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Kalu Aja

6 Dec, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Forex trading 101

Rule 1. Demands makes price go up.

Demand from where? EU?

Investor in Paris wants to buy US Bonds on Tuesday, he tells his banker "buy US bonds"

Banker sell Euro to Buy $. So $ demand is up Tuesday.

The successful trader bought $ on Monday, sold Tuesday

Forex Trading

Rule 2: Supply makes prices fall

US wants to bomb Iraq, will fund war by borrowing a lot...dollars will be plenty.

So successful investors sell $ and but Swiss FR ..before US starts bombing

Forex Trading Rule 3.

You trade dual

Unlike Stocks, where you can buy Apple an wait, in currency trading, you take a long position (buy) and a short position (sell).

Your profit is spread

You move from high supply currency to low supply currency

Forex trading

Rule 4

You cannot make money from forex trading unless you make a big bet on the spread.

Lets say you short $ to go long Yen, the difference or spread is not up to 1.0000, at best 0.050 etc

So a $1000 bet is profit of $10..

But what about a $1,000,000 bet?

Forex trading

This is the summary

1. You make money by taking a position before the event. Events move currencies.

2. You trade pairs, buy low supply, sell high supply

3. Leverage spread

This is why people lose money on forex...its difficult to predict the future.

Forex trading

Summary cont.

The individual trader is attempting to beat algorithms using d brain of tetrabytes to seek out $0.0001 spread opportunities in d Yen & cross with USD

Is it possible? Yes.

Some won a lot of money betting Leicester would win the EPL

Good luck

If you are trading forex with less than $10,000,000 you are fetching water from a well with a spoon.

Those "schools" that teach you how to trade, you open an account right?You are trading based on what they told you?

I effect, you individual trades make up their "spread"

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Pay taxes
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An econony built by Agege bread

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Get my drift?

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