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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Forex Trading Software - A Secret Way To Make Quick Money In Forex?

By John Adams

What is Forex trading software? Normally this refers to software that automatically analyzes the currency markets and produces buy or sell signals based on certain technical indicators.

When you are trading on the stock market, you would typically choose one or more companies and start watching their shares. You will study their financial statements. You will listen to what other traders say about their stock value - whether it's undervalued or overvalued. But whatever you do, it is unlikely that you will ever get access to the information that can really make or break a particular company. Things like technological changes that will make their products totally obsolete.

The forex market is somewhat different in this regard. At least theoretically it's a level playing field. All traders have equal access to market information. What's left for the traders then is to analyze that information, come to a trading decision and start making money.

Unfortunately real life is seldom that simple. You have hundreds of currencies out there. Something positively or negatively influencing the value of the Euro today can have an effect on the dollar tomorrow - or on the Yen this afternoon. You need lots of time and you need software that can track all the factors involved before you can make a really informed decision. If you are a full-time professional trader that's fine, but part-time traders seldom have the time and resources to do all this.

This is where automated trading software comes in. This type of software will automatically analyze the various technical indicators, like moving averages, and then come forward with a trading signal - advising you to either buy or sell a particular currency.

They are not all equal though. The expensive ones will also produce a set of charts and the results of the technical analysis to explain to you how it arrived at the recommendation. This way you will get valuable insight into the way decisions should be taken based on technical data. The cheaper software packages will simply produce a recommendation based on the same results without the in-depth analysis. The recommendation might be the same as that of more expensive software, but you will not get the same insight into how it arrived at its decision.

The weak spot of automated trading software is what traders call 'fundamental analysis'. In real life the price of a currency is determined by factors such as interest rates, inflation and supply and demand for the currency. Sudden political instability in a country can also adversely affect the value of the currency overnight. We all know what can happen after a military coup in a country.

Sworn supporters of technical analysis will of course explain that there's no need to worry. The indicators will pick up when the currency reacts to any such incident and the forex trading software will in turn respond with a buy or sell signal for that currency. - 23167

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