Are you looking for a part time job that you can work after all your daily obligations are met, no set schedule and you can work anytime?  Have you ever thought about forex trading?  So what is forex you ask?

The foreign exchange (currency or FX) market is where currency trading takes place. FX transactions typically involve one party purchasing a quantity of one currency in exchange for paying a quantity of another.

Today FX market is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, corporations, governments, and other institutions. The average daily volume in the global forex and related markets is continuously growing. Traditional daily turnover was reported to be over US$ 3.2 trillion in April 2007 by the Bank for International Settlements. Since then, the market has continued to grow. According to Euromoney’s annual FX Poll, volumes grew a further 41% between 2007 and 2008

As far as the freedom from any external control and free competition are concerned, FOREX is a perfect market. It is also the biggest liquid financial market. According to various assessments, money masses in the market constitute from 1 to 2 trillion US dollars a day. (It is impossible to determine an absolutely exact number because trading is not centralized on an exchange.) Transactions are conducted all over the world via telecommunications 24 hours a day from 00:00 GMT on Monday to 10:00 pm GMT on Friday. Practically in every time zone (that is, in Frankfurt-on-Main, London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc.) there are dealers who will quote currencies.

What do you need to start forex trading and making money with Forex?

1. A computer (PC or MAC) with Internet connection. You can even use a computer in an Internet cafe or library – it doesn’t matter.
2. Money of course.  You must sell or buy other currencies using your money.
3. Knowledge when to sell or buy. This could take some time if you just studied on your own. I am not suggesting you don’t, educated yourself on the Forex but all you really need is an automated forex trading software.

The automated forex software application that I found to be successful and easy to use is Forex Automoney.

This automated forex trading software is really easy and requires a minimal amount of your time. All you have to do is to log in, read the forex signals and click to trade. That’s all! The most amazing thing is people around the world are trading and making money.

How Forex Automoney signals works.

It automatically analyzes currencies markets and determines when to buy or sell. It can generate forex signals in 3 timeframes:

Intraday – 6 times a day a buy or sell message is generated

Daily – forex signals are generated once a day

Weekly – using these forex signals you can trade once a week

Of course you can use all 3 systems – you can trade intradaily and daily and weekly! This maximizes your profits. For example, if you want to trade with $99 – you can divide it and trade $33 intradaily, $33 daily and $33 weekly. That’s very simple. There are no minimum or limits on the amount of money when executing a trade.

Of course forex signals are generated for all major currency pairs, and using all of them also maximizes your profits.

Here is an example of an actual signal generated.

Currency Pair:

Type of Trade:

Time to Enter:

Get Profit:

Stop Loss: EUR/USD

BUY

10:00 PM EST

120 Pips

50 Pips

In this trade a 120 pips profit was recorded! This equals to over $1000 trading 1 standard lot or $100 trading 1 mini lot. It only took a minute to enter the trade!

What is so amazing about the FOREX is that you can live anywhere in the world, be a full time worker, student, single mom, retired person, an unemployed person and trade anytime day or night.

http://www.forexautomoney.com/?hop=home2sell

http://www.forex-money-exchange.com/forex_products.php

Tracy Lenyk
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Automated Forex trading systems are popular and most new traders think there the way to trade an automatic way to make money, make a regular income and all for the price of a night out! They don’t deliver, here’s why…

If I walked up to and said give me $100.00 and I Will give you an income for life, you would laugh at me but when people by get rich quick robots that’s exactly what they do.

Common sense should warn traders that if a system looks to good to be true it is and these systems offer better track records than the worlds top traders who are on millions a year in salary, yet none of these traders would ever use such a system, because they don’t work.

Here are some of the claims made and the reality.

- Double Your Income Every Month

This is impossible in an odds based market!

Forex markets don’t move to a set mathematical theory, so it’s impossible to double every month with certainty. Anyone who thinks they can is very naïve.

- Trade with Less than 1% Drawdown

Not even the best traders in the world achieve this and it’s a fact, to make big gains, you need to take risks and risk goes with reward. You cannot hive big gains without drawdown.

- Losses last a couple of days

Pure fantasy, any trading system even the best, will lose for long periods of at least a few weeks.

- Sophisticated Algorithms are used to Predict Prices

Well most I have seen, are anything but sophisticated and even more important, money management parameters are no existent or based on unsound logic.

Most of these systems are not designed by traders but by marketing companies. If you are a trader you know that markets are an odds based market and don’t move to a mathematical formula

- Track Records Presented

Most are simply back tests done in simulation and knowing the closing prices. There are some that put out real results but there is no independent verification.

A quick look in online forums shows an army of affiliates taking about how much money their making with the system and a link back to their site to buy it – well if their making so much, why are they so keen to sell it? You will then find another group of people who have lost heavily and don’t understand why.

Do any Robots Work?

Yes they do but there not the heavily hyped ones, you have to seek them out and many produce independent track records of between 30 – 100% annually with 20 – 50% drawdown.

These are good solid systems and if you trade them long term and can ride out your losses, you can make great solid gains.

Always remember if it looks to good to be true it is and if making money was so easy the whole world would quit working and start trading, hasn’t happened though has it?

Samuel Leslie Berkovits
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The Forex Market is an ever changing and turbulent place to trade. it’s no wonder so many people lose their hard earned income trading the currency market.

What are the strategies that will help you not become one of the casualties of the Forex Market.

Let’s look at 3 of the most important major strategies any trader needs to implement to become a successful trader.

1. Educate yourself before you commit to trading. There are numerous resources to get you acquainted with the ins and outs of trading the Forex market.

