Let me begin by saying that if you want to get into forex or currency trading online, DO NOT begin by buying a guide or a training course.
Too many low-life's out there pander to the uninformed by selling them overpriced guides and manuals, sometimes for a few thousand dollars each.
A forex mentoring course can be a good option once you know the basics of forex and want to hone your skills, but there is just so much good information available on the internet for free that you could literally become an all-star trader without paying anything for education.
Today we are going to talk about the way you need to think if you want to be a profitable forex trader.
I consider myself to be pretty profitable when it comes to forex trading, and my first banking internship on the Foreign Exchange floor was when I was 16! (I was the youngest intern they ever had!) I got hooked on trading, and have been doing it ever since.
One thing that is really necessary to your success is to READ. Alot! The more you know about forex trading, the easier (and more profitable) it will be.
You want to know the mechanics of the forex markets from the inside-out. I'm not going to spend time discussing the practical aspects of the forex market, as you can and should discover this though your own reading.
When you begin to get comfortable with your knowledge of what this market is, how it works, and how to place successful trades, you are in a position where you can feel confident in your trading abilities.
The most important thing that the successful currency trader possess is the ability to separate his emotions from his trading. Confidence in your trading abilities is one important aspect to being emotionally detached from your trades, and the other aspect has to do with the way you fund your live trading account.
Make sure that when you put money into your live forex account, it is extra money that you do not need to survive and could afford to lose. If you are trading with the money that you need to pay your car insurance, your trading will be highly emotional and likely to fail.
In a way, this is kind of ironic, because I'm sure you've heard the saying that 9 out of 10 of new traders fail. Well, traders that CARE and are highly emotional about growing their forex account are the ones that lose their shirts, when the traders that DON'T CARE and have no emotional attachment to their trading make most of the profit.
That's the irony: The less you care about making money in the forex market, the more money you tend to make!
But also realize that you are not 'not caring' out of negligence (pardon the double negative), but rather because you are so confident in your trading abilities that you KNOW that in the long run you will always win.
To the successful currency trader, trading is not so much about making money as it is about collecting pips in their trading account!
Profitable forex trader's also tend to develop and follow their own trading systems. Finding or creating a certain system and trading within it is also important to successful trading.
My personal trading strategy that I have developed is something that I call Forex Surfing, and you can read more about it on my site, http://TheForexSurfer.com
There is also a large collection of free forex ebooks and trading resources at my site as well, just click 'free reports' or 'free resources' at the top!
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Monday 5 November 2007
Forex Trading - Why It's NOT Easy To Win - Do You Have What It Takes?
I am an experienced forex trader and have been trading for 25 years and it amazes me the amount of copy I see that tells me it's easy! Its not and you wouldn't expect it to be with the rewards that are on offer. Do you have what it takes to be a successful forex trader? Read on.
The first point to make is:
You Are Responsible!
Yes you! Not the guy who sells you a forex trading system, e-book, or your broker -You are in charge of your own destiny and anyone who wins and makes money in anything accepts this.
If you are the type of person who can't accept responsibility, save your money and do something else forex trading is not for you.
Learning the Right Education
You don't have to work hard to win - you have to work smart and ignore a lot of so called wisdom you will see on the spouted by gurus and self proclaimed experts.
Here are some common forex myths, believe ANY of them and you will lose.
- Day trading makes money.
- A hypothetical simulated track record from a vendor is a good indication of profit potential.
- Markets move to a scientific theory.
- Predicting in advance is good way to make money.
- A complicated trading system has more chance of winning than a simple one.
- The More I trade the greater my chances of success.
- My risk to reward is my profit target - my stop.
- I trade news stories to generate trades.
If you believe ANY of the above statements you will lose.
If you want to win you need to learn the right forex education and that means not just taking charge of your destiny - but developing a simple robust forex trading system you can apply with discipline. This is one you understand the logic of and have the confidence, to apply with discipline.
