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Being in the forex game, I wanted to get an edge and masterfully own every single pip I could possibly get my hand on. Being also that the learning curve was quite opulent and sometimes wasn't really in my favor, I needed an alternative to the hours of technical analysis and research on news and historical data.

I was pressed to find a solution that would let me be able to make trades without the aggravation of the fore mentioned. I looked into using EMA crosses, and news trading, and a couple of other crazy things, only to lose more money and turn more hairs to grey over it.

Why is it that very few traders succeed in the Forex trading environment while the grand majority of traders fail to achieve success? Although there is no hard answer to this question, there are a few things that will put you one step ahead and will definitely put the odds in your favor.

The main purpose of this article is to guide you through some important aspects of Forex trading.  But in a different way, instead of telling you what to do or the best way to do it, it will tell you what to avoid. Sometimes it is better to identify the main drawbacks on a discipline and then isolate them so we have the best results at a certain level of development.

Knowing when to enter the market is crucial to exercising a good technical trading strategy.  There are many pitfalls that inexperienced traders experience because they are entering the market when the probability for making a successful trade is reduced.  So when is the best time to look for a trade and why?

The best time to look for a trade is when there is heavy volume in the currency markets.  Since the Forex market is open 24 hours per day, it’s best to find the times when multiple countries markets are trading at the same time.  Every Forex market in the world operates from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in their respective time zones.  In order to take advantage of the chance of many trades developing, one needs to look at when the Forex market times in different countries overlap.  In the overlapping times when multiple markets are open, generally there is the most volume and pip movement.

Technical Analysis is the easiest and most precise way of trading the FOREX market known by the forex traders community. All available information on any particular currency, and its impact on traders, and the market, are already reflected in a currency's price. The foreign exchange market is mostly composed of trends and is, therefore, a place where technical analysis can be used very effectively. Experience in trading has shown that history repeats itself - over time, certain chart patterns become consistent, predictable and very reliable. The problem is being able of  spoting them. There's always more than meets the eye at first glance.

Prices move in trends; and the traders who don't know this fact obviously have no need to implement a trading methodology on technical analysis, they haven’t even realized yet. But, over 100 years of research has shown that those who trade "with the trend", more often than not, greatly improve their chances of winning in the forex markets (i.e., making a profitable trade).

There are two kinds of Forex traders- the traders who use fundamental analysis and the traders who use technical analysis. I prefer the technical analysis, which ignores fundamental factors. Technical analysis is applied to the price action of the market. By using technical analysis traders can make short-term forecasts, which are very difficult with fundamental analysis, more suitable to making long-term forecasts.

Technical analysts use different technical studies and interpret them to predict market direction or to generate buy and sell signals. By using charts in Forex technical analysis we can predict price movements.

Most FOREX traders rely on analysis to make plan their trading strategy. This article will discuss fundamental analysis. The other common form of analysis is technical analysis. After reading this article you should have a better understanding of fundamental analysis and how to use it as part of your FOREX strategy.

Political and economic changes are the basis of fundamental analysis. These can frequently affect currency prices. Traders that take advantage of fundamental analysis will gather their information from a variety of news sources. They are looking for information about unemployment forecasts, political ideologies, economic policies, inflation and growth rates.