Archive for June, 2010

Forex: Being Mindful of your Trading Opportunities

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

There are some very important principles to track a very likely profitable trade. The essential component for choosing a trading opportunity are :

  • low degree of risk
  • big profitable possibility
  • how secure the trade is

It is very wise for traders taking these measures into consideration before entering a trade. The better the trader can gauge his profitable results, his trading account can be very big in the long run.

Low degree of Risk

This level of risk varies from trader to trader’s psychology and the deposit he willing to put in. the two important aspects that trader will be tested will be:

  1. His patience towards uncertainty
  2. The amount of equity he has in his trading account and the amount he is willing to risk each trade.

The trader must realize that he may need to risk a small portion of his money. Therefore, you need to be mentality prepare to risk this certain amount of money. That is why you should assess the risk factor, figure out whether the trade will bring profit or otherwise, before you go in and take the risk. The best opportunities give the best risk to profit ratio. To look deeper of the risk to profit ratio analysis, it should be measure potential risk with potential profitability. Also look at the chances of achieving it and the time take for it.

When it comes to money and investments, there is always risk. Just like life is always accompanied with death and taxes. As best trading opportunities gives good risk to profit ratio, time is also another factor traders should put in consideration. For example, if the trader has a day job, he has no time to stay whole day in front of his computer. For him, he should avoid intraday trades. Traders need to take their time to make their forex trading decisions. If the traders rush to make a trade, the results may not be pleasant. If the trader does not have time to follow his trades, which need attention and management, he will most likely lose money. The best trading opportunities should matches the trader’s time schedule.

In currency trade, putting more money than you can afford to lose will causes unnecessary stress which will make you make terrible decisions. Not all traders can handle this tension. Do take note that it is important for you to measure your own level of tolerance on risk. The longer you trade, the more experience you will have. And more experience you have, the higher the level of tolerance. However, bear in mind this does not mean you can forgo money management.

If you notice something odd, or if you do not understand any characteristic of the trade. Avoid it. You should always be aware of the trades you make. Money and forex are like a relationship, avoid casual sex with strangers and have a faithful partner. This greatly reduce your risk of contacting HIV or STDs. Similarly, to be profitability in trading forex, you have to be constant earning profits in the long term using one tested proven money making strategy. Just follow the rules the strategy gives and you will be safe from ‘HIV’ losses.

Die, die must never forget your money management rules. Don’t be too happy because when you have a few successful trades and it will blur you mind. Just 1 single and simple mistake can wipe out a series of profitable trades. What a waste of money and time

Forex Trading Psychology : Acknowledging the Risk

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

One of the key elements in successful Forex Trading is Trading Psychology. There are many factors that components that help to a trader’s psychological makeup. There is also no easy method to achieve the mentality of a Successful Forex Trader. There are also certain factors that influence a trader’s psychology which we should be aware of. One of these factors, is Acknowledging and Accepting the Risk in Forex Trading.

The best Forex Traders are the most consistent traders. To become a consistent trader, it is very important to always apply a methodology to the market and make as few errors as possible. Usually a trading error happens when the trader does not follow his or her methodology. A commonly happened trading error is taking a bigger stop loss than planned or exit a trade faster than what is planned before hand. Taking a trade that does not fit the trader’s usual requirement or does not take the trade when the trade fit the trader’s requirement. These example of errors can really wipe out the trader’s Forex account very fast. It also drive him or her insane…

Such Forex Trading Errors are usually caused by emotions created by previous trades. The most serious emotional catalyst , in my point of view, is when the trader made a trade which they had high confidence in it and then the trade turns sour. After this bad trade, the trader feels sad, angry or maybe revengeful against the Forex market. This causes the trader to trade illogically and irrationally and make a weak attempt to win back the money he or she loses previously. This type of trade usually cause him or her to lose too. However, if the trader profit from this trade, the trader will become misguided as he or she will always attempt this method of trading when he or she loses a trade. This will result into even more losses.

The reason why this situation has happened is because traders does not willing to accept the risk when they placed the trade. Thinking that every trade they place will become profitable, so when they were hit by a loss, they become bitter. It is alright to feel the bitterness, however, when you do feel anger, sad or revengeful. Don’t Trade anymore. Stop, go to the mall, buy an ice cream, play with your children. Do something that makes you feel better and go back and trade with the right emotions.

Treat the losses as a form of expenses. An school fee to learn and found out if the forex strategy you craft out works. Once you accept the risk, you will feel less depressing when your trade lose.

Easy as it sounds, however accepting the truth about the risk in each trade is really not easy. Especially to the inexperienced and new traders. However at Whizforex.com, we craft some steps for you which makes it easy for you to accept the risk:

  • Plan out each of your trade
  • Know when to enter the trade
  • Know where to place your Stop Loss level
  • Know where to place your Take Profit level

Yes! And I believe you know this already! But why are we talking about this again?

This way, you think more clearly before you enter the position as your organized the information for your brain to see. Once the trade is entered, your brain will perceived the information differently too and you will know the distance between the entry, stop loss and take profit level.

At that point of time, you will know exactly how much money are you risking in that trade. This is incredibly important as you need to know how much you are risking then you are able to accept the risk.

After entering the trade, emotions is unavoidable, however it won’t impact the result the trade as the trade is already made.

A Forex Trader must accept the risk involved and must view the amount of money they risking as an expense. If they don’t, they never know if their strategy will work or not. Even Successful Trader has losses. They too, view losses as a necessary part of trading as there is no one in the world will know if their Forex trade will win or loses when the trade is being entered.

Once we accept the risk, the correctly mentality. The losses can be easily view as a part of trading experience instead of a personal attack from the Currency trading market. The trader also surrender to the fact that he don’t know if the trade will win or not. This gives him more control to his emotions and achieve consistent results in Forex Trading.