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Being A Technical Analyst

One of the main ways traders approach the market is that of technical analysis. A technical analyst doesn't look at income statements, balance sheets, company policies, or anything fundamental about the company. The technician looks at the actual history of trading and price of a security or index. This is usually done in the form of a chart. The security can be a stock, future, index, currency or a sector. It is flexible enough to work on anything that is traded in the financial markets.
The technical analyst believes that the market price reflects all known information about the individual security. It includes all public and insider information and reflects all the different investor opinions regarding that security.

Just as fundamental analysis looks at the past to help make a decision, technical analysis also incorporates the past to aid in the decision making process. However, the technical analyst believes that securities move in trends and these trends continue until something happens to change that trend. With trends, patterns and levels are detectable.

The tools of the technical analyst are indicators, patterns and systems. These tools are applied to charts. Moving averages, support and resistance lines, envelopes, Bollinger bands and momentum are all examples of indicators.

These indicators help tell a story and just as a doctor looks at x-rays to help him make a decision, an analyst looks at charts to help him make a decision.

Many people believe that to buy and hold is the right strategy for owning securities and this is fine in some circumstances. It can also be beneficial to buy and sell the same security many times in a given period.

ABC.inc might be a company you want to own for the long term and that's fine. However, there's nothing wrong with buying at 50, selling at 67 and buying it back at 55. There's also nothing wrong with buying at 50, selling at 67, shorting the security at about 67 then closing your short at 55 and buying it back. In the previous example you have made your money work a little more efficiently. In the case of buying and holding you only make money when the security goes up. Why not make money when the security goes up, comes down, and goes back up again. This way, your money has worked harder for you. Technical analysis can help in predicting turning points and direction in prices.

Before applying technical analysis make sure you thoroughly understand the principals that you are applying. Read as much as you can and find a few forms of technical analysis that you feel comfortable with. Remember you only need to find one thing that works in order to make money.

Good Trading

Article by
Mark McRae
http://www.traderssecretcode.com

Envelopes

We are going to use some basic indicators in a different way to try and get a precise entry into a trade.

What we are going to show here is the use of Envelopes, which form trading bands. The particular trading bands we are going to use will be based on exponential moving averages. This will help us form a method to trade. This is basically an intraday strategy, which works well on the 10min/15min time frame.

Envelopes are used to indicate the trading range of a given market above and below an average price. Basically, moving average envelopes or trading bands are calculated by taking a moving average and calculating upper and lower trading bands as a fixed percentage above and below the moving average respectively.

These are considered to suggest extreme overbought or oversold conditions. The assumption is that, price should not deviate from the average of the underlying price element (high or low) by the percentage utilized.

They differ from Bollinger bands, since Bollinger Bands place boundary lines based on standard deviation, whereas envelopes place lines at fixed percentage points above and below a moving average line. The upper and lower limits specify entry and exit points for traders.

But, instead of using them to indicate overbought or oversold conditions, we will attempt to create a narrow trading range and base the rules for this method on this narrow band. We will keep our settings for the Trading Bands as (40, 0.30)

This means you have a band of two moving averages of 40, with a fixed percentage of 0.30 above and below. We then use another Exponential moving average with a setting of 15. The additional moving average is to help identify when the market is beginning to trend.

The first rule is - do not enter a trade when the price is within the band. A trade is signaled only when the price moves outside the band. The general policy is to go long when the price is above the band, and to go short when the price is below the band.

The second rule is for confirmation - don't trade when the 15 exponential moving average is flat. Only trade when the 15 exponential moving average starts rising or falling in the direction of the trade.

This method keeps you out of the market when there is consolidation, which means more chances of getting whipsawed.

The chart below, clearly shows that price was within the band for the first part of the chart and entering a trade here would have got you whipsawed. As a matter of fact, the EUR/USD was in a major uptrend on the daily charts at this time and this method gave us a precise point to enter the trade on a lower time frame.

The red line is where the market was in consolidation. The market then began to rise slightly and the 15 exponential moving average also began to rise - this is the set up.

Even though the market was set up for a trade, the safe play was to wait for 15 exponential moving average to start to trend and for the price to be well above the bands.

The market then pulled back forming resistance. This resistance area is what we are looking for. A break of the resistance is the final confirmation that we have a high probability trade.

