Making Pips With Forex News
Forex markets are open 24/5 except on the weekends. You can see continuous price action all day in the currency markets. More than 90% of forex traders are speculators.
Forex markets have the tendency to react violently to the release of economic and socio political news. You cant predict when important sociopolitical event will be breaking news.
Fundamental news like NFP figures, the housing sales number, FOMC meeting etc all are released at a known time every month. You can Google fundamental news to find a lot of sites that provide this information.
These sites will give you the day and time when a major economic announcement is going to be made. Non Form Payroll (NFP) figures have recently become very important for USD pairs especially after the start of the recession.
Non Farm Payroll (NFP) figures are released at 8:30 AM EST on the first Friday of every month. Pairs like EUR/USD and others become very jittery just before the release of these figures. EUR/USD can shoot up sometime by 50-150 pips in 5-10 minutes.
Markets will mostly stabilize within a few hours after the release of fundamental news unless it is of such a fundamental nature to form a new trend in the market.
Forex news trading is ideal for those traders who like a lot of action within few minutes. Here is one strategy that you can use.
Enter both buy and sell orders on for example EUR/USD at 10 pips above and below the price of EUR/USD just five minutes before the announcement of NFP figures.
Put stop loss of 10 pips for both the orders. Put take profit of 40 pips on both orders. When the NFP figures are announced, EUR/USD will usually react violently and either shoots up or down.
Suppose it goes up by 10 pips, buy order will be triggered. Suppose EUR/USD jumps by 60 pips. Your position will be closed at 50 pips when you have reached take profit of 40 pips. Isnt it nice you made 40 pips in a few minutes?
Suppose EUR/USD shoots down. Your sell order will be triggered and you will still make 40 pips. Sometimes the markets have a tendency to whipsaw so be careful. Practice this strategy on your demo account first ten times before going live. - 23223
Forex markets have the tendency to react violently to the release of economic and socio political news. You cant predict when important sociopolitical event will be breaking news.
Fundamental news like NFP figures, the housing sales number, FOMC meeting etc all are released at a known time every month. You can Google fundamental news to find a lot of sites that provide this information.
These sites will give you the day and time when a major economic announcement is going to be made. Non Form Payroll (NFP) figures have recently become very important for USD pairs especially after the start of the recession.
Non Farm Payroll (NFP) figures are released at 8:30 AM EST on the first Friday of every month. Pairs like EUR/USD and others become very jittery just before the release of these figures. EUR/USD can shoot up sometime by 50-150 pips in 5-10 minutes.
Markets will mostly stabilize within a few hours after the release of fundamental news unless it is of such a fundamental nature to form a new trend in the market.
Forex news trading is ideal for those traders who like a lot of action within few minutes. Here is one strategy that you can use.
Enter both buy and sell orders on for example EUR/USD at 10 pips above and below the price of EUR/USD just five minutes before the announcement of NFP figures.
Put stop loss of 10 pips for both the orders. Put take profit of 40 pips on both orders. When the NFP figures are announced, EUR/USD will usually react violently and either shoots up or down.
Suppose it goes up by 10 pips, buy order will be triggered. Suppose EUR/USD jumps by 60 pips. Your position will be closed at 50 pips when you have reached take profit of 40 pips. Isnt it nice you made 40 pips in a few minutes?
Suppose EUR/USD shoots down. Your sell order will be triggered and you will still make 40 pips. Sometimes the markets have a tendency to whipsaw so be careful. Practice this strategy on your demo account first ten times before going live. - 23223
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Mr. Ahmad Hassam is a Harvard University Graduate. He is interested in day trading; stocks and forex. Download Forex Scalping Cheat Sheets. Discover The Best Forex Signal Service! Read about Trend Forex System.
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