We always hear about the opportunity that presents us the foreign exchange market. More and more advertisers flood the online and offline environment with promises to make you rich very quick and with very little effort. Knowing the fact that 95% of people who come to Forex market loose their money those ads look like traps for people's money.
You are probably reading this to find out if the Forex opportunity is right for you or you may be already got involved in online currency trading and looking for a way to make consistent profit. Then continue to read, I will give you a strategy that will help you not to be one of the 95% people who lose their money without even knowing how did it happen.
You see, performing a single winning trade does not mean you are a successful trader. Even if you made a huge profit in one trade it still means nothing. What does matter is your consistency in trading. Is your equity curve consistently growing? Or is it consistently falling? Or is it consistently growing and then taking a dive toward zero? Or is it behaves like a yo-yo, once you grow then you loose? I've been in all this situations. Now my account is growing gradually but consistently.
I can show you the steps to become a consistently profitable trader. First of all it doesn't matter what trading system you are using. It can be intraday trading system it can be swing system. As long as the mathematical expectation of the system is positive and suits your style, you can make consistent profit with it. What matters is your belief system about Forex in general and you mindset in each trade you perform.
1. First step - global belief.
So how do you think you make money in trading? If you think that profit is the money you have taken away form other traders you need to revamp your belief system. Otherwise it will be extremely hard for you to become a successful trader. How about a belief like this one: your job as a trader is to provide liquidity to the market and help the worldwide economy to grow. The money you bring into the foreign exchange can be invested into the economy of any country. Therefore you role as a trader is very important for the worldwide economy. And you are getting paid for taking a risk. You may say you have very small amount compare to the whole market. But the whole consists of those small amounts like yours. So the first step is keep reminding yourself of the importance of your business as a trader.
2. Second step - mindset in trade execution.
Most people when they execute a trade agonize over the single loosing trade or get ecstatic over the single winning trade. Those emotions can drastically influence your trading outcome. How do you eliminate emotional factor from your trading? I have a simple method. Pick a trading system. As long as it suits your trading style and have a positive mathematical expectation it will do. Try to pick 100% mechanical system. Once you see the market conditions are met you get into the trade once the price hits the take profit or stop loss you are out of the market. It's that simple. Now set a goal to keep executing your trades until you reach 50 trades in total. Only after that you may look to judge performance of the system. If the total result is negative change the system it may not be for you. If it is positive repeat this step a few times.
At the end of these two steps I can guarantee you that your emotional charge involved in you trading will gradually disappear. You will be amazed how easy it is to consistently grow you account. It may not be the overnight growth of 100% but even if is very small growth the power of compounding will kick in very soon.
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 trades. |
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