Here we are going to look at becoming a successful forex trader in just 2 weeks by showing you how to work smart NOT hard, to achieve success and enter the elite 5% of traders who have successful forex trading strategies.

Before we look at devising your forex trading strategy lets start with an inspiring story:

Over 20 years ago trading legend Richard Dennis set about proving anyone can learn to trade. He took and taught a group of people with no experience and after 14 days he let them trade.

The result?

They made Dennis $100 million and went on to become some of the most famous traders ever.

Now were not saying you are going to become as rich as the turtles but Dennis taught them only what they needed to know to win – no filler, just the facts they needed.

That’s what you need to do to. Forget all the gurus and mentors trying to sell you short cut junk systems and understand this – if you want to win you need to get the right information and do it on your own.

Only you can give yourself currency trading success

So let’s get started and look at what you need to do.

The Basics

You need to learn the basics and this is easy the net has loads of good free information on how to trade, execute trading signals etc so spend a few days reading up on them.

Your Forex Trading System

You need to decide if you want to be a fundamental or technical trader and by far the easiest way is to be a technical trader and use forex charts.

Can you read and spot patterns on a graph?

Then you can use forex charts, you just need to know what formations to spot.

Building Your Forex Trading Strategy

The best way to start is with a complete understanding of support and resistance and base your method on a breakout methodology (we don’t have time to discuss it fully here) but look it up.

Trading breakouts is a timeless way to make money – the turtles did it and most of the worlds top traders do it and so should you – you’re in good company!

You need to get some indicators together to confirm price momentum to enter your traders, so learn about price momentum indicators and also market volatility and standard deviation.

You can then use some tools that help you confirm:

Look up stochastic RSI and ADX.

And for volatility:

Look no further than the Bollinger band.

Well that’s all easy enough – now for the hard part.

Forex trading is relatively simple yet few succeed and this is not down so much to learning a method – that’s easy.

You can easily learn and digest what we have asked you to look at above in a few days – the hard part is applying your method with discipline.

If you can’t apply your method with discipline you really have no method at all.

Trading is probably 30% method 70% mindset.

Its emotions that kill 95% of traders so you need to build a framework to keep your emotions in check and maximize you’re trading profits

You need to be disciplined in money management and this means:

Taking risks when the time is right, holding profits and maximizing them and finally liquidating losers quickly.

This is vital to turn your method into a profitable forex trading system and we will cover – Discipline and money management and risk, in part 2 of this article series.

By: Kelly Price

Is the candlestick pattern a profitable Forex trading strategy? Candlesticks patterns were first used in Japan five centuries ago in the Dojima rice exchange. Today, it has become a popular tool for foreign exchange traders to predict currency trends. The system provides data on past and present trading patterns that are used in forecasting movements of various currencies.

The Forex market is a good source of income for people who know how to accurately read currency trends. Because of numerous Forex software and programs that are readily available nowadays, more and more people are given the opportunity to engage in foreign exchange trading. One of tools that have helped people earn money in the currency market is the candlestick pattern.

Before employing candlestick pattern trading, aspiring traders must first know enough about it. There are many kinds involved here and choosing the right one needs some thought. But for the many that are already into candlestick trading, he 30-minute candlestick chart seems to be the best of the lot and they counsel that before engaging in a trade, one must see to it that the pattern has been completed. There is danger in going ahead without getting the final picture first.

There is what traders call the engulfing candlestick patterns. This pattern is considered more reliable than others and the most profitable to use. The term “engulfing” refers to a market situation where the current candle engulfs the previous one. The engulfing patterns consist of the bearish engulfing and bullish engulfing patterns. Both patterns can tell traders which direction a currency will most likely to go after the pattern is completed. The engulfing bullish patterns form when price levels of certain currencies are at their lowest points while bearish patterns will occur when the prices are at their peak.

How does one effectively use candlestick patterns to increase chances of earning? The engulfing patterns actually tell what currencies are on the downward or upward trend, which can provide a trader an accurate idea of when to trade. The best times are when there are strong indications that the trend is running its course. The trend may not be that strong but the candlestick chart must provide evidence that the trend is definitely coming to an end. In this case, the candle will have grown smaller.

What exactly do traders need to see in the candlestick pattern that will let them start trading? When traders see an up candle engulfed by a down candle immediately following it, it means that there is an upward trend and a short trade is advisable. The downward trend works under the same principle.

A profitable Forex trading strategy using candlestick patters entails timing and analysis, but it can certainly make money for traders.

By: Mike Darwin