Every trader that has learnt or tried forex trading for a while will find a bunch of forex trading strategies that can be used. Every strategy has different pros and cons, need different circumstance and data, and will works well in certain currency pair.

Fundamentally, forex trading strategies can be divided into 2 major:

1. Technical analysis

This strategy is utilizing data as its main information source, especially charts to predict the future market movement. You will find various strategies to read this data such as candlestick charting or Elliot wave, yet fundamentally they look for patterns in the chart for a certain timeframe and looking for relationships between several indicators like price and volume.

This strategy is favored by most traders and they utilize it in regular basis to determine the very best opportunity on the market presently. Usually, every trader possesses their own way to interpret the data by using different variables that designed specifically for a particular market he is in. That’s why even when everybody gets the same accurate data, only the one with the right method can convert it into profits.

2. Fundamental analysis

This strategy relies on various economy factors such as overall state of economy, interest rates, production, earnings, and management. For example: several news such as Non Farm Payroll or Wholesale Inventories can affect the market significantly. If you can analyze the market movement before the news out, you can secure your position and wait for the profit.

On some occasions, there are important meeting holds by certain persons who have high influence in the state of economy. For instance, a meeting about deciding the new interest rate or inflation will present great impact in the currency values. Typically, it will be too late to enter the market when the result has released, so you need to utilize the current data to analyze and speculate the result ahead.

Fundamental analysis use is not limited to short term trading, it can also applied on long term forex trading strategies. This is somewhat complex, but fundamentally you predict the future trends of the market based on how the new policy will influence the market in long run.

If you are still unfamiliar with forex and looking for a suitable forex trading strategies then I suggest learning technical analysis first, it is the basic of almost all strategies.