The most profitable stock traders often act on inside information, or information about the market that the average investor doesn’t know or even have access to. This isn’t true of the forex trading market. All the information needed to analyze the market and make well-researched trades is available to anyone. The problem is having the time to gather enough information, analyze that information and turn it into profitable trades.
That’s where forex trading software comes in. It is designed to follow trends in the market and recognize when a favorable position is likely to occur.
That doesn’t sound so hard. And, in fact, it isn’t. You can learn which trends to watch for and gather all the information yourself. The trouble with doing it manually is that the amount of data needed to track trends of every currency pair is voluminous! You can cut it down some, spend full time at it and still miss some important profitable trends. Having software do it for you is a huge assist.
Another good reason to use these forex trading analysis tools is to learn how the forex market works. Charts and analyses will lay out the trends the software is tracking. When it makes a recommendation, you’ll see what happened in the market to make the software foresee a significant jump coming. In this way, you’ll gradually increase your knowledge and learn how to make a greater percentage of wise trades.
Here are two good forex trading software packages at different price ranges. Choosing either one will be of great benefit. Of course, the more expensive one is superior by far, but your budget may dictate where you start.
TRADING SOLUTIONS
Trading Solutions is one of the most comprehensive forex trading tools on the market. It is very customizable and the incredible in-depth analysis given is second to none. Here are some of its features:
- Flexible charting tools – Easy-to-use interface – Customizable spreadsheets – Step-by-step wizards – Advanced technical analysis – Comprehensive signal analysis
It’s pricey at $995, but it’s worth it, if you can afford it. Plus, you get a free trial. Give it a try and see if your trading success improves during the trial period. Perhaps you’ll find a way to dig up that purchase price!
LAZY TRADING
At $79, Lazy Trading is a much less robust tool for forex trading. But it could be the right tool if you’re a beginner and just can’t afford a more complete software analysis package.
It’s a simplified version in most ways. It still does all the hard work by retrieving the forex data and analyzing and finding the trends. However, it won’t present the detailed charts and in-depth analysis that Trading Solutions does. Instead it just displays a simple text recommendation saying if you should trade and if so, what you should trade. If you still find all the graphs and stats confusing, this will work for you as you learn. If you’re experienced at forex trading, this one will surely be lacking the detail you’ll want.
No matter which forex trading software package you choose, you should see a substantial increase in favorable trades in your account by using it.
By: Michael Russell
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Review of Two Forex Analysis Software Packages
April 26th, 2010Forex Tracer Vs Forex Funnel
April 24th, 2010
Let me start off by saying that both these systems are great. I started this comparison about 2 weeks ago, so I don’t have enough information about this test to actually tell you which one is the best, and is going to make you tons of money. I can tell you a few things about each trading system so you can get a grasp on how it all works.
Both Forex Tracer and Forex Funnel are automated trading systems; which means that they trade on the forex market for you, without any human interaction. This means your system is trading for you, while you sleeping, eating, out with friends, or just relaxing at home with your missus. This may sound too good to be true; right? Well not really if you think about it; there’s advancements in technology + a group of active and experienced traders = automated forex trading system.
The Forex Tracer trades on the EUR/USD chart, where as the Forex Funnel runs off the USD/JPY chart. The advantage of this is that you can run both these bots off one account, and let them trade their respective charts, without their brains conflicting over one chart. How does double the profit sound to you?
I can’t say one system is better than the other, or even if one is starting to look better; they both equal at the moment. Both are doing extremely well and I just can’t choose. It really comes to personal preference when choosing a trading system, and I think I’ll take both. I know, I know, I’m greedy.
When testing a trading account; make sure that it comes with 60 day money back guarantee, run it on a demo account, which is just fake money on the live market, so if you see no profits after the first 59 days, simply return the system for a full refund. It couldn’t be easier.
But if you are profiting; deposit your real cash and let it make you rich while you carry on with your daily activities; while you at it why not plan that holiday you’ve wanted for so long, as you can officially afford it now!
By: Ryan Oberholzer
Forex – The Next Great Work at Home Opportunity
April 23rd, 2010
If you are unaware of the foreign exchange or “forex” market, you are missing out on a truly ground breaking work at home opportunity. The reason that forex is becoming one of the top work at home areas is because that you don’t have to be a stock broker to participate. If you just understand the basics of “buying low” and “selling high”, you can make money doing this.
Forex trading is basically the trading of the value of worldwide currency. Each country’s currency is valued differently depending on how various conditions. These conditions include most importantly the economy, any wars going on, etc. This may sound like a complex system but once you start doing the actual trading it is a lot easier then you may have thought.
What makes forex trading such a good work at home opportunity is just that, all you need is a computer and you can start making money. When you trade forex, you will see how all the world’s currencies match up against one another. See something that you like? Maybe you caught something in the news that can help you that other people haven’t thought about. That would be your opportunity to “buy low” and “sell high” and get yourself a profit!
The forex market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week which means there is trading constantly going on. This allows you to work whenever you want to, but if you want to make the most money it would make sense to do trade as much as possible. However because the market is always changing you may need some assistance, this is where forex trading software can help you.
By: Chris Sacco
