Is FX Trading Software The Solution To A Lazy Mans Forex Trading?
Automation is in the world of currency forex online trading truly the lazy mans way of trading the forex. It’s simply intelligent to let an automated system work for you. Why? Because it nearly eliminates the biggest enemy you have to conquer in this process: Yourself!
But be careful, after 6 years of FX Online Trading, I’ve been probably through all the pitfalls that this industry has to offer, which was sometimes a very hard lesson to learn. But what if you don’t want to make all these experiences yourself? What are the key factors that make the difference between the 5% (or even less…) that make those nice profits month after month and the other 95% who are struggling and burn account after account?
To make a long story short, there are some key factors which are absolutely crucial to your success and surviving in the sea of sharks (Brokers, Institutional Traders, Banks, Advertisers and most important: You!) with online forex exchange trading or simple, FX. So here they are:
How to become a successfully currency forex online trading expert
The 5 basic rules
1. Do not put any money at risk that you could need elsewhere. Never!
2. Do not have more than 3% of your current account balance at risk. Make sure you have always a Stop/Loss in place that takes care of this. Crucial!
3. Always start with a demo account for at least one month if you are testing something new (Most Automated FX Trading Software requires a minimum of 3-6 month testing to get familiar with the software and the trading “habits” of it.)
4. Only switch to real or live trading after a minimum of one month profitable trading (should be at least 20 trades, the more, the better).
5. After finding a profitable FX Trading Software, always take portions of the newly earned capital out of the account and let the rest accumulate. It would be wise to take a good portion of your profits off the tabel (around 50%) and let the rest accumulate.
For the basics, that’s all you have to take care of. It’s as simple as that. You can be one of those 5% of profitable traders who make a killing in fx online trading.
How to find a profitable FX Software?
That’s no easy thing to achieve. Normally you have to test dozens of systems to find one that is really profitable. To make this perfectly clear. The majority of system developers will tell you that their system is able to make you very rich, but normally that is more a fantasy than a fact. To take a bull by the horns, after tweaking and testing 75 automated FX online trading systems, I was completly shocked that 98% of them are not making any money. In fact some of them would burn your capital in a firestorm.
Most of the automated FX Trading Software Systems are based on the MT4 Systems Platform. The programs where named Expert Advisors (EA’s). EA’s are simply some piece of Software that tell the MT4 Platform when to trade, which currency pair and how to trade it.
You can find tons of material on that subject on the internet. So I will come straight to the point to make sure that you will not get overwhelmed with too much informations. That beeing said, I will go straight to the point of interest:
5 Rules to find an automated FX Trading System that really works
1. If an EA is only advertised with “back tests”, it is nothing you should spend your time and money on. The back tests are only an indication for the system creators if their development is heading in the right direction.
2. Only rely on the so called “forward testing results”.
3. The Trader/Advertiser should have a live stream that you can follow and look at all trades whenever you want to.
4. The robot should be easy to use with predefined settings with an integrated update service. If you don’t want to get burned out, you have to have a system that is already optimized.
5. And finally: A Money-Back-Guarantee for the Trading Robot.
That’s it. If you only follow these guidelines, your way to the top of the fx traders is well planned.
Mail this post