Sunday, February 8, 2009

Trying To Forecast Forex Rates Is An Acquired Skill

Forex Killer Autopilot - Why You Will Want It?
By Edy Sihombing

It's not easy to forecast the forex markets, but it's what thousands of forex traders and brokers do every day, with varying degrees of success. Like forecasting the weather, predicting the forex market is sometimes a crapshoot, sometimes a guessing game, and always an adventure.

There are two basic norms on how to predict the foreign exchanges markets. One is technical analysis; the other is fundamental analysis. We'll look at them both.

The technical methods analyzes past market behavior and uses that data to predict the future. Previous trends in most areas of life are almost always good signals of the future; foreign exchanges is no different. People have not changed much in the decades since the forex market was created. People still buy and sell and react to stimuli in much the same way as they did 50 years ago.

Since forex rates change constantly throughout the day, every day, looking at all the years of past data can be daunting. Smart analysts learned to look at the big picture, to skip the minor details and analyze trends over a longer period of time.

Using fundamental approach to predict foreign exchanges markets is a bit more detail, but it can also be highly accurate. Basically, fundamental approach means forecasting the market based on external factors -- political moves, government involvement, social movements, even the weather. Trader good at fundamental analysis might forecast forex drop-offs because he knows a country's government is unstable at the moment, or increases because the country has just appointed a highly-acceptable new leader. Anything that can influence a country's economy can affect the exchange rates, and that's what a fundamental analyst uses to guess at the currency market's future

Naturally, this means having to know a particular country in-depth, which is difficult to do for more than a few countries at a time. (It becomes even more complicated when trying to forecast the euro, since several different countries use that currency.) But having that kind of intricate knowledge makes it much, much easier to predict currency future.

Most good traders use a mixture of both approaches, technical and fundamental. For example, a trader might see that a country is currently dealing with a particularly strong hurricane season (fundamental) and know that in the past, strong hurricane seasons have meant a weaker economy for that region (technical). Thus, he can predict down-turns for that nation with some degree of confidence.

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