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Trading Tip #2: Advanced Method On Making More Than 40-50 pips Consistently with MA Combinations

I wish to appreciate the comments, and encouragements  from users of the first trading tip #1. I decided to speed up the publishing of the advanced method due to high demand from interested users. However we advise traders to completely understand the basics of this system before attempting the advanced method. This is the reason we gave time for practice, and tests before the release of the advanced method.



--> In the first method we were able to prove that PRICE WOULD ALWAYS REACT AT A PARTICULAR AREA, and you can convert the reaction to your favour by setting a price trap within the reaction points.

A simple reaction can earn you at least 40 to 50 pips consistently each time it occurs (all things being equal).

The advanced method reveals some tricks, and tips to increase the profits, and helps to detect the reaction areas clearly. But before we commence i strongly advise you read the first method and practice it with a simulation software (recommended) or demo account until you get a full understanding of the strategy.


KEY POINTS OF THE ADVANCED METHOD
  1. The advanced method primarily increases the profit potential of the strategy.
  2. Additional indicators (optional) would be introduced to aid easier detection of the reaction points, and show best places to set pending orders.

PRACTICE/TESTING MATERIALS
  1. Forex Simulation Software. Forex Tester V2.0 Professional Edition was used to practice and test the
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    strategy. You can download a demo version (with limited features) for this lesson before you decide to purchase the full edition.
  2. Offline Chart (30 Mins). We do not necessarily need a demo or live account for this lesson. Right click your chart, and select properties from the menu. Select the common tab, and choose Offline Chart. Click ok.

ADVANCED METHOD OF MAKING MORE THAN 40-50 PIPS
Now lets imagine we have a strategy with 85% to 90% accuracy, and another strategy with 58% to 99% accuracy. It would be better to take more risk or increase our chances with the first strategy because out of every 10 trades we are sure of 85% minimum success compared to 58% minimum success despite its ability of achieving 99% accuracy in some runs. A trading system with 85% to 90% accuracy is worthy of taking risks but with intelligent techniques.

We said before that this strategy detects areas where price MUST REACT, and we take advantage of this reaction no matter how it reacts. This means if we get 50 reactions a day (all things being equal), and we take advantage of them using this tactics, then we should expect 100% positive returns.

The first basic strategy only showed us how to detect the areas, and how to take advantage of it by placing pending orders, but the advanced system would show us some indicators that would strengthen the detection of the reaction points, and how to multiply the profits.



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Advanced Method Step 1: - Eagles Eye Detection
We are going to apply some indicators to strengthen the detection of the areas where price would always react. The basic strategy depended only on the 200 SMA line.

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Now we are going to apply some key indicators that would give us clear signals that price is actually playing around the trap area, which is within the 200SMA line. This will help us detect fake setups. 

Force Index Indicator
The force index indicator is grouped under the Oscillator Indicator. It connects the basic elements of market information such as price trend, its drops, and volumes of transactions. This indicator when combined with the Moving Average Indicator produces better results in opening and closing orders (Click to see more about Force Index Indicator).

Open your offline chart and apply the indicator with its default settings. Resize your chart where necessary.

Scroll backwards or forward on your chart history, and look for areas like the picture 1 above where price is crawling along the 200 SMA line. At those areas where price is crawling along the 200 SMA line you will notice that the Force Index Indicator is somewhat on a straight line at the 0.00 level. See illustration below


This means that the volume of transactions with regards to the bulls and bears power is indecisive. This also means that price would eventually breakout either to the bull or bear area. THAT IS THE REACTION. Price would never remain indecisive forever so the Force Index Indicator gives us more confidence to set our trap, and wait for an eventual breakout.

NB: The longer the force index stays at the 0.00 level the better the certainty of the reaction.

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RVI Indicator
The Relative Vigor Index Indicator helps to verify trend, and
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trend breakout. It is already part of the basic strategy but we are going to see how it will helps us filter the detection.

Take a look at the chart in the same area, and see how the RVI reacts. You'll find out that when price crawls around the reaction areas, the RVI is either fluctuating within the 0.025 level and -0.025 level or on the 0.00 level. Anything outside these levels is not guaranteed. The RVI plays lesser role when compared to the Force Index but its still useful.

In addition to these indicators you can include the Alligator Indicator. The indicator as we know it squeezes around price when it begins to move in a sideways pattern or in a channel due to inactivity. 

