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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Using a Forex Robot

By Frank Rivera

The forex market is notoriously volatile. Currency prices fluctuate rapidly and people can lose a lot of money if they're not careful about finding and creating a strategy to help minimize losses and find ways to increase profits. Most expert forex traders use proven systems that help them to know when to place trades for the maximum possible profits. These systems can generate trade indicators and signals based on historic data and hours worth of back-testing. These programs are usually called forex robots or automated trading systems.

So do forex robots really work? Can you trust a piece of software to operate your account on auto-pilot and allow it to take control of your profits? No matter which forex website you visit, you'll find plenty of ads, reviews and hype surrounding the various forex robots available on the market. They all promise very similar things and they all strive to find a point of difference to attract your attention.

While there are a lot of inneffective expert advisors on the market, there are a few good ones as well. Some of the really good ones, you'll never hear about on the open market, but there are a handful of good ones that you can buy. When you find one, you can actually hook it up on your account and let it run.

How do forex robots work exactly? Before you can put an automated software system to work for you, you'll need to open a trading account with a forex broker. The MetaTrader 4 seems to be a very popular trading platform with many different brokers. It's user-friendly and easy to figure out quickly. Once you've logged into your account, open a chart window on MetaTrader 4 and then drag your robot software onto the chart. Depending on the type of robot you bought, you may need to reset some of the parameters to make it work the way you want.

Once you have the robot on the chart, you really don't have to do a whole lot unless you want to change something that the robot is doing. You can alter your risk depending on the market, but other than that, it will take care of everything else. It will start analyzing the market immediately when you set it to work.

It will also use that analytical information to generate a trade indicator to buy a particular currency. Because your robot is an automated system and it's running within your account, it can initiate the trade for you on its own. When the program recognizes that the currency value has increased to the point where you're making a profit, it will then close out that trade for you.

This method of trading is extremely easy to use. You really don't have to know a lot about the forex market in order to succeed with this strategy. It is truly a set and forget system. This makes it great for beginning traders who don't have a clue what they're doing.

On the whole, automated trading software can give you an excellent starting point in the market. Just be sure you research any software you want to buy thoroughly before you spend any money. - 23223

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