Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Building a Complete Forex Trading System | ForexGen

So far, we have discussed a few simple indicators, but there is more to a complete trading system than an entry indicator. You need to know when to exit, either at a profit or a loss, and how to size your position.

To build a Forex system, we recommend that you purchase trading software such as Tradestation. Trading software typically has a programming language to allow you to build a trading system and backtest it against historical data. You also need a large amount of price data for backtesting. We selecting trading software, obtaining price data and backtesting elsewhere in this website.

Most trading software gives you the ability to automatically �tweak� values during testing to automatically find the optimum combination of parameters. Be careful with this feature � you are aiming to build a system that works well in real life conditions, not one that is tweaked to work only for the conditions that exist in your test data.

When you design a forex trading system, simpler is better. You should avoid using more variables than is necessary. If you use enough variables, you can overfit your model so that it appears to work very well in backtesting, however it will not work well in real life trading.

One other important consideration is related to data frequency. If you have access to daily data, you may not see some significant intraday movements. For example, a currency pair may open at 1.1125 and close at 1.1175, and your system may have decided to go long, so you buy at the open and sell at the close. That�s great, but how about if there was an announcement during the day and the market temporarily plunged to 1.015, before recovering?

Your system may have been stopped out, a long way from the expected stop loss due to market volatility and in reality may have recorded a loss rather than a healthy 50 pip profit. You need to take price movements within the day into account when designing your system.

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The fx trading strategy must have a positive expectancy| ForexGen


Expectancy is the average amount you expect to make for every trade placed, winning or losing. A system that wins 80% of the time but loses 10 times as much for a losing trade as it wins will eventually wipe out your trading account. You should never trade a system with negative expectancy. It is important to backtest your system before committing money to trading with it.

Think of trading like a casino. The casino may lose individual bets, but in the long term it always wins. Why? It has a house advantage. This means that it has a positive expectancy. The casino doesn’t gamble, that is for the gamblers. On average, it gains for every bet placed. That is what pays for the grand buildings. You need to build in a positive expectancy if you want to win.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Education Program with ForexGen



ForexGen, in cooperation with E-market online, a leading online forex learning center, presents a series of online forex courses designed to guide beginners through the competitive world of Forex trading.

This comprehensive, step-by-step approach to foreign exchange provides students with in-depth information, proper training, and useful resources - all the tools necessary for profitable trading.

With ForexGen, forex learning comes together with practicing: as students learn more about forex, they will be invited to put their knowledge into practice and put their skills to the test – all with no risk of course.

Indeed, there is no better way to enter the forex market than through the ForexGen Demo Platform. As you absorb the information you will have learned, we will teach you how to trade and how to invest smartly on the FX market, in real market conditions. From the basics of forex to advanced trade orders and trading strategies, our learning programs will teach you the skills that make a good trader.



Main topics addressed in our forex courses


-Forex market introduction: Learn the particularities of the foreign exchange market and how forex fits in the greater world of finance.

-Trading strategies and tools: See how you can combine different trades and what trading tools you may use.

-Types of deals: Find out about various forex market orders.

-Fundamental and Technical Analysis: Interpreting graphs and economic data to make market predictions.

-The Fibonacci correction: One of traders’ favorite technical indicators for identifying and predicting market trends.

-Guide to online trading: How to start trading over the Internet.

-Trading psychology: Adrenaline, impulses, and trading profiles – what kind of trader are you?
-Money and Risk Management methods: One of the main aspects of speculation consists in increasing your chances for profit while reducing your chances for loss. Find out how.

-What makes a champion trader: The do’s and don’ts of online trading.

Why such an education is important?

The main appeal of forex trading is that it can become a very lucrative source of profit. There is, however, a downside: it can also lead to substantial losses.
Unfortunately, traders who rush into deals without a solid training – and they are numerous – are bound to burn. So why learn the hard way? With ForexGen's online forex courses, you acquire all the skills that make a successful trader.
Forex learning was never so easy!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Why Demo Account Performance With ForexGen Is Better

Over the past several years, the popularity of online currency trading has grown substantially.Each day, online ForexGen attract new investors - each of them lining up with a glint in their eye, lured in by promises of easy money. Most of these companies allow you to sign up for a free demo account which lets you place mock trades using their trading platform to get a feel for the excitement of currency trading. In the casual world of free demo accounts - many young traders find they are able to garner impressive profits without a significant amount of effort. It almost seems too good to be true. But transferring this success from a demo account to a real account is far less common. Why is this? The actual trading platform behaves the exact same way, the market doesn't care whether you're a demo or real trader - so what is different? It's you who has changed.


Not your personality, not even your trading style - but the factors that affect you are different.What is the key factor to trading success?The search for the "Holy Grail" of trading has been a common theme throughout the history of markets. There are a variety of different techniques. Those whom are inclined towards number crunching and pattern recognition may prefer technical analysis, whereas those more focused on the big picture, logical macro perspective prefer fundamental analysis. Then there are specific methodologies like swing trading, trend following or even more esoteric ideas like the Elliot Wave theory. Which one is best? There are examples of very successful traders using each methodology.

Since most new traders lose money - perhaps the more appropriate question to ask is, "What is the key factor to trading failure?"Greed and FearTrading is an atmosphere rich in the porous emotions of greed and fear. The current price of a given security or financial instrument at any point in time can be thought of as the confluence of greed (bulls) and fear (bears). These two emotions make up the core of humanity itself. When market information is released, trading can be a high intensity experience. Sensing danger, your body releases adrenaline that acts to accentuate both your greed (fight) and your fear (flight).

Because these emotions are so strong, they can cause you to act irrationally, ignore your system, stated set of rules or trading plan and to act upon impulse. Indeed, this is a genetically programmed response - but it is often also the trader's downfall, especially when he's playing with much better capitalized, more sophisticated and experienced foes that know how to manipulate those emotions.

When you are a trader - you are always under the influence of at least one of these two emotions, even if you don't have any trades on.Impact of fear and greed on your tradingIf the market's going up and you're in - greed is telling you to buy more and fear is telling you to take your profits while you still can. If it's going down, fear of being wrong makes you hold onto a losing position - and then greed sometimes convinces you to "average down" your position (and buy more) so it'll be easier for you to come back.