Either of these indicators helps to further strengthen the signal that price is actually crawling around the reaction area waiting for an imminent breakout.


Advanced Method Step 2: Multiply The Profit
The primary goal of the advanced method is to multiply the profit potential of this strategy. 

The steps below involves some risks that may not be suitable to some account size, type, and broker. This is why we recommend using a simulation software to practice, and test this method in order to optimize it to your account size and money management rules.

Step 1:
When all conditions are met place 2 pending orders on both sides with different lot sizes. The orders should be placed simultaneously.

For example:
Order 1 - BUY STOP - Lot Size = 10.00
Order 2 - BUY STOP - Lot Size = 20.00
Order 3 - SELL STOP - Lot Size = 10.00
Order 4 - SELL STOP - Lot Size = 20.00

Take profit should be placed in this manner:
1. The higher lot size should have a closer Take Profit setting.
2. The lower lot size can have its TP set farther than the higher lot size or at the same position.

NB: A safer way is to place the higher TP much closer like 10 pips away from the order. But If the signal shows a major reversal or cross then you could increase it. The idea is to catch as fast as possible the immediate reaction with the higher lot size, and consolidate your position with the lower lot size. Take note of FIFO and Hedging rules for brokers situated in the US.

The inherent risk is that price can suddenly counter react against your position hence you should be careful trading the advanced method prior to news release. However our confidence lies on the basis that PRICE MUST REACT and 80% of this reaction showed positive returns if applied accurately.

Warning: Please practice, and perfect this method with a simulation software before applying it to your live account. You will not be able to carryout an extensive practice, and testing of this strategy with a demo account. Also be cautious of your leverage and margin size.

Step 2:
Place 1 (one) single large order rather than placing multiple
orders with different lot sizes. The question is what happens if the order doesn't get to my Take Profit or reverses negatively? Personally i use Trade Management Systems like Managed Take Profit EA to protect my orders from situations like this. The system takes partial take profits from my account, while automatically moving the Stop level till it gets to breakeven.

We've come to the end of the advance method of making more than 40 - 50 pips consistently with MA Combinations. We hope you'll find it useful to your success in Forex. 

We appreciate your feedback, and comments. 



How To Convert Your Trading Strategy Into Forex Signal Services



This article reveals the steps required to convert your trading strategies into Forex signal services, which would create an additional source of income.

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Forex signal services is a system where Forex signals are sent through the signal provider's trading account, trading platform/server, automated synchronizing systems, web, or emails to a client's trading account or terminal. It is a fast growing method of commercializing trading strategies.

A consistent and profitable Forex system is every trader's desire. The Forex system could be in the form of an expert advisor, manual trading strategy, news trading or semi automatic trading systems. Apart from the profits the Forex system would generate when it is used to trade, more income can be generated from it when it is commercialized. An interesting fact is that Forex system producers make more money from their products when they commercialize it.

Why You Should Commercialize Your Forex System?
If your system is good why sell it? This is a question most traders ask.

Forex trading has one of the highest number of participants in the world as evident in its daily revenue returns, which is higher than all other financial investments (stocks, shares, e.t.c.) put together. This means that there are millions of people trading everyday, and more than 80% of them are trading with the use of one Forex system or the other. Imagine a Forex system with the capacity to generate 80% win ratio or 50% monthly returns with 2% drawdown, and it is being sold in the Forex market with over 1 million
potential buyers for $100. That would amount to $100,000,000.00 if everyone bought the product or maybe half or less than half of it, which is about $25,000,000.00 in some months of sales. Now imagine you were the owner of that Forex system.

Commercializing your Forex trading strategy would give room for critics, which would enable you to redesign a much better system. A newer release or version would normally fix bugs or add more functionality, which would improve trading performance.

Commercializing your Forex system would pay you for the years or months of hard work, costs, salaries for programmers, and other expenses incurred. It also provides an opportunity for an alternative source of income.


Why Do Signal Providers & Traders Prefer Signal Services?
  1. Cheaper Cost
  2. The cost of rendering signal services is quite cheaper depending on the type of signal services solution that is deployed by the provider.

