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titleForex Swing Trading - The Best Methodology For Novices For Seeking Big Gains Quickly/titlepIf you want to get started as a forex trader, forex swing trading is the perfect place to start and is one of the easiest methodologies for novices to start with. You can soon put together a system and be making big profits in just 30 minutes a day…/ppThe reason its so good for novices is, it requires less patience and discipline than long term trend following, as you get plenty of action and profits and losses come quickly./ppMany novice traders try forex scalping or day trading - but these short term methods of trading dont work, as all volatility is random. Swing trading is the only short term method you should consider, as the time period is long enough to get the odds on your side./ppThe Aim of Swing Trading/ppSwing trading typically catches moves that last from a couple of days to a week and is designed to swing trade into overbought and oversold levels. To swing trade you first need to understand support and resistance, then target levels where prices are becoming overbought or oversold and get ready to trade. To do this, you should also understand volatility and using the Bollinger Band to measure overbought and oversold levels is an essential tool./ppOnce you have spotted a potential overbought or oversold scenario, with prices coming into resistance or dipping to support, its time to look to execute your trading signal./ppConfirming Trading Signals/ppNever buy into support or sell into resistance and hope levels hold, wait until they have so you are not predicting, you wont win if you predict, as this is really hoping or guessing./ppFor this you need to become familiar with momentum oscillators and there are many to choose from. We like the stochastic and the Relative Strength Index (RSI(, both are visual indicators and you can learn them in 30 minutes or less./ppThey will give you clues to changes of momentum and then when they do, you can use them to time your entry into the market./ppStops/ppStops are easy once you are in the trend, you can simply place your stop behind the resistance or support you are trading into./ppTaking Profits/ppWith swing trading profits can disappear quickly, so you need to take them early./ppTake them before the next level of resistance or support is tested. By getting out early, you avoid the problem of a counter trend which can eat into your profit./ppForex swing trading is an excellent method for novice traders and simply requires an understanding of volatility, support and resistance and momentum. This does not take long to learn furthermore, you get plenty of action and never have to sit on a big open profit and all the discipline this entails./ppSwing trading is simple, fun and can be very profitable. Its simple to understand and easy to build a robust forex swing trading system./ppIf you are new to forex trading consider swing trading, its a great way to get started in the exciting world of forex trading./ppNEW! 2 X FREE ESSENTIAL TRADER PDFSbr ESSENTIAL FOREX TRADING COURSE/ppFor free 2 x trading Pdfs, with 50 of pages of essential info on a target=_new href=http://learncurrencytradingonline.com/courses-in-currency-trading.htmlForex Swing Trading/a visit our website at: a target=_new href=http://www.learncurrencytradingonline.comhttp://www.learncurrencytradingonline.com/a./pbrbr

Does a buy and hold strategy still work well for unit trust funds? There’s an argument that buy and hold is not a strategy, but is the same as not doing anything. To make it worse, your investment may ’sink’.

Given an example, let’s say, you bought into an equity fund in December 1998 and kept it until December 2004 and had a return on investment (ROI) of -2%. If you had actively managed your investments and switched to a bond fund (during bull bond market) and returned to equity later (during bull equity market), your ROI would have been 15%. Thus, some analysts suggest a buying, monitoring and rebalancing strategy.

The buy and hold strategy is based on an assumption that over the long run, markets will go up eventually. It’s a strategy that helps the investor save on transaction costs, taxes on capital gains and avoid the hassle of buying and selling.

There are a number of factors concerning this strategy. First, it’s assumed that the portfolio is diversified into different stocks and asset classes. If the investor only invested in one stock, he won’t even recover the cost today. He needs to invest across the asset classes (bonds, gold, cash etc.). In the long term, the portfolio will give good but not necessarily the best results.

Second, the investments must be fundamentally sound. In developing countries, a buy and hold strategy may not produce the best results many changes are still taking place. Thus, business cycle, the economic and investing environment and government policies will change, in line with the country’s development. When change happen, you can’t ignore the impact.

