Friday, July 2, 2010

►Top 7 Mistakes Beginners Make When Foreign exchange (FOREX) Day Trading Online

Learning to master Foreign exchange day trading online for somebody who has no background in the financial markets can be intimidating. Usually, much patience & time are needed.
However, by taking a look at the most common mistakes they can at least shorten the learning curve & get past the first few hurdles as quickly & painlessly as feasible. The financial rewards one time the skills are learned are definitely worth it!


 1. Thinking they can generate large amounts of money in a short time.


 This is not a get-rich-quick system. An individual approaching day trading online with that mindset best look somewhere else.


 2. Going by gut feeling in lieu of calmly assessing market conditions using technical indicators & selecting high probability trades.


 3. Chasing the market.


 A typical scenario: The new trader feels definite cost is going up so puts in a long position. Unexpectedly cost pulls back. The new trader gets nervous & doesn’t need to lose heavily so comes out with a 15 pip loss.


 Soon after that cost resumes the uptrend. The new trader thinks, “I was right in the first place” & puts in a second long position to try & make up for the 15 pip loss & make a profit on top.


 Low & behold, cost doesn’t go where the new trader was expecting, pulls back, & takes out the position at a 25 pip loss. Score for the day: -40 pips.


 Chasing the market is one of the surest ways to blow your account.


 4. Lack of thorough preparation before the beginning of a new trading session.


 It is crucial a trader examines the charts from a higher timeframe down to a tiny timeframe (e.g. every week, every day, 4 hour, 1 hour) to select up significant candle or chart patterns & understand the direction of the general trend.


 Additionally, consulting the every day calendar for Essential Announcements will make definite the trader is not caught off-guard by sudden market moves at news time.


 5. Poor or non-existent equity management.


 New traders often fail to educate themselves on how much they can risk on any one trade according to how much capital they have in their account. Lots of are tempted to trade multiple lots far early only to get wiped out.


 Multiple lots can lead to large profits. They can also eat you alive when a trade goes against you. Only strict, paranoid, tight equity management will make definite the account survives & grows.


 6. Floating from one system to the next, trying indicator after indicator, becoming a ‘jack of all trades, but master of none.’


 Discover a proven system that fits together with your trading persona & style & stick with it until you make it work for you.


 7. Thinking they can learn by themselves, find the secret code & ‘crack the system.’

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