Currency trading is a platform where individuals speculate on the exchange rate between two currencies. Traders buy and sell currencies hoping to realize a profit. In order to succeed in currency trading you will need a source of accurate and timely information. You’ll need to familiarize yourself with a whole new language.

When you start currency trading you’ll learn what a market trend is and how it will affect your trading. Trends move up, down and sideways. There are also trend classifications within market trends. These classifications are intermediate, short-term and long-term trend. You’ll learn how to look at and understand basic trend lines, which is the most valuable trading. You’ll learn about channel lines and support levels.

When you enter currency trading you’ll be able to make sales online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, unlike the Stock Market. Many online brokers offer commission free trading and you’ll want to make sure that you have instant execution of your market orders.

A new addition to many currency trading online business sites is the ability to set up a free demo account. This is a good way to get practice about trading and learn about live quotes, charts and streaming news before you start investing with real money.

When you set up your demo account it’s a good time to test the software that the company offers. If you don’t like the software program, contact the company and see how similar it is to the software program you would get if you signed a contract with them. If you don’t like the software program try another broker. Also, decide if you want web based or client based software. Web based software is housed on your brokers website, you won’t have to install any software onto your computer. A web based software program will allow you to log in from any computer that has an internet connection. Client based software is loaded onto your computer, and can only be accessed from that computer, potentially limiting your usage.
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What are you really selling or buying in the currency market?

The short answer is nothing. The retail FX market is purely a speculative market. No physical exchange of currencies ever takes place. All trades exist simply as computer entries and are netted out depending on market price. For dollar-denominated accounts, all profits or losses are calculated in dollars and recorded as such on the trader’s account.

The primary reason the FX market exists is to facilitate the exchange of one currency into another for multinational corporations who need to trade currencies continually (for example, for payroll, payment for costs of goods and services from foreign vendors, and merger and acquisition activity). However, these day-to-day corporate needs comprise only about 20% of the market volume. Fully 80% of trades in the currency market are speculative in nature, put on by large financial institutions, multi-billion dollar hedge funds and even individuals who want to express their opinions on the economic and geopolitical events of the day.

Meaning of Trading in Pairs

Because currencies always trade in pairs, when a trader makes a trade he or she is always long one currency and short the other. For example, if a trader sells one standard lot (equivalent to 100,000 units) of EUR/USD, she would, in essence, have exchanged euros for dollars and would now be short euro and long dollars. To better understand this dynamic, let’s use a concrete example. If you went into an electronics store and purchased a computer for $1,000, what would you be doing? You would be exchanging your dollars for a computer. You would basically be short $1,000 and long 1 computer. The store would be long $1,000 but now short 1 computer in its inventory. The exact same principle applies to the FX market, except that no physical exchange takes place. While all transactions are simply computer entries, the consequences are no less real.
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Here we will reveal a system for currency trading profits, which has a logic that is so simple, ANY trader will see why it works, and why it will continue to work, as well as how they could be making big currency trading profits too!

If you use this system in currency trading, you will have the potential to catch EVERY major currency trend.

We have all heard this investment wisdom: “To make money buy low sell high”

However there is a better way to make big currency trading profits and the wisdom here is: “Buy high and sell higher”

This will become clear with some explanation:

Ignore Traditional Investment Wisdom if you want the Big Profits!

If you want to “buy low and sell high” you have to guess where a market is going to bottom and this is not easy. You are trying to PREDICT where a trend might start – this very often means the market goes lower and you lose.

Investors and traders are taught to “buy low and sell high” but when a huge move starts they watch and wait for the pullback – it never comes, the market simply goes higher, and they never get in.

The problem with this traditional investment wisdom is you end up trying to pick market bottoms, and try to get in on pullbacks, but when a market trades higher quickly, you miss the move.

This sees traders lose on trying to pick bottoms – they don’t make the profits they could have made from the big moves.

Breakout Systems are the Best for Catching the Big Profits

A breakout system does not try to predict a market bottom – it waits for CONFIRMATION.

It will wait for a market to break above a recent high, (resistance) or break below a market low, (support) if these levels are broken, a move will start, and astute traders ONLY trade the break – they don’t try to predict.

You can make big profits on these breaks – look at any currency you like: Japanese yen, Swiss Franc, British Pound, etc. and you will see huge moves from breakouts.

The Best Risk Reward

The breakout point provides the best risk to reward, to enter the trade.

Why? Lets take a hypothetical example:

The British Pound has traded up and tested resistance at 1.85 several times, and is currently trading at 1.70. The market rapidly trades up to 1.85, and immediately breaks to the upside, and quickly goes to 1.95

What has Actually Happened?

When the critical 1.85 area gives way, traders with stops on their short positions, start to cover, and new traders enter the long side of the trade. This causes a huge surge in price – as the area of resistance is so important.

If you are positioned to get in as the breakout occurs, your risk is low, and reward high.

Many traders don’t want to do this – they feel they are “chasing” the move, and want a pullback – it never comes, and they miss the big profits.

Keep in mind the old saying:

“A trend in motion is more likely to continue than reverse”
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Have you ever heard of the Dogs-of-the-Dow system. It’s a well known system in the stock and trading business. There are several stock brokers who have earned a lot of money by working with this system. They are using at for several years now. They think it’s a safe way to let your money grow slowly but consistently.

If you know the Dogs-of-the-Dow system you know that the system makes yearly a better percentage then the index.

If you have started using the system several years ago and used it properly for those years you would have earned a nice percentage each year. Double figures are more then ones made. A high yield income of 17.7 % average annual return since 1973 has been made.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average overall return was 11.9 % during that same periode.
So you would have made almost 6 % more each year. Not bad at all.

If you never heard about it let me explain how that system works.
At some point in the year, mostly early January, you take a look at all the companies that gives you the highest dividend payment.

You make a basket (several companies added together) then you decide how much percentage you will spent on each company. Next you buy stocks of each company to a curtain amount of money you have available and wait until the year passes.
When the year has passed you make op the balance and see how much you have earned.
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