Combine these strategies with your daily horoscope to gain a bigger profit.
Forex is a 24 hour market and there will be good setups for profitable trades in the Asian, European and US sessions. It pays to look at historical price data on forex charts to see what time of the day you could be watching the market and what time you could be doing something else. The aim is to trade when the average trading range is worthwhile and stay out of the market when price is in a narrow sideways range.
Simple strategies
Fast moving averages crossover
Trading systems based on fast moving averages are quite easy to follow. Let's take a look at this simple system.
Currency pairs: ANY
Time frame chart: 1 hour or 15 minute chart.
Indicators: 10 EMA, 25 EMA, 50 EMA.
Entry rules: When 10 EMA goes through 25 EMA and continues through 50 EMA, BUY/SELL in the direction of 10 EMA once it clearly makes it through 50 EMA. (Just wait for the current price bar to close on the opposite site of 50 EMA. This waiting helps to avoid false signals).
Exit rules: option1: exit when 10 EMA crosses 25 EMA again.
option2: exit when 10 EMA returns and touches 50 EMA (again it is suggested to wait until the current price bar after so called “touch” has been closed on the opposite side of 50 EMA).
Advantages: it is easy to use, and it gives very good results when the market is trending, during big price break-outs and big price moves.
Disadvantages: Fast moving average indicator is a follow-up indicator or it is also called lagging indicator, which means it does not predict the future market directions, but rather reflects current situation on the market. This characteristic makes it vulnerable. First, because it can change its signals any time, second – you need to watch it all the time, third - when market trades sideways (does not trending) with very little fluctuation in price it can give many false signals, so it is not suggested to use it during such period.
Slow moving averages crossover
Current strategy applies the same principles as Strategy #1.
Use time frame and currency which respond the best (1 hour, 1 day… or any other).
Indicators: (multiple of 7) 7 SMA, 14 SMA, 21 SMA.
Entry rules: When 7 SMA goes through 14 and continues through 21, BUY/SELL in the direction of 7 SMA once price gets through 21 SMA.
Exit rules: exit when 7 SMA goes back and touches 21 SMA.
Advantages: again it is an easy set up and does not require any calculations or other studies. Can produce very good results during strong market moves, the system also can be easily programmed and traded automatically.
Disadvantages: System requires periodical monitoring according to a chosen time frame. SMA indicator signal can be confirmed after the current price bar has been fully formed and closed. In other words, when SMA stops changing and the signal is fixed, traders may rely on such information to open a trade.
Just as on any other market the trading on Forex, along with an exclusively high potential profitability, is essentially risk - bearing one.
It is possible to gain a success on it only after a certain training including a familiarization with the structure and kinds of Forex, the principles of currencies price formation, the factors affecting prices alterations and trading risks levels, sources of the information necessary to account all those factors, techniques of the analysis and prediction of the market movements as well as with the trading tools and rules.