WHAT ISA PROFESSIONALTRADER?
A professional Forex trader is someone who uses price movement in the Foreignexchange currency market to make profit. The aim of any Forex trader is to win asmany trades as possible and also to maximize those winning trades. A professionalForex chart technician uses price charts to analyze and trade the market. By tradingwith an EDGE in the market, professional traders can put the odds in their favour tosuccessfully trade price movement from point A to point B.Caution: Forex trading is not a ‘get-rich-quick’ scheme and it is more difficult to makemoney in Forex than what most popular Forex system-selling websites would have youbelieve. To trade profitably we must not only have winning trades, but we must also cutour losing trades short so that our winners out-pace our losers. You see, losing is an enviablepart of trading the Forex markets, and you must learn to lose properly by taking small lossesrelative to your winners. This means you must A L W A Y S trade with a stop loss on E V E R Ytrade you take and make sure the dollar amount you have at risk is an amount you are100% comfortable with losing.
Professional Forex price-chart traders have a winning edge which is developed via Technical Analysis (more on this in Part 4). There are also Fundamental Analysis traders and traders who use a combination of both analysis techniques; we will discuss all of these later.A professional Forex trader understands that reading a price chart is both art and skill, and assuch, they do not try to mechanize or automate the process of trading as each moment in themarket is unique, so it takes a flexible and dynamic trading strategy to trade the markets witha high-probability edge.
HOW DO PRO TRADERS TRADE THE FOREX MARKETS?
Automated / Robot Trading:
Software-based trading systems, also known as forex trading robots, are created by converting a set of trading rules into code that a computer can make use of. The computer will then run this code via trading software that scans the markets for trades that meet the requirements of the trading rules contained in the code. The trades are then executed automatically via the trader’s broker.
Discretionary Trading:
Discretionary Forex trading depends on a trader’s ‘gut’ trading feel or discretionary trading skill to analyze and trade the markets. Discretionary trading allows for a more flexible approach than automated trading but it does take a certain amount of time to develop your discretionary trading skill. Most professional Forex traders are discretionary traders because they understand the market is a dynamic and constantly flowing entity that is best traded by the human mind.
Technical Trading:
Technical trading, or technical analysis, involved analysis of a market’s price chart for making one’s trading decisions. Technical analysis traders use price patterns or ‘technical signals’ to trade the market with an edge. The common belief amongst technical analysis traders is that all economic variables are represented by and factored into the price movement on a price chart.
Fundamental Trading:
Fundamental trading, or news trading, is a trading technique wherein traders rely heavily on market news to make their trading analysis and predictions. Fundamental news does ‘drive’ price movement, but often times the market will react differently than what a particular news release would imply due to the fact that market participants often buy on expectations of future events and sell once the reality of said future event occurs. This is another main reason many pro traders rely more heavily on technical analysis than fundamental analysis, although many do use a combination of the two.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Make full analysis over the market and choose the right currency pair to trade. Diversify the risk on a single trade into 3 different entries. Build the empty chart into a professional trading screen. Recognize the Fibonacci zone that is connected to the major trend.
Open profitable trades with limited risk to the whole capital. Maximize the results and take the profit at the right moment. Trade in the direction of the trend, but taking the trade on the pullback. Enter into the trade on the impulsive break of the Counter-trend line.
Requirements
You should have any Forex platform installed on your PC/Laptop Time and patience to trade on the Forex Market as a Pro Trader Good internet connection is always required to follow the trades Huge desire to learn professional Forex trading