Difference between buy limit and buy stop order

When you are entering a trade there are 2 methods to do it

• By entering at market price:  You will be buying or selling at the current market price.
• Using pending orders: If you want to buy/sell at a particular price (which you analyse as important) and that price has not yet reached, you can use pending orders.

When to use pending orders?

If you are buying:

Pending orders for a buy can be put as buy limit or buy order.

• Buy limit: If you want to buy at price below the current price use this tool.

Japanese candlestick pattern: DOJI

What is a doji?

Doji is a type of candle in which the opening and close price are same. This is one of the most important reversal patterns in Japanese candlestick chart.

How to identify a doji?

See the above picture, the second arrow shows a perfect doji. The opening and close price are same.

Even when the opening and closing prices are a few pips apart, it is considered a doji candle. See the first arrow in the picture

Why doji candlestick is important?

Getting nowhere in trading? Try to change your trading session

If you are not getting consistent results in trading even by having a very good forex trading strategy, try to change the time you take trades. 

Yes the time at which you take trades play a very important role in winning or losing.

Volume and profit:

 The flow chart below shows you relation between volume and profit in any forex trading strategy.

When more people are trading a particular currency pair there will be an increase in its volume. Increased volume will always result in strong movements in price of that pair and strong movements surely means more pips. If you can identify to which direction the price is havingstrong movement you can ensure more profit.

For each and every currency pair the volume is different at different times of a financial day.

Are you Trading Breakout?

The most commonly used forex trading strategy is breakout trading. A large number of traders use this method as their entry mechanism. With proper money management and risk control breakout trading can be profitable.

What is a breakout?

 A breakout is a movement/Break of price from a major level. The level can be a major support or resistance (line or zone) or a trend line etc.

How to identify a Breakout?

• Breakout can be a reversal or continuation of trend:

We can see a breakout from a major support line which usually indicates a reversal of the current trend. But in some cases if the current trend is really strong, the breakout will be in the direction of the trend.

Breakout from Range

 See the above chart. Price has been ranging from January 2012 till may 2012. On May 2012 the support line was penetrated and the candle closed below support level. This is  called breakout ( see the yellow encircled portion).

Common chart patterns--Double top

Double top patterns are most commonly seen chart patterns in bar, line and candlestick charts. As the name suggest double tops will have two peaks at almost same price levels. 

Features:

• Bearish reversal signals:

Double tops are indication that the uptrend is going to change its direction.

• Formed during an uptrend:

 Double tops can be seen in an uptrend.

• Easy recognition:

Double tops also called as ‘M’ patterns can be easily identified by the M shape formed by the pattern.

Formation:

Double tops are formed when in following steps:

Moving Average--A Versatile Indicator

A very basic tool that help in forex trading is moving average (MA).

What is moving average?

Every one of you will be aware of calculating average. If you are given 10 numbers, the average of these 10 numbers is sum of all the numbers divided by 10. In same way if you are having a continous set of numbers,average of set will be different from the previous set and we can plot a graph using the average values obtained. This is called moving average

 In case of forex, the numbers you are considering for finding the average may be

• Close price
• Open price
• High price
• Low price
• Median price etc of the candles.

Types of moving average

There are several varieties of moving averages like simple moving average, exponential moving average, weighted moving average etc. Among these simple moving average and exponential moving average are the most commonly used indicators.

Simple moving average (SMA):

In a simple moving average the basic average calculation is done and graph is plotted based on the averages obtained.

Significance of SPREAD in forex trading

This article will help you to understand what is Spread and what is the real significance of spread in forex trading.

WHAT IS SPREAD?

Spread is the difference between Bid and Ask prices of a currency pair.

So what is a bid price and ask price.

Bid price is the market price at which a currency pair can be sold.

Ask price is the market price at which a currency pair can be bought.

EXAMPLE:

The above figure is a screen shot of the market window in an mt4 trading platform.

See the encircled pair, the currency pair is GBP/USD. The price of that pair can be written as

GBP/USD      :      1.4986/88.

Trend-Basics

Trend is the direction in which price moves. Identifying the trend of currency pair is the most important part of any forex trading strategy.Once you have a clear idea about where the price is heading taking a trade will be much more easier. That means if the price is going up then a buy trade will give you profit and vice-versa. So let's look at the different trends. 

Price will move mainly in 3 directions.

1. Up
2. Down
3. Range

UPTREND:

When the price is moving up it is called an uptrend.

See the above chart. The price on 8th January was around 93.83, but as on 14th January it is around 97.99. Price has moved up. This is a typical example of up trend. 

Support and Resistance

The most basic and important step during chart analysis is marking the support and resistance areas. Support and Resistance play an integral part in any successful trading strategy. So first lets look in to what is support and resistance.

Let's look in to a candlestick chart of EUR-USD.

