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5 pieces of advice for Forex traders

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

1. Never invest the money, you can’t afford to lose
The statistics says, that 90-95% of traders lose their first deposit. That may also happen to you. So, it’s silly to think that it gonna happen a miracle and you won’t lose your first money.

2. Don?t use more than 5% of your deposit for trading simultaneously
I think that using 5% of the deposit is the right sum for trading at one moment. Even if the market will move against your predictions, you won?t lose your funds. After some unprofitable trades you will have enough money to continue Forex trading and moving forward.

3. Never do scalping
Scalping is unacceptable at the Forex market. Even if you do good for some time, once you?ll lose much money. Scalping may be used only with one term: stop-loss must be the same as take-profit.

4. Set right stop-loss and take-profit
The level of stop-loss and take-profit must be clearly determined by your Forex trading system. In my trading system SL and TP are the same. The main thing is: SET STOP-LOSS. There are some situations when a trader can?t fix the losses. So, stop-loss is the only way to save your deposit.

5. Keep self-control
That?s the main advice for all traders at all markets, not only at Forex. Emotions bore mistakes. Follow your trading strategy and never deviate from it. After an unprofitable trade don?t try to play back immediately, that will only make the situation worse.

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I wish good luck to all traders. And remember: the more the profit is the higher the risk is and the lower the profit is the more risk-free the endeavor is.

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I’m a forex trader for over 9 years by now. The experience I gained gives me a chance to tell about most typical failures that beginner traders and investors make.

My Expert Advice to Forex Beginners

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The thousands of individuals who have decided to enter the Forex market should know that they should educate themselves first before they start. It is important to know the basics of Forex trading to get into profit, but this knowledge is no guarantee. You need to know more than the basics to even have a fighting chance of being successful.

There are many methods to learn Forex trading. You can join online services, enroll in a Forex trading school, attend seminars and workshops, purchase an course online, join a trading group, or visit your local book store or library.

From experience it is always best for novice traders to get training from a mentor or join a Forex trading team. You are going to benefit from experienced instructors who are already trading Forex in real time. You can compare notes, trends, charts, buy / sell decisions and more. You can check yourself against other people who have more experience than you. In this way, you are familiarized with real market trading. You are given the chance to see the actual processes and decisions which you can later employ.

In the end you will come up with your own strategy and trading methodology that works for you and is suited for your own risk level, temperament, trading goals and trading experience.

Here are a couple of guidelines that new traders can follow to achieve success in the Forex markets.

You need to know proper charting and mapping. Most Forex brokers will supply you with a charting platform, but you need to know how those charts work and how to interpret them. You will need to be able to read Forex market charts.

Discipline yourself. Traders who are disciplined by strictly following their developed methods even when losing period’s strike, have a greater chance of making it in the long run.

Update your knowledge continuously. Successful traders are studying the Forex market night and day and are always looking for new advice and education all the time.

Trade in a team, this helps making decisions easier and could be the #1 reason you find success. If you are trading in a highly specialized team, you can measure yourself and your trading decisions against them and keep each other accountable for your trades.

Focus on what you do and do not jump around. This is probably the single biggest mistake that traders make. They jump from one opportunity and from one trading system to the next. They never stick with a single method and learn to trade that system well.

There are thousands of ways to trade the market with an infinite number of ways to combine signals, charts and trading methodologies. But do not try to trade and test each one of the thousands out there, stick with one that works and work it inside out until you can do it blindfolded. Once you are so familiar with it that you can do it in your sleep, you will start to learn when conditions for your system are right. You should be able to trade your chosen system with confidence and profit.

Jason Hamilton has been successfully trading the Forex market since 2002. He recently reviewed the popular Forex trading robot, which can be read at: Fap Turbo Forex

Currency Trading Tips – Personal Advice For New Forex Traders

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

As a new trader starting out in the market, you may think that you know everything, I know I did. However, I can assure you, don’t make the mistakes that I made early on and follow the personal advice of someone that has been in the game for a while and has been successful at the wonderful business of forex trading. Learn forex the right way. Follow some useful forex tips that I am about to provide you with and you will find that you will be more successful quicker than you could possibly have imagined.

Coming into the forex market for the first time, you should know that there are three major factors that you will have to get a solid grasp of to become a successful forex trader. They are mindset, risk management and strategies. If you can set yourself up solidly with all three of these, it will go a long way in making you a successful forex trader.

Without a doubt, the most important thing that you are going to have to have together when you are entering this market is your mindset. A lot of new traders will come into the market and get the mindset that they are only there to make a lot of money. What they need to realize is that if you have the mindset of merely setting up trades that will be profitable, the money aspect of it will take care of itself. Focus on setting up good trades, not the amount of money that you want to make.

