My Experience With Forex Signals

This is my experience with forex signals. Around 3 years back I have subscribed for some forex signals services, which I don’t remember the name, but I have some funny and bad experience with that. They used to deliver the signals through yahoo messenger at around 12 AM EST time zone. So I have to sit before my computer, login to my messenger and wait for chat window to pop up. Everything was fine. I have subscribed for one month for that signals.  Everyday aronund that time I used to login to my messenger and wait for the signals. I used to get signals like “Buy EURUSD now”. After 5 seconds I used to get another message “Close EURUSD long trade with 2 pips profit”. what the hell is that? Even the min. spread itself is 2 to 3 pips for any currency pair. I didn’t know whether I have to laugh because the signals providers even don’t know about that or I have to cry because I bought such a waste forex signals.

Finally I used to get a message saying “Ok. Today we earned a total of 80 pips. You are not going to receive anymore signals for today. We will mee tomorrow.”

This is my experience with forex signals. After that I have never tried any other service. What is your experience with forex signals?

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Head and shoulders technique

Head and shoulders technique is one of the technique used by many forex traders. Generally they form on a particular line which we may say as a support line or resistance line. After the second shoulder is formed once the support or resistance line is broken then traders enter in the direction of break out.

Head and Shoulders format:
Head and shoulders Patterns for Currency trading

Head and shoulders Patterns for Currency trading

When the break out happens generally traders look for strong candlesticks. Strong candlesticks means candlesticks with large bodies and not large tails.

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The trade I lost because of the psycological factor “FEAR”

As you might have heard psychology plays an important role in forex trading. There are many psychological factors like greed, fear etc that effect your forex trading. The following is the one of the forex trades, I lost, because of one of the phychological factors that is “FEAR”.

The following is the EURCAD hourly chart. As you see from the chart there is a very good trend line formed at the bottom of the chart. I placed the Commodity Channel Index indicator and MACD indicators at the bottom of the chart. There are two entries possible to enter a buy trade.

1) The first one is when the CCI crosses and moves above the “-100″ line in the indicator, which is exactly at the trend line. But I was at work and I could not take this entry.

2) The second entry is using the MACD indicator. When the moving average line in the MACD indicator leaves the histogram bars we can enter the trade.

I got back from work and at the same time I observed the moving average was leaving the histogram bars. After that candlestick completed, I entered a long(buy) trade. This point is shown in the picture as the 2nd entry. I used a stop loss of 15 pips below the trend line and below the recent low. I waited for 3 to 4 hours and the chart was not moving up. Slowly I got a feeling that this trade may not work and the trend may reverse. This slowly converted my feeling into fear. I closed the trade with a loss of $99.

But after sometime the graph started raising and in two days it went up to almost 250 pips. I should have left the trade as it is but I closed it purely because of my fear.

EURCAD trade lost because of fear:
Entered a buy trade at the 2nd entry point but closed it with a loss of $99 because of fear

Entered a buy trade at the 2nd entry point but closed it with a loss of $99 because of fear

EURCAD trade loss:

EURCAD trade lot $99 because of fear

EURCAD trade lost $99 because of fear

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Some of the MACD divergences formed last week from 2nd Nov. 2009 to 8th nov. 2009

The following are some of the MACD divergences formed last week from 2nd Nov. 2009 to 8th Nov. 2009. The first one is for GBPUSD. Check the following picture. The GBPUSD shows lower lows but MACD diagram shows higher lows. Thast means in the candlestick chart shows the 2nd dip lower than the 1st dip. But in the MACD diagram the 1st dip is lower than the 2nd one. This formed a divergence. As you seen in the picture you can enter the trade in different ways. You can enter the trade when the Stochastic Indicator tries to cross above 20 line or you can enter the trade when the MACD moving average line leaves the histogram bars. You can also observe the nice engulfing candlestick formations at this point. Check the following picture for GBPUSD.

GBPUSD MACD Divergence:
MACD divergence formed on GBPUSD currency pair last week between 2nd Nov. and 8th Nov.

MACD divergence formed on GBPUSD currency pair last week between 2nd Nov. and 8th Nov.

