March 25th, 2009

Is Trend Trading Right For You

Trading the trend can be profitable, that is if you can identify the trend in a timely manner and then manage the risk along the way.  The good thing is that trading the trend can apply to any currency pair or time frame.  Here is some more good information the trend can help you systematically [...]

March 16th, 2009

Chasing Trades or Timing Your Entries

We have discussed that trading in the direction of the trend will give you the best trades and chances for success.  Even if you know which way the trend is going you should not just jump into a trade.  The market will not go in one direction forever it will make some corrections or retracements [...]

February 23rd, 2009

Admitting A Trade Has Come To An End

There are two problems: one: figuring out a trend has ended and two: admitting that it has actually ended.  Too many traders will stay in a trade thinking it will go on forever or say I will get out at the next move.  They have a profit of $100 and will not take a profit [...]

February 17th, 2009

How to Find A Trending Market

This can be easy once you know what to look for.   Your search of how to determine what a trending market is, can take a lot of time and experience but with the right instructions you can find it very quickly.   A choppy, or flat market is hard to trade and can lead to overtrading, [...]

February 13th, 2009

How to determine when the market is really trending

Would you like to learn a simple technique to determine whether or not the market is really trending? How many times have you been fooled by your Stochastics or RSI indicators? How many times have you sold because your oscillators were screaming overbought then watched the market dip a little and then continue higher, stopping [...]

February 11th, 2009

How To Identify The Trend

The market trends only about 25-30% of the time so when it does start to trend a trader needs a way to identify the trend.   By being able to identify the trend a trader can always be on the right side of the trend and increase the chances of successful trades
We like to use moving [...]

February 9th, 2009

The Trend

If you want to have a chance of being profitable in the currency market you will need to learn to identify the trend and trade with the trend.   People fighting the trend and trying to pick tops and bottoms of movements lose a great deal of money.  They will look at the market and think [...]

January 23rd, 2009

When The Lights Go On

For a couple of years my wife has wanted to learn how to trade.  I showed her the platform and how to open demo accounts, and place trades in a demo account.  I then suggested that she go to babypips.com and read about the market.  I showed her the Launch Pad Trading system and she [...]