Trading Forex Using Price Action - Unleash The Power

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by Jim Buhs

With all the trading short-cuts that are now in the forex marketplace, people seem to forget about the first ever form of technical anaylsis, which is Price. I suppose traders are more interested in the shortcut.

You can tell this is true by looking at any forex forum on the internet. What is it that you normally see on these sites? Usually it’s people that are talking about some system that has 40 moving averages or some forex expert advisor that’s supposed to be the new holy grail.

Can you tell what’s wrong with all of this?

For one thing, traders must understand that all these kinds of indicators, like RSI or stochastics, are only good for letting you know what has already occured. If you want the ability forecast future movements in prices, then i strongly recommend nor using these indicators.

Traders also need to be able to understand that 9 out of every 10 forex traders are losing money as you read this. If this is the case, why use the same exact tools that all the other struggling traders are using?

Think about this from a logical perspective. Chances are traders that are on a forum are struggling with their trading. If that wasn’t the case why would they even be there? Most truly successful forex traders don’t have the time nor the inclination to hang out in a forex forum.

What’s bigger than ever now are these forex expert advisors. If you don’t know what a forex expert advisor is, they are basically automated trading robots. Developers are able to program a trading system using lagging indicators so that these robots trade for you while you’re not there.

You can see why this would be right up the alley of a new trader. After all who wouldn’t want the ability to come and go as you please. You can go anywhere you want and in the meantime this robot is going to make you rich, right? Actually that’s not the way it works.

People are asking way too much from these expert advisors. Think about what people asking from them. They are asking them to acccomplish something that most forex traders in the world can’t do: Make money trading forex.

For those that want to have a deeper understanding of the market then, I recommend you get rid of all your indicators and start trading the markets on a clean chart. Just follow the price action. See if you can start to notice patterns that are always happening. These are the kind of patterns you need to focus on, because this is how you forecast future prices.

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July 30, 2008 by Jim Buhs  
Filed under Currency Trading

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