A very good introduction book for forex is Raghee Horner, Maximize profit. It is about forex and she uses a good basic system. I think if you read her book it will show you that any good technical analysis should work with all systems and timeframes. I tell traders I "turned a corner", profitably, after reading Raghee Horner.
One thing that you will learn with time is that you can make trading really to comlpicated. The basic candlesticks with trendlines, MA's, support/resistance, is all that you need to trade profitably. There is no easy way to tell you this but you have to go through the "hard Knocks" school of indicators. In the end indicators only tell you has happened in the past and you can spend way to much time focusing on them. But on the other hand I do not know any technical trader that does not at least use one.
I am having a hard time trying to learn how to program a trading system. I think first you need to have your own trading system that you understand all of the little "quirks". Most forex traders say to use
Metatrader, I have tried but cannot get a consistent profit. I have tried metastock and VTTRADER. I think tradestation is the best trading platform, but you need about 50,00 to use tradestatition.
I trade forex with cms VTTRADER, visual trader, I love the platform, free
demo, but the automatic trading system cannot trade while you are logged off! What good is a trading system it if does not work while your computer is turned off, or logged off! It is always something.
The best advice I can give you is to read alot of posts. First, figure out you trading style. Do you want to make trades that last 5-30 min, 2hr-6hr, 1day to 2day. The timeframe you spend at your computer dictates alot. Download and read the free ebooks: Elder-
come into my trading room: Tharp-
Financial Freedom..: John Murphy-
Technical Analysis.. These books are not a classics for nothing! Then read the new forex books- Raghee Horner, and Kathy Liens new forex book. What you will learn is that the forex books basically apply what is in those 3 classic books(Elder, Tharpe, Murphy). After that you will have a good foundation!