Drawing Correct Trendlines

By Ahmad Hassam

Learning currency trading is like building a new car from scratch without an instruction manual for new traders. Many of them acquire quality parts like brakes, wheels, motors, seats, steering wheels etc to build the car.

You need right parts with right instructions to put them together in order to become a successful trader. After all, your car can come to a screeching halt due to a part such as a $2.00 gasket.

You should understand that forex trading is very different from trading stocks. Companies can file for bankruptcies like GM or Goldman Sachs or Enron. Companies can go completely out of business taking their share value to zero in the stock markets. However in case of currencies, there is no threat of a country going bankrupt or doing out of existence in a few weeks.

Interest rates, trade balances and budget deficits play a role in determining the price of a currency. What can happen is that interest rates, trade balances and foreign capital inflows can cause severe economic pressures on a currency! This can create sudden changes between the currency values relative to other currencies in the forex markets. When that happens, it can be an incredible fortune making opportunity for savvy, educated currency traders.

Before you enter the markets, you should learn how to find the current trend. For a skilled and educated trader, learning how to spot a trend is very important. A trend can last from a few hours, several days or several months. It can create an enormous financial return for the savvy.

Fighting a trend is like swimming against the current and getting drowned. You should always trade in the direction of the market. Traders make many mistakes. The biggest one is trading in the wrong direction.

If you are an active trader and you dont have the trading software that has the moving trend line indicator, you will need to learn the skill of drawing correct Trendlines. An incorrectly drawn trendline can mean the difference between making and losing money in a trade.

There are three types of trend lines. 1) An Inner Trendline. 2) An Outer Trendline and 3) A Long Term Trendline. These three trendlines form on all time frames and in both uptrends and downtrends.

In any uptrend draw a straight line connecting levels of support without penetrating bodies or wicks of a candle. Correctly drawn trendlines can project future levels of potential support in an uptrend and future levels of resistance in a downtrend.

Draw inner up trendlines by finding the last two support levels. Draw the line from left to right. Draw the outer up trendline by starting at the far left of the chart. Move to the right and connect the majority of the support levels with a straight line.

Draw the outer term trendline by going on a larger time frame and connect the levels of support starting from the far left of the chart moving forward. In a downtrend, the market reacts the same way as an uptrend but in an opposite direction. That means all the rules are the same but in the opposite direction. Instead of a support level, use the resistance level to draw trendlines in a downtrend. - 23217

About the Author:

Mr. Ahmad Hassam is a Harvard University Graduate. He is interested in day trading and swing trading stocks and currencies. Discover A Revolutionary New Forex Robot. Develop your own Forex Trading System.

Tips for Trading Descending Triangles Short

By Jeff Cartridge

Descending triangles are not so popular with traders on the long side and are best traded when it breaks in the downward direction. A descending triangle is defined by two lines, one on the lower boundary of the price movement which is horizontal and one on the upper side which slopes down.

Descending Triangles Best Traded Short

The descending triangle does break down more than it breaks up with this occurring in 57% of the patterns. A downside breakout is profitable 45% of the time delivering an average profit of 0.92% in 9 days. A large number of downside breakouts (12.1%) return in excess of 10% gain.

Improve Your Trades

When you look at the performance of a descending triangle in bearish market conditions you will see the results were stronger than they were in more bullish years. Trading descending triangles when the market is in a down trend or consolidating improves your trading results. The sector should be falling to make the best profits. Unusually the trend of the sector at the end of the pattern, prior to the breakout is less important than the sector trend at the start of the pattern.

Descending triangles that breakout early in the pattern, produce similar results to those that breakout later, so this is not an important filter to use. The best results are achieved when the stock climbs up from the lower boundary and collapses back before reaching the upper boundary of the pattern.

If the volume supports the breakout the results are better. Supportive volume means the volume on the way down is higher than the volume on the way up.

Descending Triangles Extremely Profitable

Following a series of simple rules to determine which descending triangle to trade can improve results dramatically. By applying these filters descending triangles are profitable on 48% of the trades and return an average of 2.55% per trade in 10 days. This is a very profitable pattern to trade.

Note: Statistics for this article have been provided by Patterns Trader after analyzing over 60,000 chart patterns on the Australian market from 2000 - 2008. - 23217

About the Author:

Jeff Cartridge has been trading chart patterns since 1998 and created the website LearnCFDs.com A Simple Timeless Method for Huge Gains

What Happens When Stock Moves From OTC to NASDAQ

By Sam Nielson

A question that I'm asked over and over again by new traders is what will happen to their OTCBB stock should it move from the OTCBB to a major exchange like the NASDAQ.

In most cases, there's nothing you need to do on your part. Your existing stock shares will be converted into the new shares traded under the new ticker symbol on the major exchange (i.e. Nasdaq).

This scenario is called a jumper. There is a good chance that your stock shares will gain in value because it opens your stock up to a whole new set of investors who only trade on major exchanges.

If any change in the ticker symbol takes place, your brokerage firm (i.e. ETrade, Scottrade, etc.) will contact you via your trading console and/or by regular mail.

