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They both will have their reason for believing a particular currency will perform better or worse as the case may be and will buy or sell accordingly. So, EUR/USD would be Euro-Dollar pair.

Self-fulfilling prophecy (investors buy as they see prices rise). Stop below the current price if you are long.

Many billions of dollars are exchanges daily to facilitate trade. We learned that the trend line acts as underlying support to up trend lines and overhead resistance to down trends.

Up trend line. In addition to the three types of trends, Dow then went on to further qualify the trend by saying that the trend has three phases.

In an attempt to give more importance to more recent prices, different types of moving averages have been developed. It is also wise to talk with your broker about how they execute your stop.

This to and fro, buying and selling in the direction of the trend plots out a recognizable channel of dynamic flux of the trend. You can find cheap delayed data or end of day services for around $20- $100 per month.

Method Of Trading Now a days nearly every broker offers some kind of on line trading. If you owned a portfolio of stocks and you thought that the market was about to correct but you still wanted to keep the stock, you might try to sell the market index of where the stocks where listed.

Whenever we talk of trend it has to be related to the context of time. To simplify this think of it like this.

Trend is the easiest and the most difficult thing to understand. It assumes that all the known information about that stock has been taken into consideration by the market and is reflected in the price.

Although option trading has more than its fair share of jargon remember the essence of all markets is that there is a buyer and a seller and both believe they have an advantage and have the potential to make money. The buyers take control and prevent prices from falling further.

Stop Losses A stop loss is the level at which you will close a trade on the basis that it has gone too far in the 'wrong' direction, and therefore negated the reason for being in that trade. The difficulty arises because of the time factor.

The majority of traders will eventually use some form of technical analysis (also known as chart traders, market technicians and chartists). This could be because the market moved between the time it took you to look at the chart and actually place the order or it could be that the new traders was unaware of the difference between the bid and offer.

A good trader takes a small loss and goes on to the next trade. GBP/USD would be pounds Sterling-Dollar pair and USD/CHF would be Dollar-Swiss Franc pair and so on.

The same process can be applied to almost anything. When you look at the price of any financial instrument as a technical analyst you believe that is the true value of the instrument as the market sees it.

I have put a 20 period moving average of the closes just as a visual guide and reference point. GBP/USD would be pounds Sterling-Dollar pair and USD/CHF would be Dollar-Swiss Franc pair and so on.

So at least once during the trade you will pay the spread. A fundamentalist will often examine the true value of shares in a company based on its assets, earnings, and dividends.

If you owned a portfolio of stocks and you thought that the market was about to correct but you still wanted to keep the stock, you might try to sell the market index of where the stocks where listed. You can also at anytime during the trade close the trade by calling your broker or executing the trade on your dealing station.

Have a look at the two charts below. Exercise date: some options can only be exercised on a particular date and they are commonly know as European options.

The point in all of this is that I think it is a good idea for people to trade something they either like, have an interest in or at least are familiar with. This tends to lead to a very liquid market and thus a desirable market to trade.

Trades are executed through phone and increasingly through the Internet. For every book that there is on making money trading there is probably an opposite book explaining why it can’t be done.

Next we will see a sudden burst from this range and this is the breakout. Also, when a security nears its entry level watch very carefully how it trades.

Some market traders are permitted to trade on highly leveraged positions. Depending on what security and how much activity there is in that market will determine the spread.

You may use "programmed" stops if your broker offers them. The price between the cash market and the futures market differ.

We shall talk about more probability’s later. You start with $100.

Not only can you trade the main security but also in most cases you can trade the derivative of it. Once a trend is discernible then trend lines can be drawn to define the lower limits of an up trend or the upper limits of a downtrend.

In the currencies for instance, when the dollar strengthens it can effect all the major currencies at the same time. It might be spinning a bottle, asking your Aunt Jenny what she thinks or just gut feel.

Over the years I have trained many traders and I always advise that they spend at least three months paper trading before they go live with real money. A 4-day or 9-week moving average eliminates the presence of price fluctuations for periods up to 4 days or 9 weeks respectively.

First decide what you are going to trade then find a good charting service at a reasonable price. If I enter a trade on the short side after a signal, as in the example below I will place my stop in the next nearest resistance.

This tremendous turnover is more than the combined turnover of all the worlds' stock markets on any given day. We will cover this a little more in the section on probability.

For intraday trading you need to see every bid and offer made. Dow himself never actually used the phrase.

Stop below the current price if you are long. The buyers take control and prevent prices from falling further.

Whether it is currencies, metals, shares, wheat, pork bellies you name it. Always use a stop loss when trading; it can be too easy for a $300 loss to become a $5000 loss.

You may be thinking by this stage that this theory is rubbish. By the way the chart on the left is the chart of the Dow Jones.

Regardless of how you want to trade the markets you need an approach. This applies also to trend lines.

If you aren’t making money on paper go back to the drawing board and rethink your plan. I have two main arguments of why technical analysis works when applied correctly to trading any financial market and they are simple.