Forex Trading for Beginners

Start your Forex trading career by reading our beginner articles. We cover an introduction to the Forex market and explain basic terminology used in Forex trading.

Learn Forex Trading

These articles include how the Forex market works, what hours the market operates, how to find a reliable broker to connect you to the Forex market, and an introduction to the different trading software called platforms.

• What is Forex trading?
• Developing a Trading Plan
• Understanding your Trading Costs in Forex
• Commonly traded currency pairs

Forex Trading Terms for Beginners

These articles introduce the beginner trader to the jargon used in Forex trading. They explain the basic terms that will help a newcomer understand a trading platform, learn from articles about beginner Forex strategy, and assist in conversations with other traders.

• What are Quotes, Pips, and Spreads?
• What are Leverage and Margin Requirements in Forex Trading?
• What is an Order in Forex Trading?
• What is a Stop Loss?
• What is a Swap in Forex?
• What is a Tom-Next Adjustment?

Forex Trading Strategy For Beginners

These articles will introduce a beginner to the basic trading strategies used in Forex trading. They cover the basics of creating a trading plan, an introduction to the different areas of analysis, how to perform basic analysis for these strategies.

• 7 Valuable Tips To Give Beginner Forex Traders
• 3 Losing Trades and What I’ve learned from them
• How to Trade Using Support and Resistance Levels
• How to calculate profit and loss

Forex Trading Analysis

Good traders do chart and news analysis either while trading and planning their next trades. This will help a trader predict future changes in currency value.

Fundamental Analysis

• Trading the Non-Farm Payroll Report
• Long-term Trading Strategy with the COT Report
• Long-term Trading Strategy with Open Interest

Technical Analysis

• How To Read Forex Charts – An Introduction
  
  • Bearish & Bullish Flag Patterns
  • Rising and Falling Wedge Chart Pattern
  • Double Tops and Double Bottoms Reversal Patterns
  • Head and Shoulder Reversal Patterns
  • Symmetrical Triangle Pattern
• How to Establish a Directional Bias
• Forex Momentum
• Pivot Points
• Trading Forex Gaps
• The Memory of Price Strategy
• Turn Trade Strategy
• Commodity Channel Breakouts Strategy in Forex Trading
• Multiple Time Frame Strategy & Analysis
• Gold and The Aussie Correlation
• An introduction to the Elliot Wave Principle

Currency Pair Analysis

• Trading the AUD/USD currency pair

We plan on building out this section and will add more as soon as we think of a topic to share.  If you have any ideas on what we should write about, please contact us, as we would enjoy hearing from you.