Time for some brutal honesty. You are George Bush stupid if you are investing in OTC stock you think will go to the NASDAQ.

Con-vest publishing companies are more than happy to sell you a subscription to their OTC to Nasdaq stocks. Don't be a sucker.

I've met thousands of traders over the years and not a single trader made money at regularly picking jumpers.

Reality check. If the company was such a good company selling such a hot product, they never would have been listed on the OTCBB in the first place. They would have opted for an original listing on the Nasdaq in the first place. The cost for a listing on a major exchange is hardly more than a listing on the OTCBB. The only difference is the reporting requirements. The disclosure that the company must provide investors on a timely and regular basis.

Enlightening truth: the primary reason a company lists on the OTC instead of the NASDAQ is to not have to meet the higher reporting requirements for that listing. They really don't want to be bothered with letting investors know what is REALLY going on behind all the PRs they release.

While not as bad as the pink sheets, the OTCBB exchange is filled with fraudulent companies who wouldn't think twice about posting false PRs and scamming you out of your money. Investing in OTCBB stocks is a fools game. Over the long run, you will go broke like everyone else who has tried. I should know. I speak from personal trading experience.

Plus, think about this. The primary reason for investing in OTCBB was to get stocks cheap. Now that we are at a market bottom, many good companies listed on the major exchanges are at crazy OTCBB prices! Plus there's a lot less risk because stocks on the major exchanges have stricter disclosure and reporting laws they must follow than stocks listed on the OTCBB. So what is the advantage to the OTCBB at this present time? None. - 23217

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Temporary Investor Visas

By Sam McDougall Turner

Relocating to the USA can be a very stressful and difficult business. There are however, a few ways to better your chances of successfully being granted a visa. One of the best ways of doing this, is to select an investor visa, of which there are two main kinds, permanent and temporary.

The temporary investor visa is called the E-2.

The E-2 visa is commonly referred to as the temporary green card. This is because there is no top-end limit to the visa term and so extensions and renewals can be applied any number of times providing the conditions of your visa are still met.

The purpose of this visa is to allow foreign people who have invested considerable amounts in the US to relocate there to further develop and run the business or businesses that they have invested in.

To be eligible for the E-2 visa, you must be either the investor, or otherwise an essential employee such as a director or manager of the foreign company that made the investment and you and the large shareholders of the company are nationals in a country that have a long term Treaty of Trade, Friendship and Commerce with the United States.

Executives and other essential employees must be from the same country as the corporation to be eligible for the E-2 visa. You will have to show that you are in the process of making an investment or that in investment has already been made.

The E-2 visa is for those who wish to invest a substantial sum of money either into an existing business for shares, or to start up a new business. The visa is most suited to those intending to play and active part in the running and direction of the business, and therefore may not be suitable for a silent investor.

Because of the unique complexities of investing in a U.S. business, it is highly advisable to seek competent legal advice on the types of investment that may qualify for an E2. After receiving such advice, the next step is likely to be to contact a reputable business broker that has an awareness of the requisite criteria for making a qualifying E-2 investment. - 23217

About the Author:

When you have decided to invest in a US business, our law firm will be able to assist you in the legal process and complex and lengthy paperwork involved in applying for an E-2 investor visa. Please visit www.visas4america.com for advice on applying for an investor visa.

Learn Forex Trading Tips

By Bart Icles

Many people these days make extra money through forex trading. If you are one of the millions who have been lured by the rewarding yet unpredictable world of forex trading, it is important that you learn forex trading tips before you start dealing with real money. Although the forex market can allow you to make money easily, it can also take away all your investments in under a minute. As a beginner, it is important that you keep your distance from the forex market and learn the most that you can about it before you finally decide to start engaging in currency trading.

One of the most valuable tips you will have to remember about forex trading is to learn forex trading techniques at length before you step into the market. One false move and you easily destroy your trading career forever. Learning about forex trading techniques will help you a lot in making your income levels soar as you engage in this volatile yet profitable market.

It is important that you are able to follow the different trends that occur and are practiced in the forex market. By following these trends, you will be able to determine when the market is going to experience a decline and when it will start to rise again. This can also help you judge when to join and when to exit trading. The market trends will also form the basis for your strategies that will differ according to the different scenarios that the market can pose.

There are also certain house rules that forex investors observe. You can learn more about these rules through enlisting yourself to forex courses. There are different forex courses online, some of which are free of charge and some will cost you a small amount of money. Whatever form of investment your forex education will require from you, be assured that it will help much in making you familiar with the basics of forex trading, as well as how you can develop different strategies for different circumstances.

If you learn forex trading tips, you are actually taking the first few steps in ensuring that your trading career will be worth your while. It is important that throughout your learning process until the time that you are already actively engaging in forex trading, you are able to keep your senses keen and alert. This will help you absorb information as you come across them, and you will also be able to make immediate responses to the different changes that can happen in the forex market. - 23217

About the Author:

A forex trading tutorial starts with a desire to learn and a drive to become a great trader. Learning with forex tutorials takes dedication and a good teacher. But once you learn how to trade and do so successfully your life will change and you have options and financial resources you never had before.