8 Tips To Improve Your Forex Trading By 100% Now

Most traders don’t take a rational approach to trading and have unrealistic goals. A return of 200% on your account is possible but it is not possible every month, a return of 10-15% every month is more realistic and possible.

Here are 8 tips that will improve your trading by 100% and help you reach that level of consistence you are looking for.

1. Do not trade on anything lower than 4H charts.
If you are new to trading or losing consistently you must follow this rule, it will keep your trading account alive and growing. The higher the time frame the easier it is to make money, you can easily grow your account by 10-15% each month only taking 2-4 trades a month.

2. Only take the A trades.
Be Patient, the markets will be around longer than you, plan your trades and wait for the perfect setups then pull the trigger without hesitation.

3. Never risk more than 3% of you account.
No mater if your stop is 150 pips or 30 pips your risk should be exactly the same, most brokers allow micro lots (.10c) which make it easy to get the correct position size.

4. Keep your system very simple.
My core system’s are very simple and and very profitable! You do not need to have 10 indicators pointing in the same direction to take a trade.

5. Back test your system.
Candle by candle back testing your system will give you great feeling of confidence in you trading.

6. Use price action.
Although there is nothing wrong with indicators try to keep them to a minimum, start learning how to read price action, it will reward you greatly.

7. Don’t over trade.
This is the most common problem with traders, 95% of traders would be more profitable if they just took 1 trade a month and no more, this would force them to plan that trade with immense forethought and more often than not it would be profitable.

8. Cut your losses short and add to your winners.
This has been said time and time again, but how many of you actually do this? Your wins should be at least twice the size of you losses, preferably three times the size. Start trying to build on profitable positions instead of taking profit as soon as it appears.

If you are a newbie looking to get into the forex market or even a trader who just cant seem to stay consistently profitable. Following these rules will get you on the right track, stay with the higher time frames and you will find your trading more profitable and less stress.
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How Do You Make Money In Currency Trading?

The question, “How do you make money in currency trading?” is being asked by investors and potential investors worldwide as they witness the multi-year downturn trend of the US dollar and upswings in other currencies such as the Euro or Canadian Dollar. Only since 1999 have US citizens been allowed to trade foreign currencies at a individual level while investors in other nations have done this for years. Trading currencies takes place in the foreign exchange (forex) market and is the largest financial market in the world with a $3.2 trillion US dollar a day average turnover according to the Bank of International Settlement in April 2007. With the market open 24 hours a day 6 days a week, it offers more liquidity than the U.S. stock market or treasuries. And thanks to technology and the Internet, individual investors can take advantage of opportunities to earn profits at home, on the road or where ever they may be.

Currencies are traded in pairs such as the Japanese Yen/U.S. Dollar or Canadian Dollar/U.S. Dollar. Those that trade against the U.S. Dollar are most popular, with the U.S. dollar being represented in over 86% of forex trades. Among the top currencies that do so are the Australian Dollar (AUD), Japanese Yen (JPY), British Pound (GBP), Euro (EUR), Canadian Dollar (CAD) and the Swiss Franc (CHF). These particular currencies float freely in value and do fluctuate up and down. Many forces affect their value, such as the economic health of the nation(s) behind a money, interest rates, inflation, news in global stock markets, actions of central banks and so on. For example, in 2007 major forces weighing on the U.S. dollar are the housing market slowdown and foreclosures, bad debt such as subprime mortgage defaults causing billions of dollars of losses to U.S. businesses, overall bad economic health in America, energy price increases in oil and interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
In another example, forces that are pushing the Australian dollar up are climbing commodity prices, a very strong economy, a low
unemployment rate and high interest rates with more potential rate increases by the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2008. Fundamental reasons such as these or technical analysis using charts are what motivate investors to get in and out of the forex market, with the goal of making a profit.

