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Learn Currency Trading – 5 Common Deadly Mistakes

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:58:59 +0000

If you want to learn currency trading you need to get the right forex education and avoid the mistakes of the losing majority. The mistakes below are common ones but there easy to avoid and you must do so if you want to enjoy currency trading success.

1. Following a Vendor Blindly

One of the most common errors is to think someone else can give you success – they can’t.

Most systems sold are junk – but even if you do find a good one, how can you follow it with discipline if you don’t know how it works?

You cant to have discipline to follow a system you must have confidence in it so you need to take the time to develop your own trading system or have total confidence in someone else’s logic.

2. Trading News Stories

We have more news at our disposal than ever before and all those stories are very convincing – but that’s all they are stories. The news reflects the greed and fear of the crowd and they lose longer term – try and trade news stories and you are guaranteed to lose as well.

The best way for any novice to trade is to simply follow the reality of price action on a forex chart and trade it – your trading the truth not an opinion and that is the only way to win.

3. Day Trading

Simply the dumbest way to trade.

It doesn’t work as all short term volatility is random and you can’t get the odds in your favour.

Don’t believe me?

Try and find a forex day trader with a real ( not simulated ) track record that’s made real dollars over the long term. Let me know if you find one I have been searching for 25 years and still not found one!

Avoid day trading at all costs!

4. Trying to Predict Forex Prices

If you try and predict prices in advance you’re hoping or guessing and that won’t get you anywhere in life and certainly not forex trading.

You must not predict wait for momentum to confirm a turn and you can look up how to do this in our other articles – it is essential to confirm a price turn, rather than simply guess when it might come.

5. Markets are Scientific

It’s amazing how many people buy into this myth yet it’s obviously not true.

Why?

Because if prices did move to a scientific theory, there would be no market, as we would all know the price beforehand and there would be no market. The reason a market moves is because we all have different opinions of where the price may go.

The far out investment crowd love scientific theories and like to follow the works and methods of gurus such as:

Gann, Elliot and Fibonacci.

Well they made no money with their theories in forex trading and neither will you.

So if you want to learn currency trading correctly avoid the common mistakes enclosed and work and getting a simple forex trading system which will help you trade the odds, you can understand and can apply with discipline.

If you learn currency trading the correct way ( and 95% of traders don’t ), then you can enjoy currency trading success and create a life changing income – good luck!

By: Kelly Price

Learn Currency Trading – How Did These Traders Make Millions After Two Weeks Training

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:11:50 +0000

If you want to learn currency trading and what it takes to win then you should make this story part of your essential for ex trading education. In just 14 days ordinary people with no experience learned to trade and make hundreds of millions of dollars. How did they do it?

In the nineteen eighties trading legend Richard Dennis decided to prove that anyone could learn to trade, with the right forex trading system and mindset.

He therefore gathered a group of people together who had no trading experience, who were of all ages, both sexes and of all educational standards. The group was diverse consisting of a security guard, to an actor.

He then taught them to trade forex and after 14 days gave them trading accounts.

This group made $100 million dollars in 4 years and went on to become legends.

So how did they do it -after all 95% of traders lose what made them different?

Dennis knew that the problem with traders is not so much method but mindset – they simply cannot stick to a plan and keep going when they incur losses. So although he taught them a simple method, he didn’t tell them blindly to follow it, he taught them to learn it and have confidence in it.

You cannot have discipline without confidence.

Even when your confident, its hard to keep trading when the market hands you loss after loss and makes you look a fool.

It’s a fact that anyone can learn to trade yet, few succeed and the reason is they either get the wrong information or simply cannot stay disciplined.

Most traders are simply unprepared for the fact that they must execute rules and stay on course when they lose trade after trade and don’t believe all the rubbish you read online, about regular income and 90% accuracy – that’s not the real world.

You can win at forex trading but you must be able to take losses to win longer term.

Most traders simply don’t have the discipline to do this.

We don’t have time to explain all the aspects of trading discipline here but it’s hard to achieve but that’s why traders who can trade with discipline are so successful – Dennis proved it.

The forex trading system used was simple ( essentially a long term breakout strategy) but it was the mindset he taught the traders – to stand on their own two feet, be confident and take short term losses, to seek longer term gains which was so important.

If you can learn a simple forex trading strategy, get confidence in it and apply it with discipline, you can win.

Sure its not easy, but you wouldn’t expect it to be with the rewards on offer.

