What is Forex and how does it work?
27 November 2015
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why do i keep losing money in forex trading
The truth is a majority of all traders keep losing.
There is a simple explanation: They enter the Forex market with wrong expectations.
They think it’s a getting rich quick system.
Traders like that have the thought by investing a thousand ($1,000,-) they will make $1.000.000 in a week.
That’s just unrealistic.
The Forex market is not a casino.
These unrealistic expectation can and will work against you and will brush your whole account away in a heartbeat.
Again, don’t let emotions get the better of you.
Ask yourself the question: “what am I willing to lose?”
Always have the rule that you can explain why you make a certain decision. Your thoughts have to be robotic and emotionless.
Since losing money is part of this business.
We can have a good guess what is going to happen in the future but still we can’t predict it for a full 100%.
In the beginning the emotions will probably get the better of you.
You open your account after you’ve red some about Forex and bought your winning system.
You are all excited to become rich and live that lifestyle you’ve always wanted.
At that moment you need to start thinking clear and trust in yourself and always explain to yourself why you made a certain decision.
Don’t get caught up in your dreams like all the other traders do.
Think a head and you will have a bright future!
Let’s take a look at the emotions that influence your trading:
The worst you can do is doubt yourself.
When you don’t have faith in yourself you start asking other traders or online forums to search for answers that aren’t there.
Remind yourself, your opinion is the one that counts.
Trust your guts and judgement.
Learn to live and love it!
Try not to look at other traders or what their doing. They might have a slight different strategy. For example you are looking for a 5 PIP profit and trying to compare yourself with a trader that is looking for a 50 PIP profit. You see the danger in this?
Every trader has a different experience or a different way of analyzing. What doubt does. It makes you listen and value the opinion or strategy of the other trader more. You stop following your rules and this might very well led to a big loss or even bankruptcy.
“Move on, understand what happened in the past but do not have an emotional attachment to it.”
For beginning traders it’s so easy to have fear. Fear of the market not moving the right direction. After all your playing with real money now. Starting traders with no effective strategy of trading plan should stay away from a real account. Simply because your just gambling and probably don’t know why you are making certain decision. You are just clicking buttons in the hope you win.
Fear can occur after a streak of losing trades. You start doubting yourself again and so no light at the end of the tunnel. Start realizing that a good trader makes 20% losing trades. As I said before. It’s about minimizing you losses and maximize your winning trades!
The Forex market is like any other business, most business aren’t profitable in the first years so don’t expect a miracle starting at the Forex market. However, with the right skills and mindset you can be successful in a few months.
Don’t rush success. It’s like surfing. Learn to ride the waves and fear will be in your past. Once you know how to ride the waves of the market or the sea you have little to no fear to take them on!
An emotion that is as old as Santa and the pope combined. After a losing trade it’s pretty normal to feel revenge. You want to make up for your losses. People that have been to casino’s before probably know this feeling really well. It’s also just the way our fantastic brain works. To protect yourself keep in mind there is no such thing as a guaranteed winning trade. So don’t take it personal when it is not your fault at all. For example: You’ve just made a trade GBP/USD. You’ve bought a lot USD. An hour later something like 9/11 happens again…. Obviously the position of the USD is going down. Was their anything you could do about this? No! Unless you work fort he CIA or something like this. Than again if you have a job like that you probably shouldn’t focus on trading. Point is. Sometimes there is just noting you can do about it. Why would you be hard on yourself and try to make up for it. That’s the point were emotions are getting involved and you start losing more.
Greed is arguably the most dangerous of all emotions. When you experience an upswing or streak of winning trades it can give you that wonderful feeling that you are the king of the world. The feeling of: I told you so! Maybe you think, oh well, this is just so easy let’s take some more risk. I’ve proven to right all the time in the past. Why would I be wrong this time…? The human brain simly want more and more of that success. This is were you need to stay humble, take your winnings, give yourself o pad on the shoulder and move on to you next winning trade.
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