Trading in currencies is tracked in movements called “pips”. A pip is the smallest unit of price for all currencies. For example in  EUR/USD (Euro/U.S. Dollar) pair, a purchase price quote of the Euro being 1.4821 to the US dollar, has the smallest unit of price four places to the right of the decimal point. Any change in the price from that position would be the reference point of profit or loss in a transaction. The USD portion of the pair is also known as the quote, which would make each pip movement worth 1/10000 of a US dollar. (There are 10,000 pips in one US dollar making a single pip worth $0.0001.) The EUR portion of the pair is known as the base. If you made a buy of 10,000 Euro base units at 1.4821 and sold at 1.4846, your transaction would have a movement of 25 pips, and your profit would be $25.00 US (10,000 units x .0025 pip movement = $25.00).

When orders are placed through a broker/dealer, they go to an interlinked connection of extremely large commercial banks that buy and sell foreign currencies. There is no centralized exchange or physical location for the foreign exchange market. The forex market, which used to be the domain of banks, now includes multinational corporations, global money managers, dealers, international brokers, futures and options traders and individual investors. Even the governments of nations get involved should intervention be required on their part to provide stabilization of currencies.

Part of becoming profitable in foreign exchange means taking time to do things to insure personal success. Positive steps include making the effort to learn about the forex market before trading, testing trading strategies with a demo account, not being highly leveraged and managing portfolio risk. Investors have made large sums of money in forex, but remember that money can be lost in foreign exchange and one should consider the amount of risk and potential loss involved before starting, and that such trading is not suitable for every person.

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Forex Brokers Exposed

If you’re looking for a good Forex broker for the first time, you have to be extremely careful. As the Forex market isn’t regulated there are plenty of Forex broker scams.

The horror stories continue to appear every day. And until the Forex market starts to be a regulated market like stocks or futures markets, you need to do a solid research on any broker, before you send them any money.

There are several things that you should look at in order to avoid opening an account with the wrong broker.

Some Forex brokers trade against their clients. So, when you’re buying for example EUR/USD the broker is taking the other side of the trade (they are selling EUR/USD). As a result, these kinds of brokers tend to manipulate prices in order to scare you out of your trade. In some worse case scenarios I’ve seen traders complaining that some brokers didn’t fill their orders when they were in a winning trade. When they were losing money, the broker executed their trades in a matter of seconds.

Some brokers are from 3rd world countries. Usually this kind of broker isn’t regulated anywhere. So, if you send them money, you can forget about the safety of funds. More than once I’ve seen people trying to withdraw money from their account, while the broker doesn’t even answer their emails or calls. Some of these brokers have open offices in Switzerland so that you can trust them. Be extremely careful with where the broker is based.

Some brokers make their trading platforms freeze during key economic events. This makes impossible to a trader to exit a position. If a broker can’t offer you a stable platform, you shouldn’t use it.

Forex broker horror stories are all over the place. In order to protect yourself you should choose a solid and reliable broker based in USA or in Europe. This broker must be regulated and offer you easy withdraw conditions.

With all of this you need to be extremely careful when you’re choosing a Forex broker. You must read everything you can about that broker. Make sure it’s a regulated broker based in US or Europe. If you have any questions about them, make sure to contact them so that you know exactly that your money will be safe with them.

Besides this, you may also consider to search for broker reviews on your favorite search engine. Reading reviews allows you to know Forex customers experiences with a particular broker. Are they glad with this broker service, or are they mad and feel cheated?

Try to understand the situation that led to a specific review. Sometimes you can easily notice if it was someone that was mad with his broker and has no reason, or someone that is simply telling good things about a broker because he works there.

Make sure the broker has enough money to avoid bankruptcy. If you’re choosing a regulated broker this task is almost complete because that’s one of the standards a broker must accomplish in order to be regulated. If not, you’ll be in trouble to know exactly the financial stability of the broker.

The Forex market is a difficult market even if you’re with the right broker. If you start trading with a bad broker, you won’t have many chances to make money on Forex.

I hope you understand all the Forex brokers’ risks and scams, and make a complete research about them before you send them your money. You’ll be glad you’ve done it.

George S. White is the editor at TopForexEducation. By visiting the website TopForexEducation you can see some of the best Forex trading systems and Forex trading courses on the market.

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Forex Trading - What Is Fundamental Analysis?

If you want to be a smart trader, you have to be able to analyze the market correctly and predict what the price movement is going to be. This is true no matter what you are trading, whether it be stocks, commodities, bonds, currency or any other form of security.

