Financial Trading Courses

Another trading week begins.  Another week where traders look at a particular market, look at a particular chart, and then try to make sense of it.  Will it go up this week?  Will it go down this week?  Is it better to enter the market on a Monday, or is mid-week better when things settle down?  

Trading can be quite a lonely occupation. In most other jobs, we are in the midst of our colleagues, we are getting direction from superiors, and we are speaking with those around us - asking their opinion and teasing out some common company issue. We are working towards a common goal. This is not the case with trading.

With trading, you are reliant completely upon yourself. You are most likely looking at the markets with no-one around you to offer assistance. You only have your own opinion, your own analysis, your own expertise to rely upon. Do you know enough to make an informed and confident decision?

Something which might help is a Forex trading tutorial.  The Academy of Financial Trading provides its students with a clear direction – a clear method or strategy which they can employ in order to become successful. Successful trading comes from trading the price – it comes from analysing what the market is doing right now, and coupling it with a sufficient and conservative risk management procedure.

By participating in a course from our online trading academy, you will join a community of successful traders. You will no longer feel solitary – you will know that you are employing the same methods which continue to help countless other traders. You will no longer feel alone, looking to see where you can go for guidance. Help is at hand!

Learning to Trade

The online trading industry is both hugely popular, and hugely competitive. 

It is popular because almost everyone has some interest in what is happening in the markets today – it affects us all in some way or other.  Think of the price of oil – any driver among us will know of the impact which that has upon our weekly spend on petrol or diesel.  There are also other commodity markets which we are all reliant upon – think of Wheat, or Corn, or Soybeans, or Orange Juice… all are dietary staples, and they are just a very small selection as to what is available to trade. 

The industry is competitive simply because it is highly lucrative.  The majority of brokers are “market-makers”… this simply means that they profit from their client’s losses.  This is not something which is new, but it somehow has become something which is acceptable.  Still, brokers work hard to attract traders.  Some offer educational services to “assist” the novice (or professional!) trader. 

So what are the best trading courses?  A complete education can only come from an entity who does not have an agenda – from someone who is only representing themselves, and is not representing a broker or someone who is advertising a particular broker’s services.  To do otherwise would be no different than going into a bookmaker and asking if they will assist in the placing of a bet on the Grand National.  

The Academy of Financial Trading prides itself on being a purely educational company.  We are not aligned with any specific broker and we are able to give clear, unambiguous, unbiased advice as to the steps any potential trader needs to make in order to help them become successful.  Our success comes from your success!   

Online Forex Trading – Some Interesting Facts

Did you know that the Forex market (foreign exchange market) is the most widely trading market in the world?  Over US$4 trillion is traded on a daily basis. This is a phenomenally huge figure… so large that it is almost impossible to comprehend it. Let’s break it down a little…

If you had $1 million dollars, made up of one million individual $1 bills, then the stack would reach a height of 358 feet. That’s about the height of a 30 – 35 storey building.  That’s impressive!  Now let’s imagine that you had $1,000,000,000,000. That’s $1 trillion. That stack, if made up of individual $1 bills would reach a height of 67,866 miles. That’s just over one quarter of the way to the moon. If $4 trillion is traded each day, then that is enough to stretch all the beyond the moon! 

When you read these figures, it’s easy to see why the Academy of Financial Trading spends most of its time managing people’s expectation. It’s too often that people aim for the moon… it’s too often that potential traders believe that trading the financial market is easy. 

For those who are learning to trade, it needs to be pointed out that it is not easy. It needs to be emphasised that training is required.  It needs to be shown that a proven trading strategy is a pre-requisite to successful trading. If you are not sure whether you have a trading strategy or not, then you simply do not. 

We can help. We provide our students with the best trading courses available. We provide an honest, realistic and straight-forward education, focussing on continuous and conservative returns. This is what we excel at – this is what our traders excel at. 

One more interesting fact… if you had one million dollars and simply had to spend it at a rate of $20 per second, your $1,000,000 would be gone in 13 hours and 48 minutes. If you had one trillion dollars, and had to spend it at the same rate, it would take 1,585 years. Now that’s impressive!