These days folks from all around the globe can apply for an account with a foreign exchange broker and start
trading the foreign exchange markets. However in my view it is those traders who are based in the United Kingdom that have an edge over those traders from the remainder of the planet. Why is this? Well there are 2 reasons why this is the case.
the 1st reason is perhaps because in my experience the opening hours of the London session is the best period of the day ( by far ). Similarly there are even less distractions because except for the occasional UK or EU press release, there are just a few industrial info releases to move the markets, so you can concentrate absolutely on technical research. So because this session is maybe the most successful, it is those foreign exchange traders, ie those based in the United Kingdom ( and indeed Europe ) who benefit the most because this period is a particularly convenient time to trade.
Trading with the trend is one of the most basic rules you need to agree to when trading the currency exchange markets.
Overbought and oversold positions arise in the foreign exchange markets all of the time but simply because a currency pair looks overbought, as an example, doesn't mean that it will not go even higher. To identify the trend all you do is glance at the price chart and if the price is making higher highs and higher lows its in an uptrend, and vice versa for a downtrend. Then you look for a perfect entry point on the shortest time-frame. For instance, if the trend is up on the fifteen minute, one hour and four hour charts, then a good entry point ( for a long position ) would be when the pair is momentarily oversold on the fifteen minute chart. Trading across multiple time frames in this fashion is one of the best methods of trading the foreign exchange markets. Indeed my own trading methodology is predicated on following the final trend on the daily charts and then hunting for! perfect entry points on the four hour charts, and it appears to work highly well. The significant point to recollect is that its a lot better to trade with the general trend than it is to try to call price reversals all of the time. Remember a trend is always more sure to continue trending than it is to reverse, so you know that you usually have chance on your side when trading with the trend. Any gains made of currency trading through spreadbetting is totally tax free ( at the time of writing, future tax laws may change ). So as you can see UK traders are definitely at an advantage when it comes to foreign exchange trading because they have the choice of trading tax free and can trade the highly profitable opening hours of the London trading session.