Thursday, May 28, 2009

What Are Forex Training Programs?

Forex training programs will teach you how to increase your money making potential. Unfortunately, they focus on mainly one profitable FX market technique.

You should really be looking at other educational that can teach you a broad range of trading skills all the way from the basic level to the advanced trader.

The easiest way to engage profitably with currency markets is to take the short term approach. Learn what concepts you can quickly and apply those lessons to start making money. These forex classes will teach you simple, easy ways to trade. If you pay attention, youll be generating income shortly after you start learning the concepts!

The two best courses are Forex Trading Made EZ and 10 Minute Forex Wealth Builder. Both classes have a very simple approach which doesnt waste your valuable time. Learn, apply, and then youll start making money! A class titled Hector Trader is a trend trading specialization course but that class requires more of your time before you are able to turn a profit. The videos you watch for the class are very complicated and you might have to watch each video several times.

Therefore, learn the techniques outlined in the basic classes. They use very different methods of training and if you follow their teachers, your portfolio will be adequately diverse. With a diverse portfolio, you should experience profitability on a monthly basis.

Then, I would attend a class that would educate me fully about the markets so that I would not appear ignorant while learning some of the things in other classes.

If you complete two courses in particular, Fap Winner and Straight Forex, and use their three techniques for the short term and a long term technique in your investments, you will certainly be very profitable.

It all boils down to hard work. If you are ready to get your hands dirty and be prepared to work, there is absolutely no reason as to why you can’t succeed.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

EU Inflation CounterBalances Oil

Forex analysts reckon the two most powerful forces weighing on the Dollar are commodity prices and European prices, so-to-speak. With regard to commodity prices, it seems plausible that rising commodity prices have contributed to a weaker Dollar, as much as vice versa. Thus, when Saudi Arabia announced recently that it would increase oil production, the Dollar received a nice boost. Conversely, European prices, or inflation, are important for traders to monitor because they represent a proxy for the future of EU monetary policy. Specifically, Eurozone inflation just touched another high, at 3.7%, which analysts point out is now 1.7% higher than the ECB's stated comfort zone. The likely result is an interest hike in the near-term, which would further widen the differential with US interest rates. Unless, of course, the Fed follows suit with a rate hike if its own. Forbes reports:

"High oil and food prices are already clearly denting any hopes for a pick-up of private consumption but only a severe deterioration of economic confidence indicators might prevent the ECB from pulling the rate trigger at the next rate-setting meeting."

Read More: Euro climbs as inflation figures cement rate hike expectations

Bright Future for Emerging Currencies

At the recent Reuters Investment Outlook Summit, forex was a popular topic of discussion among the investment strategists in attendance. Specifically, many of the participants were bullish about emerging market currencies. This is somewhat ironic, since these currencies have marked one of the few bright spots for the Dollar, which has benefited from a recent trend towards risk aversion as a result of the credit crisis. In addition, the Fed is certainly finished with its current cycle of lowering rates, and may in fact hike rates as early as this year. However, the experts insist that this will be offset by corresponding rate hikes in emerging markets, which are beginning to come to terms with surging inflation. The currencies of Brazil and Malaysia were singled out because they both benefit from rising commodity prices. In addition, all of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and Mexico, continue to be favored by currency investors. Reuters reports:

A decade of fiscal discipline, political stability and export diversification is also likely to help the Mexican peso in the near term, said...a managing director for foreign exchange products at BMO Capital Markets.

Read More: Emerging markets forex rally still has legs

Intervention Drawing Near

G8 finance ministers met last week to discuss the detrimental effects of rising (commodity) prices on the global economy. Oil prices and commodity prices have in some cases doubled over the last year, contributing to a nasty surge in worldwide inflation rates. While the Dollar was not technically a topic of the discussion at these particular meetings, it was broached tangentially because of the perceived relationship between the weak Dollar and high commodity prices. Accordingly, Central Bank intervention on the Dollar's behalf could theoretically be justified on the basis of both mitigating inflation and facilitating global macroeconomic stability. The "I" word hasn't been mentioned explicitly, but its likelihood increases with every up-tick of inflation and every down-tick of GDP. It is no surprise that in the weeks leading up the actual G8 conference, the Dollar has sustained its strongest rally against the Euro in nearly 3 years. Forbes reports:

Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke flagged a change in Washington by linking the weaker dollar to inflation and saying he was watching the currency closely with the Treasury. Then U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson refused last week to rule out direct intervention in currency markets.

Read More: Oil, dollar dominate runup to G8 inflation talks

4 Types of Forex Trades

In a recent article for Seeking Alpha, financial journalist Ray Hendon offered an overview on the four principal strategies employed in the forex markets: carry trade, technical trade, fundamental trade, and arbitrage. The carry trade, which involves borrowing in a low-interest rate currency and buying a higher-yielding currency, can be undertaken by either buying ETF(s) or by trading directly using a retail forex account. The ETF route can be further subdivided into two possibilities: to buy a particular currency ETF to take advantage of the spread, or instead to buy one of two ETFs (symbols: ICI & DBV) that use computer models to mimic the carry trade.

Currency traders are probably familiar with the second and third strategies: technical trade and fundamental trade. Hendon refers to the technical trade as "momentum trade" but this is overly simplistic. Traders employing a technical strategy can make use of a range of technical indicators designed to show where a particular currency pair is headed in the short term. On the other end of the time horizon is the fundamental trade, which usually involves a long-term commitment. Fundamental trades make use of differentials between countries/currencies which can involve economic growth, inflation, interest rates, even politics, to try to determine whether a particular currency is undervalued or overvalued.

Finally, there is the arbitrage trade, in which traders attempt to spot minute differences in currency pairs that trade in different markets. There is also the possibility of triangular arbitrage in which the respective exchange rates between 3 currency pairs aren't congruent. However, Hendon concedes that such trades have become the bastion of institutional investors which make use of sophisticated computer models to instantly identify and profit from arbitrage opportunities, which limits the average retail trader to the three strategies listed above.

Read More: Strategies for Currency Investors