Saturday 8 October 2011

How Investors can Implement Good Long-Term Trading Strategy

By Garry Ikoku


To be successful in a long-term currency trading investment, you need to understand, and can implement the trading tactics accordingly. Long-term trading strategies are easier to understand when compare to the short-term trading or day trading strategies. The main reasons why investors are using long-term trading are that they do not have the time to sit down in front of their computer the whole daylong. They need to have more free time for themselves, and their family. It is quite nice to hear it, isn't? Yet the facts are way far from the reality.

There are different opinions when you are trying to find out what people thinks about long-term trading strategies versus the short-term trading strategies. You will find that some people will agree, that long-term is better than the short-term, while others will have find difficulties in approving to the statement because one or many things. But I presumed, those who are contradictive with the statement that mentioning long-term strategies are easier when compare to the short ones, is because either they have not try the strategies themselves, or they had been burn once using these strategies on their own.

First, let's discuss about the possibility that might happen or should be prepare well if you are interested in applying long-term trading strategy on your own trading account. The very first question you need to ask to yourself is how well funded are you to trade the currency markets using long-term trading strategy. If you are someone with just couple thousands of dollars in your pocket, then trust me, this might not the suitable strategy for you to use to trade the currency markets.

Should you only interested in applying long-term trading strategy, then you needs to remember that this particular strategy requires its users to deposit significant amount of cash as deposit. Preparing everything to the details is very important for long-term traders to do because without good preparation, you will have very limited resources when the time to trade is come. If you have just couple of thousand to invest in this business, you better choose a short-term or day trading method because with long-term method, the cost is quite large, and also, you need to have very extensive experience.

Trading using long-term method requiring the investors to have a long extensive trading experience because even it is easier to spot opportunities in this timeframe, investors need to be aware of things that can divert price movement. Things like big news releases such as the NFP, interest rate, GDP are all the news that need to be aware of. NFP (Non Farm Payroll) is release every Friday on each month.

Beside the need of experience, investors also need to have very good understanding of how the market works. By implementing the right trading strategies, investors can make the profit they want in this market, over and over again.




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