How Not to Lose Your Shirt Trading Forex

Posted: Jan 20, 2010 |Comments: 0 |

I’m going to be 100% honest with you and tell you the following before you consider trading currencies:

1. All forex traders, and I mean all traders lose money on trades. Ninety percent of traders lose money, largely due to lack of planning and training and having poor money management rules.

2. Trading forex is not for the unemployed, those on low incomes, who can't afford to pay their electricity bill or afford to eat. You should have at least $5,000 of trading capital (in a mini-account) that you can afford to lose. Don’t expect to start an account with a few hundred dollars and expect to become a kazillionaire.

The foreign exchange market is one of most popular markets for speculation, due to its enormous size, liquidity and tendency for currencies to move in strong trends. You would think traders all over the world would make a killing, but success has been limited to very small percentage of traders.

Many traders come with false hope of making a gazillion bucks, but in reality lack the discipline required for trading. Most people usually lack the discipline to stick to a diet or to go to the gym three times a week. If you can't even do that, how do you think you're going to succeed trading?


Short term trading is not an amateur's game and is rarely the path for quick riches. You can't make gigantic profits without taking gigantic risks. A trading strategy that involves taking a massive degree of risk means suffering inconsistent trading performance and often suffering large losses. A trader who does this probably doesn’t even have a trading strategy - unless you call gambling a trading strategy!

Forex Trading is not a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme!

Forex trading is a SKILL that takes TIME to learn. Skilled traders can and do make money in this field. However like any other occupation or career, success doesn’t just happen overnight.

Forex trading isn’t a piece of cake as some people would like you to believe. Think about it, if it was, everyone would already be gazillionaires. The truth is even expert traders with years of experience still encounter periodic losses. Drill this in your head: there are no shortcuts to forex trading, it takes lots and lots of time to master.

There is no substitute for hard work and diligence. Practice trading on a demo account and pretend the virtual money is your own real money.

Do not open a live trading account until you are trading profitably on a demo account.

If you can't wait until you're profitable on a demo account. at least demo trade for 2 months. If you can't hold out for 2 months, cut your hands off.
Concentrate on 1 major currency pair.

It gets far too complicated to keep tabs on more than one currency pair when you first start trading.  Stick with one of the majors because the spreads are the best and they are the most liquid.

You can be a winner at currency trading, but as in all other aspects of life, it will take hard work, dedication, a little luck, a lot of common sense, and an abundance of good judgment.

Questions and Answers

Ask
200 Characters left
Rate this Article
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 0 vote(s)
    Feedback
    Print
    Re-Publish
    Source:  http://www.articlesbase.com/currency-trading-articles/how-not-to-lose-your-shirt-trading-forex-1752641.html

    Article Tags:

    forex

    ,

    forex trading

    ,

    foreign exchange

    ,

    currency trading

    ,

    currencies

    ,

    fx

    ,

    forex trader

    ,

    forex system

    I've personally documented this trick, step by step, in a e book which reveals how one can earn over $10,000 monthly with lower than quarter-hour work a day utilizing the perfect foreign exchange system.

    By: madisanl Finance> Currency Tradingl May 13, 2011
    Peter Hill

    Foreign Exchange trading activities have grown steadily in the past decades and it's no surprise to anyone that online trading is a factor in this phenomenal growth. Forex Signal Safe is a new approach to online forex trading; this system combines automation with direct people support. Your activities will be limited to monitoring your profits grow if the people from Forex Signal Safe have anything to do about it.

    By: Peter Hilll Finance> Currency Tradingl Oct 04, 2010

    Finding out tips on how to exchange forex, as a pro, means first accepting that the elemental motivation - that of making a profit - will most effectively be realised with the dedication, discipline and talent of a professional dealer. New traders, simply studying easy strategies to buy and sell forex, will find that losses readily mount with their earliest trades. That might be until they have got adopted a professional technique to approach the market.

    By: paulhfovnal Financel Aug 04, 2010

    While Forex market offers boundless opportunities to earn huge profits, it requires following currency trading strategies with perseverance, determination and discipline.

