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Monday, May 4, 2009

Trading Forex With Scalping

By James Stiller

Forex scalping is a term that most currency traders are familiar with. The difference between regular forex traders and scalpers is that the scalpers are only interested in making quick profits, and are not looking for long term deals. In order to succeed as a forex scalper, you must be extremely disciplined, and have a few skills that regular forex traders lack.

Successful forex scalpers must exercise restraint when it comes to making trades, and obtain all the necessary information before trading. This is where discipline comes in and why the most successful traders in the world understand this concept. They understand how crucial this is.

It's something all professional traders know, but often forget: a currency market is in consolidation mode about 60-80% of the time, meaning that it might not move for hours, but then a sudden change may occur. Forex scalpers take advantage of this abrupt and seemingly unpredictable move.

Successful Forex traders must be able to spot developing trends in currency markets. Beyond that basic skill, scalpers must recognize key support and resistance levels which ultimately determine currency highs and lows.

The stochastic and Moving Average Convergence Divergence are two examples of popular forex trading indicators that are used by scalpers. You do have to know how to customize them, however.

Skilled Forex scalper use these miniscule hints of impending trends to achieve the goal of all traders: to sell on rallies and buy on dips. They spot consolidation channels with wide pip ranges (20-40), so they can have long entry orders ready when prices bottom out, and short entry orders for when a currency's price reaches a new ceiling.

The use of forex trading strategies work out to be a very useful tool for a trader. Allowing the trader to be able to make the most out of a given trading day.

If you can familiarize yourself with these strategies than you have a very good chance of maximizing your profits. - 23223

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