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QQQ Weekly chart with a deep retracement to .618 and a weak attempt to rally after that. However, consider the daily chart and intraday traders. they would have enjoyed the rally from $75 to $100, after going long from a support level that could have been predicted in March!

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Forex Trading
Foreign Currency Exchange (Forex) Trading allows an investor to participate in profitable fluctuations of world currencies. Forex trading works by selecting pairs of currencies and then measuring profit or loss by the fluctuations of one one currency's market activity compared to the other. For example, fluctuations in the value of the $ U.S. Dollar are measured against another world currency such as the £ British Pound, € Eurodollar, ¥ Japanese Yen etc. Being able to discern price trends in market activity is the essence of all profitable trading and this is what makes foreign currencies so exciting, currencies are the world's 'best trending' market. This gives Forex investors a profit making edge that is unavailable in most other markets.Forex Trading is being called 'today's exciting new investment opportunity for the savvy investor'. The reason is that the Forex Trading Market only began to emerge in 1978, when worldwide currencies were allowed to 'float' according to supply and demand, 7 years after the Gold Standard was abandoned. Up until 1995 Forex Trading was only available to banks and large multinational corporations but today, thanks to the proliferation of the computer and a new era of internet-based communication technologies, this highly profitable market is open to everyone. The Forex Trading Market's growth has been unprecedented, explosive, and continues to be unequaled by any other trading market.Unlike traditional trading which brings buyers and sellers together in a central location (trading floors) in Forex Trading there is no need for a centralized location. Forex is a market where worldwide traders conduct business by high-speed Internet connections with the Interbank Foreign Currency Exchange via Forex Clearinghouses (also called Forex Brokerage Firms). Forex has not only become the fastest growing trading market, but also the most profitable trading marketplace in the world.Simply stated, Forex is the most profitable because it is the world's largest marketplace. The Foreign Currency market as a whole accounts for over 1.2 trillion dollars of trading per day (as determined by the fourth Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity, 1998. This figure is understood to be significantly higher today). To put this into perspective, on any given day the Foreign Currency Exchange Market activity is vastly greater than the Stock Market. It is 75 times greater than the New York Stock Exchange where the average total daily value (using 1998 figures) of both foreign and domestic stocks is $16 billion, and much greater than the daily activity on the London Stock Exchange, with $11 billion.Furthermore, in addition to being the world's largest and most profitable market, The Foreign Currency Exchange Market is the world's most powerful and persistent trading market regardless of negative economic indicators. This is because currencies 'trend' better than every other market due to their macro-economic nature. Unlike many commodities whose supply and demand fundamentals can literally change overnight (as we found in the sudden dot com 'market adjustment' and even more abruptly on September 11, 2001), currency fundamentals are much less random, and far more predictable. This is well illustrated in the way interest rates are changed gradually and only in small increments.Other examples of fundamental predictability are illustrated by the following statistics. Of the $1.2 trillion day trading in Foreign Currency Exchange, 83% of spot foreign exchange activity and 95% of swap activity involves US Dollars. The Euro is the second most active currency at 37%. The Japanese Yen (24%) and the British Pound Sterling (10%) are ranked third and fourth. The Swiss Franc is 7%, and the Canadian and Australian Dollars account for 3%.Spot Forex is the type of forex trade in which self-traders concentrate most of their investment activity for reasons that are self-explanatory. By definition, a Spot Forex transaction is a currency trade transaction that has a settlement (liquidation) within a maximum of 2 working days following the closing of the trade. Therefore Spot Forex allows the self-trader high liquidity. Another popular feature for well-advised Spot Forex self-traders is the strong profit potential from continual market fluctuations by buying a specific currency when it is weaker and selling it when it is stronger, and the continual pairing of strong currencies against weak ones. This potential for profit or loss is amplified by the effect of leverage. Leverage is a term that describes what can be achieved when a smaller amount of money controls a much larger amount of money. With regards to Forex Trading for example, a leverage-factor of 100 can allow the trader to hold a 100,000 US Dollar position with a modest 1,000 US Dollar margin deposit. Online Forex day trading focuses its investment activity largely on Spot Forex because of the 'risk manageability' of in-and-out trading plus the potential to generate excellent and highly liquid profits."Few financial industries generate as much excitement and profit as currency exchange. Traders around the world enter trades for weeks, days or split seconds, generating explosive moves or steady flows, and money changes hands quickly at a staggering daily average of a trillion US dollars. Forex profitability is legendary. George Soros of Quantum Fund realized a profit in excess of 1 billion dollars for a couple of days work in September 1992. Hans Hufschmid of Soloman Brothers, Inc. netted $28 million for 1993. Even by Wall Street standards, these numbers are heartstoppers".*

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Forex Trading rules for Beginner, Things to take note before you get your hand wet.