The entry is made on a breach of the previous resistance with an initial stop just below the support area that formed.

Suniiel A Mangwani

Good Trading

Best Regards
Mark McRae

Bollinger Bands Revealed

Bollinger bands are an integral part of just about every charting system I have ever seen but many traders are unfamiliar with how to use them. In this lesson we will cover the basics of Bollinger bands and one particular technique which I have found to be very reliable.

Bollinger Band History

Bollinger Bands were invented by John Bollinger as a means of determining what could be considered as high or low around a give price.

The bands are plotted at a standard deviation (statistical term for measuring volatility) around a moving average. Typically the standard deviation used is 2.

The bands appear on charts as 3 bands.

A simple moving average in the middle. Most charting software defaults to a 20 period moving average.

An upper band calculated around a simple moving average plus 2 standard deviations.

A lower band calculated around a simple moving average minus 2 standard deviations.
For our examples we will use the most common setting of a 20 period simple moving average. This will give us 3 bands, the middle band of a 20 period simple moving average and the upper and lower bands calculated around the middle band with standard deviation of 2. The closing price is most commonly used to calculate the moving average.
Bollinger bands can be used to generate buy and sell signals but that is not their primary use. The main purpose of the bands are to:

To identify areas of high and low volatility
To identify periods when prices are at an extreme and possibly ready for a reversal.
To identify a trending market.

The squeeze (tightening) is a period of low volatility and often happens before a big move. It can also help identify potential breakout areas.

Reversal
In conjunction with other indicators you can identify potential reversal points.Trending Following
Although Bollinger bands will not tell you when the trend has started if you combine it with certain indicators they will confirm the trend. It is also easily identifiable visually.My Use Of Bollinger Bands

As I mentioned earlier Bollinger bands are not really meant to be used as a signal generating indicator but in conjunction with another indictors can be very useful.

I like to use Bollinger bands and RSI together to generate possible buy and sell signals or to confirm overbought or oversold areas.
I normally set the RSI at 14 and when it reads over 70 and price is at or pushing through the upper band then I know we are overbought and ready for a reversal. I will either start thinking about shorting the market or if I am already in a long position will start to cover.

When the RSI reads below 30 and price is touching or pushing through the lower band then I know we are oversold and I will either consider buying the market or close existing short positions.

Experiment with the settings until you find the right parameters for the market you are trading. I have found the bands to be effective on all time frames from 5 minutes to monthly bars.

Good Trading

Best Regards
Mark McRae

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Too Many Strategies, But Still Frustrated?

It is not too long ago when veteran traders used to draw trend lines using pencil and paper. Market data was sent by physical mail to them and there was no computer and trading desk. Were they really not able to perform by not using super analytical charting platforms? Were they all losers?

I bet they were not only doing great, but compared to my fellow traders (Including me) they were absolutely sophisticated traders. I don't want to undermine anyone as we have many legend traders and hundreds of good traders who actually make money around the globe on daily basis.

My argument is merely pointed at those traders who think that broken accounts is a result of them not really having the best strategy to trade in a safe and secure manner while at the same time having a one year outlook for reaching 1 million dollar, through a 10000 buck trading account.

Where a trading strategy is introduced as a reliable method of making money for traders, there are some questions that must be asked, to evaluate the accuracy of the given strategy:

• Is it a trend or a range market based strategy?
• If it works as a trend based strategy, what can the strategy offer to trade around range markets, and vice versa for the range market based strategy?
• Is it a day trading strategy or planned to signal longer term trading signals?
• If it is an Intraday trading strategy, how many hours are required and when exactly should I sit down and watch the screen?
• If it is a long term strategy, what is the estimated possible drawdown in pips?
• Is there any historical performance of trading using the given strategy in real accounts and if the answer is "YES" for how long? (don't rely on less than one year)
• Are there any money & risk management rules attached that are specifically tested on this particular strategy?
• What is the average/highest/lowest risk to award ratio of the last year's trades?
• Is there anyone who has used the strategy on a real account? (Be aware of marketing tactics and ask someone who is honest).
• What is the outcome of the trades for the above mentioned trader? Even if positive, don't necessarily trust that exact approach for yourself, because one cannot fit a common strategy with the same characteristics to every trader. In this case you need to test it yourself.
• Ask the developer about the psychological pressures that may come upon you while using that strategy on real accounts (We recommend to ask your mentor to analyze the strategy)
• Does it have an Exit and Stop Loss rule for different market situations?
• Ask the developer if you can get back to him occasionally to ask questions about some points that you don't really understand (don't make it 100 times a week cause he/she won't sell any strategy to you).

