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Best Forex trading education
- Learning the right stuff by Harold Hsu
It is the aim of all retail Forex traders to
make money from the market. We read books, take
courses and search the web for all kinds of
Forex-related information to best educate us on
how to trade profitably.
Unfortunately, most of the time retail traders
are looking to learn about the wrong kinds of
things. We spend our time looking for the “best
and latest” techniques and systems with the
hope of making money once we adopt them.
The truth, however, is that there are other more
important aspects of Forex trading that we
should all be paying attention to… and these
are the aspects that separate a consistently
winning trader from a consistently losing one.
Forex Education Topic #1 - Understanding
Leverage
One of the biggest attractions of Forex trading
is leverage. We are all aware that in the Forex
market, we can trade with a large amount of
currency using only a fraction of our own money.
What most retail traders dont realize, however,
is that leverage actually plays a major role in
how they should manage their money (and risk).
Simply put: the more leverage one trades with,
the smaller the stop-loss allowance would be
available to them. If you dont know why this is
so, I highly recommend that you study the impact
of trading with leverage more carefully and how
it affects your money management system… too
many beginner traders have wiped out their
accounts because they didnt truly understand the
risks involved here.
Forex Education Topic #2 Understanding Yourself
Among all the aspects of profitable Forex
trading, this is arguably the most difficult to
master. You can have thebest” trading system
in the world; but if you find it hard to trade
according to its rules, then its still useless.
Understanding your own risk appetite is a
crucial component of deciding which trading
system you should adopt. If youre an aggressive
trader, find a trading system that reflects your
style. And vice versa if you a conservative
trader.
An old trader once told me, The market is the
perfect place to discover your true flaws. And
now, I finally realize what he meant. My flaws
of greed, fear and discipline have all been
exposed to the market and its through the
conquering of these flaws that you can emerge as
a profitable trader.
Dont trade if youre not prepared to have your
vulnerabilities exposed by the market.
About the Author
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