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Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Fenzy of Automation in Forex Trading


The employment of automation in forex trading has been in the rage since several years back. It is available to the retail trader via MT4 and MT5 trading platforms. The platforms allow traders the opportunity of installing Expert Advisors which are programs that contain a set of codes which order a dealer (What most brokers give access to the market as) to carry out trades, at the meeting of certain conditions prewritten in those lines of codes installed. With the help of programmers, just any basic trading strategy can be put into lines of codes and be made a program that will run on full automation. This brings up the question if the future of forex trading is automation. Truth is, there is no gainsaying the success of automation in the trading career of traders who have included its flavor in their arsenal of trading tools.

However, there are a number of things to be watchful of in the selection of these EAs or robots, as the explosion has brought into the market, too many “strategists” whose trading systems’ performance is only glamorized and does not actually depict what it is perceived to be, by the users. These “strategists” make money only from deceiving people into buying their trading systems and do not really make money from using the systems to trade on the forex market.  As a consequence, It is therefore imperative to tell buyers/users to also abstain from the search of trading systems that promise highly “unrealistic” returns on investments.

Trading systems that are offered for too little than their abilities or are offered too low below their perceived worth should be avoided. Most users desire what will bring almost unimaginable results in a positive way, and still are longing to pay very little price for it. Say a trading system is sold for $100 and has been claimed to possess the ability to turn $1000 into $2000. It is utterly attractive and will be made purchase of by several people. But there will be a question of how possibly good it could be to actualize its claimed abilities with such purchase price. Caution should be taken here though, for it hasn’t been said by me that all trading systems with the attachment of huge prices are real or will actualize such imaginary results if they claim to do. However, more chances are that trading systems with fairly high price and moderately promising results will perform far better than those with highly promising result but with a measly cheap price.

It is of high importance a seller’s login information to the account where a trading system is being put to test is collected for a self review of it by a buyer. Better still, if the seller uses a third party verification platform to put to test the trading system, it will be more trusted. Proficient third party providers of such services include mql5 and myFxbooks.


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