3. Forex Market - Introduction
Over $4 trillion transactions daily
Open 24 hours x 5 days
Biggest Financial Market in the world
Accessible to every individual via Internet
Buying and Selling of Currencies
4. Forex Market Advantages versus The Stock Market
Advantages Forex Stocks
24-hour Trading YES NO
Commission Free Trading YES NO
Continuous Trading (No Halt Trading) YES NO
Short Selling Without Authorization YES NO
Leverage 400:1 5:1
Demo Practice Account YES NO
5. Making and Losing Money
Your Decision CAD USD
You buy 1,000 CAD at the CAD/USD
rate of 0.90 1000 -900
A week later, the CAD/USD rises to 1.00 and
you exchange your 1,000 CAD back into U.S.
dollars
-1000 1000
Profit 100
8. Currency Quote Overview
USD/CAD = 1.2000/05
Base Currency Currency to the left (USD)
Quote Currency Currency to the right (CAD)
Bid Price 1.2000
Price for which the market
maker will buy the base
currency. Bid is always
smaller than ask.
Ask Price 1.2005
Price for which the market
maker will sell the base
currency.
Pip
One point move, in USD/CAD
it is .0001 and 1 point change
would be from 1.2000 to 1.2001
The pip/point is the smallest
movement a price can make.
Spread
Spread in this case is 5
pips/points, or the difference
between bid and ask price
(1.2005-1.2000).
10. Forex Trading
Trading Order Types:
Market Order: Instant Execution
Entry Order: Execution takes place at Target Price
Stop Order: Used to Limit Potential Losses
Limit Order: Limits Max Price- Buy & Min Price - Sell
11. Forex Trading Contd..
Account Type
Opening
Amount
Lots Leverage
Risk-
Reward
Recommended
Standard Trading $2000-$10000 $100,000 100:1 High Experienced Traders
Mini Trading $250-$500 $10,000 400:1 Low Novice Traders
Managed Trading $2000 -$10000 $100,000 100:1 Low
Investors with lot of
Capital
12. Trading Rules
Logic Wins; Impulse Kills
Never Risk More Than 2% Per Trade
Trigger Fundamentally, Enter and Exit Technically
Always Pair Strong With Weak
13. Trading Rules Contd..
Being Right but Being Early Simply Means That You
Are Wrong
Know the Difference between Scaling In and Adding
to a Loser
What Is Mathematically Optimal Is Psychologically
Impossible
No Excuses, Ever
15. LIVE TRADING
Market Watch: Currency Values & Metals
Charts of Currencies (OHLC)
Periodicity
Trade Entry: Lot Size; Stop Loss, Take Profit; Instant Execution
Balance
Equity
Margin
Indicators
17. BITCOIN
First decentralized electronic currency
Created by pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008
Not controlled by a single organization or
government
Open source (C++) project, and it is used by more
than 100,000 people
Peer to Peer Transfer, anywhere in the world for less
than a cent per transaction
18. Finite supply that is limited by design (21 Mil)
Batches of bitcoins are awarded to bitcoin miners—
people who volunteer to install and run a bitcoin client
on their PCs and solve complex mathematical problems
Changing Finance in the same way as Web changed
Publishing
Convertible to Dollar, Euro, Yen and more
BITCOIN Contd...