{"id":14614,"date":"2010-10-30T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=14614"},"modified":"2010-10-30T00:15:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T04:15:20","slug":"can-we-trust-the-trading-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/10\/30\/can-we-trust-the-trading-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Trust The Trading Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Daniel Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forex trading signals are the signals for buying and selling of a  foreign currency. They show the time and the price level when opening  and\/or closing a trading position has the biggest potential for making  profit. Signals can be a great help for the newbie traders who know the  basics of trading but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have their own trading strategy yet.  Companies that provide trading signals usually have a professionally  developed trading system which according to these companies is effective  and must be profitable. The cost of such trading signals is usually not  very high and returns to the trader who uses these signals.<\/p>\n<p>How can we check if the trading signals are worth their money? The best  indicator is the opinion of people who you trust. It might be your  friends, colleagues, relatives who have already used those trading  signals and can share you their results. If you personally don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know  people who have already used the signals, you can look around and make  your own research before subscribing to the certain signal services. As a  rule the authors of the trading signals usually let their customers to  get familiar with the history of trading transaction made according to  their signals on their own trading accounts. With the help of these  statistics you can judge the effectiveness of the trading signals  provided. If the signals provider doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offer the statistics of  trading with its signals, it is better if you look for another signals  provider. There are hundreds of signal services on the web today.<\/p>\n<p>Usually the Forex trading signals providers do not guarantee the  effectiveness of their product. The same as the money management  servicers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offer the return of the capital in case of the losses.  In both cases the risk lies on yourself as an investor. The best way to  test the effectiveness of Forex signals is to make a short term  subscription to them and evaluate their effectiveness on your own. Of  course, you can waste some money if the performance is not good. More  than that some signals providers require the minimum subscription for  more than a month, which is embarrassing if your goal is just to try  them out. In any case you will have to find the way to solve it and test  the signals before you use them for trading with your capital.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribing to Forex trading signals is very similar to the money  management. In both cases you rely on the professionals, rather than  analyze the market and execute positions on your own. In the first case  you pay a fixed amount for the subscription and independently make the  transactions through the platform of your online broker based on the  received signal. In the second case, you trust to someone else to do the  transactions for you and manage your capital, but you share with them a  part of the profits made in your trading account. In both cases you  take all risk of loss if the situation in the Forex market will  unfavorable to you.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Daniel Shaw is a proud author of many popular materials about Forex trading. Visit his portal <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tradinginsingapore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore Trader<\/a><\/span> to find more information about Forex Trading in Singapore and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tradinginsingapore.com%c3%a2%e2%82%ac%c2%9d%20target=\/\">Mustafa Forex<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forex trading signals are the signals for buying and selling of a foreign currency. They show the time and the price level when opening and\/or closing a trading position has the biggest potential for making profit. 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