That being the case, investors are advised to review their investments regularly (at least once a year). But should unit trust investors try timing the market? As you know, a unit trust fund is a medium to long term investment vehicle. However, you can’t just invest and forget about it. Investors should monitor them closely and not easily give up control of their hard earned money.

Not all investors are literate enough to know when to enter and exit asset classes. Investors’ emotions come into play, making it hard for them to sell and take profit or cut losses, especially those who invest directly in the market. Thus, leave it to the professionals if you’re clueless and illiterate about financial markets, although even professionals can’t get it right all the time too as timing the market is never easy.

Another critical element of unit trust investing is to figure out if you’re comfortable with the fund manager’s style. If the investor were to rebalance his portfolio himself, in this case, the asset allocation decision is made by the investor himself. When markets move, he decides whether to buy, hold or sell.

For you those of you who prefer taking control of your investment, even if it’s a small sum, make sure you go into a fund that charges minimal entry and exit fees or allows free switches between funds in the same company and in the same year. Only move your investments when you believe market fundamentals have changed, otherwise don’t get caught up with investor sentiment.

Even if there were no changes in the investing environment, your own objectives may have changed, so it’s wise to review your portfolio at least once a year.

For investors who prefers to let the fund manager decide so long as they get a reasonable return on investments, there are funds that allow you to just sit back and watch your investments grow (if you’re lucky!). Go with funds and fund managers whose investment style suits your risk profile.

Finally, investors need to be educated. Get literate in your finances or make sure your investment consultant is literate.

Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Investing

Have you ever heard that attitude is more important than action?

Believe it or not, if you are having the wrong attitude, it will lead you to wrong action. It is the same as you trade the forex. You must first master your attitude before you master your trade.

Following are the 10 attitudes that can help you in trading the forex successfully:

1. Be Patient

The most important attitude in forex trading. If you are not a patient people, you better get some training first.

When you are patient, you won’t lose your trade more and will have your profit raised. Patience lead you to less-stressed trade. You won’t just stick in front of your monitor to stare at the market price. If there are no clues in trading, simply don’t trade. The market is still there and you still have the other opportunity.

2. Be Content

When you got the profit you want, grab it and go to the bank. Don’t set yourself too high profit target only to know that the price against you and kicks you out of the trading.

3. Be Discipline

Set yourself a time to trade or test your own strategy. Force yourself to learn something new in the market or from someone who shows good trading.

4. Be Consistent

When you got the system that you want to trade with, trade it consistently. Test it in 2 to 3 months time. Then, you’ll see the result.

5. Be Decisive

Once you tested your system, be decisive in trading. Don’t hesitate your system. Use it and trade it with stop loss set. If it doesn’t work, the stop loss will get you out of the market. Then, move on to the next trade.

Hopefully you will master these 5 attitudes in forex trading. Get yourself trained in demo trading and then move on to the real trading account. You’ll find your trade more profitable than ever.

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I wanted to talk to you about foreign currency investing strategies. This is a global market that provides a very nice opportunity to individuals all over the world. This market has grown to over three trillion dollars a day in trades making it the world’s largest market. This amount of money attracts a lot of get rich quick people. Do not become of of these people because they end up losing all their money because they don’t have the slightest clue on how to invest in this market. I’m going to share with you a little about what I’ve learned that has helped me in this market.

I think the most fundamental skill that people have a hard time implementing is cutting your losses. You’re going to have bad trades, just like the rest of us. The difference between profitable and unprofitable traders is how you deal with it. I used to think cutting my losses was stupid because the currency will typically go back up. It might. It could take a year to go back up. Are you willing to leave that much money in the market for a year, when you could cut your losses, get some of the money back and reinvest it in another profitable trade?

You have a 24hr market here, but it isn’t always profitable at all times. I find the low volume times quite unstable. The reason is that there isn’t enough trading going on for a stable supply and demand. If you look at the high volume time, there is a lot of trading going on and it seems almost chaotic. Even though it is extremely busy, there is an equilibrium of supply and demand, making it very stable.

