Forex Trading Strategies - How To Use Different Strategies to Earn Profits

Every trader that has learnt or tried forex trading for a while will find a bunch of forex trading strategies that can be used. Each of it has its own advantages and disadvantages, ask for different data and condition, and will show its true potential in particular currency pair.

Basically, forex trading strategies can be divided into two major:

1. Technical analysis
This strategy is utilizing data as its main information source, especially charts to predict the future market movement. There are various methods to read this data such as candlestick charting or Elliot wave, but basically they search for patterns in the chart for a given time and looking for relationships between various indicators such as price and volume.

This strategy is preferred by most traders and they use it in daily basis to decide the best transaction available currently. Usually, each trader has their own way to interpret the data by using various variables and designed specifically for a particular market he is in. That’s why even when everybody gets the same accurate data, only the one with the right method can convert it into profits.

2. Fundamental analysis
This strategy relies on various economy factors such as overall state of economy, interest rates, production, earnings, and management. For example: some news such as Non Farm Payroll or Wholesale Inventories can affect the market greatly. If you can analyze the market movement before the news out, you can secure your position and wait for the profit.

On some occasions, there are important meeting holds by certain persons who have high influence in the state of economy. For example, a meeting about deciding a new interest rate or inflation will have great impact in the currency values. Usually it will be already too late to enter the market when the result has been announced, so you have to use the current data to analyze and guess the result before.

Not only short term trading, fundamental analysis can also be used as a long term forex trading strategies. This is rather complex, but basically you predict the future trends of the market based on how the new policy will affect the market in long run.

There are also other methods in forex trading strategies aside from technical and fundamental analysis such as Scalping.

Scalping
The aim of scalping is making a series of continuous small profits where those profits will be accumulated as big profit at the end of the day. It requires the trader to spend most of his time watching his open positions, but it can be easier by using automated trading software. For example: When a trader who using scalping strategy sees a sharp movement in the market, he will use the opportunity to make profits even if it just 10 pips.

Scalping is not a method that can be used by any trader, it requires patience and no emotion involved. A scalper will follow his proven strategy even if he sees opportunity to gain more; he will close the position, get small profit and move to the other potential transaction.

If forex trading is a new thing for you and you are still searching for applicable forex tradings strategies, I recommend learning technical analysis first since it is the foundation of almost all strategies.