our investments by rooting for the underdog. However, there is a great deal of fraud in this market, so you have to watch your investments closely. If a stock sounds too good to be true, its most likely a scam. - 31876

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Good Traders, Bad Traders (Part II)

By Ahmad Hassam

Can you be a scalper? Yes, forex scalping is something that many of us do. Forex scalping is best suited to the time when the market is ranging. Scalper is a workable profile for a small retail trader. However, you should be able to view the overall trend of the market to gauge whether you are trading with or against the prevailing trend.

A scalper might use a 10 minute chart to follow the market, a 1 hour chart to determine the long term trend and the 5 minute chart to time the entries and exits for each trade.

Day trader is a good profile for a new trader. However, sometimes you might not want to close the trade at the end of the day as the trade is in profit and you are expecting more profits if you continue with the trade overnight. There is a rollover cost if you rollover your trades overnight. Be sure if you want to day trade, you know your broker policy on rollovers and the rollover cost for you. A Day trader is looking for larger profits something like 50-100 pips.

However, sometimes you might not want to close the trade at the end of the day as the trade is in profit and you are expecting more profits if you continue with the trade overnight. There is a rollover cost if you rollover your trades overnight. Be sure if you want to day trade, you know your broker policy on rollovers and the rollover cost for you. A Day trader is looking for larger profits something like 50-100 pips. A Day Trader might use a 15 minute chart to follow the market, a 4 hour chart to determine the long term trend and the 5 minute chart for making the entry and exit.

The longer you hold the position, the more you are at risk of getting the market surprises that no one can predict. A market surprise can be a sharp change in direction or volatility often occurring as the result of a major surprise announcement. A position trader is always for the lookout for big market moves that can get him/her 100-500 pips per trade. He/she might use a 1 hour chart to track the market, the 15 minute chart to time entries and exits and 1 day charts for trend determination.

If you aim for a 1/3 risk/reward ratio, a Guerilla will risk 5-10 pips per trade, a scalper will risk 15-20 pips per trade, a day trader will risk 25-30 pips per trade and a position trader will risk 40-50 pips per trade. Each profile requires different scales of charts and time frames but also indicators and money management parameters.

Always keep in mind that in forex trading a 10 pips move up or down can easily occur within seconds or minutes very quickly without any reason or rhyme. No two traders can be exactly alike. Even if two traders use the same charts and technical indicators they might interpret them differently.

The differences in money management techniques and attitudes are much less. Good traders tend to share money management and attitude traits. So do bad traders. Do you want to become a good trader or a bad trader? - 31876

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Guerilla Trader (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

What is your profile as a forex trader? Have you ever thought of thinking which trading profile best suits you? A trading profile that matches your personality can make the difference between success and failure. Forex traders have different profiles. Your trading profile depends on the time frame you trade. Are you a short term trader like a day trader or a swing trader? Are you a long term trader like a position trader? So your time horizon can range from a very short term to a very long term. Find the time horizon that best suits you and bring all your trade plan considerations in line with it.

Discovering the bad traits in you early is going to help you get a firm toehold and develop into a good trader in the long haul. So determining your trader profile early on in your trading career is very important for your success as a forex trader. Good traders share common characteristics. Bad traders share many things in common.

Jumping from one trading style to another will make you move in circles. You need to find the trading profile that best matches your personality. Too many traders jump from one type of trade and profile to another quickly and often. Forex markets are enormous, complex and deep. Finding your right trading profile is essentially finding your own niche in the market. Once you know your profile, you can dig deeper for improvements.

So how you determine your trading profile? The primary considerations in determining a trading profile are: 1) How much profit you wish to achieve in each trade? 2) How much risk you are willing to take in each trade? 3) How long on average do you expect to hold your positions?

You should know this fact that the longer you hold a position, the more you can benefit from the developing trend. At the same time, the longer you stay in the trade, the more you are at the risk of a sudden news release or announcement that can be bone jarring for your trade.

A Guerilla Forex Trader is looking for very short term profits something like 10-20 pips. Trading costs can become highly significant for a Guerilla Forex Trader as he/she may be in and out of the market frequently. So what are the most probable trader's profiles? The answer to this question will lead you to one of the following profiles: 1) Guerilla, 2) Scalper, 3) Day Trader and 4) Position Trader.

