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There are many lists offering advice in choosing the right forex broker. While many will list regulatory authority or net capital position as the most important factors to look for when evaluating brokers, these may not be the best factors to consider when you begin trading. Let’s not kid ourselves – brokers are not charitable institutions. They are in business to make money. That said, how a broker generates profits is often overlooked or downplayed during the evaluation process. The following are important questions that need to be asked:


1.) Does the broker use a Direct Market Access model? This is important for you as a customer to know whether or not your broker is following standards in relation to pricing and execution. In addition, trades will be sent direct to the “market” for execution. In world of forex, this refers to the interbank market where multiple banks provide streaming prices where clients can buy and sell.


2.) Does the broker provide Straight Through Processing? If not, your broker is likely acting as a market maker and taking the opposite side of your trade. Simply stated, your interests are not aligned with those of your broker. This is true even if your broker has a large capital position and is a regulated firm.


3.) Does your broker offer a segregated account for their customers’ funds? If not, your deposit is co-mingled with the brokers assets and becomes part of their balance sheet. This may prove problematic if you dispute a balance figure or the broker is deemed insolvent. Claims for returns of customers’ funds can be delayed for weeks or even months as evidenced by multiple broker closings all over the world over the past five years. Many of these firms were regulated by well known agencies in the U.S., U.K. and Japan.


4.) Does the broker offer a professional trading system like Currenex? If this is the case, then the customer can be assured that they are trading on prices from multiple banks and not trading against the firm’s dealing desk.


5.) Does the broker require do*****entation when customers open a new account? While it may be an an inconvenience if your broker requires a copy of a government ID and bank statement, this practice confirms your broker is adhering to strict international anti-money laundering rules and regulations. If your broker does not require this information, then you should be concerned that the firm may be closed down if they are found to be in violation of these laws. If this happens, then the safety of your funds is in jeopardy.

The Forex Heatmap ™ is now available to all spot forex traders. The Forex Heatmap ™ gives any spot forex trader an easy to in interpret data visualization tool that organizes the data from 25 currency pairs into a visual map of the spot forex for fast and accurate spot forex trade entry decisions.

The vast majority of forex traders don’t know the condition of the forex market when they enter a spot forex trade.

There are two reasons for this. The first reason is ignorance. Most forex traders trade one pair like the EUR/USD and are looking at standard forex technical indicators on one timeframe. They continuously force trades into the EUR/USD when there is no trade there at all and they all wind up being forex scalpers. In the meantime other pairs are moving hundreds of pips, almost daily, and these forex traders simply cannot see the larger picture of the forex market.

The second reason is that once a spot forex trader has decided that they to want to know the condition of the entire forex market when they prepare to enter a trade, or that they want to trade the best currency pair available with the most pip potential, they see that it is not possible because up to now there were no good quality forex market visual maps available to them. When a forex trader searches for such a visual map of the spot forex that gives them a real time picture of the forex market they find that a tool like this may not exist.

This is where The Forex Heatmap ™ enters the picture. The Forex Heatmap ™ quickly and conveniently verifies your spot forex trade entry decisions across 25 currency pairs. Forex trading accuracy will improve dramatically for any spot forex trader and you will also know when to NOT enter a spot forex trade.

Typically at the point of entry the spot forex trader must worry about placing the trade in their forex broker platform and make sure that the correct pair and direction are entered on the trading execution platform while watching a forex price chart. There simply is not time to click on the charts from 5 to 10 currency pairs to verify the entry decision or the overall forex market condition. Forex traders must focus on the trade entry and have tools that work quickly and are easy to interpret. This is where forex traders make mistakes and emotion takes over. Traders need a quick entry verification visual map of the spot forex that streamlines the forex trade entry decision process.

The Forex Heatmap ™ solves all of these problems. The Forex Heatmap ™ is a dynamic visual tool that consolidates the data from 25 currency pairs using real time forex datafeeds and translates the forex data into a visual map of the spot forex. When you combine The Forex Heatmap ™ with a simple trading plan and very simple forex trend indicators, basic knowledge of forex support and resistance, parallel and inverse analysis, and the direction of the primary trend you now have a powerful combination of high quality analytical and decision making tools for forex trading. Emotional forex trading gives way to logical forex trading. The full potential of 25 currency pairs is now yours not just some scalping of one or two currency pairs that most forex traders have focused on in the past.

