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Monica Hendrix asked:


If you want to enjoy forex trading success, you need to avoid the 10 common myths enclosed and follow the 10 tips - if you do you will learn forex trading the right way and could make a lot of money so here they are.

Let’s start with the 10 myths first:

- Day trading is a good way to make money

- You need to predict in advance to win

- Buy low sell high is the best way to make money

- The more knowledge I have the better knowledge is power

- The more complicated my forex trading system the better

- I don’t have money management strategy I just place a stop

- I like to trade the news stories

- I follow an expert or guru as they know best

- Human nature is constant so markets are scientific

- You never broke taking a profit

Believe any or all of the above forex myths and you will lose!

Here are your ten tips to help you get on the right path and learn forex trading the right way:

1. Trade valid data

Forget day trading and forex scalping, trade longer term and get the odds in your favour. Day trading data is too short to get the odds in your favour and you may as well flip a coin.

2. Don’t Predict

That’s another word for hoping and guessing and will ensure you lose - act on the reality of price change only.

3. Use Breakouts

Buy low sell high great theory doesn’t work in practice - it involves prediction. Use breakouts most major moves start from new market HIGHS Not market lows.

4. Work Smart not Hard

Working hard is a big myth - you get paid for being right with your trading signal and that’s it - it doesn’t matter how much effort you put in, only being right makes you money and that doesn’t mean working hard, it means working smart.

5. Simple Currency Trading Systems are Best

Because they are more robust in the face of ever changing market conditions - make your trading system to complicate and it will break.

6. Money Management

Is the key to overall success and is much more than simply placing a stop! Forex success is based upon great defence first, just like the good football teams…

7. Don’t listen to The News

It reflects the herd (who lose) and will get your emotions involved and that is a recipe for disaster. Use forex technical analysis and forex charts to trade the reality of price i.e trade the facts as they are not opinions.

8. Only You Can Give Yourself Success

By all means learn from others - but never follow blindly you will lose, as you need inner confidence to get discipline and this only comes from understanding.

9. Play the Odds

Markets are not scientific and don’t let anyone tell you they are.

It’s obvious they are not; as if they were we would all know the answer in advance and there would be no market!

Trading is a game of odds NOT certainties but if you learn to trade the odds you can make a lot of money.

10. Run Profits

Most traders can’t accept a big profit even if it’s staring them in the face.

Why? Because they try so hard to avoid risk they create it by trailing stops to quickly or snatching profits early. You need to discipline and right mindset to convert a trading signal into a huge profit.

FINALLY!

Before you embark on your trading career you need to ask yourself this question and have the answer ready:

My trading edge is (defined)

If you don’t know what your trading edge is you don’t have one! You need one you understand, have confidence in and you know will lead you to currency trading success - if you don’t have one its back to and a continuation of learning forex trading the right way until you do.



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Sacha Tarkovsky asked:


FOREX trading means putting in effort in the right areas, the problem for many novice traders is they listen to a lot of commonly accepted wisdom that simply ensures they lose.

When learning FOREX trading follow the simple tips below (many are NOT Accepted wisdom) but as the majority of traders lose that’s no bad thing!

Here are 10 tips to help you learn FOREX trading and be successful.

1. Don’t day trade

Perhaps the biggest error made by novice traders is to fall for the myth of day trading.

The reality is you will NEVER Make money long term and the odds are stacked against you.

Why?

Because all short term volatility is random – if it is you will never get a trading edge.

Don’t believe me?

Then ask a day trader for a real time track record (not a hypothetical one) and see if you get one – you won’t

2. Success means doing it on your own

Leading on from the above many novice traders think they can learn OFREX Trading by buying an e-book for 100 dollars and it will give them success.

The reality of course is if it were that easy a lot more than 5% of traders would be successful.

The only way to learn FOREX trading is to do it on your own.

3. Use a simple method

The best method to use is a breakout methodology using support and resistance and just a few confirming indicators.

Many novice traders think that learning FOREX Trading involves highly complicated methods – It doesn’t.

Simple methods are easer to understand, apply and more likely to succeed - as there are less elements to break in the real world of online FX trading.

4. Discipline

You will hear this is one of the most important traits to succeed in online forex trading and it is.

If you have a simple method you understand and have confidence in, then you will acquire discipline and can follow your system through inevitable losing periods.

You won’t do this if you use someone else’s method or don’t fully understand it.

5. Don’t mix fundamentals and technical trading

If you follow a technical system – ignore the news you can’t mix the two!

Sure those experts in the media tell convincing stories, but that’s all they are stories and their more often than not wrong.

Trade in isolation with technical system and don’t watch the news.

6. Don’t tick watch

Many traders sweat all day looking at prices – don’t.

It will upset your discipline and get your emotions involved.

Work off the closing price of the day and set your orders for the next day and ignore all intra day moves.

7. Money management take calculated risks

Most novice traders try to restrict risk so much they create it - by placing stops to close, or moving them to quickly.

Don’t fall into this trap.

To win and catch the big moves you MUST accept that the markets will eat into your open equity and you MUST give the market room to breathe.

Learning Forex money management is as important as getting market direction right in succeeding longer term.

8. Work smart not hard

You hear a lot of accepted wisdom telling you that you need to constantly learn FOREX trading to be a success – RUBBISH!

Once you have a method your confident in that’s it - execute it with discipline and don’t put any more work in if you have a successful method your all set.

9. Be realistic

We all hear of traders making millions in a year from small stakes, but their not the norm.

If you could consistently make 50 -100% per annum, you would be up their with the best traders in the world.

Try and make money to fast in FX trading and you will wipe yourself out.

10. So what’s your edge?

Before you start to trade online FOREX ask yourself the above question.

Why should you win - if 95% of traders lose?

If you can’t answer the above question, your learning FOREX needs to continue until you can.

If you work smart not hard, get a simple method you understand and can apply with discipline and accept responsibility for your success, chances are you will answer the above question and make some great FOREX profits!



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