If you are new to forex trading, you cannot and should not be a Guerilla trader. Now read it very carefully, a Guerilla is not a good fit for a new trader. This profile is best left to the professional forex traders with direct access to the interbank market and very low bid/ask spreads. A Guerilla Forex Trader might follow a 5 minute chart to follow the market, the 30 minute chart to determine the long term trend in the market and 1 minute chart to time trade entries and exits. There is too much noise on the 1 minute chart and it will be very difficult to make sense of that noise.

So if you are a new trader just starting to learn the ropes, you should avoid Guerilla trading profile. You will not be able to cover your trading cost with this profile. You can only be profitable in the long run if your trading cost is less than your profits. - 31876

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Stock Trading Software: How Will It Assist You?

By Carl Keller

Owning a terribly good stock trading software will be a very handy tool for faster and easier transactions within the stock exchange. Once all, it is a nice method to research the market with the use of an online software that is capable of calculating necessary indexes plus giving you a preview on that shares you should consider trading.

A stock trading software is basically a pc program that enables you a bound degree of access to the stock market of any half of the world. This program has the flexibility to investigate movements among international markets.

Traders usually use this sort of software to perform both buying and selling in the stock exchange. It also offers investors various edges that may help them in successfully engaging in the stock market. Here are some of the ways that the software becomes helpful to you:

Time Reduction

One in all the key edges in using stock trading software is that it saves you plenty of time. Once all, time is a very essential issue in stock trading for you to be ready to create the most effective deals.

Through the employment of this program, you'll be able to forego with having to spend therefore long in making an attempt to interpret information on your stocks through newspaper reports or on-line stock pages. Through one click of the mouse, the software will download the required info and can process all the information for you therefore you'll build your selections faster.

Purpose Guidance

Another great profit for using this software is that it can give you great trading recommendation, particularly if you're a beginner. As a result of the program isn't biased upon emotions in presenting its opinions to you, a additional objective and truthful judgment on that stocks can be best to take a position on will be delivered. And so, there's a better chance that you'll be guided to making a better and unbiased decision.

Additional Management

Using a stock trading software conjointly gives you more access and control to your own accounts. Instead of relying an excessive amount of on brokers to negotiate deals for you, you are now empowered to handle a lot of the work yourself, and you'll even constantly check on how your investments do within the market. This manner, you'll monitor your stocks a lot of effectively.

Broadening Of Your Selection

Finally, the employment of trading software can also permit you to create international trades easier and this could broaden your portfolio. As a result of the program is predicated on data technology and a vast on-line network, it'd be easier for you to form international transactions without having to go away your own home. This will pave way to broaden your stock portfolio and even create it additional secure.

Indeed, the employment of trading software is a great way to maximise what trendy technology has to supply and incorporate it in making profit. By saving you plenty of your time, supplying you with more objective advice, empowering you to have additional control and broadening your portfolio, this program has proved its usefulness for anyone curious about engaging into stock exchange.

And thus, if you are interested on making your stock transactions faster and easier, or if you are just new to the market and would wish very sensible assistance in your decisions, then you'll be able to never get it wrong by investing on a sensible stock trading software. - 31876

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Thinking About Forex?

By Kris Deaney

Many people are starting to be curious about trading Forex. There are a number of reasons for this, however the most popular ones are the ease of entry into the markets, the chance to make the most of markets no matter what direction they're going in and also the leverage that's obtainable for traders.

These are all good reasons to trade Forex, but a trader must be careful. Leverage as an example can be a disadvantage as well as an advantage, if a trader doesn't totally understand how to manage risk.

That is why it's important for a trader to have a good trading strategy, before they start trading within the market.

The other issue they will need to think about, is how to find a very good Forex broker. Unfortunately, the Forex market is not regulated. This means that many brokers can really do as they like, and a few opt to to act in unscrupulous ways.

Joining up with a good Forex broker means that people will be able to avoid things like slippage. Slippage is where a brokerage will re-quote a price that a trader needs to buy or sell at. This will always occur to some level, especially during fast moving marketplaces, however top quality brokerages can keep this to a minimum.

A top quality brokerage will additionally give traders low spreads. Essentially the spread is the distinction between the bid and ask level, or alternatively, what a particular currency can be bought or sold for at a certain time.

The greater the spread the more costly it will be to trade. Top quality brokers provide lower spreads. They can also offer the opportunity for training and education, so that traders can develop market knowledge with their trading strategies.

