There are likely to be almost as many Forex Trading Strategies within the Forex markets as there are individual traders. This is because each of us has our own interests, biases, objectives and approach to trading. The Forex Trading strategies and styles we employ will be shaped by the amount of time and money we can commit to trading. As well as our level of experience, market knowledge as well access to modern communications and technology.  

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The Forex market is a decentralised global market. The market is online and networked and its participants connect to each other electronically, from nearly all corners of the globe. Unlike many other financial markets there is no central exchange, trading floor or clearing house, or indeed national boundaries to consider. This globalisation and interconnectedness help to make Forex the most active financial market in the world, when measured in terms of daily turnover, or value traded if you prefer. Which totals trillions of US dollars per day. These high turnover figures are achieved because of another of the Forex markets competitives advantages, its trading hours.  

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Spread Trading is the simultaneous trading of two instruments in the expectation that the differential between their respective prices will narrow or widen. There will usually be one sale or short leg and one long or purchase leg in a Spread Trade. Though in some cases the two individual trades could conceivably be in the same direction. Spread Trading is also known as relative value or pairs trading and often takes place between two similar instruments. For example stock indices, which the trader believes will have different trading trajectories.   

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  Trading the markets is all about maths - that is to say it involves numbers, equations and ratios. This is particularly true if you trade the markets using Technical Analysis, or if you statistically analyse macroeconomic and fundamental data. Traders are always looking for patterns, particularly those that occur frequently and are recursive or repeating and self perpetuating if you prefer. Therefore a pattern or sequence which fulfilled these criteria and appeared to be baked into both nature and the markets would be their holy grail.  

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Currency or Foreign Exchange trading as it's otherwise known is a process in which an investor takes a view on one currency at the expense of another, with the expectation that the value of Currency A will fluctuate relative to the value of Currency B.  

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