subject: Forex Signal Service - 4 Vital Points To Consider When Selecting And Testing Trading Signal [print this page] Despite the introduction of fully automatic trading system, many traders still feel inconvenience about letting a software manage their funds; but on the other hands, they aren't confident enough in their skills either, therefore they need suggestion or advises from an expert. A reliable forex signal service provides ideal solution for this problem; it offers trade suggestion, but the user still can analyze some more and decide by himself/herself if he/she should execute the order or not.
If you are trying to search for a forex signal service, you'll find a bunch of them on the internet, but you must realize that half of them are just trashes that created by scammers. Below are a few helpful tips when choosing a good signal provider:
1. Don't depend on information from forums
While forums can provide a good place to ask questions and get answers, the answers are not always from credible source. You'll constantly find negative and positive reviews of a service, but you will never know the story behind it.
Every day, there are many new player in forex and they always come with high expectation of quick profits; when these guys can't have it, they will blame it on the system (signal, robots, strategies, etc) and flood the net with their stories. Sometimes, they experienced 2 loss trades and instantly claim that the system don't work; note that if you have a trading system that can give you 10 winning trades for every 15 trades, it's not impossible to have 2-3 loss trades at the beginning.
2. Money and risk management
Usually risk management in the form of take profit and stop-loss orders are already handled by the signals, but you should manage your own money. As mentioned above, it's not impossible to start your trade with losing streak. This is possibly because of the signal's provider incompetence or you just chosen a bad time to start trading. Either way, it is a wise decision to know your own limit by not throwing all your money into single trade.
3. Monthly fee
When you subscribe for a forex signal service, you'll be charged with monthly fee. Calculate your monthly cost and predicted profits carefully before making any decision. A number of signal services fees are about $100/month, so you will want no less than that much profits per month. In such a case, using $100 mini account clearly isn't a good idea, so if you are only able to spare that much, it might be safer to change to another approach.
4.Practice account
Like other trading system, you'll need to test the signals in a demo account before putting your money on the line. This may appear to be wasting time and money for the monthly fee, but it is much better than losing your whole capital in a live account.
If you are a trader that won't allow a forex robot manage your trades but do not want to analyze the market on your own, forex signal service is the best solution. If you're going to use this service, ensure that you've prepared for it and test it first to see how it works against real market movement.
