News Trading Can Be Highly Profitable

News trading is risky. No doubt about it. Precisely because of this reason most of the traders prefer to close their trades before the news release time and stay out of the market. Markets usually become highly volatile at the time of the economic news releases like the NFP Report. But, there are some traders who relish news trading and have made a career out of trading economic news releases.

Trading news is for those traders who like a lot of action within a short period of time. News trading strategies are based on the fact that before any scheduled news release, market develops a certain expectation about the economic numbers that will be released. When the actual economic numbers are released if there is a wide deviation between the actual and the expected, there will be a knee jerk reaction in the market.

There are basically three ways that you can trade the news. The first news trading strategy entails entering the market before the news is released. The second news trading strategy involves waiting for the news release to hit the market and then enter into a trade and the third news trading strategy involves a combination of both. So, let's discuss one of these news trading strategy in detail now!

Suppose, you are a pro active trader. You have been watching the market before the NFP Report release and want to make an educated guess on the market direction at the time of the news release. So, you enter the market 20 minutes before the news release time. One advantage of doing this is to avoid the widening of spreads that usually happens at the time of the new release. You made an entry well before the news release time when the spreads were tight. Now you place your bet on the market direction by going long or short. Place a stop 30 pips below the entry if long and 30 pips above the entry if you have a short trade. Now, wait for the news release to take place.

News trading is all about predicting the market direction correctly. If you can learn the art of predicting the market direction at the time of the news release correctly, you can make a fortune. If the market doesn't move in your direction, the stop loss will be hit and you are out of the market. In case the market moves in your favor, take profit on half of the position and for the remaining half of the position trail a stop with a 20 day SMA. This will help you capitalize on the move as much as possible.

You will be using the 5 minutes chart for this news trading strategy. You might be wondering why exit half of the position when the market moved in your favor. This was done to reduce risk and take profit as quickly as possible in order to avoid any whipsaw that might develop in the market. The most important thing about this news trading strategy is to predict the market direction at the time of the news release correctly.