Forex markets are unlike stock markets. Currency markets are open 24/5 except on the weekends. Continuous price action takes place all day in the currency markets. Do you know this that more than 90% of people trading forex are speculators?
Forex markets have the tendency to react violently to the release of economic and socio political news. You cant predict when important sociopolitical event will be breaking news.
Fundamental economic news like NFP figures, the housing sales number, FOMC meeting etc all are released at a known time. Google Fundamental News and you will see lots of sites that provide this information.
These sites will give you the day and time when a major economic announcement is going to be made. Non Form Payroll (NFP) figures have recently become very important for USD pairs especially after the start of the recession.
NFP figures are released at 8:30 AM EST on the first Friday of each month. Currency pairs like EUR/USD become very violent just after the release of these figures. EUR/USD can shoot up sometime by 50-100 pips in 5-10 minutes.
Markets will mostly stabilize within a few hours after the release of fundamental news unless it is of such a fundamental nature to form a new trend in the market.
Forex news trading is ideal for those traders who like a lot of action within few minutes. Here is one strategy that you can use.
Suppose you want to trade EUR/USD. Enter both buy and sell orders at 10 pips above and below the price of EUR/USD just a few minutes before the announcement of NFP figures.
Put stop loss of 10 pips and take profit of 40 pips on both orders. Immediately on the announcement of NFP figures, EUR/USD will react violently and either shoot up or down.
Suppose EUR/USD goes up by 10 pips, buy order will be triggered. Suppose it jumps by 60 pips. Your position will be closed at 50 pips when you have taken profit of 40 pips. Isnt it cool you made 40 pips in just a few minutes?
Suppose EUR/USD goes down by 10 pips, the sell order will be triggered and you will still make 40 pips. Be careful, sometimes the markets have a tendency to whipsaw. Practice this on your demo account first and make ten successful trades before going live.
