What is a Forex Robot?
If you are asking what a Forex Robot is, you might also be asking what Forex is!
FOREX TRADING
Forex
is short for Foreign Exchange. If you trade on the Forex Market you buy
and sell different foreign currencies. The currencies are paired up
with the most common being USD/EUR ie. US Dollar and Euro or USD/JPY
ie. US Dollar and Japanese Yen.
There are many reasons why the Forex Market is so much bigger and better than Stocks and Shares Trading including:
24/7 Global Market
- This global market never sleeps and can be traded by anyone, anywhere
in the world at any time of night or day. There are no closing bells
here.
No "per trade" commission - Instead of charging for
each transaction, Brokers and Internet trading platforms make money
from the spread between Buy and Sell prices not meaning you buy and
sell more often
Robots - There are Forex Robots that can
trade on your behalf day and night making sure you can benefit from
changes in the market while you are away from the computer
Buy and Sell
- Unlike stocks and shares where you only profit on the increase in
price, with Forex trading you can either buy or sell each of the
currencies in a pair meaning that you can profit if the ratio goes up
or down.
FOREX ROBOTS
A Forex Robot is an automated trading assistant also known as:
-
Expert Advisor (EA for short)
-
Forex System
-
The
forex market changes several times per second and unless you sit in
front of your computer screen 24 hours a day monitoring these changes
you will not be able to take advantage of small incremental increases
in profit. A Forex Robot does the monitoring for you by tracking
movements and deciding when to buy and sell for you. It picks the entry
point and then sets a "Take Profits" or "Stop Loss" point for each
trade. It is also able to step in and reduce losses by buying in the
opposite direction to the fall (see Buy and Sell above).
A forex
robot is very easy to set up whether you have an existing MT4 Trading
Platform or you are a complete Newbie with no Forex experience. There
are several MT4 Trading Platforms out there most allow Demo accounts
too. I use Alpari which is very simple to use and add Forex Robots or
Expert Advisors to by just dragging and dropping into a graph.
The setup really is very easy, if I can do it anyone can:
- Download your chosen MT4 Trading Software to your PC
- Add the two Forex Robot files to the MT4 software
- Register the Forex Robot with the developers
- Open the Metatrader software and just drag and drop the Forex Robot onto the relevant Pair graph i.e. USD/JPY
- Complete the basic configuration instructions and add your investment deposit (this can be in the demo account or real money)
- Sit back and watch the Robot trade for you.
It
really is addictive as you watch the graphs go up and down, and with
the Alpari platform you get live updates on your profit and loss. As
the price reaches the target set by Forex Robot it will buy or sell to
complete the trade.