Saturday, January 24, 2009

Go with the Forex Flow and Make Money

By Karielle Samstad

Some traders, especially the ones just starting in forex, try to be in control of the market and apply their strategies until they succeed. They actually might, but at a high cost of money, time, and emotional distress.

The most profitable and easiest way to trade currencies is going with the flow, letting the market tell you what to do and not fighting it.

The only things you can control (and must control) are your money and your risks (with a money and risk management strategy in place). The forex market has a life of its own and cannot be tamed. It moves freely and not even the best software in the world can tell you how it will exactly behave.

Foreign exchange tools are only that: tools, not magical devices. If you leave your ego on the side and make friends with the market, it will tell you what to do and when to do it. It will help you decide which direction to take to make a profit. This is the right attitude to make you a successful trader. Your emotions are detached, your mind is detached, and this makes it easier to take actions to what the market is doing. This attitude helps you to make the right decisions to make a profit and minimize your losses.

One important thing you should keep in mind: you cannot predict how much money you are going to make, but you can determine how much you want to lose. If you do not have a sound risk management strategy in place, your losses can multiply in a snap.

And as important as having sound strategies in place, your emotions must be in place too. Emotional detachment gives you the perfect state of mind to let the market tell you what your profits will be and receive them as the result of a successful forex trading.

Now, on the other hand, if you prefer to fight the market and do your will until you get your way, you might eventually get where you want to be. The price of this approach? Time, money, effort, frustration, stress, and all the physical manifestations or diseases coming from that stress.

The question is: Is it worth it?

My best advice to you is: do not try to tame the beast, so to speak. Be friends with it and it will give you its best. And that IS worth it.

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