This type of analysis can be done in two different ways, with fundamental analysis or technical analysis.

With technical analysis, you study the prices. Your goal is to analyze the history of the price movements in order to try to predict future prices.

Fundamental analysis, the other hand, is the study of one nation’s overall economic health. You might also think of this as “big picture” analysis. This focus is on the idea that the health of a nation’s economy will affect both the supply and demand for its currency. In turn, this will affect the price of the currency itself.

As example, if the US economy’s health is good and its economy is on the rise, one would expect that the value of US dollar will also rise and currency traders will want to invest heavily in it. This type of “bullish” behavior becomes a self-filling prophecy so that the US dollar does, indeed, rise in value.

Although it seems like a pretty simple concept, in fact, judging the “health” of a nation is not easy. There are many factors to be considered. Therefore, two traders may look at the same figures and interpret the data in different ways.

Fundamental analysts look at various economic indicators to see how strong the economy is. Some of these indicators they analyze include the interest rate, unemployment rate, gross domestic product (GDP), and consumer price index.

Government and non-governmental agencies and bodies regularly release these types of reports; find schedules of upcoming releases for those you focus on and make note of them. Then, keep an eye on them and see what their effects are on currency prices for the country or countries you follow.

You should note, though, that the numbers contained in the report are not what have the greatest impact always. Rather, it’s the relation of the numbers in that report as compared to what had been forecasted previously.

In other words, a hike in interest rates may not have a significant impact if forecasters indeed thought this was going to happen. However, if they were expecting interest rates to remain steady and there actually was an increase, this may in fact have a large impact on currency prices.

There is a disadvantage to fundamental analysis, which is that it can be a little too broad-based. Although it’s a wonderful tool to predict overall economic growth and price changes, it doesn’t give enough details for investors to target specific exit or entry points. This is why technical analysis is as valuable as “big picture” analysis is. Technical analysis does give you that “fine point” analysis.

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Currency Trading

Currency trading, or Foreign Exchange trading is rapidly becoming very popular around the world because of the exciting rewards it promises to offer.

Earlier, currency trading was available only to huge corporations and monopolies. They had unlimited resources and investment capabilities. Small scale investors or individuals were unable to participate because it was just too overwhelming.

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Fortunately things are fast changing now. For the first time in the history of currency trading, even individuals and small-scale investors can think of currency trading. Because of the advent of the Internet and advancement in technology, a lot of information is now available to individuals. They now have the resources to speculate and make investments, oftentimes
free of cost.

Currency trading is most certainly not risk free. Like any other work that involves financial transactions, it has its own negative points. Just one example is the unpredictability of currencies. Since currencies rise and fall almost every second, they might be extremely high one minute and absolutely useless the next.

Thus, currency traders must be on guard at all times to be in touch with the changes that keep taking place on the market. Since the foreign exchange market runs 24 hours a day, monitoring it every moment can be quite a tedious task.

Another important thing to remember is that when one currency value falls, another shoots up. After all, these currencies are trading against each other and this balance has to be maintained. Thus, to minimize risks, trade on major currencies such as the Dollar, the Pound or the Yen. Since they are the most traded currencies, their value will not catapult too drastically - these are valuable currencies.

Make sure your research on the subject of currency trading is thorough before you delve into the actual trading. The returns might look tempting to you, but if you jump into it rashly then you stand to lose rather than gain these returns. The amounts of energy and finances you need to invest in this trade are considerable and thus it would be better to exercise caution about delving into the trade.

Keep yourself up-to-date by either doing this yourself or hiring an expert to do it for you. Knowledge about the market also lessens the chances of you being duped into trading at the wrong time. You will not be dependent on anyone else to know when to sell or buy and thus invulnerable to cheats.

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Forex Trading - What Makes Forex Traders Successful?

Forex trading can be a good fit, but it’s not for everyone. You have to take many things into account, and of course, you always risk losing money. If this isn’t for you, don’t worry. A lot of people aren’t cut out for it. However, if you are considering jumping into forex trading, read on. Following are some traits that successful traders share. If this is you, you just might be a success. If not, perhaps forex trading is not for you.

