Do you know that the Forex market is the biggest financial market in the world? You may think that the stock market is big enough, but it can not quite measure up the size of the Forex market. Even if you add the futures market to the stock market, the Forex market would still have a bigger amount of money being traded every day.
The door of the Forex market was opened to highly wealthy people only in the past, and you would be asked to present millions of dollars before your entry. Thanks to the presence of online trading companies, average investors can also have their share in this exciting field today. That being said, you still need to be able to afford the risk of financial loss.
In its simplicity, Forex trading is to buy and sell different currencies in the world. You buy one currency while sell another. As such, currency trading always involves pairs, and quotes of currencies also come in one currency against another. The major players include the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar (USD/CAD), the Euro and the U.S. dollar (EUR/USD), the U.S. dollar and the yen (USD/JPY) and the Australian dollar and the U.S. dollar (AUD/USD).
Forex trading also has a number of advantages compared to other types of financial investment. The transactions are fast because everything is electronic. You also are assured that there are often people who would want to trade with you. This is simply because there are so many people who are trading everyday and every hour of the day. You can buy and sell at anytime whenever you want to.
Perhaps the biggest attraction of Forex trading is its leverage. With a nearly unbelievable ratio of 200:1, you leverage capacity is simply huge. With very minimal initial cash you can already manage a large amount of currency. This is probably the main reason why the market is quite attractive for those who want to increase their earnings impressively.
However, you should expect to get rich instantly in this market. People can lose too in currency trading. Those who do are often those who act impulsively with the hopes of getting rich instantaneously. If you do not take the time to learn the inner wheels of Forex trading and the technical aspects of leveraging, then you could lose everything you have put into currency trading.
It is crucial for any Forex currency trading beginner to get well-informed before stepping into the real water. Apart from the knowledge, you should also be both financially and psychologically ready for the game. A good way to warm up is to pick an online company which offers virtual trading with imaginary currencies so that you will not suffer serious loss. By playing small at the very beginning, you can have a real feel of the market while minimizing possible money loss.
And so the purpose of this article is to present to you a few alternatives to using lagging indicators and instead incorporate leading indicators in your system, and that means looking directly at price action which some refer to as trading naked.
What I’m about to explain here, is a number of analysis techniques which I have combined together giving you an idea of what is possible. Now just because I have combined the use of all four market timing techniques in this article, doesn’t mean you have to use them together in your trading system, rather incorporate the use of one or more of these tools in your own forex trading system to suit yourself.
The first thing to do, is to identify a main market move, then apply fibonacci retracement levels to that move. These fibonacci resistance levels will now act as a reference point. We will now refer to other tools to indicate a possible reversal around one of these resistance levels.
We now wait for a candlestick reversal signal to occur around one of the main fibonacci resistance levels to indicate a possible reversal trend. When you think about it, fibonacci and candlestick reversal patterns are a great combination of analysis tools to use. Think about it for a moment. Once you observe a natural level of resistance in the form of a fibonacci, and at the same time you notice a candlestick reversal signal occurring aroung this level, for example a shooting star pattern, it gives you added confidence that a change in trend to the downside may be about to occur.
This brings me to our third indicator which gives further indication of a reversal occuring. This third analysis technique is called Elliott Wave. Now it is not my purpose here to go into detail about the Elliott Wave Principle, but rather show you the possibility of the tools you could use in your forex trading system.
To give you an idea of what Elliott Wave is all about, I quote from the Elliott Wave Principle book:
“In the 1930’s, Ralph Nelson Elliott discovered that stock market prices trend and reverse in recognizable patterns, the patterns he discovered are repetitive in form but not necessarily in time of amplitude. Elliott isolated five such patterns or waves that recur in market data. He named, defined, and illustrated these patterns and their variations. He then described how they link together to form larger variations. He then described how they in turn link to form the same patterns of the next larger size and soon producing structured progression.”
And further on into the book it goes onto saying:
“The primary value of the wave principle is that it provides a context for market analysis.”
And that is exactly how you should use it in your own forex trading system, in context with your other indicators or tools such as Fibonacci retracements, and candlestick reversal patterns.
Now to the fourth and final market timing technique you could incorporate in your forex trading system, or use with the other technical tools I have presented here in this article. This last market timing technique is called the Delta Phenomenon. More information about this technique and all the others presented here in this article can be found on my website listed below.
Basically the Delta Phenomenon is a cyclic phenomenon that was observed to be common in all financial markets around the world. Here is a quote from the book:
“Once one discovers the number of points that repeat and where the repeat begins, he is able to predict where in time each of these points will occur as far in the future or the past as he may want to go.”
The interesting thing here is the fact that this sounds similar to the paragraph I read out of the Elliott Wave Principle book which stated that, Elliott Wave patterns are repetitive in form but not necessarily in time or amplitude. This is where the Delta Phenomenon could complement EW, since DP gives you an idea of the time period to expect a reversal.
I would also like to mention here that the delta phenomenon is one of those market timing techniques that can be incorporated with any trading system, and it’s definitely worth looking into further if you’re interested in increasing both profitability and accuracy in your forex trading system.
Conclusion
It is up to you which market timing techniques you choose to use in your trading system. However you should be able to add an extra layer of both confidence and accuracy, by incorporating the use of any of these four market timing techniques in your own forex trading system.
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