Bornean Forex Trader

• Scalping (or micro-trading) is all about taking very small profits, repeatedly. Typically, trades last from seconds to minutes. 
• Scalping is a trading strategy that attempts to make some profits on small price changes. Traders who implement this strategy will place anywhere from 10 to a few hundred trades in a single day in the belief that small moves in stock prices are easier to catch than large ones. 
• Scalping is an expert skill and, although many people find the idea attractive (and exciting for adrenaline junkies), I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners. 

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• Day trading is all about buying and selling on the same day, without holding positions overnight. Compared to scalping, this style calls for holding positions for minutes to hours versus seconds to minutes. A day trader closes out all trades before the market closes. Most day traders use leverage to magnify the returns generated from small price movements. 
• Day trading is often glamorised as an easy way to get rich quickly. However, this is rarely the case. Day traders typically suffer severe financial losses in their first months of trading and many never graduate to profit-making status. Day traders are handicapped by the bid-ask spread, trading commissions, and other expenses. These costs require day traders to earn significant trading profits just to break even. 
• Both scalping and day trading requires strong discipline; the time and ability to learn how to trade a tested and profitable strategy rapidly; and enough capital to withstand sudden and, possibly, larger-than-expected losses.
• Both scalping and day trading is what is known as intraday trading. If you buy and sell shares in a single day, then you are considered to have traded intraday. An intraday trader opens (buys) and closes (sells) their trades (also called positions) within the trading day, leaving no trades open overnight. 

• Swing trading is the art of capturing the short-term trend. It is a style of trading that attempts to capture gains in a stock within one to seven days. 
• Swing traders use technical analysis to look for stocks with short-term price momentum. 
• These traders are not interested in the fundamentals or the intrinsic value of stocks, but rather in their price trends and patterns. 
• In my opinion, swing trading and position trading are the only two types of trading in which a person with a full-time job can still consistently trade well part-time. 
• Since the holding period is several days, intraday moves will not affect the swing trader as much as they would a day trader. A typical holding period for a swing trade is three to seven days. 

• Position traders stay in trades for weeks to months. The position trader endeavours to anticipate whether the current trend will continue for a much longer term than a momentum or swing trade. 
• Position trading gives traders who cannot trade frequently a lot of freedom: profit potential is not diminished and position traders can make considerable gains. 
• Long-term traders are not concerned with short-term fluctuations, because they believe that their long-term investment horizons will smooth these out. 
• Position trading is the polar opposite of day trading because the goal is to profit from the move in the primary trend, rather than the short-term fluctuations that occur from day to day.
• None of these types of trading are limited to buying. With certain types of instruments, the trader can also short (or short-sell) the stock. This means that profits can be made in both rising and falling markets.

When choosing a trading type to suit your needs, here are some questions to ask:  

• Am I short-term- or long-term-orientated?
• How much time do I have during the day to trade?
• Do I work full-time?
• Am I patient, or do I need to see results quickly? 

• Contoh 1: 1 mini lot EUR/JPY (katakan harga EUR/USD ialah 1.2700 dan harga semasa EUR/JPY ialah 149.74)
  1 pip = 10,000 USD x 0.01 x 1.2700 / 149.74 = 0.84 USD
  
• Contoh 2: 1 regular lot GBP/CHF (katakan harga GBP/USD ialah 1.8700 dan harga semasa GBP/CHF ialah 2.3438)
  1 pip = 100,000 USD x 0.0001 x 1.8700 / 2.3438 = 7.97 USD

Jika anda ingin membuka akaun regular atau akaun mini, anda perlu ada sekurang-kurangnya 3 atau 4 lot. Jika anda ingin membuka akaun regular, dan broker mengenakan syarat minimum 4 lot untuk membuka akaun regular, maka anda perlu ada modal sebanyak 4000 USD kerana nilai 1 lot ialah 1000 USD.

Margin

Setiap kali anda trade atau membuat transaksi jual/beli, anda akan menggunakan sebahagian daripada modal anda. Ini dipanggil margin. Jika anda mempunyai modal sebanyak 5000 USD, anda menggunakan 1000 USD sebagai margin untuk anda trade.

Selebihnya, 4000 USD digunakan sebagai reserve atau back-up margin.

Leverage
Leverage mempunyai konsep yang sama seperti pinjaman. Apabila anda trade 1 lot utk akaun regular, saiz lot itu ialah 100,000 USD dan bermakna anda memerlukan modal sebanyak 100,000 USD untuk melakukan transaksi jual/beli currency pair.

Tetapi dengan adanya leverage, anda tidak perlu ada modal sebanyak itu, leverage adalah seperti pinjaman, di mana kita perlu ada 1% daripada modal keseluruhan.

Leverage yang standard ialah 1:100. Ia bermaksud anda hanya perlu ada 1/100 atau 1% daripada jumlah sebenar. 1% ialah modal anda sendiri, 99% dipinjamkan oleh broker anda.

Contoh pengiraan:

Akaun Regular: 100,000 USD
Leverage: 1:100

Ini bermakna, anda perlu ada 1% daripada 100,000 USD untuk 1 lot.
1% x 100,000 USD = 1000 USD

Oleh itu, nilai 1 lot untuk akaun regular = 1000 USD