The pound sterling - pair of currencies Japanese yen is a volatile offering that provides traders with potentially important movements of prices from many other couples. This currency pair is sometimes so volatile that it earned the nickname of "The Dragon", but also another term well-coined: "The widow-maker."
Whatever you call it, it remains the same: GBPJPY can really move.
Consider, for example, the first launches of the financial collapse in 2008. While the EURUSD, at one point, had gone down by ~ 3300 pips, moving from top to bottom on GBPJPY was much greater: at one point given, a loss of more of a 7000 pips spread.

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This volatility may be a good thing, or it can be a very bad thing; Depending on the way in which Exchange you it.
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Comprehensive research was conducted by DailyFX Quantitative strategist David Rodriguez, review of trades over 12 million placed by traders live FXCM trading platforms. The objective of the research was how traders have been speculating, which was not working and that we, as a group of research and education, could do to help.
The results of the research are shocking and what was found that was mistake number one that FX traders are often revolves around the reports of risk and reward; This is how much is lost on the loss of the trades against how much is used on winning trades.
Research, David said:
"Traders are just more than 50% of the time, but would lose more money to lose trades earning on the winning trades." Traders should use stops and limits to meet a risk/reward 1: 1 ratio or more. »
GBPJPY is an extreme example of this fact.
Our research, we can see that merchants are just an exorbitant sum of 66% of the time on GBPJPY!

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But just as David had found in the search, this percentage earning robust will benefits; as traders took far greater losses when they are wrong and that the benefits when they were right:

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Traders of earned, on average, 52 pips on GBPJPY trades when they are right. but when they are wrong, they lose a monstrous 122 pips. The graph above, GBPJPY is showing that the lowest ratio of pips WINS pips v/s lost (on average).
This type of risk-reward ratio puts traders in a precarious situation; to be profitable in the long term should be right about 75% of the time (3-4) to expect a net profit.
I know not you, but there are very few things in life that I want if expected to be good in 75% of the time especially anything potentially cost me money when I am wrong.
GBPJPY trading
Exchange a currency pair GBPJPY could be optimal for traders volatility or large displacement; but it should be noted that these movements are always very smooth. This is exactly why the overall profitability was not higher on the pair.
The first item of importance, is that given the points above, GBPJPY trade should always include a stop-loss protection order. Lack of making faces therefore the operator risks, as the pair can trend for a long period of time.
Due to the volatile nature and taking into account the pair could trade with very wide swings in both directions, at the risk of can be an interesting approach commercial GBPJPY. This will allow traders to maximize profits on large pendulum movements when they are right; all to reduce their short losses as large swings are moving against them.
Traders escape strategies are followed by support or resistance; waiting for a breach of the level of prices in the expectation that once the break is made - price will continue in this direction, for maximization of profits in instances when the operator is correct (which is still an another reason stop losses are important, such as extended moves can cost significantly in instances when the operator is incorrect) running.
In the article "Price Action escapes", we watched a mannerism of trade price-breaks without the need for any indicator, with price only to identify the levels of support and resistance.
In the article, "workshops: how to stay away from some losing trades,' Jeremy Wagner introduced another indicator, the price of channels aka Donchian channels, to help monitor price levels which may justify future opportunities of small groups."
For traders to speculate on the currency pairs denominated in yen, Ichimoku may also be a relevant way of analysis. Ichimoku is a popular technical system which was developed at the Japan before the second world war. Its power of staying as a popular to initiate trades continued, as the system is still widely used today.
Ichimoku is often used as a system of trend - following, but with a slight change can be used to trade in the escape-style scenarios.
Much Ichimoku is "The cloud" which is an area of support or resistance plotted on the chart movement. When prices of breakthrough on either side of the cloud, the merchant may often consider trade of eruptions by placing a trade in that direction.

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