In this chart we can see that the price is moving up.The price on 10th October was around 1.2868 and as on 17th October it is around 1.3117. So the price has moved up for about 249 pips. But the movement is not through a straight line. After 10th October the price has come down and the again went up till 11th October then again it came down and so on.The price has created a number of high's and low's before reaching the value of 1.3117.

The yellow circle you see in the chart is one such high and it is called a PEAK.

Candlestick chart pattern-Part II- Hammer/Hangingman

Hammer/Hanging man.

This is a reversal signal,which indicates that there is a chance for change in the direction of price.

Features:

• When the candle appears in an uptrend it is called Hanging man.

See the chart above,the price was moving in upward direction and at the peak hanging man appeared. After that the price reversed its direction and started downward journey.

• When candle appears in a down trend it is called hammer.

A Guide to Forex trading strategies

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And yes there are ways like advertising where you risk is low but you have to put a heavy effort on marketing in this case.

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One of the popular method is forex trading or currency trading

Forex trading has become one of the beneficial way by which you can make some good profit in Dollars online, provided that you do it carefully by managing the risk that suites your appetite. You can develop your own forex trading strategy which will.

Currency rates keeps on fluctuating and it is mainly depend up on that country’s economy, inflation rate, interest rate, GDP ( Gross domestic profit), employment rate etc. So this is such a big market to get influences or manipulated by a person or a lobby and thus more preferred when comparing with trading in a security market or equity stock market where the stock prices are for a company or organisation’s growth or profit

This website tells and teaches you about some of the very basic and fundamentals of forex trading, forex trading tips and tactics, forex trading fundaments and few tips on technical analysis in a simplified manner. We are trying to post as many descriptive post as possible to that it would be helpful to you to do an easy Forex currency trading. So keep visiting and subscribe to our feed to have them served to you.
Browse through the website (the link list on the right panel) to find and learn more about different currency chart patterns and indicators.

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Japanese candlestick chart patterns- part1

The basic idea behind trading is to buy at low price and sell at higher price there by taking a profit and vice versa. So how will you know that the price is going to move up by looking at the chart. This is where Chart patterns comes to play it's role.

Candle stick chart will provide a lot of patterns which will act as a warning signal that the price is going to change it's direction.There are several types of candlestick chart patterns like

• Reversal patterns
• Continuation Patterns

Let's look at the Reversal patterns.

Reversal patterns show the trader that the price is likely to change it's direction. If a particular currency is in uptrend and a reversal pattern appear on the chart,this means that the trend may change to downward direction or is going to range.
Reversal pattern doesn't mean that the trend has been completely reversed. Sometimes the reversal will only be for a short time and after that the price will regain its strength and continue it's former trend. The length of reversal depend on various factors like Support and resistance areas, major fundamental developments,market sentiment etc.

1) Engulfing Pattern:
One of the important candlestick  reversal signal. This is a 2 candle pattern which means the pattern include 2 candlesticks. The engulfing pattern can be

• Bearish engulfing-- occurs in uptrend
• Bullish engulfing.--occurs in down trend

Bearish Engulfing pattern:

In this pattern there will be 2 candlesticks. The second candlestick will engulf the body of the first candlestick completely.The first one will be a bull candle (or a doji) and the second a bear candle. This pattern gives a warning signal that uptrend is coming to an end.

See the chart above the rectangle enclosed shows a bearish  engulfing bar pattern. In this the second bear candle is so long that it has covered almost 5 previous candles. The more candles enclosed by the second bar the stronger it is.

Round numbers and Very big round Numbers

Round numbers: Price values ending with .0500, .0600 etc

Very big round numbers: Price ending with   .0000, .1000,.2000 etc

Importance:

Round numbers and very big round numbers can act as a supportor resistance level in some cases.

See the chart above, the encircled portions indicate the rejection from round numbers. The price was coming up and when it reached the level of 1.3000 which is a very big round number the direction of movement reversed. Price couldn’t break that level and it fell down. This is a typical example of round number acting as resistance. The price fell down till a level of 1.2900 which is also a round number and found support at that level.

The language of candle sticks-Basics

Candlestick charts are one of the best tool in technical analysis to understand the movements in the foreign exchange market. The candlesticks when properly read will tell you

• what has happened in the market for a particular period of time.
• show you the signals about the possible future movements.
• clearly gives an idea to the trader, the emotions of the market.
• easy to analyse when compared to the bar charts

A short History

The origin of candle stick charts dates back to 1700 AD. A Japanese rice merchant Munehissa Homma was the first to introduce the candlestick method and he made a fortune by trading rice with the help of this method.This system became popular in other parts of the world only by 1980's. Nowadays this is the most common charting method among  forex traders.

How to draw a candlestick?

The candle stick is made of a real body and wicks or shadows. The real body shows the opening and closing prices  at a particular time period and the shadows show the highest and lowest price reached during that period.