The majority of forex traders scalp, use forex technical indicators, or use forex robots, and the failure rate is incredibly high. Heatmaps are becoming more common in business, financial, internet and technology applications, and The Forex Heatmap ™ is leading the way to create successful spot forex traders.

Multiple time frame analysis is the inspection of forex trend indicators, starting with the largest trends and timeframes, and working backwards down through successively smaller timeframes to see how the smaller timeframes and trends feed the larger ones. When the smaller timeframes are in agreement with the larger forex trends you can enter a spot forex trade. If no forex trends exist the smaller timeframes and trends will, at some point, build a larger trend.

Multiple timeframe analysis has been around for nearly 25 years. The MTFA method is applicable to stock and commodities trading, equity options and the spot forex trading. The method is applicable to any currency pair. We are respectful of the strong technical work of Kathy Lien and Brian Shannon outlining MTFA and their technical papers are available on the Forexearlywarning.com website.

MTFA works, it is that simple. Pips can be made from the forex daily and the method is effective, especially when larger timeframes and forex trends are traded for larger pip totals. Money management ratio for your forex trading also improves when you are entering a larger trend.

By applying MTFA to many currency pairs your odds increase again, this is because you can choose to trade the best and largest trend available in the spot forex and ride the trends longer.

In order to conduct and accomplish a multiple timeframe analysis of the spot forex you need the proper forex charting platform and a set of trend analysis tools and indicators to facilitate the process. Some forex tools and indicators are very expensive some are free. You must be able to analyze 7 to 15 timeframes per currency pair to conduct a complete MTFA on onecurrency pair. You also must analyze the top 15-20 traded currency pairs to seek out the best opportunity and understand todays forex trends..

The first step when conducting a MTFA on a currency pair is to inspect the largest 3 or 4 trends. See what currency pairs have established larger trends, whether the trending currency pairs are at the beginning, middle or deep into the trend. Also determine which pairs are not trending (oscillating) and which currency pairs could be developing a brand new trend. If there is a currency pair that interests you check the next support and resistance area and set a price alarm to monitor that pair. When the price alarm hits check the smaller timeframes to see if they are in agreement with the larger timeframes and forex trends, and if so enter a spot forex trade.

A forex trader can use off the shelf trend indicators to conduct a multiple timeframe analysis of any currency pair. Simple forex indicators like exponential moving averages work fine. Just apply them across multiple timeframes.

Is it possible to make forex multiple time frame analysis better?? I believe the answer is yes. Incorporating parallel and inverse analysis into the market analysis as well as support and resistance to set price alarms for notification of momentum or a possible forex trade entry point can all help.

Forex scalpers may find the method to be to their liking because you will never trade against the larger trends and potentially hang onto your forex trades much longer. One of the biggest reasons people scalp the forex is that they have no idea which direction the trend is on the pair they want to trade. Or they only look at one timeframe. Traders scalp the foreign exchange but statistics show that people who hang on longer and ride longer trends make the most pips.

Why do traders not use multiple timeframe analysis? Mostly because analyzing alot of pairs and timeframes takes time and people basically are lazy. Most forex scalpers only look at one timeframe and could possibly be trading against a larger trend, or a scalper may be at the beginning of a very large move and exit way too early. If you are near the end of a trend you may also enter a trade after a long move and be entering near the end of the trend. This is bad forex money management under any scenario. Scalpers need MTFA but forex traders who would like to stay in their trades longer would, by nature require knowledge of MTFA.

Multiple timeframe analysis of the spot forex is here to stay. Forex traders worldwide are accepting and learning to understand the method. MTFA is a rigorous method of analyzing the forex. But it is not difficult to learn. When combined with parallel and inverse analysis of the spot forex it is quite powerful. It can be applied to any currency pair using free forex trading tools and forex charting systems available on the internet from many spot forex brokers.

