What is the most profitable way to trade forex? Short term, like holding a position for a few minutes and sell, medium term trading like holding a position for a day, or long term holding a position for a week.

Answer
The 1 hour and the day timeframe

The day timeframe is quite accurate if you catch a trend it can last for some weeks and you don't have to look at the charts all day, only once a day. The only thing with trading day timeframe you cannot trade more than 10 % of your account.

If you want to trade short term the one hour is also quite accurate, it gives less signals than the shorter timeframes and you can look at the charts once an hour, and you can hold your trades for few hours. The 1 hour timeframe is good to catch the daily trend.

The most profitable way of trading forex is to use a trading system, which is just a set of rules used to guide you when to enter and exit a trade. If you want to learn how to come up with your own trading system:
http://www.forexmarketscience.com/forex_trading_system.htm

If you are just beginning the best timeframe to start with is the hour its not too long or to short. The hour timeframe won't generate too many signals like the minute timeframes will and at the same time you don't have to wait a long time for signal to trade.

Another way you can increase your profitability is to use 2 timeframes for trading, if you are trading on 1 hour you can check with the day timeframe so as to confirm you are trading with the direction of the trend, If the direction of the day is the same as that of 1 hour your chances of making a profitable trade increase. To learn multiple timeframe trading:
http://www.forexmarketscience.com/multiple_timeframes.htm

You might also like:
http://www.forexmarketscience.com/moving_average.htm

How many different stocks should I have in my portfolio to consider my portfolio well diversified?

Also, is NCC and BSC good long term investments?

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I´ve been investing for more than 20 years and trading for almost 14, and I can tell you that if you want to make BIG and FAST profits, I recommend you trading rather than investing, trading can help you to go from rags to rich.

If you are investing, you must have already achieved some degree of financial success, long term stock investing and/or FOREX can help you become much richer than you are today.

My experiences as a Nasdaq Market Maker, Head trader of brokerage firms, and currently as a professional trader
and private hedge fund manager, I can suggest you that:

We trade because we want quick, short term profits on a consistent basis. We want to cash flow the market. Milk it like a cow.
Make consistent, small, short term gains rather than trying to hit a home run on every trade. Don't ever forget that.
Don't marry a stock, marry the idea of making money trading stocks. That's the only way to do it.

For me "All stocks are equally worthlessâ

I don't hold on to any illusion that the stock market will continue to go up and provide a nice retirement for me.
I could care less which way the market goes. It's irrelevant to me if the market goes higher, crashes or moves sideways for the next 50 years. I really could care less. Stocks are just four letters with two prices next to them that I use to make a living trading.

Trade ONLY when you have a clear, easy and identifiable advantage, because without a CLEAR EDGE your odds of success are NO better than a flip of a coin⦠That´s why so many new traders (and investors) lose money.

Take a look at any daily chart of any index or stock and you'll probably see the most volatility and the biggest opportunity for profit during the "First Hour" of the stock market's opening.

The popular thinking and conventional wisdom is that you should wait about an hour before you start trading.

But if you do, you'll miss the big, fast moves that stocks make as all the amateurs let their emotions out through their
online accounts, usually right after they read some news headline or hear Maria Bartiromo go off about a stock on CNBC.

It's easy to see why trading the open is the market's prime time for profiting from other online traders.
The market's open is very volatile - that is the perfect environment for LARGE, FAST profits.

Learn to trade as a professional Market Maker ,not as an emotionally driven amateur trader or investor with few thousand dollars in an account at Etrade.

There isn't any other time during the day or any stock you can invest in, that can make you 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or more points
in minutes OTHER than during the first hour the stock market is open. That's why I love trading the open so much.

I trade only when I have an edge and that means "only the fisrt hour the market is open".

If you are a beginning trader, you can give yourself an unfair advantage in the market trading this way.

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