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Showing posts with label tutorial. Show all posts

How to Trade the EUR/USD with the Dollar Index

Hello,

I am happy to state that I am sticking to my ambition of uploading a tutorial every weekend.

This is precisely my third tutorial in the series. 

To add to the surprise, there is also a video on the same subject, though it is not ready yet. It takes donkey number of years with my wi-fi connection to upload a YouTube video.

Nevertheless, I am on with the written part of the tutorial till the mammoth video gets to the web.

OK, so by now all of you would know that the major indices play a big role in the analysis of the movement of the markets.

The major ones are the DAX and the U.S. Dollar Index.

I stick to the Dollar Index when it comes to forming my trading plan, as this is the one which plays a pivotal role in forming the major trends and moves in the market.

Now, how to go about using it for an advantage in gaining pips in the forex market.

For the same one needs to follow and study the trend formation in the Index for the available data to come up with the future predictions.

The entire philosophy lies in understanding the behaviour patterns of the Index, so as to come with predictions that turn out giving near to accurate trading signals.

I have developed my own theory in going about the same.

I follow the website http://www.investing.com/ to have a clear look at the Index.

For the convenience, just follow the link below to land directly at the page where you can witness the historical data for the respective Index.

http://www.investing.com/quotes/us-dollar-index-historical-data

The page will show you the default data for the Index since last 30 days, though you can view a more customized one by fiddling with the date and the time frame parameters.

Now at the end of the table you could see the highest, lowest as well as the average value for the Index in the last 30 days.

If you are a seasoned trader by now, you know what a helpful insight that could bring to your trading portfolio.

Since, I like to keep things simple, I have enlisted my strategy for the Index in points below. Do feel free to agree, or disagree with me on the same. I would love to know your game plan to madness in this regard.

1.      I like to know the last traded value of the Index.
2.      Then I look at the average value of the Index in the default view of the site, which is precisely 30 days time period.
3.      Then I place the last traded value in between the highest and the lowest values of the Index in the last 30 days.
4.      If the last traded value is closer to the lowest and below the average, I decide to go long on the EUR/USD pair.
5.      I simply go short if the vice-versa is happening.

Yeah, it is that simple. But mind you, you still need a strong trading plan to combine with this trading strategy of the Dollar Index.
As you see, you do get to know whether to go short or long on the pair by analyzing the index, but you still need to know from where exactly you need to take a call of going long or short. That is when your own devised trading plan will come in to the picture.

Moreover, there is one trick that I would love to share. It will serve as a double check to know that the trend formation that you have analyzed by studying the Index is indeed fool proof.

Though this trick in itself may not produce exemplary results all the time, but it definitely gives a second confirming opinion when followed in conjunction with the 5 point strategy that I explained above.

To see the trick just follow the link below:

https://www.paywithatweet.com/pay/?id=f4e917a0780c6e322c7a976a8b197bcf


Hope you understood what I was trying to explain in this post; but in case you have not, then please feel free to get in touch with me or order any of my Tutorial which I serve as a gig on Fiverr.

Till then enjoy your weekend and have a great life ahead.


How to do Scalping for profit

Scalping is one of the many techniques used by traders to earn bucks in Forex trading. Though I use it rarely, but I know many traders who use it successfully to earn huge profits.

I used it extensively last week, because I ended up losing 200 pips last week, hence I did scalping to recover
as many as I could. I ended up gaining 15 pips by this technique.

I know it sounds a little confusing because if I hardly earned a few pips by Scalping, then what is the point using it as a strategy when it hardly made me gain just a few pips.

So, now I come up with the secret of this strategy. Though scalping involves earning just a few pips, but the deal size is kept on the higher side, which makes one earn huge profits.
 
Basically Scalping involves opening a lot of deals, but closing them at just 1 pip of profit.

I know it sounds too easy and cool, but it makes more sense and profit when the deal size is kept on the higher side.

Now you must be thinking that when it so cool and easy a technique then why I do not practice it myself.

It is because it is a like a double edged sword. Yes, it does give great profits, but it could lead to huge losses if not done correctly.

Come to think of it logically, Scalping is not done with the long term charts in view, hence could prove really harmful and loss inducing if not done with precaution.

Since the deal is of huge size in scalping, therefore it could lead to losses if one has not mastered the logic of Scalping.

Scalping-Chart


So here I list few pointers that could help in using Scalping for profits:

  1. Scalp on a pair that you are truly comfortable with, do not use it on a currency pair that you have just started anew.
  2. Set a target for scalping, like 10 scalping deals in a day, and stick to the target.
  3. Do not delve from that scalping target irrespective of profit or loss.
  4. Though the profit is set of 1 pip, but I generally keep a stop loss of 100 pips.
  5. I am happy to admit that no scalping deal of mine has never touched the stop loss.
  6. The point above is possible because I follow my chart strategy religiously.
  7. My chart strategy is to follow 1 minute chart on the Stochastics.
  8. The moment Stochastic lines touch an end, I trade to earn 1 pip profits.
  9. I generally risk 20% of my equity in scalping, but one should be super careful.
  10. Do not scalp at the time when a big news is on its way.  
Hope you also earn a big time Scalping, but as always do not over-do it and practice it well before you go gung ho on it.

Apart from it enjoy your weekend and have a happy trading day from tomorrow.
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How to even out the broker commissions from your forex account

Hi,

Today being a non-trading day, I thought of coming up with something that could help in making out maximum from your forex trading account, and also will help in recovering from your loss.

Many a times, the open deals remain open for more than 24 hours. And as any long term term trader would know, any deal that remains open after the EST timings, automatically accounts for additional brokerage charges.

Of course, if you have not achieved the desired profit levels, then your deal will not close at the set take profit levels. That is the reason I generally do not recommend keeping a larger take profit level. It not just increases your risk, but also ends up in taking lesser profits because of the additional brokerage charges deducted by your forex broker for each day the order remains open.

Yeah, I know that many a times I recommend taking longer profit levels, but in all such scenario I suggest increasing the levels of profit in accordance with the number of days the deal has been opened.

Like for example, if a particular deal remains open for 2 more days than its stipulated time, then I simply increase its profit levels by pips in accordance with its deal size. Like for a deal of 10,000 lot, for every extra trading day, I would increase the profit levels by 10 pips. Going by the same ratio, one could figure out the addition pips for all the deal sizes.

Hope this helps you in extracting maximum profits from your long open trades. It makes more sense to get more profits and keeping the losses to the low.

Happy trading and a happy weekend ahead !!!

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