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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Free Candlesticks Guide

By Ahmad Hassam

Candlesticks have become popular in the Western trading community especially the United States in the past decade. However, candlestick charting methods had been developed by Japanese rice traders hundreds of years back.

In the last two decades there have been seismic changes in the way people used to trade. The advent of internet has leveled the playing field for traders whether they trade stocks, futures, options, commodities, precious metals or currencies. Access to the market is now only one mouse click away.

Market information is now in most cases freely available online. Internet has made commission rates dramatically lower. The result is that a whole generation of new traders and investors want to try their luck beating the market.

I am a great fan of candlesticks charting and I have seen many traders both new and professionals becoming die hard fans of candlestick charting. Why? Because candlestick charting is the best tool available. Can you beat the market? It depends if you are using the right tools.

There are many forms of charting techniques that have been developed over time. Why candlestick charting is superior to other forms of charting like the line charts, bar charts or point and figure charts? One of the best features of candlestick charting is its visual appeal and readability. You can glance at a candlestick chart and quickly gain an understanding of whats going on with the price action in the market.

Knowing support and resistance is very important for traders. Opening and closing price levels can be a very important area of support and resistance from day to day. You can easily spot and opening and closing price of a security or currency on a candlestick chart.

This information can be extremely useful for short term traders like day traders and swing traders. There are certain specific candlestick patterns that can help you identify when is the best time to buy, sell or wait on a trade or investment.

Learning how to spot these candlestick patterns is very important for you. In order to trade and invest effectively using candlestick charts you need to understand these candlestick patterns. These candlestick patterns can be a real boon to your trading and you can combine them with other technical indicators for even more reliable results.

A trader needs to keep abreast of what is happening in the market. Many different types of candlestick patterns can tell you what may lie ahead in the market. Patterns appear on the candlestick charts as simple, single stick occurrences or complex multi stick formations.

This information can be highly valuable in knowing that the prevailing trend might reverse or continue. You may use the information provided by candlestick patterns to decide when to get into a trade, when to get out of a trade or even when to hang unto a trade you are already in.

This is the best candlestick guide in the market and you dont need to waste your money on buying a guide because this candlestick guide is a complementary gift for you from the Options University. Download your 82 page candlestick guide here complete with strategy flash cards all free. - 23208

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Learn Forex Trading - 5 Simple Steps to Help You Learn and Get Started Trading Forex Online

By Vince Knightley

In this article, we will discuss 5 simple steps to launch your quest for learning how to trade Forex Online. There are an abundance of people who read about Forex enough to see and understand its tremendous money making potential, but they do not take action to learn Forex trading, and therefore miss out on this opportunity. Don't miss this opportunity by reading the following 5 steps and then taking action to begin to learn Forex trading.

Step #1 - Find Online Forex Resources

Today, the internet provides millions with access to an abundance of free learning resources. A quick search of the information online will produce thousands of helpful articles, advice and tips, as well as other free resources such as e-books, self-study classes and informational workshops. Most Forex brokers are offering free educational courses to get you started trading currencies online.

Step #2 - Focus, Study and Learn Forex Trading

After you have located some high quality online resources, make time to study them and start increasing your Forex education. Learning Forex will require you to make it a priority, just like anything else that you are trying to learn, you need to set aside time to focus, read and learn as much as possible about it. One of the best ways to feel confident about what you have learned is to try to explain it to somebody else. While you are learning, spend as much time learning about chart analysis, because this skill will become very critical as you try to know the best times to buy and sell currencies once you begin trading.

Step #3 - Begin Practicing by Setting Up an Online Forex Practice Account

You will want to get a first-hand experience while you are learning Forex, and the best way to do this is with an online Forex practice account. With a practice account, you will not have to worry about the potential to lose on your first experimental trades. The money is pretend, the market is real time. Continue practicing with this account as long as possible until you feel very confident in how to use the trading platform, and practice the chart analysis skills as well before you decide to go live with your real money.

Step #4 - Fund a Forex Account

This step is critical but some people are hesitant to do this. Until you actually fund your account with the minimum or more dollars, you cannot participate in any real trading. Once you are very confident in your education and trading ability, take it to the next step and fund your account, and then you will be ready for real,live Forex trading action.

Step #5 - Make Your First Trade

If you are going to trade Forex, you have to start somewhere. So go ahead and make your first trade. Take what you have learned, apply it, and just don't risk everything because chances are you may lose on your first trade. If you risk less and set a stop loss, at least you shouldn't have to lose sleep over your active trading position. Over a few weeks time of trading, you will grow much more comfortable with the idea of having active trades open and with a little luck, you will be making profitable decisions and enjoying benefits of the Forex trading market.

To summarize, by following the 5 steps listed above, you will be trading Forex online. In most cases, you will find that getting started trading online was actually much easier than you thought it would be. If you study and learn Forex well, you may find that you are one of the lucky ones who can quickly read and predict the currency value charts. If you are so lucky, you can easily make a lot of extra cash from Forex.

Curious and want to learn more? - 23208

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Using Online Forex Resources - Maximize Your Profits

By John Eather

Online forex resources are abundant and can range from entire forex platforms to articles that offer advice and information. Forex trading is a popular market as unlike the stock market it is always open and trades can be made at any hour from anywhere in the world. The forex market is based off of the differences between pairs of currencies. There are also no restrictions for trading which can make the stock market a bit tricky to navigate.

There are many online forex sites that offer forex resources. ZuluTrade is an automated trading service. It offers recommendations from 3rd parties and you can pick any live trade for free. There is a low minimum deposit to open an account and they also offer a free demo account so you can become familiar with the system before going into a live trade.

