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A Solid Forex Education Is The Key To Your Profits

| Jul 24, 2009
People all over are getting interested in currency trading as an alternative to stock market investing since trading in the forex market seems to be much easier and takes place around the clock. To be successful in the forex market, you should start off by getting involved in the best training available. This is the key to entering and succeeding in and making good trades.

The type of training you receive will make all the difference in the world. Don't just rush into forex investing haphazardly, but seek out the information you need to propel you forward into profits. With the correct training, you will be confident in your ability to do profitable trades and you will know when it is time to exit a trade before you lose money.

People all around the world are getting wealthy investing into the forex market. It is really exciting to see your money grow as your confidence grows. On the other hand, is you lack confidence in doing trades, you will not make the right decision when the time comes to enter or exit a market. When you see market fluctuations, your emotions will override your lack of skills and confidence forcing you to make costly decisions.

Currency trading can be described as an activity in which people from different countries trade on the value of money. Each country's currency has a different monetary value on the world market. As these values are influenced by world economics, the exchange rate also changes. If you are a trader, these differences can either make you money or cause you to lose money.

You can get a great education in forex in one of several ways. The Internet is a great place to start. There are many websites that offer free training courses and information to help you learn the basics. Should you decide you want more advanced level training, they give you the option to upgrade to paid membership status.

A great place to get more information about forex investing is at the library. They have tons of books and other resources on investing in the financial section. If you are serious about getting a great education in forex, consider taking a college class at your community college. These are some of the best courses around and the interaction you get with your instructor is priceless.

So what should your training include? First it should start with all the basics of the market. This means learning the terms as well as how the market works. This should be followed by a series of investment strategies to entering and exiting trades successfully. This means learning how to manage risks and maximize returns.

A good forex education should provide you with a demo account that you can use to practice on. Demo accounts are great for giving you experience in the real world of trading without using real money. Additionally, these types of account will teach you the basics of how to open a forex account. Once you are confident in your ability to trade, go live with real money. Start slowly and build up over time.

Money Management in Currency Trading

| Jun 17, 2009
Money Management in Currency Trading (Part I)
by Ahmad Hassam

Many forex traders start trading live before understanding and learning good money management rules. Develop a few good money management rules and practices them on your demo account before starting live trading. Developing your money management rules mean how much of your money, you are willing to risk on one trade. It also means determining how many contracts per trade your risk tolerance allows? The important thing when you start trading is to learn how you can improve your investment results by making small changes and tweaks to your trading strategies. Good money management rules can make a huge difference between becoming a successful investor in the long run or an unsuccessful one that blows up the account in a few weeks. Have you ever played poker or watched it being played online or on TV! If you have then you will never see good poker players play all their cards on a single bet. Good poker players know that by risking only a small amount of their money on a single bet, they can win or lose but will still play the next hand. If they put everything on the table on a single bet, they will have to be 100% sure of winning, an impossible thing. You can never be 100% sure. Life is the game of probabilities. Forex trading is far more complicated than playing poker. You are dealing with hundreds of unknown variables that affect the markets instead of only 52 cards. To succeed in forex trading, you must understand and implement the money management principles.You can fall into many pitfalls while trading. As a trader you should be constantly guard against two emotions. Greed and fear! In case you are on a winning streak, you will become greedy. You would want to risk more to make one big win and you would want to strike it rich in one or two big trades. This will make you risk more and more of your money on a single big trade. When you will lose a trade, you will become afraid risking your money on the next trade. Fear will take over. It will impair your decision making. It will make you lose confidence in your judgment and decision making. Lets see how fear and greed can affect your trading.Lets suppose you have a run of successful trades that makes you very happy. You are feeling overconfident. You are not satisfied on risking only 2% of your account on one single trade and you want to risk more on the trade. You are thinking, the more you have in a trade, the more you will make if you are right. You are willing to increase your risk to 5%. You increase it to 5% and you win. You increase it further to 10% and you once again win. You finally decide to put 25% of your account at risk on the next big trade, but misfortune strikes all of a sudden. Your successful run comes to an end and you lose big.Suppose you had a $100,000 trading account and you had foolishly risked 25% or $25,000 on one trade that you desperately wanted to win. Losing $25,000 means you have only $75,000 in your account now after your loss. How much you need to make to get back the original balance of $100,000; you need to make $25,000 again to go back to the original balance. It means you will have to make 25,000/75,000= 33%, so you risked 25% but now you will need to make 33% to get back your original amount.Many investors once they lose a trade try to risk more to recover their original loss, ending up losing more and more. Very soon those investors destroy their accounts and are out of trading forever. There are other investors who try to reduce risk even further on making a loss; eventually they divorce themselves from any opportunity for meaningful growth in their accounts.

Introduction into the categories of shares

| Feb 5, 2009

Introduction into the categories of shares


Once you have decided to invest in the stock market and then start a joint session of the provisions of the shares, preferred shares, and a kind of type b.

Category of shares, in fact, tell you how much and what type of the right to vote for you and this in turn will determine the way will be able to have your opinion heard at the annual general meeting of the Council.

First I will discuss in stock and this stock is one of the issues that will be for all shareholders, and this type of securities or class with the maximum risk. In fact, in the case of liquidation of the company and this stock will leat prefernec, and have all of the company came to was that everyone has come to fruition.

But in general, the stock market for investors in these shares are Comon are usually appreciate more than anything else, and this is where the risk of repayment.

Preferred stock is less risky than common stock, and this type of securities in general will be given preference over the Common Shares in the event of bankruptcy of the company. Preferred shareholders do not receive a fixed amount of didvidend.

There are types of classes that will be encountered in the stock market are usually the first degree and class B shares. The first degree and normally would have a share, or five votes per share, Class B shares have one vote per share. According to the classification of shares or class B can be quite the opposite for some companies or companies that are trying to cover up that kind of voting power for some types of shares outstanding. Need to happen because the classification of companies in an attempt to provide more of the voting power of some of the door to investors.

Make sure to read the Charter of the companies, and the Statute of the publication as a thorough pre-investment to the investor is likely to take more money from investors beam.