A common approach to forex trading is to play with small stakes and target large price moves in the region of 50-200 pips. Indeed I trade this way myself using my main 4 hour trading system. However an alternative approach is to increase your stakes and look for much smaller price moves. That way you only need to find one decent trade per day if it generates around 10 pips, for instance.
It’s not that easy to do, but you can achieve this target if you employ a sound trading strategy. The best approach is to concentrate only on the major currency pairs (such as the GBP/USD, EUR/USD, USD/JPY, EUR/GBP and GBP/JPY, etc) and look for pairs that are trending strongly upwards or downwards during a given trading session.
You simply look at say the 1 hour chart of all of the major pairs and see which ones are moving strongly upwards or downwards. Then once you’ve done that you can use the shorter time frames to get a good entry point.
The best strategy is to find out which currency pairs are moving upwards on both the 1 hour and 15 minute charts, and then hone in on the 5 minute chart. You want to wait for the price to start moving sideways or downwards on this shorter time frame before turning upwards again, because this is an excellent sign that the established trend is set to continue, and therefore likely to net you at least 10 points or so if this is your target.