Risk management is the next area that you will have to work on. This is basically setting the limits for how much of your forex account that you are willing to risk at any given moment. Most people will set the range somewhere between 2% – 10%, personally, I prefer to never have any more than 5% tied up in any one trade, but ultimately you will have to decide how aggressive you want to be with this. Please realize though that putting up too much will put you in danger of losing a large portion of your bankroll on just one bad trade. Keeping your risk low will allow you to make a couple of mistakes and still be in the game. In this game, survival and capital preservation takes precedence.

Finally, your forex strategy will need to be developed. You will develop your forex trading strategy based on how you perceive and analyze the data that you get about the forex market. There is no right or wrong strategy, you just need to establish one that will consistently produce a profit for you and that you are comfortable using day in and day out.

These three keys probably seem very simple to you and in essence, they are. But sometimes the simplest things are the most important. Approaching these three keys in the right manner will help you to become a successful forex trader. Forex trading does not need to be complicated, keep it simple and the money will come!

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The author, Daniel Su, is the founder of http://www.ForexTradingPower.com where you can get free premium forex trading tips and resources. Daniel Su specializes in teaching real people how to trade the Forex market for long term financial success.

Forex Education – This Advice Could Make you Rich!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Here I am going to share with you a critical piece of forex education and it’s something you would be wise to study, as it will lead you to currency trading success – if you learn and digest it.

I am going to cover an experiment that took place in 1983 and the experiment was done to prove that anyone could quickly learn to trade and make big forex profits.

Richard Dennis was a legendary trader, who set out to prove anyone could learn to trade, if they had the right knowledge and attitude. He decided set about trading a group of people who had never traded before, to trade in just 14 days.

So what was the result of the experiment?

The group went on to make Dennis $100 million in just 4 years and become some of the most famous traders of all time.

This group was diverse: A female auditor, an actor, a security guard and a kid fresh from school were just a few of the people in the group – yet they all achieved success in 14 days!

So what can you learn from this experiment?

The first lesson is that anyone can become a successful trader, age, sex or educational achievement are no barrier anyone can do it.

Secondly it’s the speed with which they did it that struck me just 14 days and this shows that you only need to work smart not hard.

One of the most vital lessons you can learn is that the trading system taught was simple – but the vital thing Dennis knew was – if you have a trading system, you must have confidence to apply it, with discipline, otherwise you will fail.

The system was essentially a breakout system and the logic is timeless and the methodology will still work today – but takes incredible discipline to apply such a system and Dennis knew this.

So he rammed it home, that they would have take a long periods of losses to deal with, before they hit the big profitable trades and this is something you must learn to as part of your forex education.

Forex trading doesn’t just rely on your system it relies on your confidence in it and your ability to apply it with discipline, through losing periods. If you think discipline is an easy trait to acquire think again – its not, that’s why 95% of traders lose.

Of course you can do it but you need to do your homework and learn, understand and have confidence in what you are doing – it’s as simple as that.

If you want to read more about the turtle experiment, you should read Jack Shwagers excellent book Market Wizards and “The way of the turtle” where Curtis faith (the most successful of the group) outlines everything about the experiment.

These books won’t cost you much and they are really essential forex education, so go and get them. The turtle experiment inspired me to start trading many years ago and I have never regretted it and their success still inspires me today,

Finally, I hope they inspire you in your forex trading as well.

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Forex Education – Before you Buy Advice Online Consider This Question

Monday, December 14th, 2009

As part of their forex education most new traders consider buying an e-book from a vendor and if you are one of them you need to ask one question:

How qualified are they?

Sure the advertising looks enticing but can you learn forex trading from them and can they give you currency trading success?

If you want to find out ask one simple question and it is:

Can I see your audited real time track record over the long term of 2 – 3 years?

Chances are you won’t get it.

Why because most e-book sellers simply rely on making claims (with no substantiation) and they normally only give you a hypothetical track record – let’s define what this is:

Its simulated and hypothetical and done KNOWING the closing prices – Well that’s not difficult but when you trade there is a problem:

You have to trade not knowing the closing prices!

The fact is most of these vendors are NOT trading the system they are making money selling it to you and in the vast majority of cases help you.

In fact you can get most of the information free on the net, or it’s based around logic that simply doesn’t work.

If you want to pay money for your forex education, then pay it to a trader who has walked the walk, rather than simply talks the talk.

This means going to amazon.com or your local bookstore, here you will find a wealth of forex education that is worth the money, from some of the top traders of all time.

We have written articles on some of the best books so look them up.

If you want to learn to trade, make sure the person giving the forex advice has been in the trenches and done it themselves – if they haven’t made money with their forex trading system, what chance have you got?

Keep in mind this fact: 95% of forex traders lose and 5% win.

I would be surprised if any of the 5% did it buying an e-book without a track record.

Forex trading looks easy but few succeed – that doesn’t mean you cant win, you can but be realistic about what it takes to succeed and achieve long term currency success.

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Forex Made Easy – Simple Forex Advice to Start Making Money Online

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

As the forex market becomes more and more popular, more people are jumping in and trying to come up with some miracle forex strategy that will make them a rich man overnight. A lot of rookies believe everything they read and do not take the time to weed out the bad information, and there is plenty of it, and then they end up taking a loss. If they would only take the time to do the right research, they would find the the concepts that produce profits are not brain surgery, they just take some time to develop.

That perfect forex system does not exist, get that out of your head right now. What works is good analysis that will enable you to spot a trend, not try and predict it. The quicker you are able to recognize the trend, the more money you can make. Leave the predictions up to the lady’s on the boardwalk, there is no place for that in a successful forex traders toolbox.

The difference in taking advantage of a trend versus trying to predict the forex market is that you are getting in on something as it is moving in a positive direction, not trying to figure out which way it is going to go. If you find this quick enough, you will be able to make money as long as you can recognize when it is moving the other way. Unfortunately, that is usually a little easier to see because you will notice the negative number in your forex account. How you make the most of these trends is by educating yourself and make sure that you are making informed decisions.

After you have entered the market, make sure you establish a stop order. A stop order is your primary line of defense in preventing your losses from getting out of control on a bad deal. Once you see that you are in a bad deal, simply get out. It is going to happen and don’t think that you are the one guy that can get that trade to turn around. Welfare lines are full of those guys. What you want to do is get out, analyze where you made a mistake and make sure that it doesn’t happen again. If you have a stop mark that is effective, this will be a cheap lesson on what trends not to follow.

If you are looking for one certainty in the forex market, you can be assured that no man and no forex trading system is perfect. Everyone and every system will make a mistake at one point or another. A consistent analysis will still put money in your pocket though. This is not a race that you are trying to win, its money that is the key. Follow the trends and make the most of them. If you are doing good analysis, your wins will far outweigh your losses and after all, that is the goal isn’t it?

There is one point that cannot be stressed enough, Do not ever try to predict the market. You may get a little lucky every now and then, but all that will do is assure you of taking some horrible losses down the line. You will get overconfident and start setting wider stop margins and the next thing you know, you are taking huge losses to your bankroll. Instead, play a safe 10% stop and spend your time researching and analyzing. When you start making money online and watch that bank account grow into an enormous sum, you will be glad you followed this simple advice.

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The author, Daniel Su, is the founder of http://www.ForexTradingPower.com where you can get free premium forex trading tips and resources. Daniel Su specializes in teaching real people how to trade the Forex market for long term financial success.

Forex Education – Want to Buy Advice? 2 Tips to Help you Get the Best Education

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Forex education is vital if you want to succeed but most traders simply have no idea what is good advice and believe advertising copy, but you need to go beyond the copy to get good advice.

Most what you need to know is FREE on the net. Let’s look at where to get the best advice to forward your forex education.

Tip 1 – Look For Proof

Don’t buy an e-book from a vendor on the net unless they present a real time track record that they have made money with their system.

There are many e-books sold that use great copy or lies, to appeal to naive investors don’t fall for this – If they have made no money don’t buy their product – period.

Most of the systems sold by vendors are junk or you can get the information free on the net anyway – more of that later. Now another important point!

Beware of the hypothetical track record this is meaningless.

Their done in hindsight knowing the closing prices so of course it’s going to make money but you don’t trade backwards in real life – you trade forwards and that’s much more difficult!

Instead of buying overpriced e-books with no evidence of success, go to your bookstore and pick up books from traders who have walked the walk rather than simply talk the talk.

Here you can learn from the real pro’s (we have done a top list check out our other articles) and there are some great bargains to be had.

Tip 2 Take advantages of FREE Sources

You can learn forex trading for free and get a forex trading strategy without spending any money.

If you are novice trader you will probably want to trade with forex charts and use technical analysis.

Just look up the phrase and you will find all you need.

The simplest way to trade is using “support and resistance” and a “breakout methodology” so search those two phrases as well.

You will need some “momentum indictors” to confirm you’re trading signals so look them up and in particular “Relative Strength Index” and “stochastics”.

That will give you a simple powerful method to trade with and give you a forex system based on sound logic.

THE BEST FOREX EDUCATION

Is easy to get if you follow the above two tips – All the basics are free and you can get a few good books from the great traders to inspire you and help you – you need spend no more than $100 maximum and you will learn forex trading the right way and get the best forex education.

Finally, leave the e-books with their over hyped copy and no proof to the other 95% of forex traders who lose.

That’s it good luck and good trading.

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