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If you want to enjoy currency trading success, you need to catch and follow trends and spot turning points and this tool will help you - it’s an obvious tip in many respects but most traders simply don’t use it, so here it is.

It’s to look at other markets that impact on the currency you are trading and for the purposes of illustration let’s look at the US Dollar.

The dollar is a net importer of energy and high energy costs hurt it and the main one we are referring to here, is crude oil. In recent history when crude has hit high levels (and we have had recent tests of $100 a barrel) it has hurt the dollar and the retreat from this level has seen the dollar stabilize and rise.

Tops in the oil market recently have warned of dollar rallies.

Another major factor is interest rates.

Recently the dollar has been hurt by the perceived view that interest rates will be cut and you can get an idea of how much by looking at interest rate futures. When the interest rate futures rally too hard to fast and then fall, you can often see the dollar rally.

Why? Because traders get ahead of themselves - the recent rally in dollar euro was preceded by 100% consensus that interest rates will be cut by 50 bps (probably true) but gave 50 - 50 that rates would be cut by 75 bps (unlikely) the level of interest rate cuts factored into the market was overdone and prices in interest rate futures fell and the dollar rallied.

Tops in oil and interest rate futures can be used to warn of dollar rallies.

Another important variable is the stock market. Weak stocks hurt the dollar and strong stock markets support it - so watch it in fact if you want another tip:

If you are trading long term trends and only want to look at the prices of currencies once a day, do it just after the stock market closes. This closing price is always significant and while currencies trade 24 hours they are effectively thinly traded until Tokyo opens and the US stock market close sets the tone for the next day

Other currencies are also affected by outside influences:

The Canadian Dollar - Is a net exporter of oil and high prices of oil and other commodities are supportive of the currency

The Australian Dollar - Australia is a big producer of gold and when gold prices are high it supports the currency.

By looking at other markets that are important to a currency, you can often spot whether trends are going to continue or reverse. While it’s obvious that currencies don’t move in isolation, many traders do not bother to look at other markets for clues - if you do, you can get a trading edge.

A trading edge is what forex trading is all about and if you research this tip further, you will find it very useful as part of your forex trading strategy for bigger profits.

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The Federal Reserve is easily one of the most powerful–and misunderstood–of all American institutions. The Federal Reserve’s steady hand as America’s “central banker” has been especially critical to U.S. economic performance during the past 25 years. Why?

The management of fiscal policy (taxation and spending) during the majority of those years by various Administrations and Congresses was less than admirable. As a result, the enormous and irresponsible buildup of Federal debt remains, for now, our collective lasting legacy.

Today’s Federal Reserve–under the control of Chair Ben Bernanke–enjoys a very high level of credibility as an inflation fighter. In the world of central banks, there is no loftier objective…nor any greater success.

Inflation Control

The Federal Reserve’s number one responsibility is to maintain American price stability. It has been largely successful over the past 15 years in doing so, with consumer prices rising at an average annual rate of 2.7% since 1991. More comprehensive measures of inflation have risen at even lesser rates. In contrast, U.S. consumer prices rose an average of 6.2% annually during the ’70s and ’80s, with a painful bout of double-digit inflation in 1979 and 1980.

Today’s Fed is very concerned that higher energy prices now impacting the economy will contribute to a broad series of price increases for thousands of products and services across the economy. Such a pass-through of energy costs keeps Fed officials awake at night.

Add in volatile commodity and gold prices, the fear of further terrorism in the U.S. and abroad, enormous purchases of U.S. Treasury securities by foreign investors, and a handful of other topics, and one gets a feel for the life of a Fed official. It is not for the faint hearted.