95% of forex traders lose what makes you think you will win?
This is your trading edge and a trading edge is vital to succeed - you must know what it is and have confidence in it, to take you through inevitable losing periods to long term currency trading success.
Trading is based on not just a sound method but the ability to keep applying it even when you're losing and that's tough.
You will read a lot about how easy forex trading is and if you buy this or that system, you will enjoy success but life's not that simple.
Most of the vendors and trading systems sold are junk and have never been traded and the vendor is not a trader but a marketing person.
They only ever have simulated in hindsight track records, but in the real world you don't have the benefit of hindsight!
Naive and lazy traders think they will make huge profits with them. They don't of course; they simply learn a painful lesson in the reality of life and forex trading.
The Good News!
If you like a challenge, have the desire to succeed and learn forex trading the right way, you can win - anyone can, as everything about forex trading can be specifically learned.
The rewards can be life changing - all you need to do work smart not hard and have an understanding of the markets, your systems logic and the confidence to apply it all with discipline.
If you are up for the challenge, the forex markets will give it to you. Approach them in the right way and you could soon be enjoying currency trading success that could change your life forever.
PROFESSIONAL FOREX TRADING COURSE AND FREE ESSENTIAL INFO
For free 2 x trading Pdf's with 90 of pages of essential info and an exclusive Forex Trading Course visit our website at: http://www.learncurrencytradingonline.com/index.html
The first point to make is:
You Are Responsible!
Yes you! Not the guy who sells you a forex trading system, e-book, or your broker -You are in charge of your own destiny and anyone who wins and makes money in anything accepts this.
If you are the type of person who can't accept responsibility, save your money and do something else forex trading is not for you.
Learning the Right Education
You don't have to work hard to win - you have to work smart and ignore a lot of so called wisdom you will see on the spouted by gurus and self proclaimed experts.
Here are some common forex myths, believe ANY of them and you will lose.
- Day trading makes money.
- A hypothetical simulated track record from a vendor is a good indication of profit potential.
- Markets move to a scientific theory.
- Predicting in advance is good way to make money.
- A complicated trading system has more chance of winning than a simple one.
- The More I trade the greater my chances of success.
- My risk to reward is my profit target - my stop.
- I trade news stories to generate trades.
If you believe ANY of the above statements you will lose.
If you want to win you need to learn the right forex education and that means not just taking charge of your destiny - but developing a simple robust forex trading system you can apply with discipline. This is one you understand the logic of and have the confidence, to apply with discipline.
95% of forex traders lose what makes you think you will win?
This is your trading edge and a trading edge is vital to succeed - you must know what it is and have confidence in it, to take you through inevitable losing periods to long term currency trading success.
Trading is based on not just a sound method but the ability to keep applying it even when you're losing and that's tough.
You will read a lot about how easy forex trading is and if you buy this or that system, you will enjoy success but life's not that simple.
Most of the vendors and trading systems sold are junk and have never been traded and the vendor is not a trader but a marketing person.
They only ever have simulated in hindsight track records, but in the real world you don't have the benefit of hindsight!
Naive and lazy traders think they will make huge profits with them. They don't of course; they simply learn a painful lesson in the reality of life and forex trading.
The Good News!
If you like a challenge, have the desire to succeed and learn forex trading the right way, you can win - anyone can, as everything about forex trading can be specifically learned.
The rewards can be life changing - all you need to do work smart not hard and have an understanding of the markets, your systems logic and the confidence to apply it all with discipline.
If you are up for the challenge, the forex markets will give it to you. Approach them in the right way and you could soon be enjoying currency trading success that could change your life forever.
PROFESSIONAL FOREX TRADING COURSE AND FREE ESSENTIAL INFO
For free 2 x trading Pdf's with 90 of pages of essential info and an exclusive Forex Trading Course visit our website at: http://www.learncurrencytradingonline.com/index.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)