The following is the divergence formed on EURGBP last week.

EURGBP Recent MACD Divergence:
EURGBP recent MACD divergence formed between 2nd. Nov 2009 and 8th Nov. 2009

EURGBP recent MACD divergence formed between 2nd. Nov 2009 and 8th Nov. 2009

The following is the MACD divergence formed for GBPCHF currency pair.

GBPCHF Recent Divergence:
The above picture showing MACD divergence formed for GBPCHF currency between 2nd. Nov. 2009 and 8th. Nov. 2009

The above picture showing MACD divergence formed for GBPCHF currency between 2nd. Nov. 2009 and 8th. Nov. 2009

The folloiwng is the divergence formed on EURNZD currency pair.

EURNZD MACD recent divergence:
The above picture showing the recent MACD divergence formed for EURNZD currency pair between 2nd. Nov. 2009 and 8th Nov. 2009

The above picture showing the recent MACD divergence formed for EURNZD currency pair between 2nd. Nov. 2009 and 8th Nov. 2009

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Is there any forex expert advisor that really works?

In the past I have used some forex expert advisors that really did not work. I have already written a review about one forex expert advisor like that on this site. I would like to know if you guys are using any expert advisors that really work. This information will also be useful for other forex traders also. So please come and discuss about any expert advisor that you have used in the past or using currently and how it has worked or working. So please come and discuss. I will write my experiances also about the expert advisors I have used.

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EURUSD Alligator and Candlestick Formations From 25th oct to 30th oct

Here are some of the examples of alligator and candlestick formations that were formed last week. The examples are for the currency pairs EURUSD. The examples are in the timeframes of 30 min. and 1 hr. For this currency pair this technique is working in the london and US sessions much and in asian timings it is working very less that means we can target for more number of pips in US and London market sessions but in asian session, less number of pips.

The following are the pictures for the time frames of 1hr and 30 min. I will also show you some of these formations in the asian timings but you can see that you can target for less number of pips like 15 to 20 pips in these sessions than the other session where you can target for around 60 pips.

The following is the one for 1hr time frame. The 1st trade formation formed right after 1hr of the london session started. That means at 4 AM in the EST time. The second trade candlestick formation at 8 AM EST time which right at the beginning of the USD session.

The above picture shows the candlestick formations on the alligator in 1hr timeframe

The above picture shows the candlestick formations on the alligator in 1hr timeframe

The following is a bearish candlestick formation on a 30 min. chart. But it is formed at 10 PM in the EST timings, which is a purely asian time zone. You can see that the trade you can target only for less number of pips like 15 pips. It deccreased only for 15 pips of the formation so even if you enter the trade you should look for only 15 pips. One thing you can do is you can put the target profit at the resistance line you are seeing in the picture.

The above picture shows you the alligator and candlestick formation on a 30 min. chart in asian timings but you can see that it is not working

The above picture shows you the alligator and candlestick formation on a 30 min. chart in asian timings but you can see that it is not working

The following is the EURUSD alligator and candlestick formation on a 30 min. chart at different times. The first trade formed at  9 AM in the EST time.The second trade formed at 10 AM in the EST time on the next day. The third trade formed at 7:30 PM in the EST time which is asian time zone. The fourth trade fromed at 8:30 AM EST time. The fifth trade formed at 5 PM EST time. You can see that the first two trades worked very vell as they are in the London time zone and before the beginning of US market. But the third one did not do well as it is in the asian time zone but it still went down for 30 pips. So in asian time zones also we can go for trading but we have to target for less number of pips. Generally put a stop loss at the previous support or resistance lines. The fourth trade is again in the US market session so it worked very well. But the firth one is again in the asian time zone so you have to target for less number of pips. You can use the resistance line as the target profit in the fifth trade which is in the asin time zone. In asian timezone generally the market is flat and it won’t move a lot. So you have to target for less number of pips. Check the following picture.

The above screenshot shows the alligator and candlestick formations at different times in different market sessions

The above screenshot shows the alligator and candlestick formations at different times in different market sessions

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