In its efforts to maintain price stability, the Fed many times is called upon to…

1) “take the punch bowl away from the party” (to slow the economy) when it gets a bit too rowdy

2) administer preventive “medicine” to its patient (the U.S. economy) when necessary in order to minimize the chance of a more serious “inflation disease” later, which would require even more drastic action (more painful medicine)

Note: Most changes to monetary policy are enacted by the Fed adding reserves to or withdrawing reserves from the banking system through a process called open market operations. The result of such moves is to increase or decrease the Fed’s most critical interest rate, the federal funds rate. The federal funds rate is the rate at which commercial banks and certain other financial institutions invest excess funds with other commercial banks on an overnight unsecured basis.

The federal funds rate is easily the most important of ALL short-term interest rates. Changes in the federal funds rate immediately impact the level of all other short-term interest rates, including the prime lending rate and various short-term investment rates. The discount rate, the other rate controlled by the Fed, is now almost irrelevant in today’s conduct of monetary policy.

The “Dog” and the “Tail”

While many of the Federal Reserve’s official responsibilities remain unchanged from earlier years, the nature of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy flexibility has changed markedly during the past 25 years. In my opinion, the Federal Reserve is no longer the primary determinant of when monetary policy changes are necessary–the U.S. bond market is.

Since the Federal Reserve’s creation in 1913 until perhaps the late 1970s, the Federal Reserve solely determined monetary policy. The nation’s bond market–much smaller during those times–then quietly fell in line. During that era, the Federal Reserve was the “dog,” while the bond market was the “tail.” This relationship has now reversed.

Today’s reality is that the Federal Reserve, to a large extent, provides the monetary policy mix that is demanded by a powerful and very inflation-sensitive bond market. The market is now the “dog,” while the Federal Reserve is the “tail.”

Today’s inflation-wary bond market provides the Federal Reserve with less monetary policy flexibility than at any time in its history. Any future Federal Reserve attempt to over-stimulate U.S. economic growth with “easy money” would be met with rising long-term interest rates (to protect lenders/investors from impending higher inflation) and cries of Federal Reserve irresponsibility.

Conducting Monetary Policy

How is proper monetary policy determined by the Federal Reserve? The Fed is clearly concerned about the inflation implications of today’s historically tight labor markets and the wage pressures that could result.

In addition (and figuratively speaking), today’s Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy using an old-style balancing scale with four trays.

In separate trays, the Fed balances:

1) Criticism from the “hawks,” who see inflation under every rock. The hawks are typically critical of the Fed, noting that the institution is not aggressive enough in diffusing inflationary expectations

2) Criticism from the “doves,” who constantly argue that monetary policy is too restrictive. The doves argue that the Fed has usually gone too far in monetary tightening or not eased policy enough, and that the Fed frequently threatens the economy with the “r” word…recession

3) Recent price performance of gold and various other commodities. Price movements in these commodities can serve as inflation red flags, as well as signs of monetary policy that is too restrictive

4) The current shape and slope of the U.S. Treasury yield curve, including the most recent direction of 10-year U.S. Treasury Note and 30-year U.S. Treasury Bond yields. Such information provides a clue as to the bond market’s collective view of inflation expectations

Only when all trays are in “relative balance” does the Fed consider monetary policy to be appropriate.

The Fed must also consider the inflation implications of U.S. dollar strength or weakness relative to other global currencies. The Fed must also consider the conduct of monetary policy by other major central banks including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan…

…not a task for the faint-hearted

Economic futurist Jeff Thredgold is President of Thredgold Economic Associates, a professional speaking and economic consulting company.

Since 1976 Jeff’s weekly economic and financial newsletter, Tea Leaf, has been helping people make sense of the tangled maze of the U.S. and global economy and financial markets in a light, approachable style. Sign up to receive the free Tea Leaf email newsletter and let Jeff Thredgold show you how to use this information to enhance your financial well-being for years to come.

Jeff is the author of econAmerica: Why the American Economy is Alive and Well…and What That Means to Your Wallet (Wiley, 2007), and On the One Hand…The Economist’s Joke Book.

His career includes 23 years with $96 billion banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as Senior VP and Chief Economist. He now serves as economic consultant to $50 billion Zions Bancorporation, which has banks in 10 states.

Don’t send them your money.

Yes, it really is that simple and easy — if you can control your greed-induced stupidity.

