FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - The single currency has bounced off session lows in the 1.2825 region, although can’t gain extra traction to overcome the intraday resistance at 1.2850 so far, as the US dollar seems to be consolidating into the NA session.

Worrisome headlines out of the euro zone regarding the Greek political crisis are still weighting on the cross, with market participants now focusing on tomorrow’s meeting between F.Hollande and A.Merkel.

EUR/USD is losing 0.38% at 1.2844 as of writing.
Next support levels are located at 1.2825, ahead of 1.2810 then 1.2800 and 1.2720, while a break above 1.2875 would bring 1.2935 then 1.2958 and finally 1.2979

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Why Metatrader is the best way to trade Forex?

Many Forex traders that enter the market are clueless on how to trade. Most, if not all Forex brokers offer demo practice accounts to get you adjusted to their platform. The great thing is a lot of them are Metatrader brokers. This means their core platform comes from a company called Metaquotes. These brokers more or less lease the software and allow the traders to build their trading strategies.

The most powerful thing you can do with this software is create your own trading strategies and program them into an Expert Advisor or EA for short. These EA’s are state of the art and allow you to auto trade the strategies. Auto trading is a phenomenal thing, in that you don’t have to be at your computer for trades to open and close. The stability of the platform is fantastic and the only thing that may carry some worry when you are not present is your Internet connection.

The top 10 reasons why you should use the Metatrader ( MT4) platform:

The Metatrader platform is versatile and very stable.
There are plenty of Metatrader brokers to choose from.
You can find metatrader expert advisor programmers to create your strategies into EAs if you can’t do it yourself.
If you look hard enough you can find free meta trader EA’s.
The software is free to demo with for as long as you want.
You can create your own Forex Trading Robot.
You can create as many Trading templates as you wish.
You can manually back test all the strategies you plug into the system.
The charts are very clean and very easy to read.
The reporting gives you full statements and information without logging into a broker website.

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