Forex Daily Review: The Baltic Dry Index Signals the Slowdown

11 Sep 2012• Matti Williamson, FX and commodities analyst      Dutch 2012 Elections and ESM

In a relatively muted session, the major currencies failed to provide a clear trend ahead of the heavy fundamentals, starting on Wednesday with the Dutch 2012 elections and the German Constitutional Court ruling on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the fiscal compact. Moody's credit rating agency poured cold water on the European Central Bank's (ECB) efforts to stabilize the Euro zone with the unlimited bond-purchasing program by highlighting the plan is merely buying time for struggling countries and is not viewed as the final solution for the crisis.

Spain's Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy stated in a TV interview that the government will not accept any bailout terms that include cuts in pensions or government spending. This increases the odds that Spain will not request financial aid to deal with its debt and I am uncertain the market will appreciate this 'heroic' act of Prime Minister Rajoy.

Mario Draghi lowered Spain's bond yields as he introduced his 'master plan' for the Euro zone, thus reducing the odds even further for Prime Minister Rajoy to request financial aid from the European Commission (EU).

 

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Forex Signals - How to Instantly Trade Like You Have Decades of Forex Trading Experience

Seriously consider forex signals if you are not yet trading profitably, have limited experience, or just don't have much time to devote to your forex trading.

From the simple one email a day variety to the forex mentor who sits with you all day holding your hand as you trade, a portfolio of forex trade alerts can be virtually free and can transform you into a profitable trader instantly.

If like us you've ever analysed a chart and placed your own trades, you will almost certainly have also sat in front of your screen wondering if you were doing the right thing.

Questions like "have I entered this trade too late ?" and "am I trading in the right direction (long when I should be short)" will certainly have entered your mind.

How many times have you wished you had an expert trader with decades of experience guiding your trades, keeping you out of dangerous trades, and pointing you towards trades with a higher probability of success ?

We were certainly in that position many times in the early days, but always imagined the cost of having an expert on hand would far outweigh any extra profits we might make. It turns out we were quite wrong.

There are numerous services available, known variously as forex signals, forex alerts, or forex tips.

Trading signals come in a variety of formats, suited to how much of your day you can devote to trading. And yes beware, there are loads of scams out there too, but we'll show you how to avoid them, and we'll direct you towards the better ones.

Forex Trading Signals - many varieties

The main characteristics of forex trading signals to be aware of are as follows;

• Cost: Free OR monthly subscription



• Complexity: Simple "one email a day" OR Full-Service



• Control: You keep full control OR the signal provider trades your a/c for you



• Trading style: e.g. frequent scalper OR low volume swing trader

A free forex signal may at first seem like a fabulous idea, but as we will reveal here, you may very well prefer to pay for a free subscription service (yes, we know that doesn't make sense - but read on)



Most forex trade signals charge a very modest subscription fee, usually in the region of USD $80 - $400 per month (although happily most are at the lower end of this range), while there are also websites which provide forex signals for no charge.

In their simplest form a forex trading signal will send you a forex alert email once a day listing trade set ups for the next 24 hours.

Some of these are purely computer generated, some are computer generated and then audited by a human expert, and some are completely researched and generated exclusively by a human expert trader who may add some market commentary to their forex forecast.

Some forex trading signals are high volume scalpers, calling many trades in a day aiming to profit a handful of pips on each. Others only call a few trades a day, aiming to profit 20 - 80 pips on each single trade.

At the more full-service end of the market is the type of forex signal service which provides you with an almost 24 hour a day live online broadcast calling forex trading tips as they occur, explaining the logic of the proposed trade and backing it up with an email or even a video clip.

Some forex trading signals will even trade their signals in your own account for you, leaving you to just sit back and watch.
This is similar to what a robot does by using forex signal software, but with the added reassurance that it's being done by an experienced intelligent human trader rather than a dumb machine following an algorithm.

Think of full-service forex trading signals like a forex TV station, which you have running in the background on your pc or internet connected laptop throughout your day. The broadcast remains quiet when there is nothing to do, freeing your time for the other priorities in your day, then calls for your attention when there is a trade to place or manage.

You may be surprised, as we were, to discover that the prices charged by full-service providers are usually very similar to those charged by the one email a day providers.

This type of service usually also includes an interactive facility, enabling you to send a message to your forex mentor if you have a question.

Many forex signal services have very loyal memberships, and some even limit the number of members they will accept.

Free forex signals (virtually)

On the basis that time is money, in our opinion the amount of time we can now devote to other activities by not slaving over our charts for hours searching for the perfect trade set up, not to mention the improvement in our trading results, has more than paid for the very modest cost of the forex signal subscriptions.

Indeed if you apply this logic, subscription based services can effectively be free when you take into account the improvement in your trading profits, and the freeing of your time for other profitable activities.

If you think about it, a subscription based forex signal service has a built-in incentive to call profitable forex trading tips, as its subscriber base would soon evaporate if it failed to provide profitable currency trading tips. "Free" non subscription signals do not have this incentive.

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Drastically Reduce Your Online Forex Trading Risk With ACCURATE Forex Trading Signals

For those who do not have access to accurate Forex trading signals, online Forex trading is tantamount to gambling. Typically, Forex traders pay huge amounts of money over time to signal generation companies to provide Forex trading signals that are often late or completely inaccurate! The essential problem is: How can you make money CONSISTENTLY trading on the Forex market without paying never-ending signal generation fees? I've managed to discover a SOLUTION--the only PROVEN AUTO-PILOT NO-GUESSWORK software SYSTEM that generates its own WORKING Forex trading signals and eliminates the "human error" factor by doing the vast majority of the thinking for you, which makes it so easy that even Paris Hilton can make money trading Forex.

Just like the stock market or within any other investment arena, we simply can't eliminate risk. We can only reduce risk. For that matter, even staying in bed all day is risky. An airplane could crash through your roof and wipe you out in an instant. You just never know. Since we're clear that risk elimination is a virtual impossibility, let's just focus on reducing your overall risk exposure when you're trading currency on the Forex market.

Accurate Forex trading signals indicate trends that affect the Forex market and tell you precisely when to buy, sell, or do nothing at all. Forex traders usually have to pay periodic subscription fees to independent service providers for these signals, which are essentially buy & sell recommendations. Accurate online Forex trading signals are based upon fundamental and/or technical analysis--NOT rumors or speculation. Accurate online Forex trading signals serve to reduce your overall online Forex trading risk exposure.

Trend identification alone is insufficient for consistently profitable Forex trading. To be a successful Forex trader, you need to know precisely when to profitably enter & exit the Forex market. You've gotta select just the right Forex market entry exit points. Otherwise, even if you're lucky enough to complete a few profitable Forex trades, in the long run, you'll eventually get financially screwed--BIG TIME.

I'm not an expert Forex trader--nor am I exceedingly brilliant. So, I'm living proof that anybody can make money trading Forex without any Forex Market-specific knowledge or prior trading experience at all. Making money trading on the Forex market is really easy--if you've got the software that tells you precisely what to do and when to do it. However, I assume that since you are inquisitive enough to read through this article, you want to educate yourself enough so you'll actually know WHY you're making all that money trading currency on the Forex market.

Why would you pay hundreds of dollars in monthly fees for Forex trading signals when you can just create them yourself with an advanced Forex trading signal system?

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Now you can finallygenerate your own profitable Forex trading signals without monthly fees! Even if you lack brilliance or substantial Forex trading experience, you just have to be smart enough to select the only automated analytical Forex trading software system on the market today that empowers you to generate your own WORKING Forex trading signals and makes Forex trading so easy that even Paris Hilton can do it...