Trading Forex Using Price Action - Unleash The Power

It seems that most forex traders now are looking for the short cut, instead of using the oldest form of technical analysis: trading just using price action. Most traders though don't seem to be interested.

You can tell this is true by looking at any forex forum on the internet. What is it that you normally see on these sites? Usually it's people that are talking about some system that has 40 moving averages or some forex expert advisor that's supposed to be the new holy grail.

Do you see what's wrong with this picture?

Well for starters, they need to realize that all the indicators like stochastics, MACD, RSI, etc.... are lagging. They are great for telling you what has already happened. It provides no ability to forecast future prices.

Another important thing for traders to realize is that approximately 95% of all trades end up losing money. Since this is true why on earth would you want to be doing the same exact methods that 95% od the trading world is doing?

You also need to think about the fact that most traders on a forum are usually struggling traders. If they weren't struggling why would they be on a forum to learn about trading. The real successful traders don't really have the time. They are too busy trading the markets.

What's really increased in popularity are the Forex Expert Advisors. For those that don't know, these are basically automated trading machines or robots. Developers program them using lagging indicators so the market trades automatically while you're away.

I could see why this would attract most newbies traders. I mean, who wouldn't want to have all that free time to yourself. You can go to the beach, the ballgame, dinner and a movie and all the meanwhile you're becoming rich, right? Well, not exactly. That's not the way it works.

With Forex Expert Advisors, you're asking a computer to do something that 95% of forex traders can't even do. If you know anything about the forex markets, you know that news can really move the markets in a big way. Even more so than any other markets. How is a computer going to account for that.

If you want to truly understand the reason why the market moves the way it does, it's real simple. Less is more. Watch the EUR/USD for the whole day on a 30 minute chart without any indicators. Just follow the price action. I'll never steer you wrong. If you focus hard enough, you'll be able to see patterns that happen every single day. These are patterns that actually forecast the markets.

About the Author

Jim Buhs finally just learned successful at trading forex after he learned how to trade price action. If you like to see what he used to leaen how to trade with no indicators, make sure to look his blog.