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Understanding Forex Trading – Learn Price Action

Forex trading is a big mystery to a lot of people, even Forex traders that have been trading for years struggle to understand price action, and how to profit from it.

So what do you need to know to be successful in Forex and consistently make money? The answer is very simple. You need to be able to read price action on a chart. All the information you will ever need, to enable you to be successful in Forex trading, is contained within the chart. Let me just say that again in case you missed it. All the information you will ever need, to enable you to be successful in Forex trading, is contained within the chart.

I cannot stress this enough. Forget about fundamentals, and news, and market sentiment, and what they are saying on CNBC, its all irrelevant. The only thing you need to be able to do, to be successful in Forex, is to be able to read price action on a chart. The chart will tell you where to enter, the chart will tell you where to put your stop loss, and the chart will tell you where to exit, and that is all you need to know.

Despite what a lot of traders say a Forex chart is not a random pattern generator. Forex trading has a very structured format.

Have you ever looked at one of those magic eye pictures like the one on the left. Somewhere in that picture there is a duck, some people can see it some people cant. A Forex chart is very much like that. There is a picture in there somewhere, you just have to know where to look.

Now you can spend weeks, months, years, staring at a chart, or a magic eye picture and trying to see through all the confusion, or you can take the quick route and get someone to show you how to do it. Now if you think back to the moment when you first saw the empire state building, or the statue of liberty, or whatever it was in the magic eye picture, how easy was it to look at any other magic eye picture and see the image within. A Forex chart is just the same. When you know what you are looking for, you can apply the same skill to any chart, and see what is really hiding within it.

When you are skilled at reading a chart you will be able to see the structure of it, and profit from the fact that you know what is going to happen next. Well that’s not 100% true, you cant know exactly what is going to happen next, but you can predict with the highest probability what is going to happen next, and trading Forex successfully is all about high probability trading.

This is what i do, and this is what i teach. I look for, and enter, high probability trades, and i teach my students to look for, and enter the same high probability trades. I don’t trade for fun, or because i am bored, i trade to make money, and the way i make money is by knowing what is going to happen to the price with the highest probability possible, and then by waiting for the optimum time to enter the trade. I then manage the trade, and take my profit when the chart tells me to take it. Its a pretty simple formula, but it takes chart knowledge to make it work successfully.

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