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Thursday, January 21, 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.

Trading on the stock market, you are faced with trading in the shares of hundreds of different companies, each with its own sets of uncertainties. To really make an intelligent decision on whether to buy or sell the shares of a particular company, you have to study their financial statements. But that will not tell the whole story. For instance it won't tell you about the new invention by their competitors that will wipe them off the market completely...

The forex market is different from the stock market in this respect. Information is more readily available. The same information is available to all traders, so at least theoretically they all have an equal chance of success, or failure.

In reality there are hundreds of different currencies. Price movements in one currency will very often result in similar price movements in another currency. To study all the factors involved will still take a lot of time and require that you have access to sophisticated charting and data analysis software. If you are a part-time trader this is not always practical.

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.

Traders who firmly believe in technical analysis will in turn argue that all fundamental factors will in the end have to show itself in terms of a movement in some or other technical indicator. Whether it's the price breaking through the moving average, trading volumes changing suddenly or something else - there will be a change in a technical indicator. And the forex trading software will pick up this signal sent by the technical indicator and come forward with a trading signal. In the end your decision as to whether you prefer to do manual trading or make use of one of these software packages will be determined by time constraints and whether you are a supporter of fundamental analysis or technical analysis. - 23305

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