What You Need To Be A Successful Forex Trader

FXTE recently conducted an extensive study to examine how profitable Forex traders trade – specifically focusing on their trading styles and strategies. The overriding goal was to find out what make them successful, and the results were astounding.

We discovered that successful Forex traders share a set of four essential skills. These are not a series of individual capabilities, but rather are integrated into a complete set of skills that complement and reinforce one other, in essence magnifying their power. Best of all, each of these four skills are entirely learnable.

Successful Forex traders...

1. Understand how the market really works
   They understand market dynamics and know the best time to trade each currency. They know how government, bank and corporate actions impact rates.
2. Profitably trade news events
   They understand how expectations about fundamentals are an important intrinsic component of price. While they cannot predict the news, they can predict response to news, and know how to position for any event to profit.
3. Apply Forex-specific technical tools
   They apply these tools to trade short and long term trends. These tools range from simple moving averages to capture 20-60 point directional movements to Gartley and Elliott Wave pattern analyses, as well as statistics on market behavior to refine trade entries and exits.
4. Effectively manage their trading capital
   They use leverage to improve profits, stops to preserve capital and know how to minimize trading costs.

Of these, the skill that provides the most opportunities for high-return, low-risk trades is trading news events by understanding how a deviation from expectations impacts exchange rates.

We know that Forex traders actively prepare for news events. They profitably trade those events because they understand how expectations on fundamentals are an important intrinsic component of price.

You don't need to be an economist to understand them. And you don't need to predict them. You just need to know when events are likely to occur, and what to do when there is a significant surprise.

If you know the fundamentals, you own the markets.
If you don't, the markets own you.

FXTE has designed a curriculum to help traders of all levels master each of the four critical skills that profitable Forex traders have and need. Be sure to look into the newstrading strategies offered in our seminars.