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Currency pairs………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….. 3
What moves the Forex market? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….6
Pip……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8
Bid and Ask price ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9
Market orders ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
Margin Trading and Lot …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12
Leverage ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 13
How to calculate? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 15
How can I start Forex trading? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….. 16
Fundamental vs technical analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 20
How many pairs should you trade?………………………………………………………………………………………………… 21
How much money do I need to start Forex trading? …………………………………………………………………………. 21
Trading plan ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 22
How to Place Profit Targets?.................................................................................................................23
Charts and candlesticks …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….. 24
Understanding technical analysis................................................................................................................ 32
Support and Resistance.......................................................................................................................... 33
Supply and Demand ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 37
Chart patterns ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 40
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Technical indicators.................................................................................................................................
Trading psychology ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 53
• Even if you already know all these things, I recommend you to read this. It doesn’t take a long time
and you can find some very useful information about trading.
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LESSONS
- I recommend you to read 1 to maximum 3 lessons a day, so you can process the
information you find there. You will learn basic and advanced things about Forex trading,
so take your time and don’t try to learn everything in short amount of time. Trading is not
easy and it takes time to become good, confident and even more time to become profitable
trader. But the good thing is – it is possible!
Lesson 4 - Trendlines
Trendlines are very important when it comes to technical analysis. They give you valuable
information about current trend and we use them to spot chart patterns.
Lesson 13 - MACD
This is little more complex indicator, but if you understand this indicator, you will not have
any difficulties with others.
Examples
Here you will find some ideas and examples of how to make a trading strategy.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Here you will find many real chart examples.
There are 2 main types of market orders. Market execution and pending orders.
Market execution is the method by which traders execute orders at the current price
within fractions of a second. This means that system will automatically open the order
when trader decide to click on “buy” or “sell” button.
Pending Order is an order that has not yet been executed and therefore has not yet
become an actual trade. Unlike market orders executed immediately at the current
price, pending orders are queued and executed only when the market reaches the
specified price, allowing traders to automate their entry and exit strategies based on
predetermined conditions. These are the types of pending orders:
- Buy Limit – trade request to buy at the Ask price that is equal to or lower than that
specified in the order. The current price level is higher than the value in the order;
- Sell Limit – trade request to sell at the Bid price that is equal to or higher than that
specified in the order. The current price level is lower than the value in the order;
- Buy Stop – trade request to buy at the Ask price that is equal to or higher than that
specified in the order. The current price level is lower than the value in the order;
- Sell Stop – trade request to sell at the Bid price that is equal to or lower than that
specified in the order. The current price level is higher than the value in the order;
- Buy Stop Limit – this type is the combination of the two first types being a stop order
for placing Buy Limit;
- Sell Stop Limit – this type is a stop order for placing Sell Limit.
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Picture 5: market orders
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Demo trading in trader learning process:
Find a Mentor
It is not an easy task to find mentor, especially these days. Most trading pages on
Instagram and social media platforms are scam. They will tell how you can get rich
quick, how they have best strategy that works around 90% of the time and will show
you pictures like this:
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That is NONSENSE. Don’t believe them! First of all, good trader will never open more
than 3 (max 4) positions. Opening too many positions is the worst thing that you can
do. You need to focus, and you cannot do that when you open more than 3 positions.
Not just that, if you are wrong, you will blow your account very fast. But why
scammers do this? Answer is simple. They have two demo accounts. On one account
they buy and on another one they sell.
They will open as many positions as they can so they can win more. And guess what.
When positions are closed they will show pictures of winning account.
Finding an honest mentor is the fastest way to learn to trade Forex. With mentor, you
will avoid many mistakes and sometimes save many years of trial and errors.
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Trading psychology
As you progress as a trader you will become involved in thinking and probably
reading about trading psychology. Trading psychology is a broad term that
encompasses the study of traders and their emotional issues about trading. Trading-
psychology literature takes its cues from scientific study of psychology, common
sense, and the experience of traders and trading gurus. If you are interested in trading
psychology, it probably means that you are further along in your trading education. If
you are one of the traders with an interest in trading psychology, you have moved
beyond looking for the perfect trading system. You now understand the important
role emotions play in trading results. One thing that many traders fail to recognize is
the intricate relationship between what you risk and the emotions you experience
during trading. In fact, risk and trading psychology are two sides of the same coin.
Markets change, new opportunities will always come. Don’t rush, be patient and
always have a trading plan. Good traders are successful but humble people. Being a
trader is a lifelong challenge.
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Here we can see one example where price formed higher highs and higher lows (uptrend) and then market
reacted to the news with a massive bearish candles that stopped out all previous buyers.
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When trading double top (and double bottom) there are three types of entries:
1) aggressive entry – at second top formation;
2) safer entry – when price breaks neckline;
3) patient entry – when price goes back to retest the neckline.
You can see this on a picture 59.
Picture 59
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Double Bottom
The double bottom is also a trend reversal formation, but this time we are looking to go long (to “buy”)
instead of short (to “sell”). These formations occur after extended downtrends when two valleys or
“bottoms” have been formed.
You can see on the picture 60 that after the previous downtrend price formed two valleys and it wasn’t
able to go below a certain level. Notice how the second bottom wasn’t able to significantly break the first
bottom. This is a sign that the selling pressure is about finished, and that a reversal is about to occur. The
price broke the neckline and made a nice move up. Remember, just like double tops, double bottoms are
also trend reversal formations.
Picture 60
Same rules that apply on double top, also apply here with double bottom, so I will not repeat them.
Sometimes double tops (and double bottoms) are not so easy to spot like on picture 61. This is still valid
double top formation. This massive bullish candle didn’t break previous high.
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This time we can see simple combination of a price structure, candlestick pattern and Stoch. RSI indicator.
Price formed lower high with a bearish engulfing pattern and our Stoch. RSI gave us “sell” signal. Price went
down to break previous low and retest it. When price retested previous low we can see another bearish
engulfing pattern and Stoch. RSI “sell” signal. This time indicator provided us with two good entries.
Picture 149
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Very good way to use Fibonacci tools is to combine them with other things we learned in this course
(support/resistance, indicators and patterns).
On picture 135 below, there are at least two clear trading opportunities that can be identified using a
combination of Fibonacci and support/resistance. The rally from point B came to a halt at point C, at the
38.2% retracement of the AB swing. Once the old support around 0.7870 is broken, this clearly points to a
continuation to the downside after that shallow pullback to the 38.2% Fibonacci level. Trader could use
this information to expect a sizeable continuation - hence, trader may wish to have a profit target around
the 161.8% extension (0.7755) of the BC swing as opposed to merely the 127.2% extension (0.7812). If
this trade was missed, there was another great opportunity to sell once price retested that old support
level of 0.7870. Even without a Fibonacci convergence this would have been a trade on its own. But the fact
that there is a 61.8% retracement there too (i.e. of the CD swing), this therefore increased the probability
of price turning at that broken support level. The stop loss could have been very tight 15 or so pips above
0.7870, providing a highly favorable risk to reward ratio.
Picture 174
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Here we can see example on a H1 and M5 charts. On H1 chart we can see that price confirmed support zone
and formed two strong bullish wick rejections. On M5 we can see that price formed strong bullish candle
that broke previous high. Retest occurred and that was a good place to enter a” buy” trade.
Picture 217
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