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If you’ve been trying to make money in Forex for any amount of time you probably know it’s a lot more difficult than perhaps you first thought. Let me re-phrase that, Forex trading is made much more difficult than it actually IS because human beings have innate tendency to over-complicate and look past the simple in order to find “meaning” which generally leads to complications and confusion.
Let me elaborate a bit more on that somewhat cryptic opening paragraph. Have you ever realized that the more you dwell on something and try to “force” it, the harder it becomes to obtain? We see this all the time in human relationships; the more you try to control someone to “fit” to what you want, the further away you push them, generally speaking. Whereas, if you just let things “flow” naturally you would be much more likely to achieve your desire with a lot less stress and effort.
This is also true with Forex trading; traders tend to try and “control” the market by forcing trades when there isn’t anything there to trade or by over-leveraging their accounts, meddling with stops / targets after entering, or a whole host of other “unforced errors” if you will. Let’s look at 5 quick tips to get your trading on track and in the realm of relaxed and confident instead of stressed and worried…
1) Be realistic…stop hoping
The first thing you need to do if you want to become a master Forex trader, is become realistic about how much money you can make given the amount of money you have available to trade with and the fact that you must practice proper risk management if you want to succeed long-term. If you intend on managing your trading account money properly, and you have a relatively small account, you simply aren’t going to “get rich quick” or be able to quit your day job any time soon. The more you accept this, the easier trading will become because you won’t feel any “pressure” to make money fast.
2) Trade the daily charts
One of the most prevalent ways that struggling Forex traders try to force their will upon the market is by trading low time frames. I consider anything under the 1 hour time frame to be “too low” to be worth trading. Some people will disagree with me, and that’s fine, I can only say what has worked for me over the years, and that’s focusing on the daily charts. Trade setups are more accurate and more relevant the higher up in time frame you go. I found by focusing on the daily charts and trading less, my trading improved significantly, you just have to have more patience. Slow and steady wins the Forex race.
3) Understand less is more
This point goes along with trading higher time frames, but it’s worth discussing on its own because many traders over-trade and over-analyze market variables. There really is no need to read every economic report and figure out how it may or may not affect the market. All you really need is a simple yet effective Forex trading strategy along with proper trading psychology to make money in forex. There really is no need to over-trade, over-analyze, or generally over-complicate the market. You can trade effectively with simple Forex trading strategies that do not rely heavily on indicators or trading software.
4) Plan and track
Planning and tracking your trades with a Forex trading plan and a Forex trading journal is essential to maintain and sustain the proper forex trading psychology. Most traders simply do not have the proper trading mindset right out of the gate, so it’s necessary to pre-empt your trading approach by creating a trading plan in order to eliminate the possibility of emotional trading BEFORE you enter the market. Trading journals keep you on track and keep you accountable; they are essential for seeing how your discipline pays off over time and creating a track record for you to prove your ability as a trader if you want to get people to fund you.
5) Know what you’re looking for…without a doubt
The last tip to help you become a calm and confident “master” trader is to truly master a trading strategy so that you know without a doubt what you are looking for in the market every time you open up your charts. You should have your Forex trading strategy mastered to the point where you can open the daily charts and analyze the major Forex pairs for about 20 minutes a day and either place a trade or walk away with confidence. In essence, you should have your trading strategy mastered to the point of knowing very quickly whether or not your high-probability trading edge is present, if you have to sit and stare at the charts for hours each day, you either don’t know what you are looking for or have not yet mastered a truly effective forex trading strategy.
Created with Marketscope/Trading Station 2.0 Let’s think of the trader that looks for ‘100 pip wins,’ on each trade that is taken without observance of potential losses. Let’s imagine that this trader has a string of successes, winning 9 trades in a row, adding 900 pips to their trading account. At this point, our trader is feeling good with 9 straight wins. And then our trader takes a trade that doesn’t do what they thought it would. And as opposed to immediately realizing the loss, our trader decides to wait and hope that the trade comes back in their favor. The next morning our trader opens their trading platform and sees that the position is now losing 1000 pips. This one trade, this single idea has just wiped away the gains of 9 winning trades, AND THEN SOME. Our trader would be looking at a net 100 pip loss, when they have won on 90% of their trades. 100 Pip Loss with 90% win ratio! While this may sound like a problem that can be easily fixed, we have to imagine the decision making process that goes through our heads when we are in a trade. We are human; we want to be right. By default, our brains associate losses with failure and many traders, new and old alike, are reticent to realize losses for fear of failure. The thing that most professional traders will realize is that losses are inevitable; because nobody knows exactly what will happen next on the chart. So the goal then becomes – not necessarily to avoid losses; but to mitigate the damage on those ‘ideas,’ that are losers, and maximize the profit potential on the ones that are winners. One of the most important steps that traders can take to address risk, trade, or money management concerns is the creation and observance of a prudent trading plan; a plan in which the trader specifies the maximum amount of risk that will be taken on, the maximum potential loss that could be seen, and perhaps most important – the amount of return a trader wants to look for given a pre-determined amount of risk (The Risk, Reward Ratio). The importance of risk management CANNOT be understated. The one thing that I, as a trader, know is that I will take losses. My goal is to make those losses hurt as little as possible while making my winners as profitable as I can. This is what we teach in the DailyFX PLUS Education Curriculum; between the On-Demand Video Course (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: On-Demand Video Course), and the 3-4 Live webinars that we host in the DailyFX PLUS Live Classroom (DailyFX PLUS Live Classroom). If you would like more information on Risk/Money Management: DailyFX PLUS Online Video Course Lesson 1 – Money Management Clarifying the 5% rule --- Written by James Stanley To contact James Stanley, please email Instructor@DailyFX.Com. You can follow James on Twitter @JStanleyFX. To be added to James’ distribution list, please send an email with the subject line “Notification,” to Instructor@DailyFX.com.
