Sunday, November 23, 2008

A Profitable Forex Strategy - Forex Robots and Systems


These days most people are looking for a profitable Forex strategy and to be quite honest they do exist, however they are hard to come by for a few reasons. Number one, a person can have a profitable Forex strategy but without the proper discipline to execute the strategy effectively or number two, they can have all the characteristics of a great trader, but their system is flawed and gives them poor trading signals.

How do we create profitable Forex strategies?

Using Forex automated robots. Forex automated robots, or also known as expert advisors operate on a set of parameters based around a mathematical formula. When conditions are met within the formula, a trade is taken and the robot automatically sets the appropriate stop loss and profit target. The benefits of having a robot make the trading is that the robot does not have any emotion. The robot simply acts on a set of rules and never deviates from those rules. Secondly, a Forex robot can trade around the clock twenty four hours a day, never missing a trade on a specific currency.

Most Forex robots are compatible with MetaTrader, a free charting software package and can be easily installed to the platform. Once the Forex robot is successfully installed, it can then be applied to just about any Forex broker. It's usually recommended to first test the robot in a demo account before actually going into a live trade. First testing the robot will help identify proper settings for various market conditions. A slight adjustment of the settings may yield the results one is looking for and of course will help with sideways and trending markets.

There are many Forex robots to choose from online and of course not all were created equal either. When looking for a quality expert advisor, or Forex robot, it's important to analyze the back tested data. Ask yourself, how has the robot performed in the past? Most trading robots have a very good trading record and the best ones can trade at nearly 90% accuracy. In order to get that 90% accuracy your Forex robot will have to be properly tested and perhaps even tweaked a bit, but it is very possible.

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