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Passive Money in Forex Auto Trade

Introduction of FOREX

The Foreign Exchange Market – better known as FOREX - is a world wide market for buying and selling currencies.  It handles a huge volume of transactions 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.  Daily exchanges are worth approximately $1.5 trillion (US dollars).  In comparison, the United States Treasury Bond market averages $300 billion a day and American stock markets exchange about $100 billion a day.


The Foreign Exchange Market was established in 1971 with the abolishment of fixed currency exchanges.  Currencies became valued at 'floating' rates determined by supply and demand.  The FOREX grew steadily throughout the 1970's, but with the technological advances of the 80's FOREX grew from trading levels of $70 billion a day to the current level of $1.5 trillion.


The FOREX is made up of about 5000 trading institutions such as international banks, central government banks (such as the US Federal Reserve), and commercial companies and brokers for all types of foreign currency exchange.  There is no centralized location of FOREX – major trading centers are located in New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, and Frankfurt, and all trading is by telephone or over the Internet.  Businesses use the market to buy and sell products in other countries, but most of the activity on the FOREX is from currency traders who use it to generate profits from small movements in the market. 


Even though there are many huge players in FOREX, it is accessible to the small investor thanks to recent changes in the regulations.  Previously, there was a minimum transaction size and traders were required to meet strict financial requirements.  With the advent of Internet trading, regulations have been changed to allow large interbank units to be broken down into smaller lots.  Each lot is worth about $100,000 and is accessible to the individual investor through 'leverage' – loans extended for trading.  Typically, lots can be controlled with a leverage of 100:1 meaning that US$1,000 will allow you to control a $100,000 currency exchange.


There are many advantages to trading in FOREX.


Liquidity - Because of the size of the Foreign Exchange Market, investments are extremely liquid.  International banks are continuously providing bid and ask offers and the high number of transactions each day means there is always a buyer or a seller for any currency.

Accessibility – The market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.  The market opens Monday morning Australian time and closes Friday afternoon New York time.  Trades can be done on the Internet from your home or office.

Open Market – Currency fluctuations are usually caused by changes in national economies.  News about these changes is accessible to everyone at the same time – there can be no 'insider trading' in FOREX.

No commission – Brokers earn money by setting a 'spread' – the difference between what a currency can be bought at and what it can be sold at.

How does it work?


Currencies are always traded in pairs – the US dollar against the Japanese yen, or the English pound against the euro.  Every transaction involves selling one currency and buying another, so if an investor believes the euro will gain against the dollar, he will sell dollars and buy euros.


The potential for profit exists because there is always movement between currencies.  Even small changes can result in substantial profits because of the large amount of money involved in each transaction.  At the same time, it can be a relatively safe market for the individual investor.  There are safeguards built in to protect both the broker and the investor and a number of software tools exist to minimize loss.


AdaptiveJ.Rvint.com Expert Advisor

A fully automated order execution system for the Forex market that will place buy or sell orders into your account.  The orders are generated from the MetaTrader software.


Developed by traders for traders, the AdaptiveJ.rvint.com Expert Advisor was developed to overcome some of the human interferences such as fear, greed, and fatigue that can affect traders during systematic trade execution.


In addition, it has the ability to execute trades in multiple markets and on multiple strategies which would be extremely difficult for an individual trader to accomplish.


Traders can now take advantage of the benefits of trading with the AdaptiveJ.rvint.com Expert Advisor.


It is our opinion that the AdaptiveJ.rvint.com Expert Advisor will help you to:


Reduce risk by automatically placing stops and limits

Execute your system parameters through auto-execution

Facilitate faster and more accurate trade execution

Avoid missed trades due to sleeping hours through auto-execution

Take advantage of more trading opportunities

Trade multiple strategies and currency pairs

Save time


Forex Global Market Trading Hours

Forex is a highly dynamic market with lots of price oscillations in a single minute, this characteristic of the Forex market allows traders to enter the market many times a day and pull some profit from these number of trades. If you want to find an appreciable number of profitable trades you need to enter the forex market at the best period of time, i.e., when the activity, the volume of transactions, is the highest.


The main timing characteristics of the Forex market are the following:


* Forex is 24 hour market – It starts from Sunday 5pm EST through Friday 4pm EST. Rollover at 5pm EST


* Forex Trading begins in New Zealand, followed by Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and America


* The US & UK account for more than 50% of the market transactions


* Forex Major markets: London, New York, Tokyo


* Nearly two-thirds of NY activity occurs in the morning hours while European markets are open


* Forex Trading activity is heaviest when major markets overlap.