Cashback Forex is an exceptional online resource that is regulated and licensed by the NFA, FSA and CTFC to name but a few. You can earn excellent cash when trading through them, as they do not work with brokers. Brokers will require their cut so you will save more by not having to pay a broker fee.

Easy Forex has locations around the world and can personally manage your accounts either through e-mail, advanced chat or phone. They have their own trading platform that can provide forex training. You do not need to download any software, just log into your account. You can make a deposit using your credit card and can start trading with a minimum of $25. If you are interested in a forex-trading platform then you should look into easy Forex.

Many forex resources and websites will provide you with many tools to help you with your forex trading. You can calculate the potential risk with a risk probability calculator. A forex pivot point calculator can be used to estimate the pivot point, two support points, and two resistance points. A pip USD value calculator can be used to reckon the pip for major currency pairs. - 23208

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Margin Makes Foreign Exchange Trading Exciting

By John Eather

One of the key factors leading to the popularity of foreign exchange trading is "margin". Without this factor, most forex trading would be well outside the realms of average investors. But what precisely is margin?

Margin allows traders in forex to leverage by controlling a large amount of currency with a proportionately small amount, or what is called a deposit. Essentially a margin account has to be opened through a foreign exchange broker and the trader is then able to control currency lots. Currency lots vary in size but they generally are around $100 000.

The leverage the trader gains from the margin account is expressed as a ratio. For instance a leverage ratio of 100:1 means the trader is able to have access to control over 100 x their deposit amount of forex assets. So essentially in a $100 000 standard forex lot with a 1% margin will require a deposit of $1000.

The trader is able to access large profits when trading on a margin, but this also means that losses can also be incurred. Money likes speed so although the risk of losses exists, safeguards are generally put in place to limit these losses. A broker will generally terminate any transaction before it goes above the deposit margin, but in some instance more than the initial deposit may be lost.

Cash is traded in far larger units than foreign exchange. A good example of this is the USD, this currency trades down to 4 decimal places. In other words, what might be $1.35 in normal currency; in forex would be $1.3576. The smallest currency exchange unit is the pip. In a $100 000 lot the pip equals $10. and while $10 might have some meaning to a tourist from the US going on holiday, it has little meaning to an investor. So if the currency of exchange increases say to $1.457, it would either mean a loss or profit of $10. - 23208

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Focus on Coffee Commodity Trading, Coffee Market Tips

By Marianna Gomes

There are some great opportunities for coffee commodity trading observers to make some gainful trades, after a UN agency report urged that global food production needs to rise by over 70% by 2050. With crude oil coffee has over the years been a top traded commodity, so clearly any notable change in coffee futures prices are followed closely, particularly when a dramatic change in weather can impact crop yields. Good rainfall levels are key for this popular commodity, and so you will find most coffee beans grown in countries between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Key to successful crop yields is having an ideal temperature range of between 17 and 23 centigrade as well as steady climate and helpful soil conditions. Damage is being caused to coffee farmers in developed countries, according to a recent report by Cafedirect. Because of the rise in temperatures coffee growers have to move to higher altitudes. And the effect of rising temperatures is more disease caused by pests. As beans can only grow properly in a small temperature range, climate change is a major challenge to coffee growers.

The main two varieties of any real economic significance to those following coffee commodity trading are Arabica and Robusta, both actively traded futures on major world commodity exchanges. The US is the biggest world consumer and importer of coffee, while the largest producer Brazil, produced almost 34 million (29% global output) 60-kg bags of coffee in 2007/8, mainly Arabica. The next biggest producer is Vietnam with a 15% world share at 17.50 m bags (Robusta), while Columbia was third with 12.40 m bags (Arabica) and an 11% share, and Indonesia was fourth largest producer in 2007/8 with 7.0 m bags.

Arabica grows well at over 4,000 ft in warm, humid climates, and it contributes around 70% of green coffee bean production, and this along with helpful soil conditions is responsible for the bean's characteristic aromatic flavour. The high altitude countries like Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela are ideal for growing Arabica beans. Arguably one of the top grades of Arabica is Santos from Brazil, its beans being picked within the first 4 years of the coffee tree's life. Meanwhile, the lower grade Robusta beans from South East Asia are picked after only 2-3 years, in contrast to Arabica where normally there is a longer lead time of 4-5 years.

With a drought crop yields fall and this hits supply, which can lead to coffee futures prices rising. Higher prices can also arise from lower crop yields caused by higher than normal rainfall. Freezing conditions can adversely affect crops for both current and the following year, which can be a real problem for Arabica varieties grown in the higher altitudes of Latin America. According to data, over recent years southern hemisphere growers have experienced serious freezing once in every six years in winter (June to August) months. All these various factors need to be weighed up by the coffee commodity trading observer before they commit to trades.

The appearance of white blossom on coffee trees points to the first stages in coffee bean growth, after which over a period of between two weeks to 6-9 months green cherries appear, eventually becoming red and then black cherries. Each cherry holds two coffee beans. Most coffee production uses the "dry" method where cherries are stripped off the tree. Then the green beans are dried and graded, ready for shipping and roasting. On average about 2,000 cherries (4,000 beans) yield a pound of coffee.

You are no doubt excited to start your coffee commodity trading activities, so before you take some potentially profitable trades make sure you choose a broker with an accessible electronic trading platform. The Arabica benchmark on ICE Futures US is the Coffee "C" futures contract, and you can also get exposure to Robusta futures contracts through the exchange. Should you want to trade only soft commodities but not as futures, you have the option to use an agricultural ETF which tracks a soft commodity index. Using these various derivative and investment vehicles, the trader has some good options for gaining exposure to these exciting coffee commodity trading markets. - 23208

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