The vast majority of automated Forex trading systems don't work and you need to be able to spot them and its easy to do, if you follow the checklist enclosed, you can avoid the losers and find the best ones and make big profits... So let's get rid of all the junk ones first.

The way to get rid of over 90% of all the Forex robots advertised is to see if it has actually made any money or its track record is simply a back test.

Go to the disclaimer and look for the words - "hypothetical", "simulated" or "back test" and then you will know if it's been traded in real time or just done on historical data.

These track records (and there the vast majority) are made up, knowing all the facts and normally show huge gains, with no real losses and offer the lure of an easy income, with no effort.

They literally buy and sell, knowing all the closing prices and bend the system to fit the data the test is run on. This is a bit similar to taking pot shots at a barn door and then drawing a circle around each one, after the event and saying you hit bulls-eyes!

Now forget the simulations and find one with a real track record, of at least 2 years, so you know it's made real gains.

The best compound around 30 - 100% depending on how aggressive the system is.

Once you have done this check your happy with the losing periods - these will normally vary between a few weeks to a few months and lose anywhere between 25 - 50% from peaks.

After you are happy with the above make sure you understand the logic, so you can follow the system through losing periods with discipline.

If you don't have confidence in the logic, you won't do this so, do your homework and make sure you agree with the system.

Judge your automated forex trading system over the long term and ignore short term losses, all systems have them and you need to ride them out.

Get a good trading system and you will find it will make you great long term gains, in about 30 minutes a day or less.

You need to be realistic about trading long term and not look for a short term killing, you maybe lucky but most system traders judge their system long term and you should too.