Cynthia’s forex trading experience spans more than a decade…here she gives you important tips to help you become a better trader.

How many times have you looked at past trades and thought to yourself: “Gosh, how could I have been so stupid?” I know I have… even though it pains me to admit it. Looking back, I can see that many mistakes I’ve made have been because I couldn’t control my emotions. I learned this lesson the hard way… as I know so many other traders have. The trader’s four deadly enemies are: Ignorance, Greed, Fear, and Hope. The Four Riders Of The Trading Apocalypse Let’s start with Greed, not because it’s one of the seven deadly sins, but because it’s…

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CYNTHIA INTRODUCES…  A NEW Color Coded Template with a Currency Strength Meter plus some of my favorite indicators.   BIG PROBLEM FOR FOREX TRADERS: Finding strong trending pairs to trade is always time-consuming and not easy. Following currency strength is a very important aspect if you plan to be a successful forex trader. Currency markets are influenced by macro economic events, and move differently than any other asset. This Currency Strength Meter is now the most important item in my trading toolbox.  I rely 100% on using it for determining pairs to look at to potentially trade. Use the Currency Strength…

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How To Trade Red Economic News Events SCALPING A RED NEWS EVENT If I’m scalping to a red news event, I’ll trade in the direction of the Daily trend, using the scalping 3 chart set up.  Using a trade manager is imperative, but the take profit and stop settings need to be wide, like if you were swing trading, because a news event has the potential to move a pair anywhere from 40 pips to hundreds of pips. For news trading, you have to use the Forex Factory Calendar to choose the red economic news events you want to trade. …

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  NonFarm Payrolls is the most important economic news event for the US market. The U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls and Unemployment Rate, or NFP for short, comes out the first Friday of each month at 7:30 am EST.  Besides FOMC announcements, NFP is one of the most volatile economic news trading events of the month. The NFP is released by the U.S. Department of Labor on the first Friday of each month, outlining changes in the number of employees, excluding farm workers and those employed by the government, non-profit organizations and private households. The NFP release, per market consensus, is expected…

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Trend Trading Pullbacks Trend Trading Pullbacks is the easiest way to trade forex! I just uploaded a new short promo video for my color coded trading systems, I hope you watch it and give it a thumbs up! Go HERE to download Cynthia’s FREE Breakout Trade Manager EA! I just want traders to know that my color coded trading systems are evergreen and will ALWAYS work… because… they are trend following and based on momentum or volatility.  So no matter what the market conditions are or how the market changes, if you are trend following and using momentum indicators, you’ll…

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Money Management Truth This article was written by Nial Fuller of Market Geeks to expose some truths and some myths surrounding the topic of managing your trading capital. Most information out there on money management is completely useless and will not work well in professional trading. “What most traders are taught about money management is usually ‘lies’ invented by the industry to help you lose your money “slower” so that brokers can make more commission / spreads from you. If you’re using the 2% money management rule, this article may put that theory into question, which is the point… to…

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What Kind of Forex Trader Are You? To be a successful forex trader, the most important thing to know about yourself as a trader, more important than any trading system or indicator you can use…. is what kind of trader are you?  What type of personality do you have, what is your best trading style? As an experienced forex trader, I can take almost any forex trading system, no matter how crappy, and make it successful for me, because I know my personal trading style and can apply it to any trading system. So it’s more important for you to…

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How To Trade Like A Samurai Warrior Learning how to trade like a Samurai Warrior can be the difference between winning and losing in the forex game. You MUST learn how to trade like a Samurai Warrior if you don’t want to do long term damage to your psyche and forex trading account. LEARN HOW TO TRADE LIKE A SAMURAI WARRIOR! To download your FREE PDF of ‘How To Trade Like A Samurai Warrior’, please unlock your free copy by filling out the form below.   Dedicated to your trading success, Cynthia Trading from the beaches of Mexico!  You can…

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The Trend is Your Friend, Until it Bends Trends appear on all time frames.  The Trend Is Your Friend, Until it Bends…. what does this mean? Trends appear on monthly, weekly, and daily charts for long-term trading. They appear on H4 charts all the way down to H1 charts for day trading and on 30 min charts down to 1 – 5 minute charts for scalping. One of the greatest financial benefits of learning how to trade currencies is learning the skill of spotting a trend that can last several hours for scalping, several days for day trading, and several months,…

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Do You Protect Yourself? Are you asking, what does Cynthia mean by ‘ do you protect yourself’? Well, you always protect yourself when you drive by wearing a seat belt….you always protect yourself when you are on vacation… you always protect yourself when you are swimming in oceans, rivers, and lakes… you always protect yourself when you enter into a relationship… you always protect yourself when you lend money to your friends and family…etc. So when you invest in the Forex market or in any trading avenue, you should always protect yourself – period! Successful traders have learned to always…

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    Get Cynthia’s Breakout Scalping Trade Manager EA for FREE! TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE TRADE MANAGER EA, FILL OUT THE FORM AT THE END OF THIS PAGE! Manual scalping in a fast 1 min, 5 min, 15 minute chart is fun, profitable and easy with Cynthia’s FREE Trade Manager EA! The Breakout Scalping Trade Manager EA manages my trade after I place it, with a 5 pip trailing stop after it moves the trade to breakeven. I use the Breakout Trade Manager EA with my Breakout Simple System with a 15 min chart open to see the major trend,…

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The Importance of Healthy Trading Psychology One important thing traders are always taught, is the importance of having and maintaining healthy trading psychology. But how do we do this and why is it so important? Well first, Cynthia believes that using color coordinated charts is the first step in relieving the brain of information over-load. When the brain can make a good decision based on at-a-glance information, it doesn’t get so tired or nervous or stressed. This is important because most trading mistakes happen when a person is tired or stressed (or hungry)….this is when the brain doesn’t process information…

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Hi, this is Cynthia Macy and this is My Trading Story. My trading story began when I became interested in trading back in the late 90’s because of my mother, who used to drag me to very expensive weekend trading seminars at hotels to keep her company, where I learned about charts and patterns and trendlines, etc.  Even though I was pretty young at the time, I became fascinated! My mother was trading stock options on the telephone before we ever had a pc and she taught me how to do it. When I got my second pc in 1999,…

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