    Types of Signal Services Solutions:
    • SMS (Mobile SMS, Web to SMS, Bulk SMS, e.t.c.)
    • Host Providers (e.g. MQL Community Signal Services)
    • Direct Emails & Websites
    • Social Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Community, e.t.c.)
    • Instant Messenger (Skype, Mobile Messengers, Yahoo Chat, e.t.c.)

  3. Wider Client Reach:
  4. Most traders prefer Forex signal services to other Forex systems due to the simplicity, cheaper cost, and trust on the provider. The technology involved in signal
    services makes it easier to reach many clients irrespective of their geographical location. Getting customers or clients is very easy through forums and social platforms. For example MQL has about 117,070 members as at 12th Sept, 2013 and they support signal services from providers to their members.


  5. Easy Installation:
  6. Some signal services do not require installation on the users trading platform especially those that are provided through SMS, Web, Live Rooms, e.t.c. Some require installations in the form of indicators or EAs, which connects to the provider's server where the signals are sent directly to the client's trading platform.

  7. Trust:
  8. Trustworthy signal providers usually publish their performance results on their website or on reputable benchmark websites like myfxbook.com for all intending subscribers to scrutinize. Also some providers give daily analysis of their trades before it occurs or after it occurs.

  9. Flexibility:
  10. It is very flexible in terms of upgrades, and expansion. More concepts can be introduced as the subscriber base grows or improves. For example when a subscriber base increases or a particular signal is being subscribed more often, it gives the signal provider an opportunity to increase the fee or break it down to smaller services with additional fees.

STEPS ON HOW TO CONVERT YOUR TRADING STRATEGY INTO FOREX SIGNAL SERVICES

  1. Conduct Thorough Tests on the Trading Strategy:
    Ensure you have tested your trading strategy in a live account or demo account for a minimum of 6 months upwards. The longer the test period the better the confidence. This is very important as most Forex traders look out for consistency in profitability of any trading system. Use the best Forex testing software at your disposal to conduct random testing with different parameters. Also test your strategy with different brokers and account types. The essence is to make sure your trading strategy meets the optimum standard.

  2. See: Forex testing software (StrategyQuant EA Analyzer., StrategyQuant Tick Downloader, Forex Tester 2.0)

  3. Choose a Good & Affordable Signal Services Delivery Solution:
    You do not necessarily need massive computer servers, or software to start a signal service. There are lots of options, and solutions to choose from when deciding the right technology to start with. Beginners, and those with little budgets are advised to look out for free or cheaper solutions like emails, free hosting providers, forums, e.t.c.

    When choosing a signal services solution, the following criteria are very important:

    • Latency
    • Speed
    • Broker specifics (ability to handle 4 & 5 digit orders, other currency types, automatic order placements, e.t.c.)
    • Provider/Client Operating System & Server Type
    • Geographic Location
    • Remote capability & mobile phone support

  4. Package & Pricing:
    Packaging is an essential part of marketing. It involves the product's brand name, logo, and trade marks.
    Although this is not a physical product but it needs to be presented like a physical product on a shelf on sale. All you need is a professional graphical design of your product, which would be used in advertising your trading strategy in the form of a signal service.

    A second essential part of packaging involves breaking down your signal service or product into smaller services. This helps you organize a good pricing system.

    Fixing the right price is very crucial to how many clients 
    would subscribe to your signal service. You have to be very cautious with high prices because of the competition in the market. Start with free services for some time as most Forex traders love to try free products before paying for it. The free service duration would also help you build a list of interested clients, and also give you the opportunity to improve the services from user feedback, and critics. You could also get client's psychology or perception on what they think should be the cost of your product. Rolling out the paid service would be smooth If clients experience positive returns from your signal service during the free period .

    The next stage on the roll out is announcing the price to your clients. How much should it cost? Should clients pay a certain amount per month? or per quarter or annually? Should it be one time-off payment?

    The right cost depends on the cost of technology you choose to use in rendering your service, the management cost of the service, and your capacity to render adequate support to your clients. However breaking down the price into affordable units like free, basic, premium, and gold is the best way to fix a price that will suit you and your clients. There should be an affordable option available for everyone.

  5. Finally the following costs should be considered, and built into your price if neccessary.
    • Administrative costs (includes programmers fees, hosting fees, and other logistics).
    • Cost of hiring solutions like VPS, and software license renewals (if any).
    • Any other recurring costs necessary to avoid disruption of services.