So if you want to learn currency trading the right way get a simple forex trading strategy and focus on your discipline and remember if you can’t trade a system with discipline you don’t have one!

There are big rewards to be made but your on your own and must have courage, confidence and conviction in what your doing – do that and you can enjoy spectacular currency trading success.

By: Monica Hendrix

12-Steps to Good Trading – Step 3 – Ego, Risk-Tolerance and Confidence – The Psycho-Enchilada

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:34:25 +0000

This step in the 12-steps to good trading will be the most challenging and will take the longest for most people to overcome. It will require the most maintenance over the life of your trading career and it will also be nearly impossible to learn from a short article like this but hopefully I can get you on the right track and help identify some resources and exercises to help.

Ego is really a tough thing for me to write about. I don’t fully understand it and apart from my Christian viewpoint it wouldn’t make any sense at all to me. Ego is that part of you that you refer to when you say “I.” Its part of your soul as opposed to your spirit. Both reside in your body. Its everything you think you are. Your self-concept. It says “I am hungry…I am a winner…I am a loser…I am a Californian…I am a Republican…I am nice…I am clever…I don’t believe that…I believe that more than anything…blah blah blah..” It’s the inner part of you that is most influenced by the outside world and I believe outside forces as well but I wont get into that unless you ask.

Ego is the part of you that has been shaped over the years or the last five minutes along with your concepts of who you are and how you see yourself in the future. It is the part of you that you display and defend and its also the part of you that keeps you from living in the very now moment.

In step one of this series I emphasized how there are no destructive trading emotions in the very now moment. In the now moment fear cant reside because it is based on images of the future and past. Greed cant reside there either. Well, the thing that blocks easy access to that place is the ego. It always wants center stage. In trading rooms and in sports and everywhere in performance based art, the ego stands out. In trading rooms it presents itself in bottom and top pickers and calling trades from the past and announcing one-sided results. Said plainly, it usually shows up as boasting. The trader who boasts not only doesn’t likely think he or she has an ego issue, but they certainly don’t recognize that they are led by it. The danger to them in these cases is that they are not market focused but are running their trading business from the part of the self that is most subject to the winds of the world and are linked arm and arm with the most destructive trading emotions they can face (fear, greed & denial). It effects everything from their risk tolerance to their confidence which are the other two pieces of this enchilada so I will move on and tie them together and help you develop a plan to make sure your ego is in check.

The number one issue I see people have when working with them on their trading is not accepting risk. Its normal for us to want to avoid risk and that shows up as the normal thing to do when we come to trade. The trouble is that being normal in trading is being a losing trader and washing out.

Never makes it in trading. We have to be abnormal and take risks. Calculated risks of course and that is where having a system or method comes into play but it goes beyond that. Lets just assume you will have a method of approaching the market that will put the odds in your favor and that you will work at it and know how to use it. We also have to have very clear and realistic concepts about what trading is and align our expectations with reality. It is not something you can realistically try and squeeze in to your summer vacation and learn in a few weeks so you don’t have to go back to work. Some of you are saying “yeah, of course not. Who would think that.” Well unfortunately, and also understandably so, as the marketing in the trading education space paints a really rosy picture and more people think that way than you could imagine. Plan on a long learning curve and doing a lot of hard work. Plan on training your focus on learning to trade and not on money or exotic calculations of what-ifs as far as how much you could earn in a year or whatever “normally” comes to your mind. Prepare to be abnormal. We don’t think about money much outside the development of our trading plan. If you do think about money then as quick as you earn it in your head you had better give it away in your head or you will be the one giving it away instead of earning it in reality. Again we think abnormally.

Would you want to go to a heart surgeon and have him chopping into you and at the same time thinking about the boat you are buying him on his lake? Or would you rather him keep his now moment eyes on your aorta? For that matter, would you want that same doctor to have had a speedy summer Internet Heart Surgeon degree program or put his time in learning the hard way (at John’s Hopkins no less). I know that’s not realistic, or at least I sure hope not, but it’s the same idea as someone thinking they can speed through the process of learning to trade. After all, the heart is pretty much going to be in the same place give or take a few inches for all of us but the market can and will change daily or even quicker (yes, it at least follows the same structure most of the time).

What does this have to do with risk-tolerance you ask? Well if you choose to trade I just want to make it clear you are taking a big risk. Most wont make it but if you really get these first few steps down and make building a better you a priority along side your chart studies then you have a great chance. Most wont do that though. You are risking the time and chances to do something else more normal and you have to know that.

