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Is Social Forex Trading Here To Stay!

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:26:46 +0000

Forex vendors of all form and type (brokers, signal providers, blogs, news site et al) have all been marketing themselves aggressively online. However now there seems to be a new social trend in forex as with all other industries. Etoro was among the first to give a serious push in this direction with their social trading platform – which allows new traders to piggyback on the laurels of the more experienced traders. For example there are 10 expert traders who have shown consistent results over a certain time period. Some perform better than others, but have a higher risk profile. As a beginner in forex trading, you need not go through the learning process, but simply choose to copy the trades of one of the 10 experts for a small fee paid to the expert. You make money, the expert makes money and Etoro makes money – everyone is happy. At least that is the vision!

Another early entrant in social forex trading is Currensee. They have a similar system called the Trader Leaders Investment Program. Below is a sample of how the Trade Leaders list looks. There are performance indicators, a risk factor, strategy overview and other useful information based on which a beginner can make his or her decision.

More recently there have been a slew of new players entering the market. These include Myfxbook, Fxstat, Meetfx, Forexdesk and Meetpips. While most of them focus on extensive post trade analysis to improve and refine a traders strategy, fxstat has recently introduced there own form of social forex trading and is running its beta version.

True to history there are other forms of trading such as mirror trading which have been around for longer; their campaigns lacked the community essence at its core. It looks like Facebook has made its mark on the forex market as well.

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What Is Forex Day Trading?

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:18:42 +0000

Day trading refers to the practice of buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day such that all positions are usually closed before the market close for the trading day. Traders that participate in day trading are called active traders or day traders.

Some of the more commonly day-traded financial instruments are stocks, stock options, currencies, and a host of futures contracts such as equity index futures, interest rate futures, and commodity futures. Indeed, many day traders are bank or investment firm employees working as specialists in equity investment and fund management. However, with the advent of electronic trading and margin trading, day trading has become increasingly popular among at-home traders.

As modern trading is electronic, the exchanges are run by computers, and are accessible via the Internet, so traders can work from almost anywhere in the world using only a few tools and services. Some of these tools are things like a computer, Internet access, and a telephone, so most people already have some of the tools that are needed for day trading.

There are several basic strategies by which day traders attempt to make profits:

Trend following
Contrarian investing
Range trading
Scalping
Opening Only Orders
Rebate trading
News trading
Price action
Algorithmic trading

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What Is Range Trading

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:12:42 +0000

Range trading, or range-bound trading, is a trading style in which a financial product (fore example currency or stock) is watched that have either been rising off a support price or falling off a resistance price. Let’s talk in the context of forex trading. That is, every time the currency pair hits a high, it falls back to the low, and vice versa. Such a currency pair is said to be “trading in a range”, which is the opposite of trending. The range trader therefore buys the currency at or near the low price, and sells (and possibly short sells) at the high. A related approach to range trading is looking for moves outside of an established range, called a breakout (price moves up) or a breakdown (price moves down), and assume that once the range has been broken prices will continue in that direction for some time.

The same principles of range trading are equally applicable in the stock market as well as other financial markets.

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