Hi Rover,
To answer your question right off, I’ve found these to be helpful - but none is infallible, and they sometimes conflict with one another!
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EUR/USD - Live Rate, Forecast, News and Analysis. Click the pair you want projections on from the line below the black line, then, in the bar at the top of the chart, click the time frame you want projections on for that pair: 1h, 1D, etc.Then, in the line below that, in red type is the projected High and Lol (H, L) for that time frame. If the high is higher than the low, they project a buy trade.
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EUR USD | Euro Dollar - Investing.com. Make sure the right currency pair is showing, and then look under “Technical Analysis” for your time frame.
- Here’s a download link for a meter which gives this moment’s strength for popular currencies: CSM - Currency Strength Meter 3.0.6 (Latest Stable Version) Download. The idea is to buy the strong and sell the weak. If the strong is the first in the pair, buy. If the strong is the second in the pair, sell. BUT NOTE: THESE ARE IN CONSTANT CHANGE.
Your best bet is to learn Price Action trading, and hold what the charts tell you in very high regard while considering the others.
These are the guys who have helped me the most to learn Price Action:
- Timon Weller: About Timon Weller and Forex Reviews
- Walter Peters (Fx Jake): http://fxjake.com/
Careful! Don’t spend a ton of money on their courses or any other courses unless you really think it through. You can gain a wealth of information from the free material on their sites and what they can send you by email.
Well, it’s not true you can’t profitably trade the markets you’re interested in. You just need to learn how to do it. I’ve been testing a strategy with the Daily, and my schedule does not allow me to trade it even close to the close of one candle and the open of the next. I’ve taken three trades thus far, and I’m in net profit, so it can be done - but it requires much study and practice.
Sorry, the “solution” I’m using is much too complex to describe here, but the basis of it is that I’m trading EURUSD on the daily, using a stop loss of 55 pips for the first 24 hours, and if my trade is still alive after that, I’ll to anything I need to get the most out of the trade. Sounds pretty arbitrary - EURUSD, Daily, SL55 - but it’s based on testing results from the people at Forex Tester.
Practice on no time frame less than M15, but I would advise you to focus on the H4 and the Daily: much better trade signals, and statistics show much better profits than lower frames.
And just in case you need to hear it: DON’T put a penny down in a live account until you have proven to yourself that you have developed a strategy that has proven to you in a demo that you can regularly turn a net profit - and learn risk management!
Three more words of advice: Patience, Patience, Patience!
Best to ya,
Norm