Now here is the kicker. Most people wont or cant accept risk because they are under capitalized. They can too clearly see the end of the road. You can learn on as little as you want, but it will effect your thinking. Fear and greed will get all over your face or try to anyhow and your ego will get invaded with denial and if you don’t take those early steps I have already covered and stay in the now it will be very, very, normal. If however you do train yourself to stay in the now then the capital wont matter as much. I suggest you have at least ten times your margin amount if you want to help quiet fear and greed and be able to accept the risk. Some people need a lot more than that. Whatever amount it would take where you can look at your per-trade maximum loss and think of it about the same as if you misplaced a dollar or bought a raffle ticket from some kid. This is important to understand so if you don’t please start a dialogue with me via email so we can go over this more.

Moving on to confidence now, and really each of these could be their own series. I just want you to be introduced to them and make it known that you will have to contend with these things. At the end I will give you some practical ideas for dealing with some of them. Confidence in your trading is important. Both in your system and your ability to operate it. You need confidence that the odds are in your favor if you do what you are supposed to do so that you can accept the risk and put a trade on and let it play out without gripping that poor mouse until it has no life in it. You need this confidence because without it your fear will block you from doing your breathing and getting to the now moment. I hope you can see how these three topics tie together here.

How do we get that confidence? Lots and lots of work. It requires many hours of screen time and replays. Technology now makes it really easy to get the operational side of your system down when there is nothing at risk. That is good even though it doesn’t train you much on the more challenging part of trading, which is controlling yourself when it really matters. But replays and simulation are great for just drilling into your head the steps you take when you trade. Its vital that those things are automatic when you do get into live trading. You need the confidence that comes from doing the exact same thing hundreds or thousands of times. This is the same concept that US Marine Corps or other armed forces go through when they drill or train. All of their training is done in conditions that largely not life threatening. I am not sure spy-rigging counts because that just looks downright crazy. But nobody is actually shooting at Marines in training with hostile intent or rather, capability. Those in charge of the training know this and don’t belittle it as being “not-real.” They make it as real as they can and that’s what we need to do in when we simulate trading. When those Marines hit the ground in actual war zones they act automatically. Not because they know the actual beach or woods or desert or towns but because they know how to move together towards an objective as they have done countless times in training.

I grew up around people just like that and have seen the payoffs and that is why it is so important to me to train thoroughly in my trading and also important that you do the same. Confidence comes from that and from the translation of that training into real live success in the markets. Plan on being abnormal here as well. Most wont do this.

Ok, now to the battle. The best way to keep your ego in check is to keep quiet until you do have it in check. Its not about you. Concentrate on becoming a listener. The next time you are in a conversation with your wife or husband or whoever, try and just listen. If you are jumping out of you skin because you need to talk then this is an area of struggle for you. If you don’t even catch it until later that you went on and on about ” I, I, I, me, me, me” then it is a dominant area in your life that needs to be addressed before successful trading will occur. Part of what the ego does is express emotions in packages. If you focus on the breathing and self-awareness techniques of steps 1 & 2 you will get better at getting in the now moment. The thing that deflates the destructiveness of all emotions and the ego is identifying the emotion from the now moment and calling it by its name. So if you feel fear or you feel the ego rising in your own unique pattern then what you do is say it. Say “fear, I see you and you have no power over me.” If you are Christian, and I pray that you are, then really let the emotions have it in the name of Jesus. When you operate in the now moment and identify your feelings like that it deflates them. In other words it keeps you in self-control and in the moment and not subject to them. This like anything is a learned skill and will require you to be a good listener to not only others but yourself and what is coming up from inside you. The great thing is that while it deflates negative emotions, staying in control and recognizing positive emotions perpetuates the benefits. Understand me clearly here. I am not talking about visualizing the outcomes of fearful things. I don’t want you to mediate on the negative stuff. Just call it by its name and tell it to leave because it has no authority over you. If you make this a habit your life will change like you cant imagine.

Now as far as risk-tolerance goes, you have to raise capital and stay in the now moment along the way. The less money you have the less you can do. Trading something like FOREX at Oanda is probably the best option for you if you are starting with very limited funds because you can trade fractional pips and stay in the game on little for a long time while you learn, but at some point you will have to add capital. Do not set yourself up thinking you will trade your way from $1,000 to millions. If you don’t treat your opponents and your business with the proper respect it just wont likely happen for you. You may have a good hobby and learn a lot and that may be great in itself, but until you treat your trading as a start-up business with real capital needs it wont likely prosper. I pray that some of you prove me wrong, and I have seen it done, but they were really abnormal. If you try and do the same I would be as abnormal as you can in the places you can afford to in order to compensate for the very normal idea of starting with nothing or close to it.