For example, if the stock market moves higher, you tend to see the AUDUSD move higher as investors seek risky assets. Risky assets include the stock market and higher yielding currencies which currently are the AUD and NZD. At the same time, as investors seek out ‘risky’ assets, currency pairs like the EURAUD and GBPAUD tend to fall as traders look to earn the large daily dividend those pairs offer. This is known as a Carry Trade Strategy. [Watch this short video on the carry trade strategy.] On the other hand, if traders are in a ‘risk off’ mode and are averse to risk, the opposite of these relationships tend to occur.
For example, if the stock market is in a downtrend, then a currency pair such as the USDCAD tends to move higher as traders buy the USD for its safe haven status. Regardless of the movement of the stock market, there generally exists a currency which you can buy. Now, the key is identifying a high probability area to time an entry in the trade. Use levels of support and resistance to identify these key areas with the help of oscillators to indicate momentum. *Keep in mind correlations move into and out of favor with one another. Therefore, a price of one instrument is not always going to move tick for tick with the other related instrument. Additional Resources Weekly Article on Market Correlations Support and Resistance Part 1 Trend line Trading Support and Resistance Part 2 The Carry Trade Strategy (9 minute video) Trading share indices with FXCM ---Written by Jeremy Wagner, Lead Trading Instructor To contact Jeremy, email jwagner@dailyfx.com. Follow me on Twitter at @JWagnerFXTrader. To be added to Jeremy’s e-mail distribution list, send an email with the subject line “Distribution List” to jwagner@dailyfx.com.
Created with Marketscope/Trading Station 2.0 In a market environment such as this – traders will generally want to look at BUY positions, looking for the trend to continue to the upside. Could short trades work here? Sure, there were a few areas where short trades may have been able to have been traded profitably. But the bias is discernibly to the upside, and that can be evidenced as price is continuing to go up. There are clearly more buyers than sellers over the duration of this chart, as price has continued to go up. On the other hand, markets can exhibit clearly defined movements going in the other direction. The chart below identifies a strong down-trend:
Created with Marketscope/Trading Station 2.0 Once again, this is a situation in which there is a clear imbalance in the numbers of buyers and sellers in the market. By the very fact that price was going down, we know that there was more supply than demand; or more sellers than buyers. Many traders will look to only open SELL positions in these situations. Identifying the trend can bring many benefits to the trader. Two of the most important benefits are: Have an idea for the market sentiment exhibited for that particular asset over the time period analyzed To get a better understanding for which direction they may want to trade in that particular market Many traders will ONLY take trades on the side of the longer-term trend. This is done in an effort to ‘get the trend on your side,’ or to ‘trade in the direction of the previous bias,’ in the hope that that bias or trend continues and works in the traders favor to push price higher (or lower for SELL positions). There are many ways to identify trend, and this is something that can be customized and done in quite a few different ways so that traders can adjust their trend identification to the specific timeframe and approach they are looking to trade. In the links listed below, we cover a few of the more popular mannerisms of identifying trend. Over the next 2 articles, we will examine 2 more of the important subject areas of trading that new traders are going to want to be familiar with. If you’d like to learn more about identifying and trading with the trend, the following links will provide much more information: DailyFX PLUS Online Video Course- Trend Trading Price Action, an Introduction How to Trade with Moving Averages --- Written by James Stanley To contact James Stanley, please email Instructor@DailyFX.Com. You can follow James on Twitter @JStanleyFX. To be added to James’ distribution list, please send an email with the subject line “JS Notification,” to Instructor@DailyFX.com.
Created with Marketscope/Trading Station 2.0 As you can see in the above picture, when price approached or entered in the ‘Support Zone,’ price had shown a tendency to go up. By price going up, we can assume that there were more buyers than sellers in the market. Also, as price enters or approaches the Resistance Zone, traders have shown a tendency to sell in the past. Identifying Support and Resistance in this fashion can be classified as using Price Action to display these levels; as traders are using the price chart itself, devoid of any other indicators or studies to assist. Support and Resistance can be extremely important for traders to identify as taking a BUY position when price is approaching or in a resistance zone could be potentially costly. Or, perhaps, imagine taking a SELL position as price is in a Support Zone. If traders respect that support as they had in the past, and ensue with more buying than selling – driving price higher, once again that could be potentially costly. There are numerous ways of identifying Support and Resistance, or potential Support and Resistance price zones. This is where areas of study such as Fibonacci can come into play, as many traders will look at ‘Fibonacci levels,’ to point out potential prices that may become Support or Resistance in the future. The links below offer more information in specific regards to Fibonacci.
Created with Marketscope/Trading Station 2.0 Pivot points are another study that traders will commonly look to in an effort of forecasting potential price levels that may function as support or resistance in the future. Pivot points are based on calculations of previous day’s price action. Once again, the links below contain more in-depth information into the study. If you would like more information Support/Resistance: Fibonacci Retracements: How to Trade Fibs in Forex Pivot Points: Floor Trader Pivots DailyFX PLUS Online Video Course Lesson 1- Support and Resistance How to Trade with Support and Resistance Part 1 How to Trade with Support and Resistance Part 2 Price Action Swings --- Written by James Stanley To contact James Stanley, please email Instructor@DailyFX.Com. You can follow James on Twitter @JStanleyFX. To be added to James’ distribution list, please send an email with the subject line “Notification,” to Instructor@DailyFX.com.
Traders often start the misconceptions of money on the Forex market, when they first start trading. Many new traders think that they will immediately start money to, after they opened their live trading accounts, or that if they buy only some great-sounding Forex trading robot or counter heavy-trading-system they have the key to wealth. Well…. the reality is a bit different...





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