Money Management in Currency Trading

Money Management in Currency Trading (Part I)
by Ahmad Hassam

Many forex traders start trading live before understanding and learning good money management rules. Develop a few good money management rules and practices them on your demo account before starting live trading. Developing your money management rules mean how much of your money, you are willing to risk on one trade. It also means determining how many contracts per trade your risk tolerance allows? The important thing when you start trading is to learn how you can improve your investment results by making small changes and tweaks to your trading strategies. Good money management rules can make a huge difference between becoming a successful investor in the long run or an unsuccessful one that blows up the account in a few weeks. Have you ever played poker or watched it being played online or on TV! If you have then you will never see good poker players play all their cards on a single bet. Good poker players know that by risking only a small amount of their money on a single bet, they can win or lose but will still play the next hand. If they put everything on the table on a single bet, they will have to be 100% sure of winning, an impossible thing. You can never be 100% sure. Life is the game of probabilities. Forex trading is far more complicated than playing poker. You are dealing with hundreds of unknown variables that affect the markets instead of only 52 cards. To succeed in forex trading, you must understand and implement the money management principles.You can fall into many pitfalls while trading. As a trader you should be constantly guard against two emotions. Greed and fear! In case you are on a winning streak, you will become greedy. You would want to risk more to make one big win and you would want to strike it rich in one or two big trades. This will make you risk more and more of your money on a single big trade. When you will lose a trade, you will become afraid risking your money on the next trade. Fear will take over. It will impair your decision making. It will make you lose confidence in your judgment and decision making. Lets see how fear and greed can affect your trading.Lets suppose you have a run of successful trades that makes you very happy. You are feeling overconfident. You are not satisfied on risking only 2% of your account on one single trade and you want to risk more on the trade. You are thinking, the more you have in a trade, the more you will make if you are right. You are willing to increase your risk to 5%. You increase it to 5% and you win. You increase it further to 10% and you once again win. You finally decide to put 25% of your account at risk on the next big trade, but misfortune strikes all of a sudden. Your successful run comes to an end and you lose big.Suppose you had a $100,000 trading account and you had foolishly risked 25% or $25,000 on one trade that you desperately wanted to win. Losing $25,000 means you have only $75,000 in your account now after your loss. How much you need to make to get back the original balance of $100,000; you need to make $25,000 again to go back to the original balance. It means you will have to make 25,000/75,000= 33%, so you risked 25% but now you will need to make 33% to get back your original amount.Many investors once they lose a trade try to risk more to recover their original loss, ending up losing more and more. Very soon those investors destroy their accounts and are out of trading forever. There are other investors who try to reduce risk even further on making a loss; eventually they divorce themselves from any opportunity for meaningful growth in their accounts.

Forex Signals - What You Need To Know

Forex Signals - What You Need To Know

by Howard Dwinger
There are some intelligent equations which you can use to generate signals to trade your forex. If you are in need of free ways to generate signals to strike big profits in the long-run to trade, then you have come to the right place.You can create the signals by putting some factors into consideration. Just purchase a new 1 month high and keep it till a month low is reached. After this has happened, knock off the long placement, run short and continue to maintain it till a month high or low is reached. The method is achievable provided the signals are taken care and fine tuned. Is trading possible via this method? Of course it is possible provided it is done correctly. This is an easy forex signal generator equation. This method was devised by Richard Donchian in the seventies itself and being in operation in the hands of sharp traders giving them huge gains in the long run. Avoid bypassing the method looking at its simplicity. It's underlying methodology is backed by quality market logics, and has been generating pips for quite some time now. Think of it as making money in the forex market based on its every move until it errupts.When you are looking at the forex market, take a look at a 1 month chart. It's really quite amazing just by looking at this chart how you can spot the long term trend. Once you're able to see it, the idea becomes automatic. Then after a little experimenting, there is not reason why can't gain money from it. These days, most traders feel compound equations deliver the best results, the reverse is the case, plain techniques functions best for trading the forex market. This technique is easy to apply, and it is a dateless method to trade the forex market profitably.It is back up by forex market principles. As the market will continue to move, the signal gotten using this principles will keep on earning money for you in.