However, I know a couple of guys who experienced real damage and disappointment where they tried to believe the strategy given to them from the first day. So I am being serious when I say don't ever try to apply a new strategy on your real account, unless you have met an expert and he has given you the green light, or if you have just passed one year of continuous testing.

Final Words:

You may ask for how long? One year… it's too much…I can't wait…!! Well then you can try it, but count on it as a gamble…You know the gamble…Too many jack pots, nothing Hot Shots.

Let science make you wealthy step by step. Don't ever think you are smarter than any other trader because no one knows what is going to happen next. So it's better to be next to those wise traders who win, because they are disciplined and have spent a long time practicing before doing anything real on their money. Try to admit it if you are not sure enough about your ability, and try to solve the problems with patience and remember it is worth it if you make that million dollars three or even five years later, instead of losing what you got from hard work within just a couple of days.

Also, not to forget, forward any questions you might have on this article to my email address s.a.ghafari@iftc.ir and I will try to respond as soon as possible.

S.A Ghafari
FX Analyst
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The Properties Of Price Movement

You might look at the stock prices at the bottom of your television screen or, if you are trading currencies in the forex market, you might look at the exchange rates go up and down your computer screen.

Prices move and you wonder whether their behaviour means something. Could the market be sending out signals that you can use to make your decisions? How, exactly, are you going to study the market?

For anybody to make money from the market, they must have a way of studying it. There are predominantly two approaches: fundamental and technical.

Fundamental analysis focuses on value but this is the subject of another article. Technical analysis, on the other hand, focuses on price and its movement.

The movement of price has the following properties which traders can study to aid in their decisions:

1. Trend - its persistence to move in one direction,

2. Volatility - the magnitude of its fluctuations on a periodic basis,

3. Momentum - the rate of its acceleration and deceleration,

4. Cycle - its tendency to move in cyclical patterns, most especially in the futures market,

5. Market Strength - the number of transactions supporting its movements,

6. Support and Resistance - its tendency to rise or fall to a certain level and then reverse, repeatedly.

Analysts, using the technical approach of analysing the markets, have developed their own set of indicators, different to those used by fundamental analysts. These indicators are used to measure the properties of price movement.

Fortunately for modern-day traders like you, you do not have to devise your own tools. You just need to learn how they work and how to use them.

About The Author:

Marquez Comelab is the author of the book: The Part-Time Currency Trader. It is a guide for men and women interested in trading currencies in the forex market. Discusses analysis, tools, indicators, trading systems, strategies, discipline and psychology. See: http://marquezcomelab.com

FOREX: Exiting positions at a right time

The presented article covers one of the most important (in author's opinion) aspects of trading in general and Forex trading in particular - managing of orders and positions. This includes choosing entry points, making decisions about exit points, stop-loss and take-profit of the trader. I hope this article will help new traders, who just began to work with Forex, and also to experienced traders who trade regularly and regularly make or loose their money to the market.

When I started to trade Forex and made my first big losses and profits I began to notice when very important thing about the whole trading process. While the right time to enter a position was rarely a problem for myself (nearly 80% of all my open positions had gone into the "green" profit zone), the problem was hidden in the determining the right exit point for that position. Not only was it important to cut my risk on the potential losses with stop-loss orders, but to limit my greediness and take profit when I can take it and make it as high as I can.

There are many known guidelines and ways to enter a right position at a right time - like major economic news releases, global world events, technical indicators combinations, etc. But while the entering into a position is optional and trade can decide to miss as many good/bad entry point moments as they wish, this is untrue if we talk about exiting a position. Margin trading makes it impossible to wait too long with an open position. More than that, every open position in a certain way limits trader's ability to trade.

Choosing the good exit points for positions could be an easy task if only the Forex market wasn't so chaotic and volatile. In my opinion (backed by my trading experience) exit orders for every position should be toggled constantly with time and as the new market data (technical and fundamental) appear.

