This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on November 20, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Its not necessarily every day that we get into a trade, nor do we need to enter a trade every day. We also have our share of losses. But for us, as long as we don’t have any formed confirmations based on technicals, we don’t enter into at trade. We spend the entire day here in the Live Trading Room analyzing the trades and different currencies using different tools to determine which phase of the price movement we are in.

Case in point, EUR/USD - for a couple of days now we have been looking for a Triangle Formation breakout on the H4 charts. We can see that the breakout took place to the upside - but the most important part, more so than the trade itself, is that we - and our members - are prepared. No matter which direction the breakout takes place in, we are ready with fixed targets, based on certain principles of Fibonacci Expansions which we use for targeting our Triangle setups. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on November 19, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

This was the first day of the week, and as the market opens, we generally try to look for gaps. Weekend opening gaps are quite effective, and there is a method to trade it. It usually succeeds quite well.

AUD/USD opened with a gap. The general theory is that when price opens with a gap, the market will come back to fill the gap most of the time. If the gap opens to the upside, we tend to target short trades. Subsequent to price filling the gap, it gives further clues on the expected further movement.

The gap begins to act as a sort of channel. As we can see on the AUD/USD intraday, price closed the gap, went beyond it, and came back to retest it, which gave us the indication that price would remain short for some time. (more…)

Hey Traders,

This is the third episode of our Secrets of MetaTrader video series. Today’s lesson is dedicated to installing indicators on your MetaTrader 4 platform, without having to dig around on your “C” drive looking for the right folder.

We’ve had A LOT of requests for something like this, so I hope you all find this extremely helpful and effective! If you ever need to install indicators manually, this is the recommended way.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments, and enjoy the video!

Hey Traders,

Welcome to another episode of Secrets of MetaTrader. Its been a while since we posted another update, but it was surely worth the wait.
Our second lesson discusses duplicating objects on your charts - something many traders can find very useful when plotting channels, Andrews Pitchforks, etc.

Another topic in today’s video is stacking indicators - placing one indicator on top of another in a separate indicator window. This is a very versatile feature that many traders ignore because they don’t know about it.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments, and enjoy the video!

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on November 7, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Out of intraday trade setups today, we traded just one. The Yen pairs were going crazy in the Asian session, and have been dropping like a stone. We managed to catch the GBP/JPY - and did not anticipate such a large move.

The Divergence was certainly there - a Bearish Divergence. We entered our Short trade based on our Fibonacci Fan levels, and price went far beyond the expected target levels. We did not ride the price all the way down, however. This trade was a good example in the room of the effectiveness of Fibonacci Fans in general, and how to use them. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on November 6, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

There was one intraday trade taken today which went off very well. I would like to concentrate on this trade today and the process which gave us the necessary confirmations to enter the market correctly.

It was a Yen pair on which we traded, but thats not how the trade started out. Lets have a look at the sort of correlations we were looking for.

We started off analyzing the EUR/USD. This pair has been in a bullish intraday phase, and we plotted some 1-2-3 Formations and applied our Fibonacci Expansions. Based on the Expansions, we knew that a certain level has yet to be satisfied. We were thus bullish on the EUR/USD, expecting it to go up. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on November 6, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Mondays are usually slow days and today was no different - most of the currencies did not give us good technical setups. But I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss a particular strategy with you.

One of the strategies we teach at FX Instructor, called the GBP/USD Breakout Strategy, also known as the “Power Hour” strategy. We have refined this strategy and made it much more effective. This is a very powerful strategy, but there is one drawback - the rate of occurrence is relatively low. Maybe 3-7 times a month on average. However, when it does occur, the success ratio is astounding - we have the track record on our site if you want to have a look. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on October 30, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

There were a couple of intraday trades today, which we will go over before following up on the long term trades which we are into up to now.

On the GBP/CHF  we identified a Bearish Divergence, which contributed to a Short trade, as pointed out by one of our members. The price made higher highs, stochastics made lower highs, and the lower high on the stochastic was quite below the overbought level of 80. This means the momentum has been decreasing in this rally of price which gave us the second high. This signifies a change of trend. This was a nice divergence, and we went in according to our divergence trading rules.

We plotted our Fibonacci Fans, and also used other fib projections to get our targets for a technically correct and profitable trade. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on October 29, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Mondays usually are slow days and we wait for the technicals to settle down before we think of following up with the last week’s trades or looking at intraday. But on Mondays we do look forward, as we get the technical setups for Gap Trading.

The gaps are not present on forex as much as other markets, as it is a continuous market, but on Mondays the market can open with a gap, and currencies will give you excellent setups. Gap trading techniques are very effective. Lets have a look at one of the currencies which gave us an excellent one today.

The NZD/USD gave us a gap, though not a very large one - usually the larger the gap, the larger the move. We wait for the market to come back down to fill the gap, and went in Short upon a Bearish Divergence, expecting the price to fill the gap, which it did. The gap turns into a kind of channel, and price found support at this level. A nice Short trade on the NZD/USD, without all that much effort, which is the main advantage of gap trading. (more…)

This is a video summary of the Live Forex Trading Room session on October 26, 2007.

Today’s Summary, by Sunil Mangwani:

Lets go over the long term things first which we’ve been following. On the GBP/USD, we were looking for a breakout on the daily timeframe from a Bullish Flag Formation. Price has been moving with lots of upwards momentum, and so far has remained above the mid channel of the flag. We were expecting a breakout this week, but it has not yet taken place. We have a penetration, but not a close.

On the intraday timeframes we did have an indication that today we might not get the close that we are looking for, because we had a Bullish 1-2-3 Formation. As I always say, “give me a 1-2-3 formation, and I can give you the targets”. We plotted Fibonacci Expansions to determine our targets, and price was rejected at the 127 level, so we do expect some retracement. Today is just not the day for the breakout. Lets see how it goes. Monday we do expect strong upmoves on the GBP/USD. (more…)