Gold Prices And Forex Trading

Posted on September 2nd, 2010

Everyone wants to buy gold. Gold is the ultimate global currency. US Dollar used to be pegged to gold before 1973. But with the collapse of the Bretton Woods System that year, US Dollar was unpegged from gold. It became a freely floating currency. Free floating for a currency means the value of the currency is determined by the fundamentals of supply and demand. Get this Sublime Forex Champions MT4 Multi Indicator Scanner FREE that tells the market direction of any currency pair on 8 different timeframes. Learn this powerful Fibonacci Retracement method FREE that pulls 500+ pips per trade. Download this 1 Minute Forex Trading System FREE!

Australia is a major exporter of gold. UAD/USD is a currency pair that has got correlation with gold prices. As the US Dollar gains value, gold usually loses value. So when gold prices are rising, we can execute long trades on AUD/USD.  Likewise, when gold falls in value, we can sell short AUD/USD. This relationship provides us with a method to take advantage of the fundamental factors in forex markets. It may be due to the fact that gold is considered to be the ultimate safe haven by investors in times of financial crisis.

How do you follow gold in currency trading? We now know that AUD/USD pair reacts strongly to gold prices. So we will trade AUD/USD based on following gold.  Entering a trade to follow gold is a three step process. Use RSI (Relative Strength Index) as the technical indicator to trigger the trade.

Use a moving average to determine if gold is in an uptrend or a downtrend. Watch the seven periods RSI on AUD/USD chart to enter one of its reversal zones. Then move back out of the reversal zone in the same direction as the gold is trending.

Set a limit order of 200 pips and a stop loss order of 50 pips. This gives a risk to reward ratio of 50/200=1/4. 200 pips mean $2000 profit if the trade goes as you had anticipated. 50 pips stop loss means a $500 loss if the trade does not go in your favor. It is not uncommon to have a trade go against you only to find yourself right back in trade that goes your way.