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Scalping Forex as a Forex Trading Strategy

April 15th, 2009

Scalping forex is a strategy to trade and to profit from small price fluxuations in the foreign exchange market. Anyone who has traded or even studied forex trading knows that the forex market is very volatile. During almost any trading period of at least a few hours there will be several opportunities to profit by scalping the forex market.

For example, you may buy Euros against the Dollar at 1.2800 and ten minutes later the Euro is at 1.2820. This degree of fluctuation is normal and may occur many times in a 24 hour period. If your trading plan is to use a short term scalping forex strategy you could immediately sell your position and book a 20 pip profit. Even trading a mini contract of $10,000 this would work out to a profit of $20 for maybe only ten minutes work. Sound good? Unfortunately, in practice it is not as easy as it may sound.

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There are a couple of tough problems in adopting a forex scalping strategy that remains profitable. The first is that it is an extremely stressful way to trade. You probably will find yourself glued to a computer monitor screen watching the forex market bounce around for hours at a time. In order to make big money you have to make a lot of accurate trades. This is easier to talk about than to do. If you decide to give forex scalping a go then you should limit your trading time to just a very few hours a day.

Choose “office hours” that are during the active part of the trading day, say for Euros from the middle of the European trading day until noon in New York. Then pick out two or three hours from that time period for your office hours. Do not try to trade with a scalping forex strategy for too many consecutive hours. If you do you will probably become too mentally fatigued and make silly costly mistakes.

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Here is the big problem for most would be forex scalpers. A real challenge in attempting to successfully scalp forex is to have the discipline required to quickly cut off losing trades. This is why so many traders will fail with a scalping forex strategy. One losing trade that gets away from them will wipe out the profits of ten winning scalping trades.

To successfully use a scalping forex strategy a forex trader must have iron clad discipline and enter and exit the market according to strict rules. The trader must also trade at a very high winning percentage. Then the trader must be ruthless in cutting off losses.

Scalping forex may sound like an attractive trading strategy but for the above reasons I can not recommend it other than as an occassional tactic. To make money over time at scalping forex you would have to trade almost perfectly on a very consistent basis. If you are that good of a trader you will make a lot more money by taking a somewhat longer term approach with your forex trading positions.

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Learn Forex Trading: Top Dog Trading Review

March 21st, 2009

When I started trading Forex markets, I knew that fundamental analysis was not for me, but interpreting charts and their patterns was something I was much more comfortable with. Google ‘Technical Analysis’ on the net and you will be lost for choice with options, but after much investigation I came across Top Dog Trading.

What helped my decision to take this course to learn Forex trading?…. A number of things besides the overwhelming need to trade better and to stop depleting my trading account with losses; was that I understood what Dr Barry Burns was imparting on his website and a significant amount of the teaching is explained on a large number of videos which makes it much easier to follow his chart interpretations. The other essential criteria for me is the background of the trainer and creator of the educational materials. Barry’s CV is impressive, a business man to whom trading is a business, he is also a highly regarded speaker and writer.

So I started with his free 5 video course to see if I would feel comfortable with his techniques.

Before this, I had completed several other courses on technical analysis relating to Forex trading but cannot say that I really gained the understanding of trading that would allow me to be successful, all this changed once I came across Dr Barry Burns, now I am comfortable with the trading strategies I have learnt.

With Barry’s courses I have not only become comfortable in how to execute his methods but also embraced a far deeper knowledge of the Forex market & the charts and probably more importantly the money management and personal attitudes that are such an important part of becoming a successful Forex trader.

You will find Barry details the principals simply and clearly, then gives upto date chart examples with all their confounding moves showing how to apply the rules for positive trades. This is all done via a vast selection of videos.

Barry teaches methods, which when stuck to, provide a good ratio of wins to losses with tight control on the losses, so when one does lose (which all traders do) the hurt is not too severe.

Barry’s teachings are the best Forex trading courses that I have found and I would strongly suggest that you give his FREE course a try. This tutorial has 5 videos that walk you through some of the most powerful trading material I’ve ever seen.

I have completed the course, loved it, and gained a vast amount from it and have progressed to Barry’s more advanced courses. My wish to learn Forex trading has turned out to be very profitable.

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