During a time of recession, statistics have shown that trading in financial instruments becomes more popular. This is because many stock and futures traders shift from trading stocks and shares and futures to trading forex during bad economic times. It can be said that forex trading brings opportunities to gain quick profits and wealth, irrespective of economic conditions. It is therefore possible to create a stable income during a time of recession by forex trading as long as you have a proven method to make consistent profits in forex trading. Indeed, it is possible to trade the minor fluctuations between currencies that occur within seconds and profit therein with proven forex trading strategies.

If you are new with forex, you will need forex charts. The starting point in forex trading is to be able to quickly decipher price movements from the forex chart. This is called chart interpretation in technical analysis. By using charts, you are trying to read the price movements within seconds, and to take advantage of these mini price swings. The difference in forex trading and with stock trading lies in the time frame that you can take advantage of price movements. In forex trading, movements are really much quicker than stocks. So in the first stage of learning to trade forex, you need to equip yourself with the best chart reading techniques. Generally, you can use just plain price action analysis. This means you merely study price movements and chart patterns. You may also go further to use technical tools where you use technical analysis to study the other perspectives of the charts. So instead of looking at price as an indicator, you may wish to look at say the stochastics, or the relative strength index of the forex instrument, or you may draw a bollinger band over the price bars and see how price behaves each time it reaches the edge of the bollinger band.

As you develop your system of trade of forex, use demo accounts that many commercial brokers provide. They will generally provide the free charts of forex instruments as an element of their system of trade for their demo accounts.

Research on the internet for forex charts and forums. Refine your trading system as you learn more. The best manner of learning from forex is to practise with a demo account.

The best way to success in trading forex is to take some structured training with an expert trader or mentor and duplicate his success. I have seen so many of my friends succeed in forex trading by using a forex trading course. There is really no need to reinvent the wheel. Learning from a mentor will shave off years of learning experience and lost opportunities in forex trading. In fact, you will probably save a lot of money which will otherwise be spent on bad and wrong trades in trying to figure out the best ways to trade profitably by yourself. Following a course of instruction in forex trading is a good investment that I cannot over-emphasize.