Let's say, you took a short position on EUR/USD at 1.2563, at the time you are taking this position the support/resistance level is 1.2500/1.2620. You set your stop-loss order to 1.2625 and your take-profit order to 1.2505. So now, this position can be considered as an intraday or 2-3 days term position.

This means that you must close it before it's "term" is over, or it will become a very unpredictable position (because market will differ greatly from what it was at the time you have entered this position). After the position is taken and initial exit orders are set, you need to follow the market events and technical indicators to adjust your exit orders. The most important rule is to tighten the loss/profit limit as time goes by. Usually if I take a middle term position (2-4 days) I try to lower the stop and target order by 10-25 pips every day.

I also monitor global events, trying to lower my stop-losses when very important news can hurt my position. If the profit is already quite high, I try to move my stop-loss the entry point, making a sure-win position. The main idea here is to find an equilibrium point between greed and caution. But as your position gets older the profit should be more limited and losses cut. Also, trader should always remember that if the market began to act unexpectedly, they need to be even more cautious with exit order, even if the position is still showing profits.

Every trader has their own trading strategy and habits. I hope this article will make its readers think about such an important aspect of trading as the exit orders and this will only improve their trading results.

by Andrey Moraru

http://www.earnforex.com
http://earnforex.blogspot.com

Benefit Tutorials ...Lesson (1)

This following sites contains ,tools , and resources that will help you with lessons on my blog to get started with investments in forex and after each lesson I put tutorials to be extra benefit for all

Learning site:

1- Forex Glossary: Although the previous tutorial might help you to understand some forex terms, this glossary is a great tool to have on hand for future reference. You'll see some familiar terms here, like "selling short" and "limit order," and you'll learn that they mean the same as they do when you use them for trading securities. But, you'll also find new terms like "big figure" and "two-way price," terms that will set you apart as a forex trader.

Currency site to speed on foreign currency exchange and markets

2- Exchange Rate: Skip the top link box, as those links will take you to FXCM (Forex Capital Markets — see #13 and #33). Instead, try out the "hot" and "currency info" links that provide information about everything you'd want to know about worldwide currencies for 170 countries. Includes calculators, fun facts, serious facts, and more.

Get latest news about forex trade

Action Forex: This site offers an easy-to-read layout that includes news, insights, fundamentals reports, calculators, and tons of other forex resources.

Take much information from this forum

MoneyTec: With over 33,000 members, this traders' forum offers a format to discuss trading ideas, share, learn, and build new trading techniques and strategies.

To learn strategies

Fibonacci Lesson: Don't know much 'bout arithmetic, Fibonacci numbers, or the Golden Section? This tutorial, offered by Dr Ron Knott from the Mathematics Department of the University of Surrey, UK will provide results. Simple to use, easy to understand, and filled with illustrations to help you learn why some numbers are so important to nature. Interstingly, these numbers are also of vast interest to many forex investors.

How can you understand charts

The Law of Charts: Joe Ross offers advice for traders across the board, but the information contained in his "Law of Charts" offer speaks to forex as well as any other trading strategy. He identifies chart patterns that result from human behaviors and points to entry and exit targets on those charts. You can take advantage of Ross's other tools as well, including the forum.

To take extra information about forex trade

Live Forex Rates: You might recognize the GFT logo behind the rates, but don't let that distract you from the constantly changing figures. If you're addicted to live feeds, you'll be mesmerized by the constantly changing currency rates on this chart.

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Forex Learning for Beginners

Lesson1: Summary for forex market

I will start from today lessons for forex trade starting from beginners

Forex is an abbreviated word, for the Foreign Exchange Market. The Foreign Exchange Market exists where one currency is exchanged for another, such as multi-national corporations, governments, and other financial markets. It yields an average turnover of $1.9 trillion daily.

Trades are always done in pairs: For example, imagine that the exchange rate of EUR/USD (euros to US dollars) on a certain day is 1.1999 (this number is also referred to as a “spot rate”, or just “rate”, for short). If

an investor had bought 1,000 euros on that date, he would have paid 1,199.00 US dollars. If one year later, the Forex rate was 1 .2222, the value of the euro has increased in relation to the US dollar. The investor could now sell the 1,000 euros in order to receive 1222.00 US dollars. The investor would then have USD 23.00 more than when he started a year earlier, traders are basically buying and selling money in the same time. Beside of trading in pairs, Forex is also very special as it has no centralized trade location and trades are done around the clock.

