Saturday, December 26, 2015

LOWERING TRADING RISK




There is always going to be risk on the Forex market. To believe any strategy to be risk-free is a fallacy. However, you can lower the amount of risk you face by following a few simple steps. With practice, you will also find that your successful and profitable trades increasingly outnumber the ones where you merely break even or lose money. The following are some simple ways to reduce your risk.

Create a Detailed Plan


If you don't know why you intend to buy or short sell a particular currency, don't do so in the first place. There are few worse ways to trade than to start trading without any sort of plan. Trading without a plan is the most sure-fire way to slowly, but certainly, drain your account.
If you plan well, however, you will grow to understand the trends you wish to use and the tendencies of other traders regarding your currencies of choice.

Use Your Trading Log

Your trading log is your best friend in the Forex world. By keeping a detailed log of all your activities, their purposes and the market's condition during those activities, your success will grow far more quickly than if you simply try to use intuition to figure out where you went wrong.
Your trading log will tell you where you went wrong with previous trades and will help you build on your successful ones. When you understand where you've gone wrong in the past, you can avoid repeating your earlier mistakes. You can also work on repeating your past successes by identifying patterns that will help you.
Every successful trade will show you more of what you're looking for. When you trade well, you learn how to be a more successful trader.

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