I want to share a little knowledge with you starting out in trading. What you should be looking for and why it is better to trade the FOREX market than other markets. The FOREX market is better to trade than the stocks, futures or options because unlike the other, currency trading does not take place on a regulated exchange and this makes it the worlds largest market. This makes it the most liquid market. With 1.9 trillion dollar exchange a day, it is possible to buy or sell at any time. With it huge size it is not possible for anybody to manipulate the market in their favor.

The first thing you need to know a little about is the glossary terms in the FOREX market so that when you read an article or a web page that you know what people is taking about, lets start off with the most common used word pip. It is the difference when the market price moves up one point or down one point. The next thing you need to know about is spread. This is difference in price from the time at which it can be sold or bought depending on how the market moves. Brokers does not charge a fee on the FOREX market and this difference in the spread is how they make commission. There are still a lot of other terms which you will not understand immediately, but these can always be looked up in your specified brokers glossary of terms.

There are two different ways of analyzing the market. The first is called Fundamental Analysis. This is a very complex way of analyzing the market and is mostly only used to plan and predict long-term trends. There is a wide range of indicators that can be used while doing fundamental analysis. Some of these are:

Non-farm Payrolls

Durable goods

Consumer Price Index

The next way of analysis is Technical Analysis. This is the most widely used way of analyzing the market. It is a more practical way of analysis, and as the FOREX market is open 24 hours a day only a few factors (like adjusting trend lines, etc.) of this type of analysis needs to be modified to be successfully used. A few examples of common forms of this type of analyzing follows:

Fibonacci

Parabolic SAR

Pivot points

To conclude, if you want to be a successful trader, it is wise to build yourself a good Technical Analyzing strategy. Combining pivotal points, trend lines and other technical analyzing methods, to integrate into your strategy of trading the market. After you successfully worked out your strategy to capturing pips, you must use this strategy in trading on a demo account before attempting to trade a live account. I hope that this piece can help you at least one step in the right direction.