From this timing facts, it is quite visible that at any given time, somebody somewhere in the world is buying and selling currencies. As one market closes, another market opens. Business hours overlap, and the exchange continues as day becomes night and night becomes day.


Forex market volume of transactions remains high during the whole day, but peaks highest when the Asian market(including Australia & New Zealand), the European market and the U.S. market are open simultaneously. And these are the trading hours you must target in order to find the highest possible amount of profitable trades.


This is the breakdown of OPEN Market Times for your reference:


* New York Market trade times: 8am-4pm EST

* London Market trade times: 2am-12Noon EST

* Great Britain Market trade times: 3am-11am EST

* Tokyo Market trade times: 8pm-4am EST

* Australia Market trade times: 7pm-3am EST

Forex Global Market Trading Hours

Sydney
AST
Tokyo
JST
London
GMT
New York
EST
Los Angeles
PST
Australian Open
9:00
23:00
prev.day
22:00
17:00
14:00
Japan economic releases
10:50
0:50
23:50
18:50
15:50
Asian Open
11:00
1:00
0:00
19:00
16:00
Asian slowing
14:00
4:00
3:00
22:00
19:00
European Open
18:00
8:00
7:00
2:00
23:00
prev.day
Eurozone economic releases
18:45
...
8:45
...
7:45
...

2:45
...
23:45
London Open
19:00
9:00
8:00
3:00
0:00
UK economic releases
20:30
10:30
9:30
4:30
1:30
New York Open

0:00
14:00
13:00
8:00
5:00
USA economic releases
0:30
14:30
13:30
8:30
5:30
London Close
4:00
18:00
15:00
12:00
7:00
US Closing (IMM)
7:00
21:00
20:00
15:00
13:00

If you pay attention to the last schedule you will notice that there are two times when two of the major markets overlap during trading hours; between 2am and 4am EST (Asian/European) and between 8am to 12pm EST(European/N. American).


So here you have it, if you want to find a great number of profitable trades, focus on the hours when the markets tend to make their biggest moves, i.e., during these big markets overlaps, which therefore, are usually the Best Times to Trade



Advantage of Auto Trading

In the world of Forex trade, the concept of automating foreign exchange trading is becoming a new trend that a lot of people are looking into. Exchange-traded futures are the first group to seriously consider automated transactions. Why exactly are these groups looking to it? Let's take a closer look at automatic forex and see if we can figure out why.


1) Real-time Transactions: One of the reasons it has begun to become successful is because transactions can be conducted in real time. With manual systems it is very difficult to achieve this advantage that is offered by automated Forex systems. A lot of trades happen within milliseconds and this can be a huge push for auto transactions versus manual. A few other problems that can be greatly helped or avoided with auto Forex trading include when a trader is away from their desk or if they have had several losses in a row that hinders them from making new trades for a while. Both of these can be greatly helped by using auto trade as opposed to manual.


2) Greater Diversification: Having better options in regards to diversification can be an advantage when it comes to automatic transactions. This means that a single trader can trade in different markets in different time zones at once. This also allows them the option of multiple exchange models. Another great advantage when it comes to this advanced trading system is having models to analyze short-term data. An option that is not available in any other way. This therefore can help give those using this system a bigger advantage over other traders. This means they can then predict in as short a period of times as fifteen minutes to half an hour. This once again helps you out in trading in different markets at different times.


3) Greater Liquidity: Auto foreign exchange can also give traders more liquidity. This was discovered when futures exchanges had a huge rise in trades after they started using the programmed system. With all the advantages to this modern system, are there are any problems we need to look at? In fact there are. One of these problem areas is that some people are worried that the orders will increase too much if everyone adopts this automatic system. This can cause problems with lack of bandwidth or engine capacity trying to process all these trades in real time, though there are already people looking into how to avoid this problem before it happens.


4) Risk management: Another problem area for the auto system is risk management. There is always the consideration of checks having to be made when trades are being made. These checks need to happen in an environment where everything is properly synchronized. This is a technical problem and can be resolved when technology improves. Besides these two problems, there seems to be a lot more advantages, than disadvantages. This makes auto transactions the best option for most if not all Forex traders.


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