You have to have discipline. Successful forex traders work on establishing their own trading system and then keep with it. They do not try to “trade on the fly” or do hit or miss trading.

You have to be able to accept risk. Although many will tell you that forex trading is not particularly risky, this is not really true. Just like any type of trading, you can lose money. You have to be willing to accept that this might happen to you.

Be willing to fail. Even the best forex traders lose money sometimes on some of their trades. This happens to everyone and is simply the nature of forex trading itself. However, unlike the average forex trader, successful forex traders don’t focus on failing. They accept what has happened, learn from it what they can, and then move on to the next trade.

Have confidence. To be a successful forex trader, you have to be competent in your knowledge and in your ability to make trades that succeed. Don’t doubt or second-guess your trades.

Be willing to be wrong. Remember that no one is perfect and you’re going to make mistakes. There will be times when your analysis just doesn’t hit the mark. However, don’t stay in trades that have gone bad just because you don’t want to be wrong. Cut your losses, get out and then look for the next opportunity to succeed again.

Have patience. If you’re smart, you’ll follow your system and wait for a good opportunity to present itself. You don’t have to have your positions open at all time. You can go a day or two without any trades being made at all. Don’t trade just because you think you need to. If you think this way, you’re likely to make many more mistakes than you have to and many more bad trades than you need to.

Know when you should get out. As with any successful trading, you don’t just need to know when to get in, but you need to know when to get out as well. Many traders have gotten greedy and wanted to stay in a trade too long; when they do this, their profits can be wiped out by a sudden trend downward. When you’ve got your trading system established, listen to it. It will tell you when to get out.

Know what your financial limitations are. Don’t over-leverage yourself. Don’t trade with money you can’t afford to lose. If you trade with the mortgage money for next month, you’re in trouble. You risk losing everything you have and ending up on the street. Make sure you only trade with money that you can afford to lose. It’s okay to start small, with just a few hundred dollars if you need to. Don’t risk losing more than you can afford to.

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Forex Trading - What is Technical Analysis?

Simply put, technical analysis means that one studies price movement. You can use price charts in order to keep track of price movement history. By doing so, you can try to figure out which way prices will go, up or down, in future trends.

Most online forex brokers give you many different tools that will help you figure out what it is that will assist you in technical analysis. Some of these include the following:

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Bollinger Bands

Bollinger Bands measure market volatility. They use three lines of data: an average that changes in the middle; an upper line, which keeps track of the changing average and then adds two standard deviations; and a lower line, which keeps track of the changing average, and subtracts two standard deviations.

If the market is particularly volatile, the bands appear further apart. If volatility is not so great, the bands appear closer together.

One phenomenon known as the “Bollinger Bounce” means that the middle band is “controlled” by the two outer bands. When the middle band nears either of the two outer bands, it is “bounced” back towards the middle. This helps you visually keep track of the market, and it’s useful because if the middle band does approach either the upper or lower band, you know it’s likely that it will be pushed back towards the middle. It’s best to use this as a strategy if prices are changing rapidly but you see no clear trends from your data.

Another way to spot a general trend is what is called the “Bollinger Squeeze.” When the bands squeeze close together, it might mean that a breakout is going to happen pretty soon. If the middle band “breaks through” or exceeds either the upper or lower band, it’s likely that the market will continue to trend in that direction.

Another indicator is called the “Parabolic SAR,” or “Parabolic Stop and Reversal.” This indicator spots trend reversals. It is perhaps the easiest indicator to read. Points or dots are placed in the chart in positions that are either above or below the “candles.” (There is thea formula used that regulates where the points appear on the chart, but it’s too in depth to describe here.) If points appear above the candles, traders should sell. If points appear below the candles, traders should buy.

Parabolic SAR works best if there are clear downward or upward trends. However, it does not work very well when price movement is minimal.

Another indicator is called “stochastics.” Stochastics measures conditions that have been overbought or oversold in the market. The scale ranges from 0 to 100. If stochastics’ lines are above 80, this means that the market has been overbought and a downward trend may soon be coming. If stochastics lines go below 20, it may mean that the market has been oversold and an upward trend is about to occur.

