Trade Signals - How to generate Signals for Trading

As a forex trader one of the tutorials that you as a trader must learn in trading the market is how to generate trade signals. A signal is just a set of rules which illustrate when to buy or when to sell a forex currency pair.

For example illustration, the simplest system is moving average cross over system which generates signals once 2 MAs cross over each other.

Buy signal - MAs cross-over pointing upwards
Sell signal - MAs Moving Averages crossover pointing downwards

Forex Trading System

To confirm the signals generated one will need to create a system and a set of rules for thistrade system.

A trade system is a combination of 2 or more trading indicators & a set of written trade rules which are used to generate these trade signals with.

· What's Strategy

· How to Develop a Systems

· Writing Strategy Rules

· Generating Signals

· Tips for Strategy

· How to Write Forex Journals.

From the above trade system a forex trader can generate trading signals using the trade transaction rules below

Buy signal

Both Moving Averages(MAs) pointing upwards
RSI above 50
Both Stochastics heading and moving upwards

Sell signal

Both Moving Averages(MAs) pointing downwards
RSI below 50
Both Stochastics heading downwards

An exit trade signal gets derived & generated when the MAs generate an in the opposite trend or RSI gives an in the opposite trend trade signal: A signal that is in the opposite market direction.

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