    CAUTION
    DO NOT OVER BURDEN YOUR CLIENTS WITH EXCESSIVE
    FEES ESPECIALLY IF THE PRODUCT IS NEW TO THE FOREX MARKET. EVENLY DISTRIBUTE THE IMPORTANT OPERATIONAL COST ON THE FEES TO YOUR CLIENTS AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN OFF SOME PERCENTAGE OF THE COST AS AN INCENTIVE.

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  6. Market & Advertise The Signal Service:
    The Forex market has lots of opportunities for traderswho are willing to purchase or try a new product. The question is how do we get the attention of these traders especially when there are similar services out there? This depends on the marketing strategy you deploy. It is very important to note that good products sell faster irrespective of the marketing strategy. However a better marketing strategy would  make it outrun competitors, and keep it at the top rank for a very long time. The first step is to identify your niche (i.e. your audience) before deciding the marketing or advertising platform to use.

    There are lots of marketing channels with their attendant costs. So if you are a beginner with a low budget there is still something for you. Lets see some free & affordable but effective means of marketing your new signal service package.

    Social Platforms: Examples are facebook, google+ community, twitter, chat rooms, forums, e.t.c. These are one of the fastest medium to advertise, and market your signal service. Some of the social platforms offer free signups, and their paid services are also very cheap.

    Direct Adverts Through the Web: This involves designing a website solely for the signal service, and using advertising campaigns like google adsense, click bank, RegNow, e.t.c. to promote the website, and the signal services package. This method attracts a significant amount of running costs. A cheaper method is to use web bloggers like blogspot or wordpress.

    Signal Services Hosting Providers: This has more advantage over the other methods. The hosting provider connects your service to its pool of clients. The marketing and advertising is taken care of by the hosting provider. A fee is usually required from the hosting provider for hosting the signal services and other services it renders. MQL Community Signal Service hosts over 9000 signal services with over 100,000 members and users. 


  7. Follow Up & Publish Your Trade Results:
    Followup with your clients periodically. You can create a forum to enable interactive sessions. This will boost your client confidence and also attract other subscribers. Also ensure you publish your trades daily or at the end of each trade on the forum or website. This would allow transparency and serve as a means of performance advertisement.

Designing a profitable trading strategy is a vital aspect to succeed in Forex. However commercializing it through signal services triples your success to greater heights because you are challenged to improve your system when traders are happy to pay for it.

Further Reading: 
  1. Top 7 MQL's MT4 Signal Services Providers
  2. How To Make 40-50 Pips Consistently Using Unique MA Combination
  3. How To Copy Trades in MT4
  4. 10 Differences Between MT4 & MT5 Trading Platform

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Trading Tip #1: How to Make 40-50 pips Consistently with MA Combinations


I want to show you a method of making at least a minimum of 40 to 50 pips and above consistently through a unique combination of Moving Average Indicators. This trick has worked for me 90% consistently. 

Skip the nitty gritty and go straight to the summary tips

Before I explain how it works I’ll show you some proofs. 

SCENE 1: – Pending BUY order at 1.55724 and Pending SELL order at 1.55243. Take Profit at 1.54585. 

See what happens next below: 


Price breaks the sell pending order at 1.55243 and made more than the minimum 40 to 50 pips. 

SCENE 2: – Pending BUY order at 96.950 and Pending SELL order at 96.395. Take Profit (BUY) at 97.965. 
Once again price breaks the BUY Pending Order at 96.950 and makes over 40 pips plus. 

SCENE 3: BUY Pending Order @150.450, SELL Pending Order @149.735 & Take Profit @151.640. Got more than the 40 to 50 pips when price broke the BUY pending order @150.450. 




BRIEF ABOUT THE TRADING SYSTEM
What if you knew a particular place or location that something must occur irrespective of the circumstances? What if you had a tool that can tell you exactly where this place or location is? If you knew and had such a tool I bet you’ll definitely reap a lot of fortunes from it. Now imagine you knew a certain area in the market where something must occur apart from the news release! Also imagine you had a tool that would not only inform you of that place but also help you to take advantage from it. This is what this system is all about. 