Lastly, for confidence, plan on working and building a life of balanced confidence and keeping confidence in check and based on real training. If you find yourself down the road trading and needing layers and layers of confirmation before you take a trade then you drifted away from confidence to some blend of being unconfident and being overconfident. Being unconfident in your system and over confident in your ability to handle it on your own. Needing excess confirmation is like a farmer who says he will plant corn seed just as soon as he sees some tassels. It just wont work that way. He has to plan his crop (develop a business plan), buy his seed (raise his capital), plant it (release some capital), and then let the earth do its thing in its due course so he can harvest (evaluate the results and learn from them). Try and blend some of your personal traits that are strong outside of trading with your trading. If you are a mother or father and somehow are very patient with our kids then have confidence that you can use those same abilities in the market if you stay in the now. If you think about it, that is exactly what you do with your kids if you are one of those people. They make a big mess or if older kids, wreck the car or whatever, and you take a deep breath and just release in an instant all those destructive emotions so that we don’t kill them. The same thing we do when we prepare to trade.

Anyhow, I covered a lot. Probably too much for one article but a couple of you probably made it this far. If we end up working together or if we already are then chances are we are already deeper into some of these areas and techniques. We will get to some chart stuff in the next article. Spend the majority of your time in these first three steps though and pick my brain or do whatever it is you need to do to get yourself in a position where you can operate from self-control rather then being dragged through life. There is so much more to say on these mental topics and more so I will write more later. Thanks for listening.

God Bless ~

Ryan

By: Ryan Watts

The Real Secret to Day Trading Forex Currency

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:48:45 +0000

You want to know the real secret to day trading forex currency? Well, here it is: Confidence and understanding of the market. There you go. There’s your real holy grail. If you can accomplish these two feats then you can write your own paycheck. Happy? Ok, so you probably need a little more information. Fine. Here it is:

Confidence! I cannot begin to tell you how many forex traders in the world are having anxiety attacks watching their trades just as I am typing. If you can’t handle a trade or trading or in general, then don’t do it. You’ll never have success day trading forex currency if you are watching every pip move like it’s life or death. Emotions can destroy a trader. A trader’s fear can cause him/her to hold a trade even though the obvious trend is going against them. It could also have the adverse effect in which a trader closes a trade WAY too early because he’s afraid to hold it, even though all the signs are pointing in the right direction.

I could give you the greatest trading system in the world, but it won’t do you much good if you don’t have any confidence in trading it.

The understanding of the market goes hand in hand with the confidence. When I say understand, I mean just that: Understand what you are looking at. Don’t be like everybody else who has to use indicators to tell them what the market is doing. Does anybody understand what these indicators even mean? Can you honestly tell me what using an MACD Divergence does? It’s colorful and its pretty on a chart, but what does that have to do with the tea in China? Take the time to understand the underlying causes of price and market movement.

Take off the indicators on your charts and see if you notice some repeated patterns. If you can start to see them then you can be ahead of the other 95% of forex traders who end up losing money on the markets. After all how can you have confidence day trading forex currency if you have no idea what you are looking at.

By: Jim Buhs

FX Trading Strategy – To Win it Must Contain These 3 Vital Elements

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:56 +0000

If you want to win with your FX trading strategy make sure it contains these key elements otherwise you will be doomed and join the 95% of losing traders.

1. It must be Your Strategy!

Don’t fall for the hype that some junk robot will give you success or a guru or mentor there are plenty sold online with huge profits in simulation but they don’t work – no one gives you something for nothing and forex trading is no different.

Even if you have got the forex education from someone else, you must understand it and have confidence in it so you can follow it with discipline – discipline is the key, you must be able to ride out losing periods and wait until you hit a home run.

If you don’t have confidence you will never be able to do this make sure you have it.

2. You Must Understand Your Edge

Your trading edge is the reason you will win when 95% of other traders lose and you must have confidence and understand what it is and it must be based on sound logic.

Many people think they have an FX strategy based on sound logic and do the following and lose.

- They try and predict market prices

- They follow bogus scientific theories

- They trade news stories

- They day trade and try and scalp

- They follow experts

All the above will see you lose if you don’t know why, continue your forex trading education until you do.

Your trading edge is something that is personal to you and can be based on a simple forex trading strategy you can execute with discipline – that’s enough, remember simple systems executed with rigorous discipline work!

