Futures Currency Trading Trends
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Picking the direction of a trend is easy but placing the stop loss correctly is the key. A common scenario is a trader places a trade, then puts his stop in and next, the market pulls back takes him out and then, turns around in the direction the trader thought the trend would go, it plies up thousands of dollars in profit and he’s not in! How do you prevent this? Lets look at some trading tips to help you.
Firstly, I need to make a point about Futures currency trading and scalping, is this is the preferred method for most new traders and it’s doomed to failure. All short term price volatility is random, so the ideas of placing stops in random volatility is doomed to failure.
Futures Currency Trading Long Term Trends.
Instead you need to trade longer term, where you can get the odds on your side. When you look to enter a trend the best way to do it by buying breakouts:
All big bullish trends start by breaking to new highs and continue doing this as the trend progresses. Many traders hate doing this because they want to be in at the exact turn - this is not possible but by going with a breakout you have the odds on your side and your stop loss is OBVIOUS - right below the breakout point, giving you very low risk. If your trading breakouts, you can afford to be stopped out a lot of times and just one good trade, will cover your losses and give you an overall profit.
When trailing your stop let the trend get in motion and don’t try and trail your stop up to quickly, give the market room to breathe and accept dips in your open profit. A good way to trail stops in long term trends is to place it just behind a key moving average, such as the 40 day or nearby support.
Trading Overbought and Oversold Levels
When trailing your stop let the trend get in motion and don’t try and trail your stop up to quickly
Another way to trade is to sell into overbought levels and buy into oversold levels.
The key to futures currency trading here is the more extreme the price is the better. For example, wait for the price to trade into resistance and check some momentum indicators and see, if the market is at a chart extreme in terms of momentum oscillators such as the stochastic, RSI or MACD, watch for momentum to fall and take a trade. Then rather than trailing a stop, set a target and take your profit in quickly.
You are simply waiting for a price to return to normal value and it’s better to use a target than trial a stop, as prices can quickly recoil back if its a strong trend, so hit and run and take your profit.
Jasmin Agura

