Sunday, December 20, 2009

What is the Best Time to Trade the Forex Market?

By Seth Gregory

Many traders ask their online Forex video course instructors and LIVE Forex training course mentors that they use to learn to trade forex about what is the best market to trade in the Forex, the London market, the Asian market or the New York market. This question is asked by almost all traders no matter their skill level. In this article we will cover some of the points as to why the trader wants this knowledge and the best time for a Forex trader to place trades.

A key reason traders in the Forex want to know when they should trade the Forex is because the Forex can be traded 5.5 days a week, 24 hours a day. This is the only market with continuous trading access all week long so it begs the above question.

The next most common basis for the question is that most traders are learning to trade, still have jobs and considerable other responsibilities for which they care. Due to this, they want to be properly placed in front of their trade stations so as to achieve the most profit possible. Traders have been known to completely change their schedules to have the best trading opportunities presented to them.

One of the first things we need to realize is that the Forex market is like any other market when it comes to the best time to trade it. When is the best time to trade the NY Stock Exchange? When is the best time to trade the London Equity Markets? When is the best time to trade the Japanese markets? The answer is based on your trading strategy. If you have a trading strategy that is based on what price does at a specific time, such as during a market such as New York Stock Exchange's opening or the open of the London Forex Market, then that is the best time for you to trade those markets. Although there are some trading strategies that are based around the open and closes of markets, due to the volatility associated with those market timings, such strategies make up and extremely small percentage of successful trading strategies.

Remembering that most people trade with trendline breaks, RSI, MACD, Stochastics and an assortment of other technical indicators, allows you to see that many traders are missing profitable trades because they are expecting everything to line up when they are ready to trade and not when the market is ready to be traded. When you trade using technical analysis you trade when your trading rules tell you to trade, it is the only way to trade the market in a repititious manner.

To successfully trade the Forex market we suggest that you find a prove trading strategy and trade when it tells you to. As your trading experience grows you will begin to see that trading rules that give trade entrys and exits consistently appear at inconsistent times. The issue this causes with most traders is that they want to trade when they want to trade and not when the system tells them, forcing trades they should never take.

There is no best time to trade the Forex no matter what Forex course, video or mentor tells you. Let experience with your trading rules show you that the best time to trade the Forex is when your trading rules tell you. - 22871

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