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Forex Trading Basics and Strategies

The document provides an overview of forex trading, including definitions of key terms such as PIP, BID, ask price, and trading sessions. It outlines the roles of forex brokers, the types of assets traded, and the importance of understanding trading times across different global sessions. Additionally, it covers trading strategies, risk management, and common mistakes made by traders.

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Forex Trading Basics and Strategies

The document provides an overview of forex trading, including definitions of key terms such as PIP, BID, ask price, and trading sessions. It outlines the roles of forex brokers, the types of assets traded, and the importance of understanding trading times across different global sessions. Additionally, it covers trading strategies, risk management, and common mistakes made by traders.

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Table of content

Introduction
 What is forex
 What is traded on forex
 Who is a forex brooker
 Trading times & sessions
 Terminologies used in forex
 Forms of trading
 Currency pairs
 MT4 interface
STAGE 2
 What is a PIP
 Concept of BID and ask price
 What is a spread
 Form of trading orders
 Concept of TAKE PROFIT and STOP LOSS
 Leverage
 LOT sile
 Risk mgt
 Common mistake by trader
 Trading plan
 MT4 interface

STAGE 3
 How to know when to actually buy or sell
 How to generate signals for yourselves
 Indictors moving

 How to lock in profit

 Candle stick analyst

 Support resistant level

 Pivot point

 Fibonnaci levels and some marketing


strategries

Fibonacci level and some trading st


What is forex
Forex is a foreign exchange. Forex is one of the
largest market with a daily liquidity of $5.3 trillion
dollars

What is traded on forex


Someone would ask what is traded on the forex
market. This is not the form of market where u buy
clothes or shoes. The things traded on forex are
currency pairs, commodity etc

Who is a forex brooker


forex brooker are firms that gives u access to the
forex market. They provide you as atrader access to
the financial market by providing a trading account
for you. they give t wjat we call rader leverage.
They are provide support to the trader there are
various broker in the forex market we have
 Fxtm
 Hot forex
 Fxcm
 Fbs
 Lite forex
We are still going to talk about broker in details.
But we are now aware of their function and what
they offer to their traders.

TRADING TIMES AND TRADING SESSION


We are now entering the most part of this forex training if you
were distracted before let focus because your proper
understanding of the forex market would be determine if you
actually know the forex cycle. There are various trading time
and trafing session in forex. They include;
 Sydney session
 Tokyo session
 London session
 Frank fari session
 New York session
This session name are derived from the major cities in which
most of transcation are done
For example
 SYDNEY SESSION: is represent Australia and other counter
under that timezone
 TOKYO SESSION: something called Asian session represent
japan and some of the Asian countries.
 LONDONM SESSION: represent the united kingdom and
countries within it
 FRANK FARI SESSION : which is Germany represent Europe
whole
 NEW YORK SESSION: represent the americans forex is
actually a 24 hours market. It is most times regarded as
the market that never sleeps because it opens everyday
except on weekend.
so no matter where you are, no matter your time zone, you can
actually trade this large highly liquidity market.
Let’s now get to know to know their trading times because each
of this session have their own opening and closing time
SESSION TIME(OPENING TIME)
SYNDEY SESSION 9PM GMT
TOKYO SESSION 11PM GMT
LONDON SESSION 7AM GMT
FRANK FARI SESSION 8AM GMT
NEW YORK SESSION 1PM GMT

Let note this time down in our notebook as you all will be
needing for your trading. Also note that these time are listed in
(GMT) greenish meridian time so you do the appropriate
calculation depending on your countries time zone so as to
know which session you are currently on all session last for 9
hours.
So having know their opening times to get their appropriate
closing time just add 9 hours to the opening time to get when
they would close.

EXAMPLE:
TIME
SESSION OPEN CLOSE
Sydney session 9 PM 6 AM GMT
Tokyo session 11PM 8 AM GMT
New York 1 PM GMT 10 PM GMT
session

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