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FOREX Day Trading - Day Trading Doesn't Work So Don't Try It


The logic of day trading is totally flawed and will never make you money over the longer term and will wipe out your equity.

If you want to prove it ask anyone who says it does to give you a real time track record of profits and you won?t get one.

Why? Because day trading does not make money.

Before we begin, you may ask yourself why there are so many people claiming they make money at day trading?

Well the answer is it?s a good story and appeals to peoples greed.

This creates system sales and revenue for the vendor OF these day trading methods so they make money you lose.

Here are the reasons day trading does not work:

1. Time Period

A day is to short a time period to judge market trends accurately.

Think about it.

Trillions of dollars are traded everyday and prices can go anywhere and there is no way of guessing what the volatility in a day will be or the direction.

Short term moves are simply random.

You could probably flip a coin and do as well as most day traders.

2. Stops

Day traders use the daily range to buy and sell and set stops.

Stops therefore tend to be close to entry by the very nature of day trading.

Volatility in a single session is impossible to judge and most times simply picks off the stops and creates small losses which add up.

3. Banking profits early

Most day traders are looking to scalp a few pips here and there.

They do have some wining trades (more by luck than by judgment) but of course they break the fundamental rule of trading leveraged investments which is:

Run your profits to cover your inevitable losses.

As they have a lot of losses and marginal profits the net result is the erosion and eventual wipe out of account equity.

Day Trading is a good story, but in reality day trading doesn?t work over the long term.

Simply ask any vendor who sells a day trading system for this:

A real time track record of their profits over 3 years and see the answer you get.

The conclusion from all of this?

You guessed it ? Avoid day trading if you don?t want to lose your money.

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Currency Forex Trading System-Opportunity For Swing Trading When Currencies Move Up or Down


Generally, when we trade forex, we can either trade the short term fast moves that characterise the volatility inherent in currencies, or we can trade the longer term swings.

Since our aim is to have a consistent income, there is a need to have a systematic way to trade forex so that we can glean our profits consistently and systematically.

If we look at trading systems today, we find that many forex traders day-trade and these day traders have their own favorite day trading systems. Another way to describe these traders is scalping. Indeed, many forex traders are able to make a living by scalping the markets, working a few hours a day from home.

If we look a bit deeper into what makes scalping possible, then we can discover that prices of a currency do have this characteristic of moving from a low point position to an upper point position, to form a trading range in a daily fashion. As long as prices oscillate within this range, the forex trader can actually scalp and make profits from buying at the low point and selling at the high point.

What is most interesting is that beyond the boundaries of the lower point and the upper point, the currency no longer displays its tendency to oscillate, but break out into a trend. If the price drops below the lower point position, it goes into a downtrend. If it goes above the upper point position, it goes into uptrend. It is no longer under a trading range where the forex trader scalps or actually is range-trading.

It is times like these when the projected lower points positions and the upper point positions are breached and confirmed that trends are apparent, and swing trading comes into play.

For example, the US-Yen currency pair has been in a prolonged downtrend where selling positions could be taken over a period of 8 years to profit from the down swing. Day trading is no longer the focus.

Recognising when the currency pair has moved out of its trading range and has broken out into a confirmed trend is the key to swing trading.

Is the chart displaying a bottoming pattern configuration, with higher bottoms, and higher highs? Is there a double bottom or triple bottoms pattern, a V formation or a W formation in the chart pattern?

Is there slowing downwards price momentum? From the aspects of japanese candlestick, are there short term bottoming patterns such as a hammer, a tweezer bottom, a rising star, a piercing line or a bullish engulfing pattern to lend credence to your initial suspicions of a bottom and an initial upswing?

As forex traders, our objective is to be profitable whether we scalp or we swing trade. As markets trend only around 30% of the time, being able to identify the initial outbreaks of the swings and being able to trade them with our favorite swing trading systems will mean we can capture the sweetest part of the swing moves. While we range-trade 70% of the time, it is the big swing trades that can provide us with big profits. That's why we need a sound proven currency forex trading system for both range trading and swing trading if we are to profit from forex trading.

Peter Lim is a Certified Financial Planner. You can shorten the learning curve and discover 3 powerful trading systems that cover day trading, range trading and swing trading devised by a veteran professional forex trader by visiting the author's blog http://1forex-trading.blogspot.com



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The FOREX Market- Trade With Your Head Not Your Heart


Sounds simple?right? In actuality, this is the number one reason why day traders lose their shirts. They let their emotions get the best of them and end up doing something real stupid. Trust me I?ve done it.

When trading currency, you need to take yourself away from the platform and look at your trades in actual bills not numerical values on a computer screen. For example, let?s say you short the USD/JPY for a 50 mini-lot right before a data release and it tanks. The USD/JPY goes down about 50 some odd pips and now you?re up $2500 in about thirty seconds.

Now, if you were smart, you would close the position and take your profit, but you?re not and you decide to let it ride. The market goes down about another 10 pips. So, now you?re up $3000 and you still won?t close it. You think that it?s going to keep tanking and that you could make 5-6k on this one trade?wishful thinking.

All of sudden the market retraces and shoots back up 20 pips, your still up about $2000, but now you tell yourself, I?ll wait until it goes back down a few pips and then close it. Too late, the market ignites and now you?re break-even and then you?re negative. In the end you take a $500 loser, which isn?t too bad, but considering you were up $3000 it?s like you lost $3500.

Now, let?s pretend you did this same trade with actual, physical dollar bills. Now or days most people trade from a three wide spread, so let?s say that you gave a trade booker $150 cash to place a short USD/JPY 50 lot. The data is released and this man keeps giving you $50 bills and before you know it you have $3000 in your hands. In order to keep this money all you have to say is close.

You decide to press your luck and wait and the market continues to trend down and now you have $3500 cash. All of sudden, the market begins to retrace and this nice young man starts taking $50 from you each pip it retraces. How many pips does the market have to retrace before you say close? Maybe, ten pips? Once you saw actual dollar bills being taken away from you, you would throw in the towel. So, how does one improve their money management skills?

First of all, realize that you are trading real money. I?m sure you realize that the money you are trading is real money, but do you conceptualize it? When you make a few hundred or a few thousand dollars trading, do you feel like someone just handed you cash? Of course not! Every time you?re trading, no matter if you are profitable or not profitable visualize and grasp the outcome. Don?t just watch your balance and equity fluctuate; you need to relate your loss and gains to every day life.

For example, let?s say you have a 10k account and in the first week you doubled that to 20k. You need to step back and understand what you just accomplished; you just made 10k in one week by sitting in front of your computer and trading currency. Now, let?s take that money and put it to everyday use. If you were handed a free 10k, what would you do with the money?

Would you pay of some debt, by a car, put money down on a home, go on a vacation, put it towards school, I think you get the gist. All I?m saying is that 10k is yours, you own it and there is no reason you have to keep in the FOREX. You are that 10% that succeeded this week, but the law of averages states that you are most likely to be the 90% next week. If not next week then the week after and if not then, eventually you will.

If you invest 10k and your account doubles to 20k, why would you pull out 15k leave in 5k and go for the gusto? If you lose your remaining 5k who cares you still made 5k in a week at your computer. Tell me another investment where I can make 50% on a 10k investment in one week. Turn around the following week pull my initial investment and my profit and still have 5k to play with. If I hadn?t experienced this first hand then I would have never believed it. DO NOT GIVE YOUR WINNINGS BACK TO THE MARKET! It?s not worth it.