Automatic Forex Trading Systems - 7 Ways To Benefit From Them

I don't know about you, but I'll bet that you'll want to learn about ways to automate your forex trading, so that you can benefit from the returns that forex gives you, without the need to trade yourself!

Is this where the future of forex is heading? Both for the forex trader who doesn't mind trading, to enable him to trade a second or third system, as well as for the trader who's actually not that interested in trading on a daily basis?

Well, it seems to me that automatic forex trading systems are on the rise, and more and more systems are becoming available over time.

By the time you finish this article, you'll have a very good idea of the benefits that automatic forex can give you, and how to look further into this new trend.

Automatic forex trading may be classed into two types:

The first type, is automatic forex trading through managed forex.

That is, a forex trading company that uses automatic trading through a trading robot to ensure that their system is traded exactly as intended. In fact many systems designed for robots can only be practically traded by robots rather than a human team, as you'll see.

The second type of automatic forex is the use of a forex trading program with an ability to automatically place trades, such as with WealthLab.

To do this, you'll need someone with programming skills to program the system into WealthLab or other software, and a connection to a forex platform that accepts automatic order placements by the trading program.

With either method (though the first method is the one that doesn't require programming skills) these are the benefits to automatic forex system trading:

1. You don't have to trade yourself, which frees up your time. This is one of the main benefits. For a trader who actually likes trading, this means that he can continue to trade one system, and at the same time trade a second or third through automatic forex. For those who are not really interested in actually trading on a daily basis, they're able to profit from forex, and concentrate their efforts on their other businesses.

2. The trades are able to be taken at anytime of the day or night. The performance of a system may rely on the fact that you actually take the trades generated by the system. Depending on the time zone and the time available by the trader, it may be impossible to take the trades that we're supposed to trade and hence compromise the profitability of the system significantly. Automatic trading by its nature, is able to overcome this problem.

3. You're able to trade multiple forex systems and strategies. You can trade multiple systems with the same automatic forex provider, or do so by choosing more than one provider. And because their systems are likely to rely on different indicators, trade different currency pairs, and also trade different time frames, you're diversifying your risk. The reasons why you want to diversify risk is that you want to smoothen out your equity curve and reduce drawdown.

4. There are no longer any issues with trading psychology. Trader discretion, if not based on proper practice and alertness, can causes a system's performance to decrease significantly, and this is not an issue with automatic forex trading. Of course your skill now comes in choosing a good automatic system to invest in.

5. You can trade systems that may be impossible for a human to trade. A human can only watch and trade a certain number of currency pairs at a time. With automatic forex, there are systems for example that has a high frequency of trades, traded on tick data. Therefore trading is no longer limited by how easy it is for a person to physically trade it.

6. You also leverage your time because you don't have to spend time learning how to trade a particular system. Learning a particular system takes time and effort, so there's a lag time between deciding on a particular system, to getting to the point where you know the system rules, and then actually paper trading then live trading that particular system. You could have been making profits in forex in the meantime.

7. Finally, you don't need to spend any time, or have any skill in designing or backtesting a trading system, as it already has been done for you. In fact with the different automatic forex providers around, you're taking advantage of many types of forex systems that are available.

Make no mistake about it. Passive trading (and other passive forms of investments) will get more popular, as it frees up your time to enable you to focus on other income generating business, or to do whatever else you need to do with your time.

So it's important to choose a good automatic forex trading system, so that you'll benefit as much as you can from automatic forex system trading!