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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Guidelines To Choosing A Third Party Forex Signal Provider

By Tk Kearns

The popularity and easy accessibility of the ForEx, or foreign exchange market, makes many people choose it as their financial stepping stone. Together with its indisputable popularity come some extras. The extras include computer programs, trading systems, videos, books and most of all, third party signal providers. Now, I will discuss some points when searching for a good third party signal provider.

For you to choose a quality third party signal provider, we should have a good understanding about who they are and what they do. Signal providers are other traders or analysts that are able to place trades in your own account with the hope of turning a profit. Depending on your trading needs, you can have one or many signal providers.

You have to be careful when choosing your forex signal providers. At a glance a trader may look like he or she has a really good track record. If you take a better look, though, you may find that the trader isn't quite as good as you thought. To help to make sure that you always choose quality providers to trade your forex account we have to set some ground rules.

1. First, I make sure that the trader is a winner. This is a little bit obvious already but I could always see losers with 50 to 100 people trading their signals.

2. The next thing to look at is how long the trader has traded profitably. You don't want a brand new trader without a track record trading your real money account.

3. An important factor is the maximum drawdown that a trader has caused to their account to date. Big draw downs mean a greater chance of a margin call and a much bigger chance that you will never recoup all of the losses that take place in a massive draw down.

4. You should be able to spot any traders that meet our first three guidelines. Once you have some traders that you are considering using you should take a closer look at some of their stats.

a. Have a look at some of the trades placed by each trader. Are they all unique trades or are there 20 trades all placed on the same currency pair at the same time? If so its really just one trade placed twenty times.

b. Look at the draw down on each trade. If your signal provider lets trades get several hundred pips away from them and then cuts them short the second they head back into the black you are in trouble. This is a trader who lets losses run and cuts profits short. You do not want to trade a signal provider of this variety.

c. Make sure that they do not constantly average down. A trader who is adding to losing positions and trying to buy a better entry point is asking to go broke. This is a trader to avoid.

5. Choose a signal provider that suits you. Some traders may provide larger returns over time, but take bigger risks leading to bigger draw downs. This might be OK with you. If you are more conservative and cannot stomach large drops in equity you probably should choose a more conservative trader.

These are just a few things to look for when choosing a third party signal provider to trade your forex account. You should always trade a demo account before opening a live account with real money. Remember it's your account. In the end you choose the signal providers, and you are responsible for what happens. - 23208

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