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Forex trading by which international currencies are traded has gotten popular over the past few years as the business has become deregulated, allowing traders with all sizes of bank accounts to get in the fray. Advertisements for fx trading systems, brokers, signals, and even robots appear to be ubiquitous. So how does one use forex signals to make money?

Find a forex signal service with a solid background. There are many services out there today. A number of them work; some of them don’t. A website called ForexPeaceArmy.com (find a link in the References section below) has ratings for hundreds of brokers, signal services and softwares. They are all reviewed by users and the site is free to join. This is the first place you should look to find a dependable service. Simply go to the site and then click “Reviews” and “Signals.” Search for a service which has at least 60 votes and has four stars or more.

Review the track record. Some services claim returns of countless pips a month, but if you look closer at their records they just give you entry prices and use the highest that the trade went at as a basis for their track record, whether or not they actually told you to exit at the high. For instance if the signal was to enter at 1000, and the position went up to 1500 and then reversed, they would claim that you may have made 500 pips on their record. While this is true, unless they stated to get out at the top there was no way to know that it was the top. So when you review track records make sure they include an entry price and an exit price.

Choose the way your signals are delivered. Forex is a 24-hour-a-day, six-days-a-week market and orders can come anytime. You should be able to have an option to choose whether you want your signals delivered by e-mail, by SMS, or both. As a rule of thumb it is best to choose both so that you don’t miss any trades.

When you get a signal be sure to enter the limit price the order will execute at, the stop loss, and the target that you will take your profits at. All signal providers must provide these three recommendations.

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