    By: Auto currencyl Finance> Currency Tradingl Dec 28, 2010 lViews: 163

    Do you know that foreign exchange market trader risk over $ 4 trillion dollars in the Fx market daily? This article will show you how to make money in the FX market without getting your fingers burnt.

    By: braxtonl Finance> Currency Tradingl Apr 02, 2012

    Ambitious investors worldwide trust foreign exchange trading (also known as currency trading, forex trading, and FX trading) for quick gains. But most of them forget to learn or remember that gains by trading forex are unpredictable and speculative in nature. However, the big turnout in terms of profits still attracts a lot of investors.

    By: James Goodridgel Finance> Currency Tradingl Oct 17, 2011

    The Forex currency market is a non-centralized exchange where banks, businesses, governments, investors and traders can trade currencies with one another. By "non-centralized" I mean there is no actual physical centralized exchange like the New York Stock Exchange or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Instead...

    By: Nial Fullerl Finance> Currency Tradingl Jun 03, 2012

    The fully automated service sends an email confirmation in receipt of the amount and then processes the order. Among the reputed agencies to order foreign currency from is Pawnbroker.

    By: vinkenthomasl Finance> Currency Tradingl May 29, 2012

    Created by David Lambert, the CCI was first used as an indicator for determining reversal points in the Commodities Markets. It was then discovered to be very useful in the share and forex markets. It is based on the theory that all activities move under the influence of cycles. The Maxima (+100) and the Minima (-100) occurring at regular intervals. The CCI measures the speed of price fluxuations as determined by oscillators.

    By: John Hauserl Finance> Currency Tradingl May 25, 2012

    Credit card services are important to help your business increase sales. Consumers today are more comfortable than ever to pay in means other than cash. Plus, many customers don't keep a high volume of cash on hand. Credit cards allow people to pay back expenses over time.

    By: Davidl Finance> Currency Tradingl May 25, 2012

    A merchant cash advance is a cash payment to a business in exchange for an agreed upon percentage of future credit and/or debit card sales. This relatively new industry provides business owners quick access to capital coupled with benefits not see with traditional loans.

    By: Davidl Finance> Currency Tradingl May 25, 2012
    Sutikno Slamet

    Usually, diabetes is due to hereditary and environmental causes resulting abnormally that leads to high blood sugar levels. Insulin is a substance that is necessary to breakdown our sugar intake into small particle to be able to maximize by our body to produce fuel and energy for our day to day activities.

    By: Sutikno Slametl Health> Diseases and Conditionsl Nov 27, 2010
    Sutikno Slamet

    Remember when those little portable TVs were introduced into the marketplace. That was quite a long time ago and to think how happy we were to only be able to access a few channels, but hey, we weren't stuck at home anymore. We felt the same way when portable DVD players came out as well. Finally, a way to watch a movie wherever you go.

    By: Sutikno Slametl Arts & Entertainment> Televisionl Nov 13, 2010
    Sutikno Slamet

    So many of us download movies for free or for a membership fee from file sharing and online movie sites, but are you getting the whole movie? Probably not. In most cases, movie lovers just like you and me, must go through a number of attempts to download pieces of our favorite movies, prior to having them to watch.

    By: Sutikno Slametl Arts & Entertainment> Moviesl Nov 09, 2010 lViews: 188
    Sutikno Slamet

    Go, go, go.. We are all so busy these days. We have such busy lives and so much to fill them with. Between family demands and working in a high tech world-who has the time for watching the latest movies?

    By: Sutikno Slametl Arts & Entertainment> Moviesl Nov 09, 2010
    Sutikno Slamet

    Taking a cruise can be one of the most exciting vacations that you take in your lifetime. Adventure, relaxation, exploration, extravagant parties, exquisite dining, free entertainment, and eye-opening experiences are all yours to be had when you book a cruise with Princess Cruise Lines or another popular line. A cruise vacation literally puts the world at your doorstep. Imagine being able to step out of your stateroom to a different exotic view each and every morning or being...

    By: Sutikno Slametl Travel> Travel Tipsl Oct 23, 2010

    Discuss this Article

    Author Box
    Articles Categories
    All Categories
    Quantcast