The Basic Forex Trades. Their Implementation to Generate Profits.

The Basic Forex Trades.

Directional Trading
The most common of the Forex Basic Trades. Almost all traders are Directional traders. They pick a financial instrument. They prognosticate that its value is going to swing up or down and place their trade accordingly, hoping to make profit in the process.
There are ways to analyze the market. Technical analysis, Fundamental analysis, Chart analysis and so on. It takes time and money to master the knowledge. Even then, only a small percentage of directional traders win consistently over a long period of time.

Non Directional Trading
Obviously contrary to Directional Trading. We do not have to anticipate the direction of the Market. We trade expecting to make profit either way the swing moves. We will emphasize on some of the Non Directional Trading systems.

Hedge TradingA hedged Trade means one that is not likely to gain much or loose much. Because as part of one's account goes up, another part of it is likely to go down.
The Hedge Basic Trade can be achieved by trading for example two currency pairs that are in inverse correlation with a high hedge value. Another Hedge Trade is the trading simultaneously of a currency pair both long and short.
Hedge Trading is one of the ways used in our System to achieve profits.
The Hedge Value is the degree to which two currency pairs are hedged. The EUR and the CHF for example have a high hedge value. Trading high hedge value currencies reduces the Swing of our Portfolio.
The Hedge Swing. The Equity resulting from the difference in the moves of two currency pairs that are hedged. The Equity might be either up or down.
As Hedge Traders, we stay in the Market indefinitely. Thus we are eligible for Carry Interest on our investment.

Grid Trading
Grid trading is one of the most common of the Basic Forex Trades. This is when buying and selling along a grid of a fixed or variable number of pips.
A trader places buy and sell orders every number of ticks on part of an open trade, generally a small part, up to 5%. As the market goes up and down, profit is generated. If the market swings up and part of our investment is sold at a higher price profit is generated. If the market swings down we buy at a lower price the part we sold earlier, again profit is generated.
In our system part of our profits are generated through Grid Trading.
Grid Trading works best in a sideways market. In a trending market it can run into trouble, though this trouble is mitigated by the added security of the hedged environment.

There are many more Basic Forex Trades. We do not use them in our strategy. So we will not elaborate about them for now.

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