A pure Forex scalper exits a position quickly if the market doesn't go his way. He will make a number of trades a day, between 10 to a couple hundreds, and he doesn't hold on to a losing position hoping or praying that it will turn around!
The main aim of the Forex scalper is to buy (or sell) a particular pair of currency at the bid (or ask) price and then quickly sell them a few pips higher (or lower) for a profit. When the Forex scalper uses this strategy, small profits can be easily compound into large gains if a strict exit strategy is used to prevent accumulating large losses.
Most Forex scalper mostly makes use of 1 min, 5 mins or hourly charts to scalp for small profits in the Forex market. Most of the good Forex scalper will choose a brokerage house that provides a reliable platform with instant execution of orders, which is highly crucial to his profits.
I was fortunate enough to know and work with some of the best day traders that scalps for a living. They have shared with me some of the main ingredients, which they use to scalp the market. In this post, I am going to summarize the scalping strategy which i have incubated, into 8 simple steps;
1st Step
Go to www.forexfactory.com to check important data release time
2nd Step
Record the previous day OHLC (Open, High, Low, Close) for all the 4 major currency in your diary.
3rd Step
Identify candlestick studies(i will reveal more next time) on the daily charts
4th Step
Identify major trendlines, support and resistance on the daily charts
5th Step
Determine the market sentiments (Bullish or Bearish?) for the day.
6th Step
Go to hourly charts and determine the support and resistance
7th Step
Lookout for candlestick (We will talk more about it in our next article) formations on hourly basis.
* For reversal candlestick signal; - Wait for better signal or staggered your lots - Enter only near support or resistance level
8th Step
Adjust your risk to entry level when you are 10pips in the money.
* Scalping Risk Reward Ratio Risk : 10pips Target Profits : 20pips
I hope you have benefited from my summary above, on the steps to scalp the Forex market. In my next article, I will be focusing more on the Japanese Candlestick Studies.
Sebastian Sim
I'm a 31 year old Singaporean. Who started my trading journey since 2004. Now, I focus mainly in Stock Options, Forex and Unit Trusts(Mutual Funds) Investments. I've started a site The Trading Zone - a site about trading pyschology, Forex trading, investments and other topics that interests me from time to time.
A pure Forex scalper exits a position quickly if the market doesn't go his way. He will make a number of trades a day, between 10 to a couple hundreds, and he doesn't hold on to a losing position hoping or praying that it will turn around!
The main aim of the Forex scalper is to buy (or sell) a particular pair of currency at the bid (or ask) price and then quickly sell them a few pips higher (or lower) for a profit. When the Forex scalper uses this strategy, small profits can be easily compound into large gains if a strict exit strategy is used to prevent accumulating large losses.
Most Forex scalper mostly makes use of 1 min, 5 mins or hourly charts to scalp for small profits in the Forex market. Most of the good Forex scalper will choose a brokerage house that provides a reliable platform with instant execution of orders, which is highly crucial to his profits.
I was fortunate enough to know and work with some of the best day traders that scalps for a living. They have shared with me some of the main ingredients, which they use to scalp the market. In this post, I am going to summarize the scalping strategy which i have incubated, into 8 simple steps;
1st Step
Go to www.forexfactory.com to check important data release time
2nd Step
Record the previous day OHLC (Open, High, Low, Close) for all the 4 major currency in your diary.
3rd Step
Identify candlestick studies(i will reveal more next time) on the daily charts
4th Step
Identify major trendlines, support and resistance on the daily charts
5th Step
Determine the market sentiments (Bullish or Bearish?) for the day.
6th Step
Go to hourly charts and determine the support and resistance
7th Step
Lookout for candlestick (We will talk more about it in our next article) formations on hourly basis.
* For reversal candlestick signal; - Wait for better signal or staggered your lots - Enter only near support or resistance level
8th Step
Adjust your risk to entry level when you are 10pips in the money.
* Scalping Risk Reward Ratio Risk : 10pips Target Profits : 20pips
I hope you have benefited from my summary above, on the steps to scalp the Forex market. In my next article, I will be focusing more on the Japanese Candlestick Studies.
Sebastian Sim
I'm a 31 year old Singaporean. Who started my trading journey since 2004. Now, I focus mainly in Stock Options, Forex and Unit Trusts(Mutual Funds) Investments. I've started a site The Trading Zone - a site about trading pyschology, Forex trading, investments and other topics that interests me from time to time.
Posted by ramana
If you want to get better market timing for your forex signals you need to understand price momentum and how it can get the odds in your favour. If you have not used momentum oscillators before, then its time to make them part of your forex education.
Confirmation
If you simply try and buy low sell high by selling into resistance and buying into support your making a fatal error - why?
Because you are predicting which is the same as hoping or guessing and you don't get rewarded for relying on hope in any venture, let alone forex trading.
Many novice forex traders think that to win they have to predict - but as we don't know the future, this is not going to help you make money, you simply don't have the odds on your side.
If you learn forex trading correctly, you will understand that you need to act on the reality of price, confirmed by momentum oscillators which are leading indicators and can confirm trend changes.
Let's look at the correct way to use momentum oscillators in your forex trading strategy, so you can enjoy currency trading success.
Momentum & Support and Resistance
For example, when a price gets near to support you don't just simply buy - you wait for confirmation that price velocity is turning away from the level, by using momentum oscillators.
You're not hoping or guessing - you're acting on the reality of price change.
We don't have time to go through momentum oscillators in detail here (there covered in our other articles) but two of the best are - RSI and the stochastic indicator.
Look them up - their easy to understand and use and all you need to do is watch for simple visual setups.
Posted by ramana

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