It additionally means they can give traders with the chance to get up to the minute financial information, so that they're tuned in to world events and the release of economic data, furthermore being able to use professional charting programs, as any other skilled bank trader could.

Brokers both good and bad will also provide a trader the possibility to use leverage in a trade. For those not sure what this is, if for instance a trader trades at 10:1 leverage, they will just need to put down one dollar for each 10$ that they obtain in the market. 20:1 would be one dollar for every $20 that is traded within the market.

When leverage is employed as part of a trading plan, where risk is controlled, then it can offer very good chances for increasing profits. But, every trader needs to realize that it can amplify looses extremely quickly and because of that it has to be treated with respect, particularly by beginners. - 31876

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Common Sense Guidelines For Currency Trading

By Ahmad Hassam

Someone had rightly said a long time ago that common sense is so common that nobody uses it. Well, if you are going to become a trader than you need a lot of common sense. If you don't use common sense than you might as well not trade at all! OK, now a few common sense guidelines for you as a trader:

1) Always beware of forex brokers. Your broker might be cheating you and you may never know about it. It is all due to the unregulated nature of the forex market. Even if you complain nothing will happen. Don't fall into the trap of some unknown broker. Your ability to trade effectively depends on consistent spread and ample liquidity. You should always look for a reputable broker. Anyone can open a position. However, your ability to close a position at a good price is more important.

2) Trading means making consistent steady profits! Learn prudent money management rules. Avoid using excessive leverage that puts your investment capital at risk. Always trade with a stop! Never try to win big in one single trade. This is not trading, it is gambling. Always live to trade another day. If you believe in winning big than quit trading and start gambling! But if you do that you will only ruin yourself.

3) Never ever trade emotionally. Stick to your plan and maintain your trading discipline. Always develop and make a trading plan before you take up trading. Set a reasonable risk/reward ratio for your trades. Never ever override yours stops for emotional reasons. Don't react to price action buying just because you think it is cheap or selling because you think the price is high now. Always use technical analysis to make your decisions.

4) Don't punt. Punting is trading for the sake of trading without any planning or view. You are not a punter. Always plan each trade.

5) Don't try to trade around round numbers. Don't leave stops at round numbers or obvious levels. If you do that chances are they will be triggered.

6) You are not a gambler. You are a trader. Don't use martingale strategies in trading. Don't double up just in order to recoup your losses. In other words, only do that if it is part of a trading strategy. Don't add to a losing position unless it is part of a plan to scale into a position.

7) When trading against the trend be disciplined in taking profits and don't hold out for the last pip. When trading with a trend always use a trailing stop loss order.

8) Treat trading as a continuum. Don't base your success on one trade. Avoid emotional highs or lows on individual trades. Consistency should be your target.

9) Try to trade multicurrency. This will hedge your risk. Always keep an idea on the crosses.

10) Markets hate surprise news. You should know the economic calendar. Don't trade just ahead of an economic news release. Always beware of volatility following the economic releases. Be cognizant of what news is coming out each day so that you never get surprised.

11) Stay away from illiquid times like holidays or pre-holidays when liquidity is thin. Beware of central bank intervention in illiquid markets. - 31876

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Setting Your Trading And Investing Goals

By Sam McNeill

What's the best way to go about setting your trading or investing goals? Well, as with most goal setting in your life it involves two important elements: perceived difficulty, and how specific you are in stating your goal. These two elements play an important part in attaining your goals.

If you set yourself a trading/investing goal which is difficult and specific you are more likely to heighten your performance to attain your goal.

In a trading example a goal to earn $50,000 next year through your trading activity is good. However, a goal to achieve, say $51,600 will likely produce better performance as it is perceived by your brain as more specific.

Setting easy goals is unlikely to raise your performance as if you set a difficult but specific goal. So if you believed that a trading goal to earn $51,600 is easily attainable for the year, and then maybe set it to a more challenging $72,400.

And people are more likely to perform well when the goal is seen as believable based upon their knowledge, their training, and their skills. When people know it CAN happen because they CAN make it happen, performance increases. So don't set a completely unrealistic goal.

As you work towards achieving your goal, your belief in the importance of achieving your goal will make you more committed to your goal. As you assess your progress you will be reinforcing your commitment when seeing results. This will strengthen your performance to achieving your goal.

