Monday, August 17, 2009

Learn More Money Management Principles

By Ahmad Hassam

As a currency trader, you should give utmost importance to proper money management in your trading. Most traders dont give much time to money management. They learn a few forex trading strategies and jump into live trading. After losing a good portion of their equity, they come back to money management. Dont do this.

The most important thing for you as a trader is to develop trading discipline. Discipline is the ability to plan your work and work your plan. Give your trade the time to develop without hastily taking yourself out of the trade because you are uncomfortable with the risk.

After you suffer a loss, you develop doubts about your trading system. Discipline is the ability to continue to trade your system. All successful traders are highly disciplined traders. When you dont achieve immediate success, you become disappointed too soon! The most important quality as a trader that you can possess is persistent.

Those who quit too soon or apply their system haphazardly do not trade in the markets enough to allow their system to produce the wins they are looking for. To develop persistence, force yourself in the beginning to do everything to the rules of your trading system.

Learn to follow trading rules and a trading system. The application of trading rules properly is one of the most important things for becoming a successful trader. Applying trading rules is also one of the most difficult to learn. The problem comes when you analyze the market initially. Study of past trades is simple and easy. It is much easier to recognize direction, entry, exits in examples of past trades than if you are trading live.

It is always much more difficult recognizing opportunity in the now. You need to develop good rules and a good system. Following trading rules and a trading system is no easy task. It requires discipline on the part of the trader. He/she needs to obey the rules even when the initial response or the opening trade does not work out. Trading rules are not always perfect. Even good rules will fail you at times.

You need to learn to accept losses in your trading career. In the course of trading, losses are going to happen. Even very successful traders suffer occasional losses. No trading system is 100% precise and accurate. There will be losses even when your application of the trading system is consistent and flawless. You need to develop the ability to accept your losses. There is always the 10% unexpected factor in trading.

Losses occur due to two reasons. The first is when the trader fails to follow the established and tested rules and guidelines of a trading system. The second is when the trading system fails to encompass unexpected changes in the market conditions.

Always, always use stop losses in your trading. A stop is a market order placed some pips away from the entry price in the event that market prices turn and move dramatically opposite from the anticipated direction. The idea behind the stop is to prevent a loss from running away too far. - 22871

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