Monday, February 23, 2009

Need to Know Knowledge of Forex Trading

I wanted to take the time to share with you the need to know knowledge of forex trading. There is a lot to learn when it comes to being profitable at this business and there happens to be a few extremely important pieces of knowledge that can take you much further than anything else. I'm going to take the time to share a few of these and how they can help you out.

I think the most important skill is learning to control yourself. We are all emotional creatures and that emotion served us well when we lived in the woods. Those emotions were our survival tools. Unfortunately, when it comes to the business of trading forex, these emotions aren't appropriate and often lead us to make the wrong moves. Being able to control yourself from acting on these emotions can be difficult. I find it is much easier to walk away from the computer, so you can't trade. This way there is no way of enabling it. You go, take a break and come back when you're calm. As you get better at controlling, you should be able to recognize when you're having an emotional feeling and just ignore it.

You also need to understand the central bank and it's role. Typically we're told it "controls inflation", but what it really does is control the supply of money, so that it follows demand. The problem is that this is very difficult to do. That means whenever interest rates are change, the price of currency will drop or rise. If interest rates are cut, there is more supply, therefore a lower price. If interest rates are raised, there is less supply, therefore a higher price.

Lastly, you need to learn about reading the candlestick graphs. These are the most highly used graphs in this business and being able to instantly read them and understand them puts you far ahead of the curve. Forex Candlesticks Made Easy will teach you how to read them. It won't ask you to memorize all these different techniques. It will teach you the fundamentals, so that you can look at any graph and know exactly what is going to happen.

Check out my review on Forex Candlesticks Made Easy.

Reuters - There was a time when a tumble below $10 in the share price of a company in the Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) meant ignominy.

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