You can measure your progress against your trading/investing goal simply by keeping a running tally of your earnings year to date. So when you are half way through the year and have an earning tally of $38,100 from your goal of $72,400 you know you are on track as you are over half way there.

Most people who start trading shares or investing in shares do not have goals. When asked about what their trading goals are, they don't know and they don't worry about it. The most common response is "to make some money". This is neither specific nor difficult nor does it have a big "Why is this goal important" nor is it measurable.

Start by setting a difficult, specific, and realistic trading/investing goal and start measuring your progress. But make sure you understand why you want to achieve your goal; you need to know why it is important for you to achieve your goal.

Kevin Hogan discusses in his textbook "The Psychology of Persuasion", the idea of "the least acceptable result" and how this is the goal that most people will achieve from any activity. What is your trading or investing least acceptable result? Don't let this be your goal, set your trading/investing goal today and raise your performance and watch the results. - 31876

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Pick Forex Winners with Fap 'Winner

By Henry Blanc

Of all the financial markets available, it is the foreign exchange market that is the largest. In fact, it trades about $2 trillion daily, an amount equal to the total amounts traded in the stock market and the futures market combined, then multiplied by three.

Even a tiny fraction of the total amount of trades is a lot of money. I's every trader's dream to get the tiny fraction and have financial security. Their are risks involved in any investment though.

Trading in Forex isn't unlike handicapping horses. There's just a lot more data involved. Almost 50% of trades end in losses. Mastering this market is not easy, but if you can learn what the experts know the rewards can be huge. Forex trading can give you the financial security you want for yourself and your family. Don't even think about walking into this market blind.

Then came Fap Winner. Suddenly, the need to understand every bit of data, history, trends, charts, past movements, economy of countries and every bit of information concerning foreign exchange as well as all the factors that affect its movement is no longer needed.

Instead of becoming an expert, you have your own personal expert that will work for you 24 hours a day, 5 days a week to make the smartest trades possible. It does all the work so you don't have to.

Get ready to start making serious money in the Forex market with minimal risk to your investment.

Fap Winner is a fully automated Forex robot which makes all the trades for you. You just have to install it and input your data. It works at times you wouldn't be able to monitor the market, when you're sleeping, working or just spending time with your family. Fap Winner takes the work out of Forex trading and makes you an instant expert.

Making use of Fap Winner will have you trading as if you are a forex wizard if you will base it on what you will earn alone. With just an amount of $2997, you can already have an investment tool that can afford you your need as well as your family's.

This is a very small amount compared to the money will be earning as soon as you download the forex robot and start it running.

If you want to learn more about Fap Winner, just visit the website, http://fap-winner.com/. The site is full of information that can change the way you invest and the way you live. The explanations are clear and the site is easy to read and to use.

There is lots of information on the advantages and pitfalls of the Forex market and detailed explanations of how this robot can work to make you money without any work on your part.

It costs nothing to visit the site and it could be very rewarding. If you want to trade successfully on the Forex market, you owe it to yourself to take a look and see what the Fap Winner could do for your financial future.

The price of Forex software varies widely and there are many sites offering software for this market. You can shop around, but you won't find a better value than Fap Winner. - 31876

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Short ETFs

By Ahmad Hassam

The ProShares Short Dow 30 ETF (DOG) will return the inverse of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on daily basis. If the DJIA falls by 2%, DOG rises by 2% and if the DJIA rises by 2%, DOG will fall by 2%. Short ETF returns the inverse of the index it is linked to.

During the past few years, the number of Short ETFs has risen dramatically. Short ETFs not only cover the major stock indices like the S&P 500 or the DJIA but also different sectors like the energy, utilities or technology. You will even find Inverse ETFs on currencies now. Short ETFs are also known as Inverse ETFs or Bear ETFs.

Most of the ETFs are designed around some market index. ETF shares trade like ordinary stock shares. You can buy them. You can sell them unlike the mutual funds that can only be sold at the end of the day. The ProShares UltraShort Dow 30 ETF (DXD) rises 2% when the DJIA falls by 1%. So you can even find leverage short ETFs. A leveraged short ETF gives the trader leverage without the use of margins.

Over the years, short ETFs have risen in popularity with the investors and hedge funds. Short ETFs give you an excellent opportunity to profit from the volatility in the market and the major indices.

