Learnig Foreign Exchange

When trading in Forex market it is better if you chose a certain time frame of a Forex graph and trade according to it only. Professional traders use the time frames of 4 hours, 24 hours or 1 week. There are certain benefits and disadvantages of the high time frames. The bigger is your time frame, the more funds you have to deposit to your trading account because each trading position needs higher margin. But at the same time you have a chance to make higher profits due to the higher trading volume. The market’s behavior is more stable for higher time frames and less spontaneous but it may take you few days to find a good opportunity to enter the market. In this article we would like to reveal a strategy of trading in 4 hours time frame using the candle stick graphs that can be found at any broker.

Be prepared that trading with 4 hours candle stick charts requires much patience and time. It may take you much time to find a good chance to enter the market and also from 12 hours to 5 days to stay in the market. This technique is based on the trends that sometimes appear in the Forex market. Trend provides traders with a great opportunity to make a lot of pips as a trend may last as long as up to 300-500 pips depending on what time frame you a trading. The goal is to enter the market in the beginning of the trend and leave it in the end of the trend. Following this strategy a trader must check the market and his open trades every 4 hours after the last candle in the 4 hours chart is completed. As we have 24 hours a day, so during a day you have to visit your trades or check the market for a specific signal 6 times disregarding on the day or night.

Upon analyzing the market it is recommended to check the prices for the certain currency pairs for 4-5 days back on a 4 hours candle stick chart in order to see if there were some trends before or there is a chance for a potentially good downward or upward trend coming. The choice of opening or closing a trading order may be done only every four hours when the last candle is finished and a new one has begun.

If you notice that the last three candles show that the market is going up, this is a good signal to open a buy position. If at least 2 last candles go down, this is a signal for a potential downward trend and you can place a sell position. In order to minimize possible losses you can use such orders as take profit and stop loss. You can place a take profit order after 120 points in case if the prices between the opening and closing of the market did not surpass 80 pips for the last 5 trading days. If the rates surpassed 80 pips for the last 5 days, you can set up the take profit order on 240 points.