Improving As A Forex Trader

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If you have spent years with Forex trading - and especially if you have spent years enjoying success with Forex trading - one thing you certainly understand is that you can always find ways to improve on what you are doing; and of course, when you improve on what you are doing, you will continually open doors for you to make more money in Forex trading. Especially because of the fact that the Forex markets are changing all the time, and because of the corresponding fact that the approach you must take in order to succeed with Forex trading must constantly change as well, it is immensely important that you continually improve in this area - and so, here is a look at a few things you can pursue in order to accomplish this.

One of the main things you should be aware of, as you try to improve as a Forex trader, is the fact that there are a number of trading platforms that provide some amazing tools for helping you get the most out of your Forex trading; for instance, TradeStation places at your fingertips all the tools you need in order to read Forex charts, make trading decisions, and even automate your trading, to where you no longer have to manage everything yourself, and are still able to make money!

Another thing you are going to want to realize is that too many traders get stuck in a rut, running the same

trading pattern over and over again, and failing to realize that - while the trading pattern they are following is

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Tips to Get Started in Forex Trading - Make Money Fast

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Forex Trading refers to the foreign exchange market. The history of Foreign Exchange starts when the Bretton Woods System came to an end in 1976 and the floating exchange rate appeared globally. Forex is a market for the purchase and sale of the currencies, but there is no central place for dealings.

The stakeholders of the Forex include the individual trader, the broker, a firm or a financial institution. The trade carries on 24 hours a day and closes on weekends. The determination of one currency in terms of another is done in the Forex Market. The basic motive of this trading system is to make the worldwide trade easy and providing an opportunity to the business concerns to exchange one currency with the other.

Forex has facilitated the act of speculation as well. Hence, the agreement of currency trade is made in anticipation looking at the market condition. It is very beneficial with respect to many aspects, e.g. there is no restricted boundary for trading activities. If you have internet, you can do this business sitting at home. The initial investment is minimal and size of the business can be expanded after getting success.

Let us check how much is the percentage of the currencies used in the Forex market? The topmost currency is USD and contributes 85 percent overall in the Forex Trade. Next stable currency is Euro (European

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Forex and Stocks Live Data Feed API for Free

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Lot of people were asking on Stack overflow where to find live forex data and how to use them in web apps. This article is good answer to this question. I was looking for reliable data feed for my Forex web app for Forex analysis, so I needed perfect near real-time Forex feed API. There are some paid APIs that provide this data, but they are mostly delayed or incmoplete and mainly they provide only current exchange rates without any history which I really needed for my app. After few days of searchnig I have found apirates.com API JSON provider.

You can visit their website www.apirates.com

They servers are running on Node.js server technology wich is pretty fast. They are storing forex values directly from the Forex and Stock markets in MongoDB noSQL databse wich is ideal for this purpose,
because storing directly Forex JSON objects is quite fast. More infomration about the technical solution can be found on the website or you can contact directly the developers via email. 

The Forex data feed API is quite simple. You need only to parse incoming data in JSON.

This is example of how the update data looks like:

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The Two Massive Reasons why EUR/USD Recession Isn't Over

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The particular IFO customer survey of organization sentiment  went up to a ten-month  higher, defeating current market predictions, however the effect in the forex market was seemed to be highly muted, along with EUR/USD increasing simply to 1. 3225 seeing that traders held their own eyes for the recently held Italian election. The IFO defeated on all fronts with business environment sentiment increasing to 107.4 (versus 104. 9 expected), existing assessments improving in order to 110.2 (vs. 108. 5), as well as expectations enhancing to 104. 6 (vs. 101.4).

Due to the elections, on the other hand, could hardly force EUR/USD higher, as the pair in the beginning rose to 1. 3245 merely to fall back again towards 1. 3200 level within European trade. There have been various factors in which weighed on the unit.

The Italian elections has constantly the cause of concern in forex market, because there  seems absolutely no obvious winner from the race, and also the emergence of comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo with the substantial number of votes behind him has delivered shivers with the political establishment.

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Corporate Earnings, Federal Reserve and Non Farm Payrolls to Guide Forex and Stocks

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This week, we will see some major moves in the market as the corporate earnings season drives forex markets, the Non Farm Payrolls gives investors an idea about the labor market, and the latest US Federal Reserve meeting shows how much more Quantitative Easing we can expect in 2013. Currency trading signals will be generated by all of these events, as forex technical indicators change to reflect the evolving dynamics of this year's markets. Stock technical indicators will also be affected, as the S&P 500 trades near 5-year highs and negative economic data could create a renewed bear market in recession conditions. New traders looking for currency trading signals should consider practice trading before real money is put at risk. Go to www.marketbulls.net to open a demo account and start practice trading before you put your own money at risk. Today's Best Forex Trading Signals: Today's best forex trading signals show that the EUR/USD and the USD/JPY will see major changes after the next round of economic data releases. The best forex trading signals for today show that buy (long) positions should be taken at 1.3480 in the EUR/USD as the long term trend remains bullish. In the USD/JPY, look to buy at 90.30. Forex technical indicators are supportive for both positions, and currency trading signals are being generated in the directions shown here.

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Tips for Choosing a Good Forex Broker

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In this article we will look at some important tools that should be considered when selecting a good broker to invest and work in the forex market.

There control agencies that regulate the operation of recognized brokers, for example if you have chosen a broker located in North America, more specifically in the U.S. have the NFA (National Futures Association) www.nfa.futures.org mediating on customer complaints investors with regulated firms and Future Trading Commission CFTC Comoditie www.cftc.gov regulating trade exchanges and futures market.

Both companies act as vigilantes and guarantee transparency in the operations of the broker and a company that has captured alleged funds illegally from the public has been taken over by one of them or both and no longer exist.

In the specific case of the CFTC you can use the link www.cftc.gov / marketreports / financialdataforfcms / index.htm to find out the broker patrimonioneto and confirm if this exceeds 5 million, which then shows that has a further protection funds as well point out the directions of the CFTC.

To Europe, Australia and some Asian countries, other bodies such as the MiFID (Market in Finantial Instrument Directive) governing investment services to 30 states associated with the EEC (European Economic Community) and SFA regulatory organization organized according to the minutes financial services in 1986, which controls more than 1350 investment firms and futures markets that FSA has a regulatory system that monitors and regulates all forms of investment in these geographic areas.

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Managed Account Opportunities for 2013

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Magic from the Forex markets keep going for a new year. A few hours resting during New Year's Eve and everything is going back to work beginning from Australian market, later the Asian markets, following Europe the United States again and again day after day. This market continuity allows traders to find plenty of opportunities for placing trades varying not only the pairs they are following but also varying market audience. Forex market, even not being a real market itself because trading activity has not a physical base, is the monument to globalization. People from many different parts of the globe joint for speculation, investing, hedging productions without caring of languages, religion, political attitude.

Forex Major Pairs Conditions for 2013

Evolving market time hours bring not only new different audiences form different countries, but also different number of market players affecting market volatility. Trading some pairs may show benefits if done while one of the pairs market is open. News and big players from the country may have additional interests and expectations pushing specific direction to that pair. Some other Forex major pairs are not affected by their own market being open or not. As those pairs being widely traded by many people they move independent from their own country players' activity. New Year 2013 begins finding many news titles from 2012 without being completely solved. Same as last year at the beginning, debt, fiscal budget and taxes problems are worrying at the American markets. On the European front line, debt problems at Greece, Spain, Italy same as high unemployment rates are daily concerns for governments, citizens and obviously also for forex market traders. We are only mentioning some of the news on top today.

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