If you are looking at online forex trading, in this article you will find some common errors that will see you lose.
Many of these are accepted ways to make a profit and you will see many writers give convincing stories that they will help you make money, but they wont.
Make these errors and you will lose, so here they are:
1. You can day trade and make money
Yawn. How many times do you see day trading touted as a way to make money?
All the time.
Fact is it does not work and cannot work, as its based on logic that is simply not correct.
Any experienced trader knows that short term volatility is random, within daily and hourly time frames.
If you cant judge where volatility will go in short time frames you cant get an edge or the odds in your favour.
So, if volatility is random how you can get the odds in your favour and make money?
You cant!
Dont believe me? Then consider this:
There are millions of traders in the market each day trading trillions of dollars and the huge majority are not looking at daily ranges.
Try and find a day trader with a real time track record of profit ( let me know when you do) as most are selling systems and not dumb enough to trade themselves.
Good story, but a great way to lose your money period.
2. You can use moving averages as a timing indicator
Really? This is a real gem.
How can you time entry with a lagging indicator?
Think I will stick to momentum indicators.
3. Brokers can make you lose
This is a story put around mostly by day traders who want to justify why they get stopped out.
Brokers hunt stops!
No they dont consider this:
The only participant with the potential to move a market and pick off stops by themselves is a central bank and even they dont achieve this every time.
A broker trying to pick stops in a market that trades trillions of dollars a day is laughable.
Dont fall for this story.
4. Currency trading is risky
A statement of the obvious!
To a degree this is of course true, but so to is life.
Crossing the road is risky, so do is driving a car, but there are two aspects to risk.
The market you are trading + your approach = Risk
You can make online forex trading as risky as you want, or you can control it by prudent money management and a sound trading method.
5. Paper trading and dummy accounts are useful
For what?
Big deal you can trade without money and place orders ( which is easy) but this is absolutley no use when you come to trade with real money.
It then becomes an emotional experience and the heat is on unlike in paper trading and you will feel very different.
Don't think that because you can paper trade successfully you will make money in the market.
5. You need to work at trading and gain experience
Why? Once you have a method thats it.
You just need to place your orders each day and thats it.
Experience does not make you a better trader.
Trading is not something that has to be constantly worked at once you have your method your all set.
There are many more misconceptions about being a forex trader but the above ones are very common and if you believe them you will lose.
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