Yes, I know some people claim that some High Yield Investment Programs are honest and legitimate. Unfortunately, I see no evidence to support this claim — and find many good reasons to believe that all HYIPs and HYIP monitor sites are frauds from the get-go.

HYIP is short for High Yield Investment Programs. These are basically web sites which ask for your money in exchange for a guaranteed return on your investment which if true would shame Warren Buffett with his inadequacies and failures as an investor.

Returns of 1/2 to 5% DAILY! 6% weekly. 10% monthly. 730% annually.

Those are figures I just pulled from a small sampling of recommended HYIPs listed on an HYIP monitor site. Others claim more or less, but these are typical.

Hungry for returns like these? Most people are. They sure make ordinary mutual funds look weak and insipid don’t they? Makes you wonder why ordinary mutual fund managers earn millions of dollars when they can’t even guarantee a return of a mere 1/2% per day.

Even better — these returns are available to anybody. The minimum investments range from only $10 to $100.

If you were a trader who knew how to make such astronomical returns, would you want to be bothered with managing money for investors who can only afford to send you $10?

In the United States — and most countries have similar laws — all securities must be registered unless they’re placed privately with accredited investors. That’s people who have a net worth of at least $US 1 million and/or net annual income of at least $US 200,000. Needless to say, those people are not $10 investors!

By seeking funds for unregistered securities on a public web site, HYIPs appear to be violating these laws — even if the administrator has honest intentions.

But that’s not likely, because all HYIP administrators want your money sent in the form of e-gold, so it’s untraceable and nonrefundable. If they were honest, they’d accept your check.

HYIP experts advise doing due diligence before you invest, by investigating the administrators through their domain names. But if the HYIPs had honest intentions, they’d give you their names, physical mailing addresses and telephone numbers. Many HYIP sites don’t even pretend to tell you who or where they are.

And how do HYIPs achieve their extremely high but guaranteed results? Gambling in Macau casinos, forex trading, day trading, certificates of deposits, gold investments, investments on the NYSE and Nikkei, oil investments, manufacturing, venture capital, a single matrix multilevel marketing scheme that moved you up as people sent money after you, playing online Texas Hold ‘Em, the prime bank fraud and more. That’s what their sites claim, anyway. Some HYIPs don’t even bother to lie to you. They don’t even pretend they’re investing your money in anything.

As for the HYIPs that do claim to be investing in something legitimate (the majority) — what’s their trading edge that enables them to guarantee such high returns? They don’t tell you. They don’t brag about it. They don’t even give you a clue. You’re expected to simply accept their word for it. The lack of attention they devote to convincing prospective investors that their claims are credible is itself a show of contempt.

I’ve seen marketing materials for mutual funds, investment newsletters, investment books, trading software, investing courses and seminars — and all of them go to great lengths to convince prospects that their methods are successful. They don’t give away their secrets but they obviously believe prospects won’t send their money unless they first establish their credibility.

And no such marketing materials claim they can guarantee results every day, week or month! All trading systems have downs as well as ups.

Oh, yes — no HYIP has lasted over one year. Most go out of business long before that. Naive koolaid drinkers believe that some were started by administrators with honest intentions who just failed to make money, so they closed up shop without refunding any money.

If they were honest they wouldn’t make claims they couldn’t fulfil. They would give you their names and addresses. They would accept all legal forms of money, not just e-gold. And if they did go out of business despite their successful investment strategies, they would return as much money as possible.

They didn’t “succumb to the dark side” when their business failed. They were on the dark side when they started it in a deceptive manner.

But some HYIP investors make money — how’s that possible?

The obvious explanation for all HYIPs is that they’re plain and simple ponzi schemes. The first few investors and the traffic-generating HYIP monitor sites are paid with money sent by later investors. As long as the program continues for a time, the early investors can show a profit. When the flow of money from new suckers slows down, the administrator stops paying anybody and goes on a long vacation, before starting a new HYIP under a new name.

HYIPs rely solely on your greed — and that approach seems to be working.

