A Realistic Review Of Forex Trader John Templeton's Trading In The Buff Forex Program
John Templeton, who has been an investor in forex day trading for more than half a decade and who is the author of the Trading in the Buff forex signal system, soon discovered that all the complicated ways that traders use to pick a winning forex trade were only muddying the field for him. "I was basically just an inanimate object waiting for arbitrary lines to cross, telling me that I should open or close a trade. Then it dawned on me. How in the world could I make money trading currency exchange, if I don't even comprehend what I am looking at?"
This is when John determined to take the bull by the horns and to reason things out for himself. No more buying into this or that forex training theory. He started by listening to what all the veteran traders had to say on the topic. And more than any other phrase that came out of their mouths was the phrase "price action." John was so aghast at himself that he could have kicked himself. "It was so obvious, I couldn't believe it."
When it comes to trading the foreign exchange market, John concluded that the trader has to take a decision between one of two ways to evaluate the trade: either by using fundamental analysis or using technical analysis. Fundamental analysis takes into consideration all the psychological fundamentals that can influence a currency's tendency in the market. Things like the impact that the non-farm payroll numbers which are released once a month can have, or how raising or lowering interest rates can impact a given currency pair.
When it comes to using technical analysis, this breed of trader thinks that opening up the indicator menu on their charting platform will in some way tell them which currency pairs to trade based on how the indicators read. From John's point of view these traders seem to think that -- rather than understanding price movement -- following charts full with lagging indicators such as RSI, MACD, and stochastics will lead them to the right trade to enter. After surviving years of losing trades following this same formula, John is persuaded that following this path is a losing cause.
The one technical indicator that most unsuccessful modern traders don't use is price action. They're all waiting for all their other indicators to line up. For this kind of trader, the only important thing is what his static indicators are showing him, and price becomes secondary or even irrelevant. The only thing wrong with using lagging indicators like these is that they do not furnish the trader a clear vision of what the market is truthfully doing during a given trading period.
When, for example, you discipline yourself to begin looking at price support and resistance levels, you are being shown actual statistics which are having an impact on the direction of the market. No lagging indicator will ever give you that kind of indication which will hold up for very long. You have to be able to see it instantly from the market itself. This is what John is trying to hammer home in his forex trading program Trading in the Buff.
The name of his program references the shedding of indicator based strategies and returning to fundamental price action indicators. Put another way, trading in the buff, without using the theoretical indicator window dressing that many traders learn to base their trading habits on. The theories sound good, but they don't always work.