Archive for October 15th, 2009

How To Make Lots Of Money With Penny Stock Trading

It is possible to make a lot of money trading penny stocks. Penny stocks are low priced and usually less than $1 per share. These are highly volatile in nature and may drop or gain hundreds of percentage points.

These can make you a lot of money due to the high volatility. Penny stocks can be more profitable than the other large cap stocks. Many people do this full time from their home. A lot of people make money from this as a hobby.

There are systems available that claim to do the research on your part and help you in analyzing the winning trends. You should check out the reviews and study how the systems work before buying them.

You can use software that analyses the trading patterns every day. The can make recommendation based on the information it gathers. It can make decisions based on certain trading patterns that are often profitable.

To start trading penny stocks, you should first sign up with an online stock broker that deals in small cap stocks. You can get a full service broker that will provide many tools to help you learn penny stock trading in a better way.

There are various sources that can provide you information. There are many blogs run by experts that regularly give opinion about buying penny stocks. Many experts also run their own newsletters.

Newsletters offer good advice but you have to be careful. They may not make you money every time. Some of them may also cheat you. You should do your own research before making a decision to buy a penny stock.

Penny stock trading can make you a lot of money if you know the facts. You can not make thousands of dollars simply by following what others say. You should know what you are doing and have sufficient knowledge about how it works. You can earn a lot of money trading penny stocks from home.

Investment in Stocks can pay big profits if done the right way. Penny Stocks can generate the highest profits in the shortest period of time.

 

Want To Trade Stocks Or Forex- Know The Difference

Now a days everybody knows about Forex Market or Currency Trading. Everyday the value of a particular currency changes with respect to other currencies. In Forex Markets some currencies may outperform others giving consistent gains. Most of the people believe that they they know enough about the financial markets and stock markets. Trading forex can be good option if you have experience in stock markets. But before jumping into the forex the difference in the two markets must be understood.

If you are new to currency trading then an automated robot (e.g. FAP TURBO) designed to make profitable trades can be and should be used. This is simply a software that makes money without human intervention.

The most notable difference between stock trading and currency trading is that forex market is not regulated or governed by any central authority. The trades are not governed by any government body. This results in eliminating the arbitration in case of a dispute in trade. The trades are mostly based on mutual agreement. The forex market thus works on the trust among traders.

This trust among the traders make the forex market to work at the same level for all the traders giving everyone an equal chance to make gains. This is very much different from the well structured stock market. As the traders have to rely on each other for trading, they have to cooperate with each other while they are also competing against each other.

The second key feature that separates the currency trading from the stock market is to take advantage of the inside information from the contacts in the industry or business. While using such information is restricted by law in the stock market, you can use it freely in the currency trading. You can position yourself for gains if you know certain facts in advance. Ironically, this insider news and facts are leaked to the traders in forex market days before making them public.

The forex market gives you the advantage of making high gains starting with very low investment. Once you gain experience, you can start increasing the size of your investment. Just follow the basic principles of trading: study the market, trade within limits, follow the stop-loss and control your greed. Always invest the spare money you have and not the money you need for your day-to-day expenses or running your business.

If now you think you are ready to start currency trading then there is one more good news for you. In forex market you can take advantage of an automated robot for trading on your behalf. This robot is designed to make profitable trades. Fap Turbo is one of the most successful robot available in the market today. Fap Turbo is a trusted robot and many people claim to double their investment in a month with this.

Looking to find the facts about Fap Turbo then visit the site to find the best detailed review of Fap Turbo Robot.

 

Understanding Forex Pips (Part II)

It is always good to be familiar how to calculate the pips in US Dollar. If the quote currency is anything other than US Dollar, the results must be converted to dollars using the current exchange rate between the quote currency and the US Dollar in order to obtain the dollar value of the pip. Lets take a few examples:

Example#1: Consider the currency pair USD/JPY. USD is the base currency. JPY is the quote currency here. Using our formula: Pip value for 1 standard lot of USD/JPY= 100,000 (Lot Size)*1(No of Lots)*0.01(Pip Size) = 1000.

The quote currency is in Yen, so the value of 1 pip on a standard lot is also in Yen. You need to convert this pip value into USD if your account is in US Dollar. The broker will do that for you automatically if you instruct the broker to do so.

You should know that your profit and loss will stay in that currency you made a profit or loss in until you instruct the broker to exchange those currencies into your own base currency. However, lets do it ourselves as well.