Very few spot forex traders conduct any form of parallel and inverse analysis of the major currency pairs and exotic currency pairs to determine the best way to trade the forex market on a day-to-day basis. Forex traders do this in spite of the fact that it would be nearly impossible to trade the forex successfully not knowing where the overall strength and weakness was in the spot forex across multiple pairs or the entire forex market.

Lets look at some examples. Many forex traders like to trade the GBP/USD and they spend countless hours losing sleep waiting to trade this currency pair even when no trends or parallel/inverse currency pair confirmation is available. Losses occur and lifestyles change. Forex traders could increase their odds of success dramatically by setting up some forex trade entry rules and examples like the ones shown below.

Example 1 - Only buy the GBP/USD if the GBP/CHF and GBP/JPY are strengthening as well. This would be parallel confirmation that the GBP strengthening across the board. A simple but effective rule. A forex trader could enhance the rules further by examining the EUR/GBP for weakness. This is inverse currency pair entry confirmation.

Example 2 - Only buy the GBP/USD if the EUR/USD is strengthening and the USD/CHF is weakening. This would be confirming the trade entry with two other currency pairs and verification with across the board weakness in the USD. In either situation you have confirmed the forex trade entry with at least two other currency pairs. Both of these entry management rules would include a stop order.

But this is not what forex traders do. They want to trade the GBP/USD so badly that they “manufacture” a trade, or they want to use “ forex technical indicators” that all conflict with each other, or trade the forex news. This is a mistake and is equivalent to betting or gambling and driven by greed. There is no logic to support the trade entry. This is not necessary because the forex works in a logical way.

Lets look at some other forex trade entry verification examples. Lets say a forex trader prefers to trade the GBP/JPY, you could set up rules for entry as follows: Only buy the GBP/JPY if the GBP is strong across the board based on parallel and inverse pairs, or only enter the GBP/JPY if the GBP/USD and USD/JPY are both strengthening somewhat or alot. In the second scenario the GBP/JPY will slingshot upward at a very fast pace due to the GBP strength combined with JPY weakness.

Or another scenario is for a forex trader only to buy the GBP/JPY if the EUR/JPY, CHF/JPY and AUD/JPY are all strengthening as well, in this case the USD is not in the picture because of across the board weakness in the JPY. Either way you have confirmed the spot forex trade entry with other currency pairs in the same parallel group..

Another example would be to buy the USD/CAD only if the EUR/CAD and AUD/CAD are also rising. Similar rules can be applied to any major pair or exotic currency pair and easily monitored upon entry. In the case of the three CAD pairs, if you also do a careful analysis of forex support and resistance, and you can trade the currency pair with the most pip potential rather than just trading the USD/CAD.

But this is not what traders do, they get stuck trading the same pairs like the EUR/USD repeatedly and wind up justifying a trade when a trade is not there. These forex trade entries are not based on logic they are based on emotional needs. This leads to losses. The spot forex works in a very logical process and you must let the logic work for you. Stop looking at forex technical indicators and start looking at other pairs in the same parallel and inverse groups to support your entries, these are the best indicators available.

Across the board strength and weakness in the 8 major parallel and inverse groups of currency pairs occurs weekly in the forex. But if you search the internet far and wide you will see that parallel and inverse analysis of the spot forex is rarely and in fact never discussed by forex traders, forex analysts, and forex trade planning services charging hefty monthly fees. People are too busy looking at forex technical indicators and absolutely no discussion of the market forces governing the spot forex ever occurs. This has to stop or the forex industry and traders will suffer.

It is very rare if nearly non-existent for one forex currency pair to move strong without other currency pairs to confirm the move. This is true for any major or exotic currency pair. If you are “stuck” trading the same currency pairs while the other pairs and exotic pairs are making strong moves its time to look at all of the currency pairs every night for your forex market analysis then pick the best opportunities to trade based on parallel and inverse analysis.

In order to trade the spot forex daily and weekly, you must analyze 15-20 pairs every day to determine the current market forces within each parallel or inverse group of pairs. This forex analysis will lead to less forex trade entries, but more logical forex trade entries, and better methods of confirmation of forex trade entries when the movement starts. Parallel and inverse analysis is the logic behind the spot forex.