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Friday, September 25, 2009

What Do You Need If You Are Going To Trade Forex?

By Kris Deaney

The Forex industry in incredibly huge. Whilst it's size can make the mind boggle, it also has a great potential to make profit for people who trade in it. In fact you can easily trade in currencies whether the market is going up or down.

Now whilst all of this is great, traders should be careful and not run into things head first. There are a couple of things that they should have sorted before their first trades.

The first is a good trading strategy. The strategy must be executed consistently with discipline. This is very important.

After this, the next thing to be concerned about is getting a very good broker. Really, it needs to be a broker that can offer a trader the ability to be able to trade as if they were an industry professional.

A potential trader should be concerned with the liquidity of a broker and also it's ability to be able to execute each order instantaneously. Many brokers have a low level of liquidity and that means that the trader will always get slippage. However, the good brokers will be able to offer trade execution, and keep the slippage to an absolute minimum.

As well he actual trading platform needs to be absolutely as reliable as possible. Also it should be easy to navigate around

The broker should also offer the trader the potential to make use of professional quality charting software, if they are trading technically, as well as immediate news, so they can get hold of the latest economic indicators as soon as they come out.

The spreads are also very important to the cost of trading and the spread in itself can be enough to make the difference between losing and profitability. Simply put, the spread is the difference between what you can buy and sell each currency for and is quoted in pips.

I often get people asking me why they have lost money after a certain number of traders. It always amazes them when I point out to them that they have just not integrated the cost of the spread into their calculations. - 23211

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