In order to make the conversion to USD, you need the USD/JPY exchange rate. Suppose the USD/JPY rate is 101.02. The Dollar pip value will be 1000/101.02= $ 9.89. Therefore, 1 pip is equal to $ 9.89 in the case of USD/JPY for a standard lot at the exchange rate of 101.02.

Example No 2: Now lets take the currency pair EUR/GBP. The base currency in this case is Euro and the quote currency is British Pound.

Here, the quote currency is in British Pounds, hence the value of pip is also in Pounds. Pip value for a standard lot of EUR/GBP= 100,000 (Lot Size)*1 (Number of Lots)*0.0001(Pip Size) = 10.

You need the GBP/USD exchange rate in order to convert into USD. Suppose the GBP/USD exchange rate is 1.8465. Dollar pip value will be 10*1.8465=$18.46.

Example#3: Consider the currency pair EUR/USD. The base currency is Euro. Here the quote currency is in USD so you wont have to make any conversions. Pip value on a standard lot=100,000(Lot Size)*1(Number of Lots)*0.0001(Pip Size) = $10 per pip.

Leverage does not affect the pip value. It should be kept in mind that while the lot size, amount of lots traded and the specific currency pair traded will certainly affect the pip value, the leverage chosen by the trader whether it is 50:1, 400:1 or somewhere in between, has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the pip value.

The exchange rate for any currency pair is expressed in the form of bid/ask. For example the EUR/USD exchange rate might be 0.9955/0.9959. The first number is the bid price that you will get if you sell Euros against US Dollar. The second number is the ask price, the price at which the broker will sell you Euros against US Dollar.

The difference between the bid and ask price is known as the spread. This is the brokers profit. Sometimes there can be slippage also. New traders often think that the difference between the price they see on their charts and the price the broker quotes them is slippage. This is wrong. Your charting software and broker prices are two different things.

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Understanding Fibonacci Trading (Part I)

What is Fibonacci forex? Did you see the movie, The DaVinci Code? You will find a scene in the movie where the characters talk about the Fibonacci number as part of a clue or code of some sort.

So what are Fibonacci numbers? The Fibonacci number series were made famous by an Italian Leonardo de Pisa. The Fibonacci series starts with 0 and 1 and goes out to infinity with the next number in the series being derived by adding the prior two. For example, 0+1=1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, 8+13=21, 13+21=34, 21+34=55, 34+55=89, 55+89=144, 89+144=233, 144+233=377.

Fibonacci trading is based on using those ratios in your trading entry and exit decisions. What is so fascinating about this series is that there is a constant found within the series as it progresses to infinity. This constant is known as the Golden Ratio, Golden Mean or Divine Proportion. The Fibonacci series is like this; 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610, 987..to infinity.

You will find the Golden Mean by dividing the higher number with the lower number by taking any two consecutive numbers in the series after the first few. For example, 89/55=1.618, 144/89=1.618, 233/144=1.618, 377/233=1.618, 610/377=1.618, 987/610=1.618 and so on. The inverse of 1.618 is 0.618.

The Golden Ratio can be found in many places in nature like flowers, shells, fossils etc. What is most important to forex traders is that applying these ratios can help identify key support and resistance zone in the market and therefore determine key trading opportunities or setups.

Thus the application of Fibonacci ratios can give you the edge as a forex trader if you use the Fibonacci trading technique properly. We have already discussed the Golden Ratios 1.618 and its inverse 0.618. The main ratios used in everyday analysis are 0.382, 0.50, 0.618, 0.786, 1.000, 1.272 and 1.618.

You should be proficient with using the technical analysis program if you want to use the Fibonacci ratios in your trading. It is assumed that you have a computer, a market data source such as quote.com and a technical analysis program to manipulate that data since you are trying to look into a type of technical analysis.

The Fibonacci price analysis calculations can be done by hand as well but they are time consuming and tedious. There are three types of Fibonacci price relationship namely, retracements, extensions and price projections (sometimes also called price objectives). We will look into each type of these relationships individually.

Each of these Fibonacci price relationships will be setting up potential support or potential resistance in the chart that you are analyzing. The definition of a support is the price area below the current market where you will look for a possible termination of the decline and where you would consider to becoming a buyer of whatever currency pair you are trading.

Support and resistance are two very important concepts used in trading. Resistance is price where the sellers overcome the buyers and the price starts to decline after reaching a high. It is the price area above the current market where you would look for the possible termination of a rally and consider being a seller. Fibonacci support and resistance levels as known as the leading indicators!

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