The Best Way to Learn to Trade Forex

By Albert Schmidt

I assume you want to learn to trade Forex since you are reading this article. Some people believe that you need to possess some personal traits to be able to trade currencies successfully. I believe that success in trading is a learnable skill. Anyone can learn to trade. The only thing you need is a strong desire to succeed. It is that desire that will guide you through tough times in your course of learning.

Besides a formal knowledge of technical and fundamental analysis you need to develop a disciplined approach to trading. If you are jumping form one trading system to another as soon as it starts losing money you will not succeed. What is the best way to develop discipline and a proper mindset for trading? This is the question you need to be continuously asking yourself.

I found a way that works best for me. And here is why. Most people come to Forex and any other business looking for freedom. You probably heard expressions like "Be your own boss" or "fire your boss". People come from the JOB environment with the job mindset and they fail because they don't have the mindset to be accountable to themselves. They cannot finish what they have planned to do.

Once I discovered this fact the rest was much easier. What you need to do is to find an accountability partner. It can be your friend or relative. The best-case scenario if it is a mentor who successfully trades Forex. But it can be someone who does not have any knowledge of trading. I personally have my wife to hold me accountable to finish my tasks. I report to her on a daily basis.

I think this will work not only with trading but also with any business you would like to get involved with. These are the steps you can take to develop necessary discipline to follow your daily or weekly routine. Once you have a partner that is going to hold you accountable explain him what tasks are you going to perform every day and what you want him or her to check with you.

For example pick a trading system and make a commitment to spend certain amount of time back-testing your system. Define how many trades on a historical data you are going to take each day. Now make a list of things that you want to develop or get rid of in your real time trading. It can be something like "I need to stay in a trade until price hits the stop-loss or take-profit level", "Never risk more than 2% of the account in any single trade", etc.

At the end of the day report to your partner how well you have managed to follow through your rules. It doesn't matter if a trade was successful or not. Even if you lost a trade but managed to stick to your rules count it as a success. If you made a profit by violating your rules it's a failure. Remember profit in a single trade will not make you a successful trader. Following your trading rules will make you a profitable trader in a long run.

Albert Schmidt is a part-time currency trader. After quite a long time of struggle he learned to make consistent profit trading in Forex. Review a trading strategy he successfully uses in his trading Forex.