• Do not be afraid of the foreign exchange market. Many novice traders are afraid of uncertainty and risks of the Forex market. Those who know how to manage it are rewarded with a substantial increase in investments.
  • Being a trader you should take full responsibility for your decisions. Successful traders/investors will never disclaim personal responsibility. It is you who enters the Forex market and it is you who takes all responsibility for the transactions, unprofitable or profitable.
  • If an open trade is getting worse, do not stick on the market in the hope of the trend turning in the direction that you want. Try to close the trade rather than creating illusions in your mind.
  • Accept the chances of losing your funds as an inevitable fact. Every newbie should be aware that no one is secure from losses in the Forex market. The basic rule of online Forex trading is to keep the profit above the losses.
  • Bid only with a carefully thought up out plan. Before you start trading, you should determine what profit you expect and how much of your own money you are willing to risk. This will be your balance of profit and risk. Professional traders never enter trades without a clear goal.
  • Don’t trade with emotions. The root cause of losses often lies in emotions. So it is highly recommended to keep emotions aside during transactions. Do not forget to set stop-loss orders and stick to your plan.
  • Do not hurry. Newbies often open multiple trades, and then they notice that they are not able to monitor them all. The human brain is not able to concentrate on more than one task at a time. Therefore, first, focus on one currency pair and get to the others gradually.
  • Pre-planning. Do not open an order only because prices are sharply falling or rising. Plan ahead for how you will bid. It is highly advisable to have a clear goal for your entry.
  • Do not spend your valuable time on unprofitable trades. If you see that the opened position is in negative, the best way to close it and move on to another, thus reducing your losses. The currency market is full of new opportunities, so there is no use wasting time on negative trades.
  • Do not rely on EA, complicated methods, and other snake oil products. Surprisingly, these untested and unproven products are extremely popular nowadays, generating great profits for their vendors but little in the way of gains for their hopeful and excited buyers. If the genius manufactures of these tools are so intelligent, let them become rich with the benefit of their inventions. If they have no interest in doing as much, you should have no interest in their inventions either.
  • You should understand the fact that forex trading is all about probabilities. It’s all about probability and risk analysis. There is no single style or method that will let you earn money all the time. The key to success is positioning yourself in such a way that the profits are multiplied while losses are harmless. Such positioning is only possible by managing our risk allocations in accordance with risk management and an understanding of probability.
  • In general, a newbie is always advised not to trade against trends, or to pick bottoms and tops by betting against the main forces of market momentum. Always join the trends so that your mind can relax. Constant stress, fight the trends, and fear will wreck your career.
  • Choose your Forex broker after doing a lot of online research. Beginners usually do not know that a fake or unreliable broker invalidates all the gains acquired through hard work so study is obvious. But it is equally important that your trading goals and expertise level, match the details of the offer made by the Forex broker. Does the trading platform suits you? What sort of client profile does the forex broker aim at reaching? How responsive is customer service? All such things must be carefully analyse before even beginning to consider the intricacies of trading itself.