Forex Scalping – Day Trading for Regular Gains With Low Risk
The rise of the online FOREX trading has seen a huge rise in day trading and traders who want to scalp the market, with the aim of trading for small regular profits.
The aim is to keep risk low and aim to take small profits on a daily basis and earn a living by FOREX Scalping.
Let’s look at it in more detail and the potential of this form of trading.
The Opportunity
Global currency markets are the biggest investment market in the world.
Every day trillions of dollars are traded, by countless millions of people.
The currency markets are traded by 4 broad groups of investors.
Central Banks
Their activity varies, but when they do trade its big numbers!
They will normally step in individually or as a group, to stabilize currency volatility.
Large Speculators
Well capitalized and can be rich individuals or funds.
Hedgers
Not looking to make money from currency speculation – they are simply in the market to hedge the value of their holdings.
Small Speculators
Everyone else, including the vast majority of FOREX day traders.
The challenge
FOREX Scalping involves deciding and predicting what all these groups together will do, with all their different investment aims and strategies, in under a few hours or less.
FOREX Scalping
Can it be done?
Of course it can’t – it’s ridiculous to think that you can predict in such a short time what will happen.
Day traders don’t make money.
Sure, there are plenty of vendors telling you how great their systems are, but if they were that great they wouldn’t be selling them!
If you really want proof that it doesn’t work, simply ask for a real track record of profits from any vendor and you won’t get one.
Trading the odds
The problem with FOREX scalping is the odds are against you.
You have no meaningful data to work with and if you trade technically without it you will lose.
All volatility in the short term is random, which is obvious to most traders.
This of course means that if you use any technical tool it won’t work when traders try FOREX scalping.
Pivot points, support and resistance etc are great technical indicators in longer time frames, where you can trade the odds, but in short term trading they will fail miserably.
The illusion
In hindsight of course there appear to be normal technical formations, but this is in hindsight.
Day traders can prove everything in hindsight ( and they love producing hypothetical track records by looking at past data ) but ask them to do it in real time and they can’t.
Volatility can and does take prices anywhere in short time frames and it doesn’t take long for FOREX scalpers to wipe themselves out.
Don’t fall for the hype!
A great theory, but FOREX scalping doesn’t work in practice.
Vendors know this and never trade themselves.
They get great marketing copy together and a track record (done in hindsight of course) and sell it to novice or greedy investors.
They get the fee, while these investors go on to trade and get wiped out.
Don’t day trade, pick a longer term method of trading where the odds are in your favor.
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Help answer the question about forex capital
Can I deduct capital losses in FOREX trading just like losses in stocks ?If I make loss in stocks; I can adjust upto 3000 USD with my salary. Can I do the same if I make loss in FOREX trading ?
When I tried searching on internet about it; it looks bit complex.. treating FOREX Futures and spot differently.
I am here trading only in FOREX Spot. http://www.greencompany.com/EducationCenter/ForexTradingExpoVegas2006GreenWorkshop.pdf
link says there is no limit on the spot losses I can adjust !
On internet it talks about 60/40 . what is that ? Is that only 60% of profits/loss can be considered ?
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May 18th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Forex market is Foreign exchange market. Forex capital market is broker.
May 18th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
You can put on your tax return, but only to offset the capital gains on another forex/securities related trade.
May 19th, 2010 at 5:20 am
nice twisting of the language there!
"38% compounded monthly" = 38% if you assume 12 compounding periods per year.
but anyway -
if you want to start a hedge fund, i hope you have one heck of a pedigree, and a bunch of seed capital yourself. you'll probably spend (minimum) $250k just on lawyers, and it will take nearly a year to get the proper approvals. then you can start trying to collect ~$10m (minimum) to get decent rates and execution from your prime. the first year, just to break even (assuming a 50% annual return) you'll probably need to get 3/30 in fees.
oh, and by the way – if there was any part of that you didn't understand, figure on at least another $100k to the lawyers.
May 20th, 2010 at 12:15 am
Do sign up with a reputable brokerage. Such scenarios do happen often if you sign up with a dodgy brokerage.
May 21st, 2010 at 12:30 am
To make profits without losing your capital from Forex Trades is something I thought is not possible.
But my forex trader friends who are professionals tell me that capital preservation is possible. in fact, money and risk management is important to survive long term in forex trading.
I looked at the site above and the Lethal Forex System looks good.
May 21st, 2010 at 5:37 am
May 21st, 2010 at 9:23 am
There really is nothing you can do. He is determined and will resent your interference. The three things in life that are additive to men. Women- drugs/alcohol- gambling Not all men are additive to all three but each has its own power to destroy. He is on the gambling faze. Let him loose his money and you should learn and realize the power of the three of them. I have one friend who has all three mess him up. He smokes marijuana daily for 25 year, has traded futures for over 10 years loosing untold thousands and has a wife, soon to be ex-wife that is going to take what ever he has left.
May 21st, 2010 at 8:24 pm
$800 is fine for opening your mini account.
You can utilize leverage as low as 1:1 with most any broker and you can go as high as 200:1 or even 400:1.
Rather than focusing on the leverage, what you should actually be focusing on is the margin.
At a 5% margin on an $800 account you would be positioning $40 into the trade. At a 1:1 leverage you would be controlling only $40 of currency (less the spread or "commission"). At a 100:1 leverage you would be controlling $4000 of currency with the same $40.
I would be happy to send you some more info if this is confusing for you.
Paul
pupp50@yahoo.com
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:58 am
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