Forex Trading Is For Everyone - By: Mr Andrew Tomkinson

Forex Trading Is For Everyone by Mr Andrew Tomkinson

Forex (currency markets) trading is done on a much greater scale than any other kind of market in the world. Over two trillion dollars is traded every single day. About seventy five percent of all forex trading is done by ten international Banks with names you’re familiar with: Merrill Lynch, and others. National Banks and other financial institutions account for another huge amount of forex trading. Forex trading by individuals, people like you and me only accounts for about two percent of all trading.

There are many people who have an interest in trading the forex. This is understandable because there is a lot of money to be made and there are many successful traders out there. There are people who want to treat trading as a full time occupation and other people who want to do it part time. The amount of time that you want to put into forex is your choice.

The rise of online forex trading has seen the amount of capital required to open a trading account come down to a level where anyone can start. However the fact is that the majority of all traders lose money. What is the answer if you want to be successful in forex trading? Quite simple, make sure that you go through the right process and develop or choose the right system.

A friend once said to me many years ago that investing in forex wasn't easy but it was simple and this is very true. It is simple because anyone can learn to trade with the right commitment and education and also be very successful. But it's obviously not easy because over 90% of traders fail. The good news though is that you can win if you understand the right way of achieving forex trading success.

Keeping it simple is the key and the most important point to remember. Not only can you learn an effective trading method but you can do so very quickly. Those traders who try and be clever by designing and using complicated and difficult systems, very often lose. Why is this? The answer is that complicated and difficult trading systems have too many parts to them and therefore too many opportunities to brak down. A very important point to also remember is that the success in forex trading is due to effective money management and the ability of the trader to keep losses small.

It goes without saying that is essential that you know what you are doing when entering the forex market. There are a number of options for those who want to increase their knowledge about this market. Some of these options are testing the systems that you will be using, tutorials, trading strategies and knowing the terminology.

Most traders fail because they can’t take losing and are psychologically unprepared for the fact that losses are always going to happen. Even the best traders will lose at some time in their trading career. But, instead of getting angry, frustrated and giving up they learn from these setbacks, accept the losses and most importantly, keep these losses small and under control. Keep your equity intact in the losing periods so that when profits come in, you use them to cover the losses that have been incurred.

I know of many traders who lose the majority of their trades and this percentage loss can be as high as 80%. However when they do win, their gains can be very high because they invest their profits and these profits are very large compared to their losses. When you have learnt an effective trading method, all you need to do in order to win is to trade with discipline and confidence. Look at losing in the short term as the key to winning in the long term. Make sure that you get a very good forex education and learn to trade effectively. If you do all this it will not be long before you are making large profits. This can be done in less thab one hour a day.

The most important fact that differentiates the winners from the losers in the forex market is quite simple. It is the discipline and ability to trade a winning system and keep the losses low. Traders fail to win because as soon as they start to lose they make the very big and damaging mistake of either changing their system, letting their losses get too big, start revenge trading or simply give up trading.

Learning and using a logical and simple system is the easy part. Developing the right mindset to trade it with discipline is the hard part. If you don’t have the discipline to follow your trading system, you don’t have a system. It is as simple as that.

In short, forex trading can be very lucrative, but only if you know what you’re doing. Before starting on any investing, study the details of how the market works, what causes the fluctuations in the market, how to interpret the financial indicators, and all the other ins and outs of the market. Forex trading is a serious venture. There is much potential for profit, but there is even greater potential for loss, both at the hands of unqualified trading firms, and also of your own inexperience and lack of knowledge.




Andrew Tomkinson is a writer of Articles on Forex and other subjects.
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