If you have been trading currencies, then you should know that inverse currency ETFs are a great way to profit from the volatility in the underlying currencies. Short ETFs are a great product as they have created new opportunities for traders. A trader had to actually short sell stocks to take advantage of a market drop before the introduction of short ETFs.

ETFs have opened up a whole new way of profiting from the markets. The trader had to go against the trend and buy or else move into cash or fixed income in the past if the market was dropping. Traders are not allowed to sell short stocks or ETFs in their retirement accounts. Short and leveraged ETFs provide traders with new opportunities.

ETFs also provide you with the opportunity to take advantage of the global market swings. China is one example that garners a lot of attention. The Shanghai Index in China rose 100% in 2007. In the first quarter of 2008, the Shanghai Index was down 35%.

In the past, traders who wanted to benefit from the fall of Chinese stocks could only short Chinese stocks that were traded in US Stock Exchanges. The ProShares family of ETFs introduced the Ultrashort FTSE/Xinhua China 25 ETF (FXP). Now if you want to trade the fall of Chinese stocks, you can trade FXP ETF.

Short ETFs can be used for other purposes as well. Assume you have a portfolio of $100,000 composed of 75% stocks and 25% money market fixed income. As a long term investor you can take advantage of short ETFs to hedge your portfolio position.

The forecast of the market for the next six months is not good. But you are reluctant to sell your stocks due to tax reasons. Suppose the market falls by 10%. Your stock portfolio falls by 7.5% assuming the same ratio between the market and your portfolio. - 31876

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Looking To Trade Forex?

By Kris Deaney

The Forex industry is filled with opportunities. It is additionally a risky market to trade, unless you've got 2 things sorted out initially.

The initial factor is a robust trading plan, which will be carried out with discipline. The second is a high quality Forex broker. The purpose of this piece is to talk about the factors needed in a good Forex broker, so people will be ready they join up to one.

First, a Forex broker must be in a position to provide instant execution of trades. It sounds obvious perhaps, but a lot of brokerages out there do not do this, and this ends up in what's called slippage. It means that profits are lost.

One of the problems is that the Forex trade isn't regulated by any governing body, largely since it's not traded on an exchange, as it is much too massive a market. It means that brokerages can hypothetically act how they choose and unfortunately for some of these it means they trade against the trader. These companies ought to be kept away from at all costs.

Next, traders should just be trading with firms that work on a low spread. The spread is essentially the difference between the bid and the ask price or more simply, what it can be purchased or sold for at a particular time. It can be looked at as the cost to place a trade. The higher the average pip spread, the greater the costs to make trades.

Typically traders don't take into account the costs of the spread when they trade, however, they are doing this at their own risk, as it can have a huge impact on profits and loss, especially when a trader is placing regular trades.

Additionally, a broker should have a complete set of research tools offered for use by each trader. This means that they can trade as other traders with a brokerage firm, or bank can. Additionally, they ought to offer immediate economic news, so that traders are aware of and can trade, according to word news and economic numbers.

They ought to additionally give the chance for a education program, especially if traders are inexperienced, so that they'll build up a extensive understanding and develop their trading methods and their expertise.

This can typically include them having virtual accounts, thus traders can trade with virtual money, while not having the complete pressure of a real money environment, at least initially. Be aware however that trading with virtual money is completely different psychologically from trading with real cash and at some point each trader has to to learn to cope with the added pressure of a real cash environment. - 31876

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Get Timely Trading Signals With Forex Ambush

By Gery Lermann

If you look at the Forex Ambush website you should be impressed, as i was, but the pride the developer takes in his product. After years of developing and refining his work he is certainly entitled to feel proud of a product which works so well. If you haven't seen Forex Ambush, you should take a look at this website.

According to the website, the product has the ability to make anyone richer just by providing accurate trading signals. This means that even if someone does not have a single idea about the matters of foreign exchange trading, he or she would still be able to earn real money.

The customer reviews show that most of the people who are using the product have had success turning a profit on their trades. The majority of consumers are very happy with the product and are making greater profits now than they have in the past.

Anybody who's experienced with Forex probably has experience with Forex software and robots. While the initial investment can be a little daunting, the payoff in this case is more than worth it. This is an investment, much like a trade, but it's an investment that is sure to pay off.

Traders have lives and can't always stay on top of market trends. Forex trading can be a full time job. A Forex robot stays on top of the market for you and lets you know when it's time to buy or sell. Instead of being glued to your PC, you can enjoy your life and let the robot do the work.

