Saturday, 30 April 2011

MetaTrader 4 Trading Terminal

The MetaTrader 4 terminal is a perfectly equipped traders workplace that allows to trade in the financial markets (Forex, CFD and Futures). It provides the necessary tools and resources to analyze price dynamics of financial instruments, make the trade transactions, create and use automated tradingprograms (Expert Advisors). It represents the all-in-one concept and is the most popular trading terminal in the world.
MetaTrader 4 Terminal - all-in-one: trading, analytics and automated trading

Forex Script Usage

Forex Script is a special mini-application to work on the currency market. This application is built into the program of technical analysis Metatrader, written in MetaQuotes Language 4 (MQL 4) and thus extends functionality and automates some operations.

Thus, it can perform both analytical and trading functions. Metatrader Scripts have different functionality and depends on what actions are programmed from the installation of pending orders and export quotes in external files to displaying information on the screen and computing trends.

The use of scripts is due to several reasons. First, they greatly help with the analysis of the situation and thus make life easier for the trader. The second substantially expand the functionality of the program. A trader with expertise in programming language MetaQuotes Language 4 (MQL4) can program any action. The scripts are located in Metatrader \ experts \ scripts

Friday, 22 April 2011

Trading the Nonfarm Payrolls In Forex

The NFP report can result in increased volatility and a chance to profit handsomely in a short period of time. However, more often than not, new currency traders are not the one’s profiting but rather losing. The main reason is slippage, which is when your order is filled away from the price you wanted. 

The reason for slippage is simple, big traders stay away from these events and new traders all try to do the same thing at the same time. If the release is bullish for the EUR/USD, everybody wants to buy at the same time. However, most find that there is nobody willing to sell to them at their price. But eventually your order is filled, but at the seller’s price. 

Soon you find the market moving against you and you exit to keep your losses from getting too big. But what about those who were selling to you? As the market continues to fall, you start to wonder about these traders who sold to you and the fact that they are now making money.