Markets are places where goods are traded, and the same goes with Forex. In Forex markets, the “goods” are the currencies of various countries (as well as gold and silver). For example, you might buy euro with US dollars, or you might sell Japanese Yen for Canadian dollars. It’s as basic as trading one currency for another.

Of course, you don’t have to purchase or sell actual, physical currency: you trade and work with your own base currency, and deal with any currency pair you wish to.

Advantages in Forex currency trading : Equal Prospective in Rising or Falling Market Trend it meaning :there is no structural bias to the market and there are no restrictions on short selling in FX market. Trading in Forex gives you an equal prospective in rising and falling market.

“Leverage” is the Forex advantage

The ratio of investment to actual value is called “leverage”, using a $1 ,000 to buy a Forex contract with a $100,000 value is “leveraging” at a 1:100 ratio. The $1,000 is all you invest and all you risk, but the gains you can make may be many times greater.

Trade Forex 24 hours a day: In Forex trading, you do not need to wait the market to open: Every Sunday 5.00pm in New York, Forex market starts its week from Sydney, followed by Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and New York. In Forex tradng, you can always response to the market trend a lot faster than in any other trading market.

Forex trading does not require physical purchase of the currencies, but rather involves contracts for amount and exchange rate of currency pairs.

High Leverage Margin

Forex brokers offer trade margin of 50, 100, 150, or even 200 to 1 of trade margin.

Forex traders often find themselves controlling a huge sum of money with little cash outlay on the table. For example, a $1,000 in a 150:1 Forex account will gives you the purchase power of $150,000 in the currency market.

While certainly not for everyone, the substantial leverage available from online currency trading firms is a powerful, moneymaking tool. Rather than merely loading up on risk as many people incorrectly assume, leverage is essential in the Forex market.

This is because the average daily percentage move of a major currency is less than 1%, whereas a stock can easily have a 10% price move on any given day.

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Starting with Forex Glossary

I found first Clear To All Forex Glossary Step By Step Today We Starting with (A).

VALUE	DEFINATION
Aggregate demand	Total demand for goods and services in the economy. Aggregate Demand And includes private and public sector Demand and for goods and services within the country, and the demand of consumers and firms in other countries for goods and services.
Aggregate (Risk)	Total exposure a bank has with a customer for both spot and forward contracts.
Aggregate supply	Total supply of goods and services in the economy (including imports) available to meet aggregate demand.
Agio	Difference in the value between currencies. Also used to describe percentage charges for conversion from paper money into cash, or from a weak into a strong currency.
American Option	An option which may be exercised on any valid business date throughout the Life of the option. A European option can only be exercised on a specific date.
Appreciation	Describes a currency strengthening in response to market demand as opposed to increasing in value as a result of official action.
Arbitrage	A risk-free type of trading where the same instrument is bought and sold simultaneously in two different markets in order to cash in on the difference between the markets.
Around	Used in quoting forward “premium/discount”.
Ask Price	The price at which the currency or instrument is offered. Ask is the Lowest price acceptable to the buyer.
Asset	The right to receive from a counterparty an amount of currency either in regards to a balance sheet asset (e.g. a Loan), or at a specified future date in regards to an unmatched Forward or spot deal.
Association Cambiste international	The international society of foreign exchange dealers. consisting of national Forex clubs affiliated on a worldwide basis.
At Best	An instruction given to a dealer to buy or sell at the best rate that is currently available in the market.
At or Better	An order to deal at a specific rate or better.
At Par Forward Spread	When the forward price is equivalent to the spot price.
At the Price Stop-Loss Order	A stop-Loss order that must be executed at the requested Level regard Less of market conditions.
At –The- Money	An option whose strike/exercise price is equal to or near the current market price of the underlying instrument.
Auction	Sale of an item to the highest bidder. (1) A method commonly used in exchange control regimes for the allocation of foreign exchange. (2) A method for allocating government paper, such as US Treasury Bills. Small investors are given preferential access to the bills. The average issuing price is then computed on the basis of the competitive bids accepted. In some circumstances, such as government auctions, it is the yield rather than the price which is bid.
Average Rate Option	A contract where the exercise price is based on the difference between the strike price and the average spot rate over the contract period. Sometimes called an Asian option”.
Aggressor	A trader dealing on an existing price in the market
Ask	The price at which a currency pair or security is offered for sale; the quoted price at which an investor can buy a currency pair. This is also known as the 'offer', 'ask price', and 'ask rate'.

introduction for forex trade

Although currency trading has a long history dating back to the middle ages, it is the changes that we have seen during the twentieth century which have created the Forex market we see today.