Stochastics can help you if you want to determine when you should lock in profits or when you should place an order to buy or sell. However, don’t just rely on one of these indicators. Use several of them and adjust your trading strategy according to what you see.

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Trading The Forex Market For Newbies: Currency Trading For Beginners

The foreign currency exchange gives a platform for the exchange of money from one countrys currency to that of another. As the market with the worlds highest daily turnover with more than $2 trillion being traded by the market, the currency traders in the world out-trade the US stock market, the world’s largest equity market.

A huge contrast to the aforementioned US stock market, is that the forex market relatively unregulated. There is simply no centralized exchange and from the start of the New Zealand open on a Sunday night through to the close of the US session on Friday, the forex market moves 24 hours a day, over 5 days per week.

For the retail trader, deals can be executed through telephone transactions with a forex broker or via the internet - hence “online currency trading”. As a worldwide system made up of banks, institutions (eg conglomerate enterprises) the trading takes place in real time, with transfer of funds approx 2 days later aka the Spot value. The different times of the markets functioning eg. US session, Asia session gives the market a different “personality” - volatility and volume traded during the UK session will be different to that of the Asia session normally.

The Evolution of the Currency Markets (FX)

In earlier times, individual retail investors in the forex market could only gain access through banks using large amounts of capital and would take place for business and investment purposes. The banks would do the business for the client. As time has gone on, trading volumes have dramatically risen, particularly after free floating of exchange rates.

A key commodity, foreign exchange allows enterprises to buy and sell goods with overseas country businesses and services, making a supply and demand component which creates a true market. The bank will try to get the best deal for the business client and so a form of bartering takes place of one currency for another. Trading for speculation also exists within banks, institutions and of course, the retail trader forex market. Any individual can take part in the currency market, provided he or she has some resources and has put time in to learn how to trade and recognise the fine points of trading the currency markets.

As with any investment there are pros and cons. High risk means that, again, like with most investments, you can lose all you invest, and this needs to be taken on board so that money traded is that which can be afforded. There is a lot of talk about forex scam brokerages, (forex scams) and because of the lack of regulation of the forex market, there is an open platform for forex scams in various forms.

There are also advantages such as that a retail trader can learn to trade from an already successful trader through a mentoring program, there are also several good books on online currency trading. It is easy to set up an account with a forex broker, who will normally offer leverage meaning a fraction of what is being traded is actually required as a margin deposit to secure any potential losses on the part of the trader.

To make an income, there must be a variation in the exchange rates between a pair of currencies. The market is liquid and can be volatile. Currencies continuously change against each other in response to world events, financial announcements, professional investor behavior and historical market performance. This happens regardless of the economic conditions in individual countries since each currency affects another. The forex market has been described as the supreme marketplace and is without doubt recession proof.

The author Sam Beatson learned to trade forex from 3 highly successful interbank market traders. He now publishes information on his forex blog and via his ezine as well as paid courses. Visit www.fasttrackforex.com for more free forex videos and more information.

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What Do You Need To Know About Forex Brokers To Start Forex Trading Today?

A common question asked by retail currency traders who are new to the forex trading business is that of the commission charged for trading. Whilst there are some Forex brokers that to charge a small commission on the trade, a common practice amongst the forex brokers is to charge what is known as the spread, which is where a forex broker makes his money.

A pip is the smallest price increment, usually the third or fourth decimal place after the unit price. For example, a change from 1.9456 to 1.9458 is a change of two pips. The spread can be described as the difference between what is known as the asked price and paid the price, which refers to the price at which a particular currency is bought or sold at any given time. So if you’re given a quote of 1.9456 as a sale price or bid price and 1.9460 as the buy price or ask price, that is a difference of four pips or a four pips spread.

When you execute the trade, you will start off with a deficit of four pips which is the forex brokers spread. Therefore, each time you trade, you will need to make up usually between two and five pips in order to start going into profits and making money in Forex.

Some people evaluate the broker based on the spreads that they charging across a particular pair or a selection of currency pairs. It is important to check whether the spread is variable fixed because during particularly volatile times in the market, for example important economic announcements/news a variable spread will make it near to impossible to make money during these times.