I hope that now you understand that if you want a real return on your invested money, you need to put it in real investments — not send it to scammers.

Copyright 2007 by Richard Stooker

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Have you ever wondered what a forex trading tutorial could do for your life? I used to wonder until I took the time to actually try it out. I couldn’t believe how easy it really was to trade on the forex market. With the program I found it literally took me by the hand and showed me what I need to do to make money trading forex.

I know that the only thing that kept me from trading on the forex market for all those years was my fear of not knowing what I am doing and losing money. I want to be the first to honestly tell you that you don’t need to spend years trying to figure it out. I have found an amazing program that lets me trade like I have been a stock broker for years.

The best part is that I do minimal work and the money I am now seeing roll in is absolutely amazing. I have never worked, if you can call it that, this little for so much money. I check my account once a day and make adjustments. These adjustments are basically laid out for me by the program that I use to trade with.

I don’t have to spend time worrying about how my account is doing. Before I found this program I would literally be checking my account online every 5 minutes. I never knew what to do and I ended up losing my shirt. Trust me when I say I know what it is like to have no clue what is going on and losing hard earned money while I was doing it.

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Day trading the Emini S&P Futures really is a great way to make a living! I hear and read a lot of articles, newspaper ads, and even one or two ezine’s that claim day trading is a sure fire way to lose all your money. I totally disagree. On the contrary, it is an incredible way to work a few hours a day and make a very nice 6 figure income.

No doubt, a lot of new day traders find themselves in peril and ultimately lose their money day trading. This bothers me when I read about it. It gives the successful day traders, such as myself - a bad name. I know quite a few day traders who have been succeeding at this for many years. What I learned is that success leaves clues! Meaning, the successful day traders seem to all be doing the same thing while the unsuccessful day traders are also doing the same thing - which, to no surprise is opposite of what the successful traders do!

We need to look at the root of the real problem, which is: Why are most day traders losing all their money? I think thats a real simple question to answer. Usually it is a lack of discipline and a solid set of day trading rules. Sometimes it is under capitalization and fear. Fear in itself is probably the biggest of the day trader “killers”.

You may purchase books, seminars, and perhaps create your own strategies to day trade. All this is great, but if you can not follow the rules to the letter - you simply will not be a successful day trader. Discipline to follow the rules is a tough thing to acquire! I admit when I first started I had a hard time because I was always changing up my rules. That cost me tens of thousands of dollars. Read more about my successes and failures:
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Finally, I learned that the key to successful day trading was trading for income. I do not trade for a target price. I know how much money I need to make every day and I go out and make it, once I achieve my daily profit objective, I simply quit for the day.

My trading methods are very simple and easy to learn. They require discipline! You must under every circumstance follow the rules. My methods generate at least 1 point daily trading the S&P 500 eminis. I back that by a double money back guarantee!

I post my real trading results on my blog every day
http://www.eminitradingstrategies.com/emini-trading-blog/ I do not post “hypothetical” trades. I post real trades with real fills! Some of my trades are winners and some are losers. Either way I put them up there for the world to see. I urge you to look at them. Every now and then I take a day off, on those days I DO post hypothetical results and I make it clear I did not trade that day! However, even with my hypothetical trades, they are very realistic trades that would have been filled on limit orders!

Please when people tell you day trading doesn’t work, don’t believe it. You can earn a very nice living day trading. It’s my opinion that the people who bad mouth it are simply the “wannabes” that didn’t make it. Instead of complaining about it, find out why it did not work for you! Did you really follow every rule? Did you maintain discipline all the time? Whatever you do, please do not berate the people that really do it! And do it successfully everyday.

Just recently I’ve decided to teach my trading methods. Some of the reasons I am doing this is that I am tired of hearing so many negatives about my industry. I also have a strong desire to teach. I’ve shared my methods with a handful of people and I enjoy teaching, and love seeing the excitement and enthusiasm in them. If you have the discipline to follow a solid set of rules, you can be a very successful day trader.

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