During the first half of the twentieth century the British pound was the world's principal trading currency and was the currency held by many as their main 'reserve' currency. As a result, London was also seen as the leading center for foreign exchange. However, the Second World War severely damaged the British economy and so the United States dollar took over as the world's principle trading and reserve currency and retains that position today. This said, there are now a number of other currencies, principally the Yen and the Euro, which are also seen as reserve currencies.

Since the Second World War there have been a number of events

which have proved instrumental in shaping today's Forex

market. Until the start of the Second World War, as we said

The British Pound Sterling was the World’s most prominent

currency.

At the end of the Second World War the World’s economy,

with the exception of the United States of America,

was in disarray.

Representatives from the United States of America, Britain

and France met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire with

the objective of creating an infrastructure that would allow

the rebuilding of the World’s economy. The result was the

Bretton Woods Accord. The Accord decided that the US Dollar would become the World’s benchmark and all other countries would measure the value of their currencies against it. Part of this agreement was the Gold Standard which fixed the price of Gold at $35 an ounce. All other currencies were pegged to the dollar at a certain rate. This rate was not allowed to fluctuate more than 1% in either direction (higher or lower). If a fluctuation greater than 1% did occur then the relevant central bank had to enter the market and restore the exchange rate to within the accepted band.

The Bretton Woods Accord also set in motion the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which was designed to provide a stable system for buying and selling currencies and to ensure that currency transactions could take place smoothly and in a timely fashion.

In addition, the aim of the IMF was to create a consultative forum to promote international co-operation and to facilitate the growth of world trade, while at the same time breaking down exchange restrictions which hindered international trade

It was also part of the established role of the IMF to make financial resources available to member states on a temporary basis where this was considered necessary to further the aims of the IMF. Such loans were normally only made on the understanding that the country concerned would make substantial changes to rectify the situation which gave rise to the need for the loan in the first place.

There are mixed opinions as to whether the Bretton Woods Accord was successful in restoring economic stability to Europe and Japan. Despite this, the agreement eventually failed in 1971. It was superseded by the Smithsonian Agreement.

The Smithsonian Agreement tried to succeed where Bretton Woods had failed. Rather than give a 1% margin, greater room for manoeuvre was introduced. Not long into this agreement, Europe made its first attempt at breaking free from the Dollar dominated system. In 1972 Europe formed the European Joint Float. Member nations included West Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. This agreement was very similar to Bretton Woods but with a larger band for rate fluctuation.

Just as their predecessors had failed, these agreements were

flawed and subsequently fell apart. However, this time there

was no new agreement to take its place. For the first time

since WWII there was a ‘free float’ system in place.

The value of each currency is now governed completely

by the laws of supply and demand. Large banks, private

companies and individual speculators are all active

participants in the Forex market.

The next major milestone was the establishment of European Monetary System which effectively came into force in 1979. The European Monetary System got off to something of a shaky start when Britain (one of the principle members of the European Community) decided not to join the system and Italy joined only under special arrangements. Britain did however later agree to participate to a limited degree by joining the exchange mechanism of the European Monetary System in 1990.

The final major development to affect the Forex market was the establishment of the Euro as a single currency for European Union member states in 1998 with eleven of the participating states replacing their national currency with the Euro.

Of all these developments it was the free-floating of currencies in 1978 which did more than anything else to boost the growth of the foreign exchange market. In 1978 Forex trading showed a daily turnover of about 5 billion US dollars and this figure rose in the following ten years to reach 600 billion US dollars by 1988. By 1992 this figure had reached 1 trillion US dollars, Today The Forex market has is the largest Trading market with daily turnover of around 2 trillion US dollars