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Forex brokers are more of a marketing machine than market makers. Forex brokers need a constant stream of new clients to keep making money since most of the new traders dont survive longer than a few months.

For enticing new clients, vast sums of money are spent on advertising by forex brokers. You can check this fact by going on Google and typing any forex related keyword. Almost all the ads will be by forex brokers. Each click costs them around $1.

One way is to announce forex trading contests that reward the winners with $2000, $1000 and $500 cash prizes. Who is the actual winner in these contests? Your forex broker!

This is like a lottery, only three win. The more you trade in order to win the contest, the more money your broker makes.

There is no check on the forex brokers. They can quote any rate to you. Forex brokers do this by adding 2 3 or even more pips to the interbank market pip spread

These 3 or 4 pips are the risk free profits that the brokers make for each round trip trade. You see why forex brokers are giving you free platforms and trading signals, only to make you start trading as soon as possible. Your broker will make more risk free money, the more you trade!

There is a practice used by forex brokers called Price Shading. For example, if the broker is convinced that Euro is on an uptrend and its price is going to rise, the broker will shade his price quote slightly higher to take advantage of the likely increase in Euro price.

One of the classic tricks used by many brokers is to trip stop losses with a single momentary blip. Brokers have all the information about stop losses placed by their clients. So, if he finds many stop losses at a certain level, there will be a momentary spike in the price feed that will trip most of the stop losses.

You cant do anything. It was a momentary spike, so small that it only tripped the stop losses.

Since, there is no central exchange to compare moment by moment prices, your broker can offer any excuse like there was sudden large order in the market or the broker feed is much faster and reflects true interbank rates.

Forex trading is an altogether a totally different beast as compared to stock trading. One of the major differences between the forex and stock markets is that forex markets are open 24 hour, 5 days a week while stock markets have fixed timings. For example New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is open from 9:00 AM to 4:00 Pm. You can only trade stocks at NYSE during this time.

Continuous 24 hour action at the forex markets baffles many new traders. Forex markets have no central exchange. It is an Over the Counter (OTC) market that is spread over various locations in the world.

For a new forex trader, it becomes very difficult to understand when to trade and when not to trade as there is no formal open and close of the market. Many exhaust themselves by sitting in front of their computers all day. Fatigue them and make wrong decisions. An easy way is to divide the day between three 8 hour sessions.

Further divide each 8 hour session into two 4 hour sessions using a 4 hour chart. This division of 24 hours is logical as there are only three major money centers in the world that have the capacity to move the forex markets.

The three major money centers that affect the forex markets everyday are namely: Asia, London and New York. We will call our three trading sessions, the Asian, the London and the New York Session.

Asian Session: Most of the turnover in this market session is handled by Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. Main players are the commercial exporters and the respective central banks. Since most of these central banks are in competition with one other, the price action during this session is jumpy and unsustainable.

London Session: London is still the forex capital of the world with deep and highly liquid forex market. Paris, Geneva and Frankfurt also are players in this session. The moves that originate in this session are very important keeping in view the amount of money needed to move a market this deep. These moves give you a lot of information about the market sentiments and positions.

New York Market Session: New York is second to London. Both New York and London overlap in the morning when New York is opening and London is closing. This is the best time of the day for savvy traders to trade as there is a lot of price action during this time.

The following table gives important times of the day that any forex trader needs to know: 00:00 GMT-Sydney Opens. 11:00 GMT-London opens. 15:00 GMT- London becomes very active. 17:00 GMT- London is active and New York opens. 18:00 GMT- London and Europe closes. 19:00 GMT- New York and Chicago getting ready for a close!

This overlapping between London and New York is when major price action takes place and new trends are formed or old trends are reversed. London is the market trend setter in fashion as well as forex.

This is a beautiful life. I enjoy everyday of my life by learning new thinks. I have played sports. I have done trading. Whatever, I have done in life; first I try to learn everything about it. If something interests me, I learn it first before doing it.

Once, tennis used to be my passion. I wanted to play tennis but my returns were very poor. My volleys were horrible. I had a very poor serve.

So, I would do wall practice and practice and practice. In the beginning my ball control was very poor. My service was so poor that I would be ashamed to play with good players.

Everyday before entering the tennis court, I would imagine myself playing very well. Every defeat would strengthen my resolve to win. In six months, I had started defeating the good players who in the beginning did not consider me good.

Forex trading is like playing tennis for me. Everyday is like a battle. If you are good, surely you can defeat the currency markets. But to become good at forex trading, you have to do lot of learning and practice.

Your first step should be to digest a good forex trading course. Go through the course again and again. Digest even small points given in the course. Pause and ponder on each line in the course.

You aim should be to master the behavior of the currency markets. You should train yourself for that. Learn Technical Analysis. It is the thing to learn for a successful day trader.

Understand the use of indicators. Learn how to analyze charts. Know what are lagging indicators and what leading indicators are. Try to figure out how price action is taking place at a certain point in time.

Grasp every small detail. Go through example of successful trades given in the course. Open the charts learn how to apply the SMAs, EMAs, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Pivot Points etc.

Learn the money management principles. This is one thing that most traders simply skip. Do you know that in the end, it is good money and risk management that can make you a good trader?