Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis Fundamental analysis, is focuses on the overall performance of the economy. You can say it s the big-picture view that allows price trends to be predicted by analyzing different economic indicators. Technical analysis on the other hand, focuses on studying and following price patterns. And by analyzing past price patterns traders can hopefully - predict what price is going to do in the future. To be a successful and professional trader, you should combine both types of analysis and never relay on one of them and completely ignore the other. Limiting yourself to only one or the other is the guaranteed failure formula. Why? Let's say you're going to focus on technical analysis and totally ignore fundamental analysis. As you begin to analyze your charts, you start to see what seems like a good trading opportunity taking place. You've got all your favorite indicators showing that the US dollar is about to go on a powerful trend and hurry to get in early. You place the order, relax and wait for price to hit the target easily. But instead, price moves suddenly in the exact opposite direction! Because simply, Unemployment numbers were just released and not only that but one of the world's largest corporations announced that their earnings were well under forecasted amounts, and they predicted sales would continue to be sluggish through the next quarter. Those two factors directly affected the price rally you predicted. If only you had mixed a little fundamental analysis in with all of those amazing price charts you were busy studying you may have seen this one coming.
Of course, using fundamental analysis alone is not enough as well. Because it doesn t provide for example - entry and exit points. Of course you may know that there would be price increase for the pound is due for a price, but how much exactly? When exactly should you buy and when should you sell? It s only when you start applying both analysis methods you would get the whole picture and start trading successfully.
Quantum Trading System Most new trading just doesn t like to wait for a complete and perfect trade to take place. These types of short term traders would be very happy to get into multiple trades per day for 10+ pips profit for each trade. Rather than opening one trade per day and wait until price hits the 100+ pips target. Momentum trading or short term system is the best forex trading strategy that they can use. But with the Quantum system we are also going to include medium term or long term trading as well. The reason for that is while short term trading is the favorite strategy for new traders, they won t be beginners forever! And soon they will feel the need to trade more professionally for larger profits. And instead of looking for another trading system, you will find long term trading strategy within this system as well as the momentum short term strategy.
Short term trading Best to be used with 5M, 15M, 30M and 1H time frames. Trading rules: When the 24 EMA cross above the 124 SMA, wait until a blue bar is formed above or below the 0 line of the A.O indicator best if it s above the 0 line. When that happens, open a BUY Order and set your stop loss at the last support level or 75 pips. Your exit sign would be a red bar formed above or below the 0 line of the A.O indicator. Example:
The opposite conditions are used for sell orders. When 124 SMA cross the 24 EMA, wait until a new red bar is formed above or below the A.O indicator. Best if it s below the 0 line. When that happens, open a sell order and set your stop loss at the last resistance level or 75 pips. Your exist sign is when a new blue bar is formed above o below the 0 line of the A.O indicator. Example:
Long Term Trading For long term trading we are going to apply almost the same rules with few changes. For sell orders, only sell when the red bar is formed below 0 line + 124 MA cross above 24 MA. And only exit when a blue bar is formed above the 0 line + 24 MA cross above 124 MA. Example: Notice how with this strategy you could get a lot more profits, if you can wait!
And for buy orders, only buy when the blue bar is formed above 0 line + 24 MA cross above 124 MA. And only exit when a red bar is formed below 0 line + 124 MA cross above 24 MA. Example:
Forex Trading Time The forex market hours stretch from Monday morning in Sydney, Australia to Friday afternoon in New York. During that time the market is open somewhere around the globe at all hours of the day or night. However it is not a 24/7 market because it does shut down on weekends. 24/5 would be more accurate. If you need to know the exact times that the markets open and close, you have to take time zones into consideration. It is very simple when expressed in UTC. This is Universal Coordinated Time, formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time. This is the standard (winter) time in Greenwich, London which is the point of zero longitude on the globe. So, the normal forex market hours are 22.00 Sunday UTC to 22.00 Friday UTC. This is 10 pm in the UK in winter time. New York is 5 hours behind the UK so the global forex market opens and closes at 5 pm Sunday/Friday in New York, 2 pm on the US west coast, 11 pm in Germany, 8 am Monday/Saturday in Sydney. Things get a little complicated when you start to try to take summer time daylight saving into account. This makes one hour difference in countries that observe it. But daylight saving operates in a different way in the southern hemisphere
countries such as Australia which have summer time from September to March instead of March to September. The hours of the different major national markets are as follows: Sydney: 10 pm to 7 am UTC Tokyo: 12 midnight to 9 am UTC London: 8 am to 5 pm UTC New York: 1 pm to 10 pm UTC Or we can express that in EST (Eastern US time): Sydney: 5 pm to 2 am EST Tokyo: 7 pm to 4 am EST London: 3 am to 12 noon EST New York: 8 am to 5 pm EST You can see that these correspond to 24 hour cover. However, this does not necessarily mean that trading will be good at all of these times. Just after a major market opens, the prices can be very volatile and unpredictable. Many traders will stay out of the forex market for up to an hour four times a day when the financial markets are waking up in these major cities.
The US dollar is the most traded currency by a long way, involved in 2.5 times as many trades as its nearest rival the euro. This means that events in the USA have a greater impact on the financial markets than events in other countries. The New York market tends to slow down around 3 pm local time (8 pm UTC) and if you are involved in a US dollar pair, this can be a good time to stop trading for the day. So theoretically you can trade 24 hours a day from Sunday night to Friday night. Automated software in the form of a forex robot can even make this physically possible. However, a cautious trader will choose his times and will not be active during all of the forex market hours.
U.S. Government Required Disclaimer Commodity Futures Trading Commission Futures and Options trading has large potential rewards, but also large potential risk. You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in the futures and options markets. CFTC RULE 4.41 - HYPOTHETICAL OR SIMULATED PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE CERTAIN LIMITATIONS. UNLIKE AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD, SIMULATED RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, SINCE THE TRADES HAVE NOT BEEN EXECUTED, THE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER-OR-OVER COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS, SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFIT OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.