Even the best Forex software can't guarantee you'll make money on every trade. Like any investment, the Forex market is unpredictable. Forex Ambush is designed to take advantage of even subtle trends and alert you by email or SMS in time to take full advantage of the market. You'll know right away if an investment needs to be made or terminated.

The website is slick, professional and easy to understand. A lot of guru's get into technical language about stuff we don't really want to know. Traders aren't programmers, and we don't need to know how the software is designed, we just need to know that it works.

The information is presented in an interesting format and the site is attractive. Any Forex trader can benefit from reviewing the website since it explains exactly how Forex robots work and why they believe their product is superior to other software being sold on the Internet.

Many software sites contain a lot of technical language, and let's face it, traders are not especially technically oriented. While this developer understands software and Forex trading, he also understand Forex traders. He is able to present clear explanations of how the product will work in real conditions. His information is factual without being incomprehensible.

To be able to do that, strength and perseverance is required. Also, by the appearance of the website, customers would be able to see how hard the boss worked on it. If it is not that well built, the customers will lose confidence on the developer as well and just decide not to get the product. - 31876

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Automated Forex Trading - Does It Really Work Or Is It Just Another Hype?

By Daniel Waser

From the time when automatic systems was introduced and became ordinary as well as within reach, forex trading computer software had experienced an emergent significance. What was once the sole domain of banks and other such large investors, financial and otherwise, is now luring tiny and mid level investors. This is the place to where the dealing of currency from one country to another happens. This is the marketplace which witnesses trillions of dollars being traded non-stop, making it the single largest financial market places in the world.

Today dealing with forex is relatively simpler with the advent of the net and superior connectivity technology anyone with an net connection, forex trading software programs and some knowledge of accounts and brokering can actually indulge in this. This universal marketplace is open round the clock so if you want to keep updated with the events going on inside you should be able to keep an eye for it. These automated systems can actually help you with choosing not only the currency ahead of any purchase but also the asking and selling price involved. If you want your transaction being attended to instantly, all you want to have is a small sum for investment and a broking agent.

No previous experience or expertise is needed for making money in this trade as the forex trading software programs takes care of everything. In the case of supervised accounts utilizing the automated trading systems, the program automatically manages all the details for you. You save a great deal of time with these automatic systems since you do not have to carry out the trading yourself. Moreover, the automatic trading system helps you control multiple accounts at the same time which you cannot expect to handle manually. These programs allow you the dealing of multiple systems in multiple markets.

With the convenience and flexibility that this forex trading software programs can give, you are now able to trade just any time you like without your presence being needed. There is no chance of missing any profitable chance even if you are not present in front of your computer. Thus it becomes more handy to work with several systems, and put many of your forex schemes into action. Each system is designed to be activated by some specific deal elements so you can spread your investment and get maximum returns with minimum risk accordingly.

To avoid making nonrational dealing decisions, this forex trading software programs doesn't actually consider any human factors to interfere and this is just the best thing in having this software programs. You will then be able to administer and oversee or even deal in many currencies at the same time, if you want.

Using the forex trading software does not relieve you of your responsibilities of getting knowledgeable about the basics of forex trading, market trend analysis, technical analysis etc., if you want to make long-term profits. Even when one used a highly sophisticated automatic system, it still does not ensure profits, since the forex market is changeable and irregular. You can easily program and customize the forex dealing software programs to suit your own specific requirements. - 31876

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A Personal Watershed - Is Forex For You?

By Thomas H. Rivera

The forex market has emerged as one of the biggest opportunities for savvy investors in the world. Many people have turned to the market as an alternative to the stock market. While it obviously has some clout behind it, how can you know if it's right for you? What is in it for you and how can you profit from it?

The forex market is an opportunity for you to exchange foreign currencies. Unlike the stock market, you're not investing in a certain company. You're actually investing in a currency. Unlike the stock market, there are not hundreds of thousands of stocks to pick from and research. You get a short list of currencies depending on which broker you have, and you can trade them. This makes research a lot easier, and you can get good with a few currencies.

The opportunity with forex is endless. There are always people trading the markets 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. This means that you can trade as often or as little as you like. You can develop a trading plan that works for you and stick with it. This means that you can completely customize your plan, your money management, and your results.

