The Forex can be very profitable but at the same time very frustrating. One of the advantages of the Forex markets is it’s open 24 hours a day. Unfortunately this can actually be more of a disadvantage because some of us have to sleep and have lives to live and we can’t watch the markets 24 hours a day. So how do you ensure you won’t miss the good trades?

There are several ways. You can team up with other people so you can take shifts and always watch the markets. This is what a lot of the large trading firms do. The problem with that is most new and small time traders can’t afford a staff and then there are concerns of trusting and depending on the other people.

You can also use charting software where you can set up alerts that will give you an alarm when a buy or sell signal is triggered. They can make a sound, send you an email or even call or text your cell phone. The problem is you might not be somewhere where you can get to your computer when it happens. And do you really want to be woken up at odd hours of the night to make your trades? I tried that for a while and I was left exhausted from broken sleep. And I didn’t sleep well to begin with knowing at any moment an alarm might go off.