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This system shows you a particular area in the market where a reaction MUST OCCUR SOONER OR LATER. Having studied the market for many years, I discovered certain places or locations where price MUST react either to the BUY or SELL area. The big deal here is that no matter what happens, when price gets to that location or area it must react. The good thing is that this system helps you take advantage of the reaction to your gain. The system thrives on the following market state; sideways, still, horizontal, and undecided state. All you need to do is wait for the system to show you when price has entered this state, and then you set the trap with pending orders, and wait for a reaction, which would always turn out to your favour. 

HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
The system works similar to the breakout method only that it uses the moving average indicators for its breakout mechanism. When price gets to the decisive moving average indicator it is 95% likely that a reaction would occur. 

SETUP (M30 Chart) 

INDICATORS: 200 SMA (Thick black line), 26 EMA (Red line), 10 SMA (Green Line), *RVI (Optional)

CHART: 30 Minutes chart is recommended but you can explore other timeframes. 

PROFIT TARGET: 40 to 50 Pips. This can be extended but not more than 100 pips at a trade. If you want to extend the profit range then contact me for My Advanced Method. 



  • Open any chart and place a 200SMA (apply to close) on the chart. Format the indicator to be bolder than the rest indicators. 
  • Place a 26EMA and 10SMA (apply them to close price). The 26EMA should be in red color and 10SMA should be in blue color (you’re free to use your choice of color). The 26EMA and 10SMA are not too important but they serve as a guide to extend the profits beyond 50 pips. 
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Step 1
When price gets close to the 200SMA be very watchful. The 200SMA is very good at dividing the BUY Region from the SELL Region. When price crosses over the 200SMA it means a trend in that direction of the cross would last for a very long time ranging from days, weeks, and months before an opposite cross would occur. So when price gets closer to the 200SMA, it is 99% likely that a major shift or reversal would occur (this is the reaction). Sometimes a shift occurs and most times it reverses and continues in the previous trend direction. We lay the trap with our BUY and SELL pending orders when price is getting close or moving along like a channel within the 200SMA line or crawling in between the 200SMA line in a sideways pattern. We set the within this area because a definite action MUST OCCUR SOONER OR LATER (i.e. price must break out from the 200SMA line and continue or form a new trend). 

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You can liken the 200SMA indicator to the resistance and support line. Now go back to your chart plot a 200SMA indicator and watch how price behaves when it hovers around it or gets close to it. You’ll see that it either crosses over it and forms a new trend or bounces back and continues its former trend. 

Step 2: 
Plot your 26EMA and 10SMA. They are more useful for the advanced method. When both indicators cross over the 200SMA line it means a very strong trend would occur in that direction. 

Step 3: 
Market is never static all the time so watch out for price getting close to the 200SMA indicator. When price is closely approaching or has approached or is resting on the 200SMA line then set pending orders either 5 pips away from price or a bit higher or lower than the 200SMA line. See illustration below. 



Looking at the circle in the picture above, price approaches the 200SMA, crosses below it but doesn’t go further and then goes back again to the 200SMA, hovers around it, and looks indecisive in regards to the next direction it should take. Looking closely again you’ll notice that price is HOVERING BETWEEN 1.53515 and 1.53355. You can see that price seems to have bounced from the 200SMA several times and has not broken out of it to a definite direction. The system here has clearly informed us of a price trap, which is what we need to place our order. 

The chart below illustrates were we place the BUY STOP & SELL STOP pending orders. 



The orders should be placed in such a manner that price is safely trapped inside both orders waiting for a breakout to occur. The green star at 1.53835 indicates a place where the BUY pending order should be set. It is in a safe distance but will reduce our potential to make the minimum gain. The green star close to 1.53675 is another better position to set the BUY pending order. Either position is okay for the BUY pending order. The red star at 1.53355 is the best position to set the SELL pending order. 

CAUTION: The pending should be modified as the market progresses. The essence is to keep price trapped within the order and the 200SMA. Always set the pending orders under or above the highest or lowest candle. Take Profit should be within 40 to 50 pips on both sides. Stop Loss should be above or below the opposite 200SMA line. 

Let’s see more examples of how to setup the system; 


Looking at the chart above, price approaches the 200SMA, crawls around it showing no sign of breaking through the 200SMA line, and hovers between 96.700 and 96.395. This is a trap. We set pending orders at this area where price is crawling along the 200SMA and wait for an eventual breakout. Few hours later, price finally breaks out of the trap, hits the BUY pending order and goes further than the minimum 50 pips. 

Let’s see another example. 