While there is a potential to make a lot of money in forex trading, that potential is only seemingly boundless. You're still going to be constrained by the usual trading range in basis point pips between a currency pair, and if you spot a trend, it's odds on that others have as well; like any kind of volatility based trading, you're always running on five minute old information. You can make (or lose) thousands of dollars in a handful of minutes.

It's this automation that gets a lot of new people trading in forex; there is this strange belief that a program that can be bought for under $100 can 'automatically beat the market'. This is, when you think it through, utter lies. If such an automated system existed, the central banks would be using it themselves, with their trillions of dollars of reserves and general leverage. What you are getting for that $100 is an automated order placer; what orders and buy and sell ratios you use, you have to figure out - no computer program can replace sound judgment and good research.

Forex is a great way to make a lot of money from home; doing it on a day trading strategy requires constant attention. Don't think that this is something that will rake in the bucks while you practice your golf swing. This is a job, and if you don't treat it as such, it's going to bite you in the ass, and hard. That said, it lets you work from home without anyone lurking over your shoulder. You are at the mercy of the trading desks schedules, so keep that in mind. Day trading forex is sometimes called a lifestyle choice.

You can make more than some doctors and lawyers without having to go to college for eight years. You can really make as much or as little as you want. If you just need enough to get by, there are a number of safe, conservative strategies that are available. If you want to ride the trends and rake in huge profits, there are also a lot of methods for that.

If you're the sort of person who lives for being wired on coffee, staying inside for a-- hour trading day, and staring at a computer screen, forex trading may be for you - even if only temporarily. The real secret of forex day traders is that the successful ones get out of it and retire, and retire early. - 31876

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Trading Coaches - Your Shortcut to Trading Success

By Mark Green

Same market, same system, different results? New traders often can't understand how it can be. How can another trader using the same system be making great profits while he is just breaking even or even making a loss. The answer is often experience in the market and managing the trade after it has been opened. Only after trading for a while do many traders realise the skill involved in managing trades after they have been opened. A trading coach is someone that has years of experience in the market and can help you succeed more quickly in the market by sharing their experience and guiding you.

What is a trading coach? A trading coach is someone that will help you get started in trading or if you already have experience, help improve your trading. They are experienced traders themselves with many years experience and can provide objective guidance on your situation and advice on how to improve your trading results. A trading coach can look at your trading results and review your trading plan, and spot areas that need improvement or give suggestions that you may not have thought about.

Trading coaches work privately or in groups. Obviously one on one sessions will be more expensive but you will get the full attention of the coach and advice specific to your situation. Private sessions can be done on the phone, via online chat such as Skype or in person, so it does not matter where the coach is located. Group sessions are often run over a number of weeks and although you do not get the full attention of the coach you do get the benefit of learning from the others in the group.

You may find some trading coaches also offering home study courses. Although there may be an extra cost for this, when you compare it to the cost of actual trading coaching sessions, it can be good value. Instead of paying for the time of the trading coach to explain basic trading concepts and systems, learning from the course is an alternative. Once you have learnt the basics, you can then use the time with the trading coach most effectively.

Some group sessions meet in person, and others use online forums for questions and answers. Recently online 'trading rooms' have become popular for trading coaching. In a trading room, the coach uses software that allows the group to see the coach's screen and allow the group to ask questions and then hear the answer as the coach answers the questions in real time. Often the coach will be analyzing a live forex or stock market, and this gives the group a chance to understand the thought process of the coach and a chance to ask questions.

There are many areas that a trading coach can help with. It may be that your trading plan needs work. You may need assistance in technical analysis to improve your trade selection. It could be that you are able to select good trades but then are not able to manage them to extract the most profit from them. Regardless of the area, if you are able to identify where you need help, you will be able to get the most out of a coach. - 31876

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Fasts And Most Accurate Way To Profit With Forex Software

By John Adams

Recently Forex trading systems have flooded the market like anything. Its used normally by all professional and novice traders apart from the average person who has no idea to pick a acceptable system for him self too. Websites dealing with such systems make all attempts to persuade traders to buy their systems without even giving any reputable information and review about the product. Forex systems are being flooded in to the Forex market even though there are very few which actually implement and are practical.

