Forex Signals: What It Means, Ways To Use These Signals And A Word Of Warning.

Since the Internet became part of our daily lives

, forex trading, especially online trading, has become more and popular among the man in the street. Suddenly every doctor, engineer and street sweeper has turned into a master trader. At least some of them take the trouble of studying the forex markets to first understand how it works before they start trading. Others are not prepared to do this: they simply pay for a service that generates forex signals automatically from time to time and they trade according to this - without understanding what they are doing at all.

As with anything in life where you risk a sizeable amount of money, with forex trading it's also a good thing to first become familiar with the opportunities and risks before you part with your money.

With forex trading you can indeed make lots of money in a short period of time. You can also lose more than you care to think about more quickly than you can say "forex". Whether you win or lose largely depends on whether you are prepared to spend time understanding the market first.

It is therefore imperative that you first study the forex markets and understand basic concepts such as technical indicators, charts and money management before you start to trade. It doesn't matter whether you are going to trade with the aid of your own trading software or a third party that generates forex signals. If you don't have a clue how the market works, you will never be able to see a bad signal when it stares you in the face.

If you know nothing about trading, you should beware of opportunities that sound too good to be true, because they normally are. Anyone promising you returns of 30% to 40% in six weeks should be checked out with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) first.

Forex trading involves risk: if the company tries to downplay this, and uses high pressure sales techniques to try and get you to "invest" large amounts as a matter of urgency, you should get very suspicious, especially if this happens over the phone or online.

The above comments don't mean you should not trade in forex or that all companies selling forex signals are dishonest brokers. It simply means you have to do your homework first. Do an online or offline course about the forex markets; then use that knowledge to find a company with a good track record and a happy customer base. They should explain the reasoning behind every trading signal their system generates. Don't waste your time with 'black box' systems where no explanation is given for the signal - this way you will never become a professional trader.

Your final decision remains whether to use trading software to generate forex signals, or whether you want to sign up with a third party signal generator. In both cases you first have to get to know the way forex markets operate, and how to use the various types of fundamental and technical indicators to generate trading signals. You should never blindly follow trading signals without understanding why they were generated.

by: Nathan Loury

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