Where to start

Hello everyone,

I’m the purest form of a newbie. I’ve been reading and learning about Forex and foreign currencies, but I’ve got no clue where to start. Should I open a demo account? Do I find a system somewhere and practice on that? Where can I find a system to trade? It’s all a bit overwhelming

I feel that I’m reading and reading and reading, and my head is about to explode. What do you guys and gals think?

Thanks,

Phil

First of all, you can be rest assured that you are at the right spot for learning how to trade. The most important thing you must do and continue to do if you want to be a good trader is to educate yourself. Fortunately you have come to probably the best information site on the forex. Read the entire school section of BabyPips.

As far as a system goes, there are many good, free systems out there. You should browse the forums and then find one that fits your trading schedule and test it out on a demo.

You can open a free demo with almost any broker so you really can’t go wrong there. Try Metatrader (www.metaquotes.net). Alot of traders use that platform and it’s completely free. It will be good practice for you.

Good luck in your trading!

I am a newbies too. I feel the same way as you do, all the best to us.

as itradetheforex has said, youre at the right place for the information you seek, so your search is over.

start the school and get the demo from pretty much ANY broker (cause it dont matter on the demo) and prepare for a new culture, language and methodologies.

it takes longer than you think and shorter than some say, but what you dont know today, will be ancient history next week, and you just keep on learning.

my only caution at this stage is when you open your demo, PLEASE set the equity amount for no more than you intend to have in your account for real – to do otherwise is nothing but fooling yourself and making it easy, which you cant do if you dont have the bux !

when you download, there will be a panel on the lower right that will probably say 50,000 dollars ---- backspace over that and enter your REAL amount (dont lie to yourself) and if you can make that amount increase, then you will be able to make your REAL equity increase also.

other than that, take two aspirin and call me in the morning

enjoy and learn well

mp

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A lot of good information for you so far!! :slight_smile:

Once you get the language understood and some understanding, then there are 3 areas of forex trading.

  1. You need to choose a trading strategy that you like and feel comfortable with.

  2. Money management skills - essential for success.
    Get this wrong and you will be a loser at forex.

  3. Trading psychology - important!!
    Buy, read and study the book - Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas.

The first you should do is make BabyPips School Classes… The complete lessons.

First you have to understand what the Forex and Forex trading is. You can use various online resources available on the internet to know about the Currency Exchange Market.
Afterward you should go for the Babypips Trading Learning school…it will provide you the complete course of Trading.
But before diving in to the real trading … you must go for demo trading for some months until you are sure that you’re matured enough to jump in to trading with the real account, Demo trading will shape you to deal with the trading software , indicators, how to use the levels, pivots and other tools.:slight_smile: