Managing Your Forex Trading

It is an extremely important discipline - that of happily accepting losses. To many new (and some not so new) traders, the thought of a losing trade is simply not acceptable.

The reality of trading is of course a mixture of both wins and losses with success being dictated by the ratio of those wins and losses, and it is a complicated ratio. I often see it defined as "you must aim for a win to loss ratio of at least 2:1". Well that's nice work if you can get it. The markets rarely allow us the luxury of employing anything as straight forward as that.

The real ratio in most cases is to be able - in general - to make more wins than losses and for those wins to be greater in value then the losses.

Yes it would be nice to only enter those trades that will definitely give us at least a 2:1 winning ratio but I have yet to hear of any trader that can consistently do this. The market just does not operate in that certain way. Because of this, a vital part of any trading method must include money management.

By employing a well developed strategy of money management, it helps to even out the wins and losses thereby allowing you to easily accept the losses that will most certainly be coming your way.

If each time that you trade, your very survival depends upon a win, then you will not like the prospect of a losing trade, but rest assured that sooner or later - and likely sooner - you will get one whether you like it or not.

Many new traders look for, or try to develop, strategies that rarely if ever lose. This is a fruitless exercise. One of the things that has to be accepted by traders is that no matter how successful the method that you follow, there will still be losing trades.

As an example, you may have a system that has a win to loss ratio of 4:1 (which would be extremely unusual). In our example, from 100 trades there will be 80 winning trades and 20 losing trades.

You wins and losses are a percentage and this percentace is somewhat random in order. If you were unfortunate, you could find that the next 20 trades that you execute all lose. When trading too large a portion of your account it is only too easy to lose all of your money on a "losing streak" so that you never get to the "winning Streak".

It is unusual to have long runs of losses with a good trading system, but it can happen and yet still maintain the same win to loss ratio. If you learn to employ a strict system of money management, together with a trading method that in general gives you more wins than losses and bigger profits than losses on those wins then you will be able to smile at your losses, because you will know that over time, you will still be profitable.

Being able to smile at your losses in the same way that you are able to smile at your profitable trades is an essential emotional quality, and it is one that can only be developed by employing strict money management.

If you found this article of interest you can read more at Martin Bottomley's website http://www.stealthforex.com

In addition to article writing he is a trading system developer.

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Forex Education - These Character Traits Are Admired But If You Have Them in Forex You Will Lose!

Here I am going to outlines some character traits which are admired in society as a whole but in forex trading will ensure you lose. Most traders simply cannot adapt from the traits needed in everyday life to succeed, to the unique traits you need in forex. If you don't want to join the 95% of losers read on...

1. Consulting an Expert

If your computer breaks down or your car, you consult an expert. After all, you cant do everything - but in the forex market this leads to disaster. There are many experts and forex robot vendors, telling you to follow them but they will all see you lose.

The reason is forex trading stress comes from within and is based on knowledge, which gives confidence which leads to discipline. All successful traders know they are on their own and only they can give themselves success - but for the effort they have to put in the rewards can be life changing.

2. Trying to Be to Clever

You get many people who are clever and think because they are they deserve success but being clever wont help you, as forex trading is essentially simple and you don't need to be.

This is proven by the fact that despite all the advances in news, forecasting, the power of software and PC's the ratio of winners to losers remains the same as 50 years ago.

If you try and be too clever your trading system will have too many elements to break. Keep it simple, is a phrase which is very apt in forex trading.

3. Hard Work is What's Needed

This is absolute rubbish.

There is no correlation between hard work and success in forex trading.

Sure in normal life you may get paid by the hour and the more hours you work, the more money you make but not in forex trading.

In trading you are judged on how good your marketing timing is with your trading signal and that's it. It can take you all day or 10 minutes, it's the end result in terms of profit on which you are judged.

You can put together a robust simple system in about two weeks and then spend less than 30 minutes a day on your trading and enjoy success.

In forex trading its all about working smart in the right areas rather than hard.

4. Being to Sociable

Since man first walked the earth he has sought the safety of groups and this has helped him survive and prosper over the centuries. Most people like to agree with the majority and not be on their own, it's our nature.

Of course in forex trading the bulk of traders lose (95%) so you need to isolate yourself and be on your own. Most people can't do this and fall victim to their emotions and want to agree with the news and other traders.

Most successful traders don't care about being on their own, as they know if they want to make money it's the best place to be.

A Different Mindset for Success

When you start trading forex you need a completely different mindset than you do in normal life and people fail to get to grips with the 4 points made above - but to win you must understand there significance.

If you understand the above, you will know what's needed to succeed and can enjoy currency trading success.

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Finding a Suitable Forex Trading System

Understanding oneself and your current situation will determine your trading style and setup, which is crucial for success.

I have been experimenting with different systems from intraday to swing trading, and I found that unless you are a professional day trader, you are not going to be successful with some profitable trading systems if they don't suit you. Probably automatic trading can helps you in another way, but the every day market condition is unique so if we want to make more pips, auto trading would not be able to do what manual trading could.

As a new trader who just started out with Forex earlier this year, I have always been fascinated with fancy setups and beautiful customized indicators. Although many systems are profitable if strictly adhere with its rules, however, if a system does not fit into individual style of trading, we won't be able to make pips nor stick to it 'religiously'.

Everyone of us has different style, and it is particularly important to find out what suits our personality if we want to be successful in trading.

Same like most -if not all- of the new traders who just started out, I am also no stranger to losing trades and seeing my position being liquidated due to over-leveraging the account result of trying to exploit the 24-hour Forex market has to offer. That is, always want to be in the thick of action but I have realized that I don't have the time and energy to do that consistent unless trading is what I do for a living.

So what setups and systems are we going to use if we are doing part-time trading? It depends on what suits you and your current time available for trading. My advice is, if you are not an intraday trader, don't pick up systems that are customized for day-trading no matter how profitable it is because if your conditions don't allow, you won't be able to follow through it consistently throughout the day. You might just miss a winning trade after a string of losses due to your time schedule and other priorities. That would be detrimental.

Right now, I sense that I am going through to the second stage of my trading and I am constantly picking up knowledge from traders around the world in the forums, webinars and books etc. I am looking less at other trading systems now but rather focus on my own EMA trading setup since it suits me the most as I am not a day trader with a large capital nor the time to do scalping during the day.

Wilson Neo is a Forex trader and regular contributor to the website http://www.fxoperator.com
The website provides informational articles, economic calendar, Forex charts, Fibonacci calculator and proprietary trading systems.

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