We know that the forex market can go up and down frequently due to many reasons, especially around major news release. In order to do forex news trading successfully, traders need not only train their technical trading skills but also need to acquire fundamental knowledge concerning the economy, politics, and society that could influence the forex market directly or indirectly. Here I am going to introduce how to improve traders’ performance in forex news trading.
How to improve forex news trading skills in currency trading?
1. Predict the release of forex news

When trading forex news, some traders choose to take a position before the forex news comes out. To succeed in forex news trading, traders need to consider the current estimates related to the forex news seriously since the difference between the estimates and the actual forex news determines the profitability of forex news trading. For example, an actual figure worse than the market will move the market downward. Traders can use a market or limit order to initiate their trades and place stop loss orders and profit taking orders to complete their trades with expecting profit or limited risk. Traders can use economic calendar to do currency trading.
2. Make use of consolidation points 
In forex news trading, consolidation points are important for traders to make profits. As going up or down,prices tend to form consolidation levels like triangles, which typically tend to follow in the direction of the original price movement. Then traders can place an order below or above the consolidation level according to their expectation of the forex news. Once the order is triggered, traders can set the stop loss order as the height of the original consolidation pattern in order to trade forex news within their risk tolerance level.
3. Use forex news alerts
forex news alert is an important way to do forex news trading. There are many forex brokers and trading platforms providing these forex news alerts that generated by experts with their interpretation of the forex news together and sent to their subscribers. Therefore, it is important for trader to choose the alert with high quality since no one want to trade with delaying forex news or latest forex news but with a poor interpretation of it. In order to get excellent forex news alerts, traders can check some reviews of the services on major forex blogs, forums or bbs, to see how other traders think of these forex news alerts and they can also try the forex news alert for a period in order to see whether it is great to use.
4. choose a top forex broker
To do forex news trading with high profit potential, forex news traders definitely need a good forex broker to work with. Many qualified forex brokers will provide traders with both fundamental forex analysis and technical analysis tools and services. Besides, some forex brokers can offer updated real-time forex news feed to their users, which can help traders to make quick decisions. Therefore, traders should really choose a forex broker that suits their trading style in trading forex news.