7 Forex Trading Tips
Both experienced and newbie forex traders are always looking for trading tips. If you’re looking for predictions on “winners” I can’t help you. I can’t predict which horse will win the first race, and I can’t predict exactly which of your forex trade will be winners. You’ll find lots more great information about forex trading at ForexInfoPlace.com
What I can do, however, is provide you with some basic forex trading tips to help keep you on track to make money trading foreign currencies.
1. Real trading is built on knowledge, not luck. Trading without knowledge or on “hunches” is gambling, plain and simple. Save your gambling for the horses or the gaming tables, not your forex trading.
2. Practice with “play money” before you risk any real cash. To do this, use your broker’s “demo account” facilities. With a demo account you can trade as if it were real, making and losing money just as in the real forex world. Because no actual cash is involved, you can afford to win or lose while learning the ropes of trading. My advice to newbies: trade on a demo account for at least three months before you go live with real money. At the same time, learning from what happens in your demo trades so you won’t make the same mistakes when you do go live with your money.
3. Trade in the time frame that suits your temperament and experience level. Short time frames like 15 minutes makes for a lot of excitement and many traders love that. But that’s not for everybody, and particularly novice forex traders are well advised to look at longer time frames that provide more opportunity for analysis before making trading decisions.
4. As a beginner, go with the trend. Once you get some experience under your belt, you might decide to play the odd trade against the trend and you might even win. But beware, this way of trading is for the experienced, and not for the fainthearted even then. More info about trends.
5. Look at time frames that are longer than the ones you are planning to trade in. This gives you a bigger picture and gives you a better chance to see and accurately identify trends. For example, if you are trading in an hourly time frame, you want to look at daily and weekly price movements for a more realistic picture. Foreign exchange price fluctuations are subject to occasional jolts and anomalies. Watching how things are unfolding in longer time frames will help you see these glitches coming and take appropriate action.
6. Manage your money conservatively. In forex trading, that means never risking more than a small percentage of your total trading account, such as 2-3%. Understand that you WILL lose on many trades, that’s just the nature of forex trading. When you do lose, remember you’ll need to make twice that amount very quickly just to stay even. Keep your risk low so that a few losses in a row won’t wipe out your account.
7. Get your emotions out of the picture. Trading forex on the basis of emotion has brought many a novice trader down. Use all the tools available to you for technical and/or fundamental analysis and make your trading decisions based on the results. Never trade on a hunch (see tip #1).
The world of forex is exciting, but it's also a dangerous space. I recommend ongoing education in all aspects for as long as you are trading forex. One great place to start is with this free 7-part mini-course
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