3. Play Defence First

When you are trading on leverage you need to trade great defence first and always protect what you have this means rigorous money management rules and money management is much more than placing a stop!

If you don’t keep your losses small you will get wiped out – sounds obvious?

Well most traders don’t heed it and use leverage of 200 or 300:1 on a few hundred bucks, 10 or 20 is enough.

Forex trading can make you a lot of money but if you expect not to have to work your in for a rude awakening.

Do your homework, get confident and make sure you have the discipline to stick with your FX trading strategy and follow it through drawdown periods, to long term success and the rewards if you can do this are huge.

By: Kelly Price

Currency Trading Tutorial – Getting Started in Currency Trading

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:13:02 +0000

This is a concise currency trading tutorial, which will give you all you need to get started in currency trading and develop a trading system for triple digit annual gains…

The first point you need to keep in mind is 95% of traders lose and only 5% win. While anyone has the ability to learn currency trading and win, most lose.

So what separates out the winners from the losers?

The real difference is mindset and currency trading is really 20% method and 80% mindset and some explanation will make this clearer.

Discipline and Self Control

Anyone can learn a forex trading system but the key to success is, executing it with discipline when you are losing. It’s not easy to keep putting in your trading signals, while the market hands you losses and makes you look a fool. You need to be disciplined until you hit a home run.

You only get discipline from confidence and understanding.

This means, learning currency trading basics, on how and why prices move and getting the right forex education. You can then build a simple currency trading system.

Sheep Get Slaughtered

The traders who act like sheep and try and follow others, by buying forex robots or gurus and mentors never win.

Most of the forex advice just mentioned, is poor and even the minority which is good, a trader who doesn’t understand the markets will never have the discipline to follow it.

You must accept success is on your shoulders and comes from within – NOT someone else!

You must understand what you are doing and why it will be successful and this point cannot be stressed enough.

Getting a Simple System For Huge Profits

Any currency trading system that is successful is simple!

Many traders think the more complicated they make their system, the better the chances of it being successful – but this is simply not true.

Simple systems work best and always have as they have fewer elements to break in the volatile and brutal world of currency trading.

A simple long term breakout system, with a few confirming momentum indicators, is all you need and we have covered how to build one in simple steps in our other articles, so look them up.

Why Anyone Can Win

Its because currency trading is a learned skill – you just need to work smart and learn the right forex education and have the right mindset and now I want to tell you a story to inspire you…

Richard Dennis decided to prove anyone could learn to trade so he picked a group of people of all ages, both sexes and of varying levels of intelligence. The varied in occupation from a security guard to an actor and Dennis set about teaching them.

In 14 days they had completed their trading education and went on to trade, they quickly went on to make $100 million dollars and go down as trading legends.

So why did this group do so well?

They had a good teacher for sure – but he only taught them a simple trading system.

The key element he gave them was the confidence and discipline to apply it for themselves and in later interviews, many of the traders said:

Learning the system was the easy bit – remaining disciplined was hard.

So get a simple system you understand and the chances are, you will be able to maintain discipline and go onto achieve currency trading success.

Anyone can win at currency trading and the real lesson to take from this currency trading tutorial is:

That the market doesn’t beat the trader, the trader beats himself.

So work smart, have the right mindset and you could be making a great second income, or even get on the road to financial freedom and remember – success can be yours if you understand the points in this article.

By: Kelly Price

International Currency Trading – An Opportunity For Wealth For Wealth For All

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:29:48 +0000

Could you make money at international currency trading? The answer is yes – but you need to understand a few key points as, it’s a well known fact that 95% of traders fail. So let’s look at the advantages and how to avoid the pitfalls and enjoy currency trading success…

Anyone can trade – but most fail and first you need to learn currency trading the right way and get yourself a solid forex trading education.

First avoid the myths and there are plenty of them, so here are some common ones to avoid.

- Day trading and forex scalping makes money

- Following a forex trading robot with simulated track record will see you win

- You can trade news stories

- You can predict forex prices

- You can earn a regular monthly income with little or no drawdown

All of the above assumptions are wrong so avoid the myths. Forex trading is NOT easy and as the potential for profit is so high, you wouldn’t expect it to be easy. The good news is anyone can build a forex trading strategy for success.

Here are some points to put you in the right direction with your forex trading system

- Keep it simple as simple systems work best and have fewer elements to break.