A forex broker may advertise itself as being under the auspices of a large bank, institution or lending organisation. This is because of the large amounts of money that are involved in trading on the forex markets. If the forex broker is in America, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the regulatory body dealing with merchant registration.

The author finds that in addition to evaluating the spread offered and whether or not it is fixed or variable, bearing in mind that one should be finding trades that way outperform what is required to be spread anyway, it is useful also to test a demo account, so that the platform that the broker offers, it additional features and functions, the speed of execution and other factors can be gotten used to. Two weeks should be sufficient time to evaluate the platform.

As stated, and majority of forex brokers do not charge a commission but instead learn from buying and selling, interest on deposits, converting and holding currencies and fees for overnight rollover, i.e. they are active as currency dealers, and this is where their renumeration comes from.

The forex dealer broker acts as a middleman between the retail investor and the interbank markets. As previously stated, the spread is where the broker “makes his bones”. There is arguments amidst disgruntled forex traders on the markets that some Forex brokers are Forex scams and do not operate in a fair manner, so it is important to choose wisely.

Because Forex operates 24 hours a day, your broker should offer 24 hour telephone support. Telephone support is important because the Internet is not completely fail proof and therefore if there is a problem with either your platform or your system and you need to take action on the trade that is currently open, it’s important that you are able to use the telephone brokering to manage your trade in an emergency.

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Forex Trading Software - What You Absolutely Must Know…

There are two distinctions that will be made in this article. The first regards forex trading software that enables the retail forex trader to access data feeds and charts that show the current market action of major currency pairs and crosses in the forex markets.

The second regards forex trading software that either assists the trader in some way as an adjunct to their trading or claims to identify trading signals whereby the trader can enter the market using the software perhaps as a stand alone or in conjunction with their technical analysis charts.

The forex trading software that is probably most relevance to the forex trader, who participate in online forex currency trading through a forex broker, is that of a charting package which may well be provided by the broker. Many forex brokers, contrary to popular belief, provide excellent information for their clients, in order to help them.

In addition they will provide a kind of forex trading software, that incorporates a datafeed which transmits the latest market prices as given by the broker with a package that enables the trader to use charts of different timeframes, different currency pairs and a selection of technical analysis indicators, which can be used to create a technical training strategy.

A good charting package will be reliable 24 hours per day in providing up-to-date quotes and potting market action on a candlestick or bar graph. The amount of options will vary from broker to broker, from charting package to charting package.

Most will include the bid ask prices across a variety of pairs as well as the option to display one chart or multiple charts and to put on those charts indicators such as: moving averages; RSI; Fibonacci retracement levels and an ability to change the change the color scheme to the desired choice. Such a software made it to trader the opportunity to execute trades as well. Features such as one click order execution and closure are desirable. Speed of execution obviously is a major advantage for intraday trading.

The other type of forex trading software that has been popular to the retail investor, is the forex software that claims to identify signals and entry points for trades usually for a monthly fee. Unfortunately the reviews online for such softwares, purportedly from past users, are frequently very negative.

It is not the purpose of this article the judge, just a present appear to be the facts. The other hand, some companies offer a forex trading software, which rather than identifying the signals, provide either a template or a chart set up along with training which may or may not be proprietary, that can help the trader improve their style dramatically.

Of course, there are other types of forex trading software. There is the type of software that allows the trader to practise trading through a simulation of historical forex market data, so that the trader can practice their trading, even at times for the markets closed, i.e. at weekends.

One other thing to be remembered is that even if you’re forex broker does not provide you the software that you find is the most useful of the most helpful in terms of your looking at charts in order to trade, is that your computer may well be able to run both your brokers software and the particular charting package software that you like, at the same time, enabling you to place trade with your broker whilst monitoring the market using a charting software from either another broker or datafeed provider.

Full-time pro forex trader Sam Beatson is considered THE Master Forex Trainer by his students. He not only knows how to use forex software inside out - he’s created his own forex trading software to help traders for FREE. Visit www.sambeatson.com to find out about Sam’s coaching programs,newsletter & FREE forex trading software

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