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If you are new to the world of currency trading then, before you open your first trade, you have to draw up a trading strategy. The Forex market is one of the world’s most lucrative and exciting markets, but it is also extremely fast moving and volatile and, while you can make huge profits, you can also make large if you do not have a very clearly defined plan of action.

There are numerous different foreign currency trading strategies which you can adopt and you will need to draw up a strategy that suits you. At the end of the day, exactly what sort of strategy you decide to adopt is largely immaterial but, what is important, is that you pick a strategy before you start trading.

Many traders nowadays choose to base their strategy on a technical approach to trading while others prefer to follow a fundamental approach. Either approach is fine but the really successful traders will tell you that the true secret is to be found in not selecting either but in combining the two methods.

Technical analysis holds that prices follow trends and that markets possess clearly identifiable patterns which can be recognized if you know what you are looking for. Both knowledge and experience play an important role in technical analysis but here it is a case of experience and knowledge of not simply the patterns in the market but of working with the vast array of tools which are available to the technical analyst.

Many traders and technical analysts like to use what are referred to as support and resistance levels. In this case a support price is a low price to which a currency constantly returns, effectively representing the bottom of the market or the price that supports the market. A resistance price by contrast is the high price which a currency reaches from time to time but over which it tends to resist rising.

These two levels are considered to be important because once the price of a currency drops below its support level it will usually continue to drop and, similarly, once the price exceeds its resistance level it will continue to climb.

It is also common for technical analysts to make use of moving averages which show the average price of a currency over a given period of time within a longer time period. This is extremely helpful for removing short term fluctuations in a currency price and producing a clearer view of currency price movements over time.

Of course these are simply two of the tools available to traders who are following a technical approach and there is a wide range of far more complex and powerful tools available nawdays.

In addition to technical analysis, many traders also have a string belief in fundamental analysis which says that currency prices move in response to a wide range of factors including political events, changes in trading patterns and trade agreements, economic numbers, interest rates, employment figures and a great deal more.

Fundamental analysis is complex and requires considerably knowledge and experience to master, which is unquestionably one reason why many new traders are drawn towards technical analysis and tend to make use of fundamental analysis to a limited degree at first while they gain the knowledge and skills needed to put it to work successfully.

Technical and fundamental analyses of course are not in themselves trading strategies but provide the foundation on which you will need to build your strategy. Your starting point should be to select the foundation on which you wish to analyze the market and therefore make your trading decisions. Once this has been done you then have to look carefully at the mechanics of your trading and it is detailing exactly how you intend to trade which forms your Forex trading strategy.

Finally, do not forget that developing a trading strategy is something that needs to be done right at the beginning of your trading career and that you must take full advantage of your ability to run a simulated Forex trading account and a mini Forex trading account to build your strategy.