There are three circles labeled with alphabets A, B, & C indicating where the system gave us signals to trade. Price started crawling or moving sideways from the bigger circle A and showed intensity in circle B. Circle B is the best area to place pending orders because the candles crossed the 200SMA line a bit and remained indecisive. 

Don’t forget that the pending orders must be placed a little
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above the highest candle or below the lowest candle wick. This keeps price in a trap waiting for a breakout. Remember a reaction must always occur when price gets to the 200SMA line. It will either cross over or reverse. In this case, price reversed and broke the BUY pending order leaving us with some very good pips. The same thing happened in circle C. Price broke out from the 200SMA line and went finally went downwards after series of crawling along the 200SMA line. 



--> SUMMARY
HotForex 50% BonusWe have observed after years of studying the Forex Market that price MUST REACT AT A CERTAIN PLACE IRRESPECTIVE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES (i.e. when price gets to this location it MUST either move ahead, crossover or reverse 40 to 50 pips minimum). 

Our system helps to detect this location and take advantage of them. See the steps on how to setup the system and trade with it.
  1. Setup the indicators (200SMA, 26EMA, 10SMA, RVI) on any 30 minutes chart. The other indicators except the 200SMA is less important. You can experiment other timeframes.

  2. Watch for the following price patterns before placing pending orders. The system will help you detect these patterns.

    1. Price (candles) gets to the 200SMA line, crawls around it, or moves in a sideways pattern on the 200SMA line, or crosses the 200SMA line but forms a resistance and support formation on the 200SMA line looking indecisive of the next direction. (see illustration below)

    2. The pattern should be consistent for at least 4 to 5 candles or time duration.



  3. Place a buy and sell pending order when the above pattern occurs within the 200SMA line. Place them in these forms:
    1. Place a BUY STOP pending order at the highest high candle within the pattern formation.

    2. At the same time place a SELL STOP pending order at the lowest low candle within the pattern formation.

    3. Ensure that your pending orders somewhat keeps price in a narrow channel, which we call the "Trap". It is 100% likely that price must breakout from this "Trap"

  4. Take profit should be minimum of 40 to 50 pips on both sides. Stop loss should be based on your Money Management Rules. It's recommended that the SL should be above or below the 200SMA line.

  5. The system can be traded on any chart, session, and duration.

  6. For the advanced system (over 50 pips settings) contact me
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8 Requirements for Developing Forex Winning Strategies

1. HAVE A POSITIVE OBJECTIVE
Objective means “The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)” – TheSage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus

All Forex traders have a common objective – INVEST TO GENERATE INCOME. The reason why most people decided
to invest in Forex happens to be the objective behind their trading strategy. So if you decided to invest in Forex with a wrong objective or motive then your trading strategies will certainly fail. If you want to develop a winning strategy you must have the right objective and mind frame. You must put off all unrealistic and wrong motives behind your intentions as regards the reasons why you got into Forex. Your objective is the psychological force that drives your passion in whatever you do, so it has to be right. A positive objective for a winning strategy must have the following attributes: 

     a. Not in a hurry to get rich quick i.e. gradual but steady
         and upward growth logic. 
     b. Long term approach logic. 
     c. Right motives and intensions. 


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Unfortunately most traders have a wrong perception of the returns of investment in Forex before they got in. Many invested in Forex for wrong reasons. Whatever got you into Forex will play a major role in determining the kind of trading strategy you will adopt. This also will determine your success or your failure in Forex. Therefore if 80% percent of traders loose in forex, this could likely mean 80% of Forex trader’s objectives or mindset is wrong.




2. ACCURATE ENTRY/EXIT LOGIC “Eat the pie while it is
    hot and ready to serve”.

What good is a strategy that gets you 20 pips when the rally was supposed to be 100pips because of a late entry? What good is a strategy that gets you as high as 150 pips but exits at 20 pips or negative because of a late exit? An ideal winning strategy should get you in and out at the right time with best profits possible. A winning strategy must have at least 90% Accurate Entry/Exit mechanism. 

http://www.forextester.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=687Perfection with consistent practice is the key to achieving this feat. Using very good simulating tools to test your strategy will help to fine tune and show you precise entry/exit points that would give you ideal profits. The type of indicators you use would also determine the accuracy of your entry and exit points. Don’t use lagging indicators as the major decider for trade entry or exit. They are very good in trend systems or better when combined with other indicators. You need to know how to combine trend, oscillating and other linear indicators to get an accurate entry/exit system in your strategy.