Be able to define the various technical terms that pertain to Forex Trading
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Join a Forex Forum where numerous traders will be glad to share their trading expertise.

The bottom line is, just like anything, the more information you have about what constitutes a profitable trading strategy, the better off you are.

2. Understand what an Automated Forex System is. There are a bunch of Robots out there, and only a few are worth using. You need to know what to look for in an effective trading robot.

When you find one, it will be a real asset to your trading strategy.

3. Combine the knowledge you gained from your intensive study of how the Currency market operates with the power of an effective Forex Robot and you’ll have a wining strategy.

The Forex Market can be a risky place if you aren’t prepared. Remember, if you take the time to properly educate yourself and implement a “smart” Forex Robot in your Forex Strategies you’ll be own your way to profitable long term gains.

Eric Jacobson
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Almost everyone wished to be successful in forex trading, but has anyone planned on the path to be a successful currency trader? I believe not many. If you have not or not sure how to plan, below are the steps that can lead you to the path of success in forex trading:

Step 1: Get yourself a forex ebook or forex course to begin with, so that you can understand the basics of forex trading and how does it work. If you have gotten my free ‘Forex Trading To Riches’ ebook, you should be able to grab hold of what foreign exchange is about.

Step 2: Open a FREE forex DEMO (practice)account with online brokers.

Step 3: This is an important step. Make sure you read the psychology part and money management rules of forex trading before you start on demo trading. Take note, always start with good habits. Getting rid of bad habits is much harder than to build good habits.

Step 4: After you have gone through the whole ebook or forex trading course, you will probably know how a forex trading system works. Moreover, my PIPS MOVER™ trading system is easy to understand. So let’s get practical and practice it on the demo account. Practice makes perfect!

Step 5: Demo trade for about a few weeks until you get used to the forex trading system. If you have developed some bad habits along the way, carry on demo forex trading until you get rid of them, you do not want to make those mistakes when you go live trading! I would recommend students to go live trading only when they hit a success rate of 70% and above.

Step 6: You should be already quite consistent in your demo trading when you have come to this step. Open a LIVE forex trading account, either a mini account or a standard account. I understand that many traders start off with mini account first to build their confidence. That is absolutely alright, but do not get stuck in mini account for too long as you might have psychological barrier to go through. Move on to standard trading account when you feel confident, consistent and making profits in your currency trading.

Step 7: Increase your lot size slowly as your trading skills improve. You may want to increase it when you have 30% ROI(return on investment) in your forex trading account. Refer to the money management rules on how you can keep increasing your trading lot size.

Step 8: At this point of time, you are a successful forex trader if you have consistent profits every month. You don’t have to be a institutional trader to be successful! And you seriously should start planning and considering to be a full time forex trader from here onwards.

The above may sound easy, but trust me, it’s not easy at all, or else why 95% of the people failed in forex trading? So you really have to drill on the psychological, discipline and money management parts before you can go far in forex trading.

Daniel S.
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Did anyone tell you that making money in forex is about avoiding making mistakes?

I am sorry to say it is not about doing the right things. Even if you are doing the right things in Forex, you are not guaranteed to make money as the Forex market is unpredictable. However if you make mistakes while you are trading, you will more than likely to lose money.

Do you understand why most traders cannot make money now? The reason is our optimistic nature does not allow us to focus on avoiding mistakes. We rather look at doing the right things. So if you are not profitable in your trading now, it is time to look at your mistakes. Focus on correcting them today and you will see your trading results improving.

Below are 2 out of 5 common deadly mistakes that you should avoid. Correcting them will shorten your learning curve and accelerate your trading success.

1.  Trading on free or paid signals by€ following the so called gurus

Sometimes it is tempting to follow the signals from some so called gurus.  When they say buy, you buy. When they say sell, you sell. Now I am not saying they are not good but are you able to follow their picks for the next 10 years till you become wealthy.

The problem with following signals is that you cannot miss out on any single trade. The trade you miss could the biggest winning trade of the entire year. This trade could cover up for all the previous losses.  Moreover, do you have the discipline or confidence to follow every trade? I am sure you like to have your own opinions about trading and thus you may not follow every trade.

You see trading is about profiting over a large sample of trades. What you need to learn is the strategies they used to trade instead. Then you would have the confidence, discipline and consistent to trade every signal that your strategy tells you.

2. Trading News &€“ Guessing how the market will react

It is true that the currency prices follow the fundamentals of the currencies. Fundamentals do come in the form of news but when the news are out, the market have mostly priced in the news.

Besides that, if market rises or drops sharply after a new, it tends to reverse sharply as well. You could have lost a lot of money if you are on the wrong side. We simply cannot predict how the market will react to the news. I have seen market dropping 200pips these minute and rising 200 pips the next minute. It is like gambling on casino!

So do yourself the favor by not trading during the news hour. There is plenty of chance to make money based on the trend itself. Remember that if you want to make a lot of money in forex trading, you must focus on avoiding your mistakes. It is the difference whether your profits are fantastic or just breaking even.

Now do you understand why most traders cannot make money now? Start taking out your log book now and look at your losing trades. Just imagine not making this mistakes or turning them into profitable trades would mean a few more zeros behind your profits.

Please note that this article is divided into two articles for a quick 5 minutes digestion. You can find the part 2 in my author profile. Did anyone tell you that making money in forex is about avoiding making mistakes?

I am sorry to say it is not about doing the right things. Even if you are doing the right things in forex, you are not guaranteed to make money as forex market is unpredictable.

Mike
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