Currency trading made easy is my objective for this article. I want to help you look at trading, not as an over complicated gamble, but an easy to understand routine of behaviors. If you learn to harness specific behaviors over the long term, you'll some day find profit.
- You're Trading Pairs: You got to always remember that. You're not trading the US dollar or the Canadian dollar. You're trading pairs of currency. The value of a currency is only useful to you if it is compared (or contrasted) against another currency. When you see USD/CAD = 1.0150, you know that is the value of the US dollar compared to the Canadian dollar.
- Cheap Trades Are A Fallacy: As regular consumers in society, we are always looking for a good buy, but in that case we're buying to use for ourselves. In currency trading, you're buying with the intention of selling. Therefor your main concern should be the exit(sell) price in comparison to the buying price. For example, a very high priced currency that is expected to go up 10% more in value is better to buy than a cheap currency that "might" go up 1%. It's like flipping houses. A cheap house is a good buy, but if you can't get a good selling price in a few months, than there really is no point in buying.
- Be A Confident Trader: This is tough at first because you don't usually get confident until you have had some positive experiences with it. The best thing you can do to get in that state is to practice with your demo account. These demo accounts allow you to make trades without using money. It's the best way to get a real life simulator without investing a cent. Now, you should be able to do hundreds of trades to gain confidence, than use your real money.