3. Identify the best Take Profit/Stop Loss Settings 

A winning Forex strategy must have good Take Profit and Stop Loss settings. You must know the highest number of pips a currency pair can get to in a session or at a particular time as well as the lowest. 

Your personal trading goals i.e. how many pips you want to achieve in a day, week or month should determine your TP/SL in your trading strategy. Consistent testing of your strategy with Forex simulating software would help you to get the best TP/SL for a winning Forex strategy development. 



4. Control! Control!! Control!!!
Any forex strategy without a control mechanism will fail someday. You should be able to design control mechanisms against likely and unlikely uncertainties. 

Also for you to benefit and maintain a winning trading strategy the following should be kept under strict control:

a. Emotions (anger, anxiety, excitement, e.t.c) 
b. Fear (of mistakes, losing a trade, uncertainties,
    decisions, e.t.c.) 
c. Impatience (trying to meet a month’s target in one day,

    can’t wait, e.t.c) 
d. Anxiety (panic, worry, nervousness, e.t.c.) 

There are times when certain market conditions toy with your senses, and emotions. At such times fear and anxiety comes in, and if not properly handled, you will likely make costly mistakes through wrong decisions. The ability to control emotions, fear, anxiety and impatience would complement your forex strategy. 

Nothing good comes out from the best trading strategy when you are under the control of fear, emotions, anxiety and impatience. 


5. Currency Pair Choice 
Currency pairs are unique in combinations and reactions. Similar effects are sometimes observed on certain currency pairs during an economic impact despite the differences in the pairs region

Every currency pair has a unique pattern, and therefore
should be traded differently. Some patterns are strong during the London Session or Asia Session, other currency pair patterns could be bearish, zigzag, bullish, uncertain or docile at a particular session or duration. 

Currency pairs due to their unique nature cannot fit into all types of strategies. Therefore pick a pair that fits perfectly into the logic of your strategy. You can also test your strategy with all sorts of parameters using the major currency pairs first. Compare the results, and identify the currency pair with the best performance results. Forex simulators and back testing tools can help you to decide the best currency pair that would give you the best performance and less drawdown. 
6. Ability to Recover From Loss 
There would always be downtimes in Forex, therefore every winning strategy should have a means of recovering back from loss or series of losses. Some schemes like doubling the lot size, martingale, and hedging are used to regain sharp losses. These schemes are good but can be very dangerous too. Trade mechanism or logic that increase and balance lot size as the need arise is preferable to be included in your strategy. 


7. Stress Test
This is a major requirement for developing Forex winning strategies. You can think of it as the lab or test ground where the strategy would be analyzed for unknown bugs, efficiencies, possibilities, capabilities, reliability, and likely returns on investment. 

A very good strategy written down on paper or your notepad is useless until it is has passed the stress test. There are different testing tools available for developing strategies. Some have the capacity to test and turn strategies into Expert Advisors, some have more advanced features than the regular MT4 strategy tester, while others produce deeper analysis. 


8. Good Broker 
This is the platform where the strategy would be used. It is wise to develop your strategy or get details of what you want to achieve from your strategy before choosing a broker. Your strategy could be in the form of scalping, hedging, martingale, crossover, price action, timeframe combination, news or breakout system. Some of these strategies are restricted by some brokers, and some have been banned or reviewed by some Forex Regulatory Agencies. 

Also some brokers offer proprietary platforms, which could be very good or bad for your strategy. The price feed, and the state of technology a broker utilizea can either affect your strategy positively or negatively. A true ECN broker’s platform could work better with your strategy than an STP broker’s platform (vice versa). 

Talk to your broker about your strategy and find out if their policies and trading platform supports it.

These are the 8 requirements needed for designing a winning Forex Strategy. 

Have a better requirement not listed here, share with us, leave a comment.




About Onyebuchim C. Obike
I am an IT specialist in Software Programming, Networking & Telecommunication. My quest for an alternative source of income led me into Forex since 2005. My encounter in Forex over the years made me to develop a site where traders can get reliable and effective Forex Resources & Tools, that would make them successful traders. I prefer combining Technical & Fundamental techniques in trading. Follow me on facebook: www.facebook.com/fxtradecity