One of the main reasons that automated forex trading is so practical and booming is for the factor that it is possible to come to a trade in lots of seconds as the FOREX market constantly runs on real time. If you do FOREX trading on using a manual or more traditional system then it can take lots of hours to come to a trade. An automated forex trading system also facilitates for greater diversity then a manual system. You can easily trade in your domestic FOREX market as well as in the multiple international FOREX markets. This FOREX software also can analyze short phrase data so you can look at market trends that have occurred over the past hour. You can quickly and easily predict where the market is going in just a few minutes.

There are multiple benefits in using automated forex trading software and these kinds of programs are perfect for those that do not have various experience in FOREX trading. They enable you the freedom to go about your day without having to sit at the computer and constantly monitoring your FOREX trades. You also can receive notices of the best time to trade or advice on what to do each time certain market conditions occur.

With more technology advances you will be able to make even ore FOREX trades using automated software. As connections and computers get faster so will the capacity to make more trades. This can be great software for those that have limited knowledge about the FOREX market and how to trade. The new forex systems have revolutionized the approach of trading currency, such as lots of recent Forex systems with their one of a kind algorithms that soars your profits percentage keeping the risks to the minimum level. Even in these recessionary times, stop loss and profit orders are used judiciously to assure you of good returns. There are not multiple similar systems in the market, which can match the efficiency, in using stop-loss and take profit orders so prudently.

The user-friendly interface of the forex software is its greatest advantage. The installation of multiple Forex softwares is so simple that there is no need to be glaring at your computer monitor the whole day. You can come to a start just by installing the system on a definite broker platform. The robots can easily trade all by itself, which is the advantage of using automated software.

Why do people buy Forex Robots? People buy Forex robots as they can help with predicting the future forex market trend and they can also help to give specific recordings of the current forex market which helps with judging how a definite trade may react to changes in the market. - 31876

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Latest Forex Trading Software On The Net

By Brian Ganbort

Have you by any chance heard of the latest phenomenon captivating the forex world, Forex Rebellion? It is absolutely valid that there are numerous forex software programs for traders to chose from these days, but this particular system is a change from all the other forex systems from our testing, but in a powerful way.

The tool is fantastically sensible plus gets you to the same place as a number of the top-selling different forex programs on the marketplace. But just like something else, don't take my word for it, acquire it yourself and just test it for yourself. Forex rebellion is charming the forex trading world and is currently the choice of countless top traders these days to catch the perfect trades on pips.

This program has been released recently and the initial buzz is everywhere. Traders from all over the world are checking it out and finding out just how simple it's to discover the perfect trades. In fact, this tool is successfully producing an astonishing 80% accuracy rate that's simply tough to replicate by human powered trading. It is incredible in how it jumps on trades at the perfect point in time and gives you a competitive advantage over the competition.

The details regarding this program are outlined on our web site found at Forex Rebellion Review. Each and every factor is revealed regarding this program in video and straightforward to browse wording. Overall, when I look it, running this software and producing money is like child's play.

The program does the work automatically to perform the trades it needs to make happen for you. The tool works on any timeframe and with any trading pair. The fantastic thing about automation is that it'll work round the clock for you even if you've got a full-time job and can't attend to it full time.

This automatic forex trading robot can do all the serious lifting for you. With this system, you are certain to attain reliable and really dependable trading income on a daily basis from forex trading. Simply having a software similar to this may provide even the most prudish trader the confidence to trade with the professionals on the forex market. It'll almost provide the inexperienced trader the same results as the top professional forex traders in the world.

In addition to that,, there's first-class user support provided to help you you any problems crop up. The inventor claims openly he is fanatical about giving the opportunity for his traders to realize success.

It is a reality which no other trading program out there can give you a plug-and-play system that can alert you when there's a profitable trade about to happen. The sky is the limit when it involves the ability to make huge income with the system. I am awfully impressed by the amount of winning trades this system was smart enough to produce good earnings without fail.

Here are a few of the Forex Rebellion benefits: It works on all time frames, works in all market conditions, specific entry rules, straightforward to understand, distinctive indicator which filters out bad trades, works on any currency pairs, has built-in risk management, and most importantly was designed by a dedicated forex trader with understanding.

What it all boils down to is that Forex Rebellion is a easy program to educate and trade by. Even the complete newbie to forex trading can take this system and do amazing things financially. The time expenditure will be small, but the monetary rewards are so magnificent. If you seriously want to make money, consider getting the Forex Rebellion system and apply it to your advantage in the forex market. Move out there and get started with Forex Rebellion!

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