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Bird Watching In Lion Country is not some $7.00, 10 page, quickie report, churned out overnight for a fast buck. This is a serious ebook written by a practicing successful trader and mentor of many successful traders. It challenges your accepted ‘truths�� and surefire techniques. It exposes the tricks of marketing wizards. It reveals the edges that became second nature for market wizards. It sets you up to run a profitable personal trading business.

In short, it’s for those of you seeking an understanding about how to make money with currency trading – written in plain English.

During the last five years I had the opportunity to engage in discussions with hundreds of students of Bird Watching in Lion Country and it became clear, based on what they were saying, how and where I could improve on the book. Also, we are talking about a fast-moving, and changing market in which certain structural trading changes had taken place. What all of this meant was that for Bird Watching in Lion Country to remain current and ahead of the pack it required a substantial update.

When you purchase your copy of the all new 썚 Edition of Bird Watching in Lion Country, you will not only receive the steadfast wisdom imparted five years ago but also the added input of readers who made the book work for themselves.

I have substantially updated and revised Bird Watching in Lion Country to incorporate the latest tricks of marketing wizards, the impact of regulatory changes world-wide as well as the effects of the credit crunch on the personal Forex trading business owner and how to adapt to these challenges.

Based on the experiences and input of hundreds of readers and personal Forex mentoring clients, I have gained a wealth of new insights about how to explain my low-risk Forex trading strategy to get you up and running as soon as possible. I have incorporated these insights by expanding the text with another 100+ pages, mostly covering the 4×1 strategy and relational analysis.

Hedging your trades

When investing, you should always give consideration to hedging your trades to protect your position. I’ll explain in this article how to protect your position against unfavorable moves. It’s not as complex as you think.

Hedging could be described as a form of insurance. It can be used either for an existing or for a planned position. In other words, you can employ hedging strategies either right from the start when you first open a trade, or at any time during the trade. You can use it to protect your profits or to minimize loss from the outset. Basically what you are doing is sacrificing some potential profit in order to take up an opposite position that will pay out if things go wrong.

Your main position will probably be a spot forex transaction, but you are not limited to spot transactions for your hedge position. In fact the most popular choice is probably to open a position in forex options. You can also use currency futures, the other major derivative. In both cases you may have possibilities that are not so limited as the spot forex market.

There are four steps to forex hedging. All of them are important if you do not want your balancing trade to turn around and bite you in the butt.

1. Risk Analysis

Most forex traders would not hedge every trade, but only those that involved some kind of unusual risk, or where risk has changed since you opened the position. In this step you need to calculate the current risk.

2. Subtract Risk Tolerance

While there are a few traders who try to hedge every trade to a position of complete safety, most of us accept some risk in order to maximize profit. Risk tolerance is not about how you feel, but what is your normal level of risk on a trade or the loss that you are prepared to accept for this trade under your system. Subtract this from the total risk and you have the excess risk that you need to remove by hedging.

3. Select Your Strategy

Consider the cost and effectiveness of the various possibilities, including a trade in derivatives.

4. Act and Monitor

Then go ahead and implement your strategy, but do not stop there. Keep monitoring the markets. As the situation changes you may be able to close out part of either your original or your hedge position to give you a better overall result.

You may want to paper trade or back test to see how these forex tips on hedging can increase your profitability. Hedging is not for every trader or for every trade but it has its uses and can be a very effective tool to add to your skill set.

Lessons In Forex Automated Trading Systems

You see and hear all the hype about automated trading systems, and they can seem like the perfect answer for anybody who wants to start making money with forex or currency trading but does not know anything about it. While forex trading can be a very lucrative way of making money, it is also extremely risky, like any other form of financial speculation. In order to trade successfully on your own account, you need a lot of skill and training. All of this takes time and costs money. If you are a beginner, you could not expect to start today, be trading live and actually make any money using a manual system.

However, automated trading systems or forex robots seem to cut the learning curve right down to zero. They will apply a system for you to the letter every time. You just need to leave the software running on your computer, connected to the internet over broadband, and they will open and close trades for you according to whatever settings they are given.

They also have the advantage that you can set them and forget them. It is easy when you are starting out as a forex trader to become hooked on the market to the extent that you can hardly step away from the computer. You do not want to eat or sleep in case something happens in that time. Of course this leads to burn out very quickly. Experienced forex traders know how important it is to have a life away from the computer. Using a forex robot can help you achieve this from the start.

However, there are a few things you should know before you switch on your robot for the first time. First, there is a wide choice of robots available. Some are more effective than others. Check reviews and user feedback to be sure that you are buying one of the best.

Second, you will need to understand at least the basic terminology of forex trading, and spend some time mastering the settings, in order to optimize the robot so that you have the best chance of success. Do not become frustrated if this takes you a day or two. You then need to test it out in demo mode to be sure that everything is set up correctly. If you go live too soon, the results may be surprising, and not in a good way.

Third, you must accept that you will not see winning trades every time. There will be some losses. Overall if the robot is working well you should make a profit, but at times, the losses could exceed the gains for a while. Because of this, it is important that you do not risk too much of your money on each trade. Never risk more than 5% of your total funds on one trade, and if you want to be safer, aim for 1% to 2%. Set stop losses so that the trade will automatically close if the price goes the wrong way. This controls your risk.

One of the biggest benefits of using a forex robot is that it takes the stress out of trading. Many beginners do not realize how important this is. It sounds like just a feel good thing, but it is not. Stress affects us physically. It causes us to make snap decisions, often diverting us away from a tried and true system into emotional trading that will end up in disaster. Forex automated trading systems will remove any possibility of this.