From the previous hub on " Strategic Techniques " most investors and traders may want to consider this article as an additional segment of information on what " Ideal trading solutions " are accessible to the serious foreign exchange trader / investor. There are no real holy grails when it comes to trading this market. Although, for some who may claim that certain products and trading systems out in the general marketplace have delivered amazing profits may have actually did gain at a certain point in time during the test runs of these systems. That's good, however the accuracy of these systems can only be as good as the person who programs and designs the operating systems themselves. What is equally important is to try and use them on real time trading and compare several systems being offered by most of the broker / dealers on the demo accounts. Which has been the normal procedure amongst those who are considering in forex trading as a means of gaining serious money from the investments.

There are a lot out there! What really matters the most is to know how efficient and accurate the prices being quoted on screen are. As most of the systems display summary of the price dealings of major pairs, news updates as it happens, technical tools available for charting, account summary, net changes on equity balances based on real time prices and support from trading advises, just to name a few. These list of services are very useful and helpful, although there are too many information to digest at very crucial time periods. And for a novice, this may prove to be taxing and exhausting. As mentioned before, the back-end of the prices where the contributory banks and financial institutions provide price dealings as to how much is being bid / ask for the currency flashing on the screen are as important. But most systems would not show who the major participants are. Are they as important to analysis?

Yes, for these are market indicators, so to speak! As to who and what information are being provided through the wire, where you may not find it in a common trading system, can be heard through the voice box. These contributors are the counter parties where such dealings and orders are taking place. The number of banks and institutional contributors are actually in the trading systems and is a vital source of information that are sometimes neglected because others may not find it to be as relevant. All traders may want to have all possible aces up their sleeves for once and turn the table around. The accuracy of the prices quoted onscreen and what is heard may be the same but may mean different compared to watching the prices change during rapid movements on major economic reports in the news.

An example was sometime in September of 1992 when the GBP dropped heavily versus the US Dollar. The price spreads were so wide that online quotes could not get confirmed and trading systems kept re-quoting and the prices quoted on the interbank market were faster than that on the computer screen. This is a true event that happened during the time when John Majors of the ruling Labour Party in Britain walked out from the European Rate Mechanism better known as the ( ERM). With this information, you can sense how far back the ITREX team have survived. The group must be doing something right. Going back to the topic.

The ideal trading solution is to have at least two (2) trading systems comparatively from the top list of the traders recommendations as to which of the tested trading systems are most reliable. It may not be as expensive as against loosing so much money in the market. To have two full screen multi-view to see the working prices on each one of the trading system can be useful. It is not only on the price comparison, but to have a display of the major pairs where chart comparisons are shown. By doing this, the trader will have a certain comfort level and awareness of what is the total picture and sentiments in the marketplace. As most accounts are spread out anyway, so this can only be an advantage for the investor / trader. The fact of the matter is, that there are trading platforms that are really good on the technical side, except for the ordering and execution of orders may not be as good. And this situation is familiar with the most avid trader. Use a trading platform for executions and orders from an account separate from the technical platform which is used for analysis. This can also be a logical move other than a psychological market tool to better understand how the foreign exchange market really works behind the scene.

In addition, a voice box broker would be an asset tool in trading the foreign exchange market. Where a small window of opportunity does exist; as the actual working price in the interbank market can be heard and compared to the actual real time prices onscreen. Again, some traders may disagree, but to cover all possible bases in trading the FX market could be quite useful. It may take some time to discover the value these ideal concepts bring to the table. The Reuters dealing system is the mother of all forex dealers. Sentiments running through the wire can be analyzed as to where the real direction of the market would be at. Prices that are quoted verbally as far as the dealing goes may also provide a timely manner for executing a trade. What you hear and what you see may and may not be the same at a given point in time. And consider this also, for it is as important for the short term traders who pay more attention on the spread and screen prices between the bid / ask often and because of the small spread and pip objectives that each trader is looking for in every day's trade. Please choose wisely!

A continuation on this subject matter will also be published in the near future. However for the time being, consider some these options mentioned. Although they may be too ideal for some but it is better to be more prepared and attain that certain comfort level of trading the Foreign exchange market. Experience has always been the best teacher that one may not find in a book or a trading platform.