UFO Sightings

Nowadays everybody is looking for the short cut when it comes to trading. They don’t focus on the oldest form of technical analysis: Price Action. It’s a shame more traaders aren’t interested.

You can tell this is true by looking at any forex forum on the internet. What is it that you normally see on these sites? Usually it’s people that are talking about some system that has 40 moving averages or some forex expert advisor that’s supposed to be the new holy grail.

Do you see what’s wrong with this picture?

For one thing, traders must understand that all these kinds of indicators, like RSI or stochastics, are only good for letting you know what has already occured. If you want the ability forecast future movements in prices, then i strongly recommend nor using these indicators.

Traders also need to be able to understand that 9 out of every 10 forex traders are losing money as you read this. If this is the case, why use the same exact tools that all the other struggling traders are using?

Think about this logically. Most of the forex traders you see in forums are usually struggling. If they weren’t, then why would they be in a forum? The successful forex traders are usually to busy paying attention to the market that they don’t have time to spend in a forum.

What’s bigger than ever now are these forex expert advisors. If you don’t know what a forex expert advisor is, they are basically automated trading robots. Developers are able to program a trading system using lagging indicators so that these robots trade for you while you’re not there.

I could see why this would attract most newbies traders. I mean, who wouldn’t want to have all that free time to yourself. You can go to the beach, the ballgame, dinner and a movie and all the meanwhile you’re becoming rich, right? Well, not exactly. That’s not the way it works.

Remember with expert advisors, you’re asking something from a computer that 95% of all the traders in the world can’t accomplish. Being that the forex markets are so new driven, do you really think that a computer is going to be able to quantify any kind of breaking economic news that comes out?

If you want to truly understand the reason why the market moves the way it does, it’s real simple. Less is more. Watch the EUR/USD for the whole day on a 30 minute chart without any indicators. Just follow the price action. I’ll never steer you wrong. If you focus hard enough, you’ll be able to see patterns that happen every single day. These are patterns that actually forecast the markets.

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