- Learn the system don’t try and follow anyone else. You need to know what your doing to have confidence

- Base your strategy on forex charts and use the reality of changes in price to execute your trading signals

- Do NOT trade news events, these are discounted immediately and your playing catch up

- De leverage sure you can get 200:1 but 10:1 is plenty for most traders – Over leverage destroys equity quickly as your stop has to be to close

- Base your trading strategy on breakouts to start. We have written on this frequently and it’s a high odds way of trading

- Be patient! Only trade sparingly, the big high odds trades don’t come around often so wait for them.

The big key to winning at international currency trading is having the discipline to execute your plan and this is built on confidence in what you are doing. You can’t follow anyone else – you’re on your own.

With the rise of electronic online trading we have seen a huge rush of naïve and greedy traders enter the market, who think trading is easy and the facts point to the opposite.

For the forex trader, prepared to get the right forex education and work smart with a disciplined mindset the potential is huge.

The world of international currency trading offers you the potential for currency trading success either via a good second income or a life changing income. Sure it’s a challenge – but if you are prepared to work smart, get the right education and adopt the right mindset, you can win.

Are you up for the challenge?

By: Sonia Kristina

Forex Trading – The 3 Key Building Blocks for Huge Forex Profits

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:32:04 +0000

Here we are going to look at the 3 key points you must consider if you wish to achieve forex trading success. Fail in any of these areas and you will lose.

1. Get the Right Education

To make money at forex trading you don’t need to work particularly hard – but you do need to get the right knowledge and learn it. Most traders don’t and fall victim to common forex trading myths. Here is a list of them, believe any of them and you are guaranteed to lose.

- You can make money with forex day trading

- You can predict forex prices in advance

- You should buy low and sell high to make money

- You can trade off news stories

- You need a complicated forex trading strategy to win

- You can follow a simulated system from a vendor and make money

- Forex trading is easy

Believe any of the above and you can say goodbye to your equity.

If you want to get the right forex education and knowledge you need to spend some time learning the basics and developing a strategy you understand, because this leads onto the next vital ingredient for currency trading success:

2. Confidence

Most novice forex traders simply think they can make money following someone else or trading news stories. They have no idea how and why the markets move and when they hit a few losses, they have no confidence in what their doing and that’s the end of their forex career and their equity.

Now let’s look at the vital ingredient all traders need to succeed that flows from confidence:

3. Discipline

If you don’t have confidence in what you are doing, then you will never have the discipline to sit through a period of losses and wait for winning trades to return.

One of the biggest myths of forex trading is that you can earn a consistent living and a regular monthly income – its rubbish you can’t!

Even the best traders will spend weeks or months in periods of drawdown and you will to. Sure, you can make huge gains over the longer term – but there not spread evenly across the year.

If you don’t have discipline to take short term periods of drawdown and still keep trading, you don’t have a trading method at all.

If you want to win at forex trading the good news is:

If you work smart, you can learn to trade in just a few weeks.

If you have avoid the myths and get the right knowledge, you will be confident in what you are doing. From this understanding and confidence you will achieve discipline. You need the discipline to stay with your method through short term losses and stay with your system to achieve longer term success.

95% of traders lose and this group simply do not understand that to make big profits, you need to have a simple robust trading system; you have confidence in and the discipline to follow it.

If you understand the above you will be able to put the 3 building blocks together and achieve forex trading success – it really is that simple.

By: Kelly Price

Learning Forex Through Forex Education

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:18:35 +0000

Investing a great amount of money is no joke. Much more when you are trying to invest on a dynamic and highly demanding business as the foreign exchange or forex. This is the reason why most of the time, only those that are already experts in the business are trying their luck in this trade. But did you know that it does not have to be that way? That an ordinary investor can be a valuable and bankable trader in forex too? That is when you do enroll yourself to various forex educations available in the web. You can even join ‘webinars’ or web seminars that are manned by senior forex specialists.

Online forex education is chopped into many different courses. These involve workshops, practices, and trainings that will provide not only knowledge and skills but also build the attitude required for a successful trader. Part of the education is to teach you on how to gather fresh researches and forex charts to accompany your big decisions of buying and selling. You will also be taught about how to tabulate your own platform, and to pick the perfect type for your account.

As soon as you are all set, a demo account will also be provided for you to do practice bidding on. This will help you establish your skills during final and live dealing environment. There is nothing for you to worry on because these demo workshops are free of risk, just to boost your confidence relying on your own abilities and capabilities

By: John F Smith

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

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:04:18 +0000

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.

By: Kelly Price