Before we go any further we are going to be 100% honest with you and tell you the following before you consider trading currencies.

All Forex traders lose money on trades! Yes we mean " ALL "

Unless they follow the right money management rules and having right psychology mind set...

These few forex trading rules in the currency market will prepare you to the sucess forex trader. With the right psychology and trading habit and techniques, forex beginner can also consistently profitable month after month in the forex trading market.

1. Make sure you use only the money that you can afford to. Be sure that you can afford to lose all of them without having affect your daily life. - Forex trading rule 1. If you can not afford to lose this sum of money, you should not trade forex. This is the 1st and most important trading rule.

2. Never put emotional feeling in the game. Do not take revenge on the market in the event that you have make a lost. If your emotions rule you, you will never able to be a successful trader.

3. Keep discipline in mind. If you have a bad trade that day, you cut your loses and keep moving forward by following your trading plan. Lack of discipline is the biggest reason that trader don't find success.

4. Make full use of all your charts. You should read all your yearly, monthly and weekly charts to help identify the support and resistance line. We will cover it the later chapter, move on..

5. Keep your trading system simple. The more complicated a trading system is, the harder it is to trade with. Simple trading rule will helps you make better trading decision.

6. Test out the demo version. Go live only when you acquire enough skill.

7. Good trading is all about knowledge, do not rely too much on news. Technical chart indicator gives you simple way to process data into useful information.
So, What is Forex? Forex is the short form of foreign exchange. ( Currency exchange )

An introduction of Forex market.

What is Forex? Forex market is the market where one currency is trade for another, it is a largest market in the world with an average of US$3 Trillion dollars changing hand each day. The main centers for trading are Sydney, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt and New York. As such, forex market is a 24-hour market.

Currency trading is always trade in a currency pair, for instant, the Euro/US dollar, or the GB pound/Japanese yen. The most commonly traded currencies are EUR/ USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF and GBP/USD.
US Dollar

USD
British Pound

GBP
Euro

EUR
Japanese Yen

JPY
Swiss Franc

CHF
Canadian Dollar

CAD
Australian Dollar

AUD
New Zealand

NZD
What is forex trading? Introduction of Forex Currency symbols


Currency traders make profits over the small fluctuations in exchange rates. In the Forex market, you can buy or sell one currency for another. When you buy a currency, you are said to be "long" when you sell a currency, you are said to be "short". For example, in the GBP/USD pair. When you go "long", mean you buy GBP and sell USD, when you go short, you sell GBP and buy USD. As the value of one currency rises or falls relative to another, trader's investments increase or decrease in value accordingly.
The Seven Most Traded Currencies in FOREX

Currencies are traded in dollar amounts called “lots”. One lot is equal to $1,000, which controls $100,000 in currency. This is what is known as the "margin". You can control $100,000 worth of currency for only 1,000 dollars. This is what is called “High Leverage”.

Currencies are always traded in pairs in the FOREX. The pairs have a unique notation that expresses what currencies are being traded. The symbol for a currency pair will always be in the form ABC/DEF. ABC/DEF is not a real currency pair, it is an example of a symbol for a currency pair. In this example ABC is the symbol for one countries currency and DEF is the symbol for another countries currency.

Here are some of the common symbols used in the Forex:

USD - The US Dollar EUR - The currency of the European Union "EURO" GBP - The British Pound JPN - The Japanese Yen CHF - The Swiss Franc AUD - The Australian Dollar CAD - The Canadian Dollar

There are symbols for other currencies as well, but these are the most commonly traded ones.

A currency can never be traded by itself. So you can not ever trade a EUR by itself. You always need to compare one currency with another currency to make a trade possible.