Forex Live Blog:Today I will be living blogging from "Funny Mouse" PC cafe.  I will live blogging for the next 5 hours.I am currently getting my trading platform up from Oanda. We shall see what good trades are out there for us today.I will be trading a simple EMA crossover method today on a 1min chart.I will be trading the following pairs:  EUR/USD , AUD/USD,  USD/YEN.I will post a screenshot of my platform and setup soon.Happy trading.Trade Update 6: Short USD/YEN:This one I took a bit of heat ...

Step 1: The Zone As many good books and traders will tell you, there is a place called "The Zone." This is not a fictitious place; this is when everything seems to go just right. Almost as if you can predict where the market will go. You are one with your charts and make almost all good trades. You have very little emotion and your small losses, if you have any, don't even faze you -this is where we all would like to stay; but for the new trader, if they are not very car ...

Monitors are getting cheap nowadays.  I've seen  22" LCD screens go for as low as 0 bucks at the local electronics store, and I'm sure they're going to get a lot bigger and cheaper...So how many is enough?  How many is practical for the average trader? 14 monitors... 10.... 5? I've had up to six 20" monitors, at one point and generally found myself turning off my other monitors, till I was left with three.  And even with the third monitor, I'm not trading on it. I'm usually playing a game, ch ...

A quick and simple tutorial of how to install and configure xchat to connect to our irc.ircforex.com servers!  First download x-chat. Then follow this simple video --pause it if gets too far ahead. ...

This is going to be my trade journal for my demo account. Good or bad I will log these trades so at least I can review my thought process in making the trade. Hopefully by doing this I can take accountability for poor trade decisions and accept when the decision was it was just the market ...