The Sensible Guide to Forex: Safer, Smarter Ways to Survive and Prosper from the Start

APPENDIX G

Low Correlations to Other Markets via Social Trading Means There's Always a Bull Market Somewhere*

Global asset markets tend to move in the same direction. More precisely, in times of optimism most risk assets rise and safe haven assets fall. In times of pessimism, the opposite occurs. This phenomenon creates a problem for investors. In good times, the price of risk assets gets bid up as cash floods into risk assets, lowering returns and raising risks that you'll be paying too much and may be buying at the top. In bad times, the same thing occurs, only it's safe haven assets that quickly become expensive.

Through skilled forex trading, it's very possible to achieve market-beating returns that don't correlate closely with other markets. That means it's possible to make exceptional returns even when other risk or safe haven assets are too expensive.

However, the problem for most people is that they aren't skilled forex traders, nor do they have the large sums needed to invest with a top forex account manager, even if they are able to find one.

It is not a problem. Locating top traders is relatively easy via social trading networks. Skilled forex traders are able to achieve returns that are not correlated to other markets. That means, in essence, that they're able to create bull-market returns regardless of what's actually happening in most other markets.

For proof, Currensee.com has kindly consented to let me reprint the following article detailing how its Trade Leaders' ...