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papadeisabella asked:


Forex Traders promise high monthly returns and stop-loss provisions which suggest that you would never lose all of your money. On the other hand they talk about leverage which suggest that they will always have more to invest than they actually have and therefore all losses will be recovered. I have never heard of high returns and no risk, but this is what the so-called Forex traders are advocating. Is this some kind of scam?

HAYASHI

Sean Bailey asked:


 

When most people begin their journey on learning to trade in the forex market, word of mouth teachings are usually contradictive. The people who give the advice are often more confusing and contradictive than helpful. When people take this advice and begin to formulate a strategy themselves, it often ends in disaster. This is where you can turn to automatic forex trading.

 

Using automatic forex trading is a great start in learning how to navigate around the market and learn the ins and outs of currency exchange trading. You will need to get a demo account from the company you will be trading for. After that, you are well on your way to becoming a trading expert. Once you’ve created your account, you’ll need to download the automatic forex trading software onto your computer. This will run on top of the platform program to make trade determinations on your behalf. In “demo” mode, you can watch the trades while you learn. Once you’re comfortable with this you can then change your demo account to a live account where real gains and losses are made. Because the market is open 168 hours a week, you’ll probably notice that you will, at best, get 40 hours a week to trade. This is why automatic forex trading software is important. It helps you watch the market 24/7 and makes up for nearly 76% of lost weekly trades.

 

Keep in mind that there are still risks involved. This is the real forex trading market and losses are real. Keeping this program running 24 hours a day can be pretty risky to say the least. You might consider closing the program and trading manually. Automatic forex trading provides you with an opportunity to give you an advantage over others in the market.



MCMORRIS

Matthew Bass asked:


Imagine the next time you join a discussion about automated forex trading. When you start sharing the fascinating automated forex trading facts below, your friends will be absolutely amazed.

The concept of automated forex trading is fast catching on. The first market to move to automated trading was exchange-traded futures. Following this, traders working in the Interbank spot FX market too moved on to this system.

The success of the system flows from its ability conduct trade in real time. This is difficult to achieve manually, especially if the trading is to be done in milliseconds. Also, there may be times when a trader may be away from the desk, or a trader who has incurred a series of losses may take time before placing a fresh order. These are dampers that automated foreign trading removes.

Another advantage that automated trading brings in is diversification. It is possible for a trader to trade in different markets, and in different time zones. The trader can also deploy multiple trading models.

The trader can also use the automated model to analyze short-term data, which is not possible otherwise. This gives the trader an advantage over others who are not using the automated trading system. The trader can use this short-term data to analyze how the market will move in the next 15 minutes or half an hour, and accordingly take decisions. Also, high frequency trading allows existing data to be used in different ways in different markets.

The information about automated forex trading presented here will do one of two things: either it will reinforce what you know about automated forex trading or it will teach you something new. Both are good outcomes.

Automated trading also improves liquidity. This is quite apparent from the way the number of trades shot up in futures exchanges following the adoption of automated trading.

However, one area that worries traders is the likely increase in the number of orders once all traders adopt this system. The fear is that there may not be sufficient bandwidth or engine capacity to execute all these orders in real time. Already, some quarters are employing controls to guard against unnecessary order messages.

Risk management is another area that worries forex traders. An automated trading environment’s risk management logic requires that before a new position is opened a check be made to ensure that there is no excessive correlation with already opened positions. For this check to be accurate, all systems need to be synchronised. But these are technical issues that the market feels will be resolved as the technology improves.

For the time being automated trading in forex is the buzzword.

Knowing enough about automated forex trading to make solid, informed choices cuts down on the fear factor. If you apply what you’ve just learned about automated forex trading, you should have nothing to worry about.



RIEDL