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Sunday 15 January 2012

Forex Basic Trading Tools

Many investors are turning to Forex investing and use some proven best forex tools and indicators for their trading portfolio. Forex Trading is not like stocks, bonds, mutual funds or other investments. The reward can be greater with less time and risks involved. This does not mean that currency trading is not risky. It can be very risky. Using proven best forex trading tools can help minimize this risk and become a more skilled and powerful trader.

Learn Forex trading is essential to forex traders. Learning to use the best proven forex trading tools and indicators may take some time and effort. The time and effort will be rewarded as increased profits, greater trust negotiation, and financial stability. Some of the best proven trading tools and indicators that are used in forex trading are simple moving average (SMA) Exponential Moving Average (EMA) Bollinger Bands, Parabolic SAR (stop-and-reversal), Rate of Change {ROC}, RSI (Relative Strength Index), Momentum, Moving Average Convergence / Divergence (MACD), and ADX. But these two tools Moving Average and Bollinger Band are widely used by the traders because of their reliabilities in screening the trend of the market.

The simple moving average indicator gives you the average price of a currency over a specified period. It can be the average closing for a period of 5, 10, 15, 25 or even 45 days. Bollinger bands are the levels of indicators that show the upper level and lower level of the value of money. Prices should be between the two bands. It depends on the volatility of the currency you are evaluating. The best to use moving average and Bollinger is to combine with other indicators to a form a trading system. The trend following, reversal, oscillators are the common indicators used to form a good combination work with two tools- moving average and Bollinger. To make the system works best with your style of trading, always practice it and modify a little bit until you really get the system which is best and ideal one for your trading.