April 25th, 2010

Money Management for Profit in Foreign Exchange

Forex, by Escon deOjo.

What will we need from a fx trading tutorial and other forex courses? Just like with the drivers, knowing how to operate the system is only a tiny part of our training. Risk management is what’s most sure to preclude us from finishing up in the ditch. Let us take an example. Around half of its trades are winners. It’s clear that this is a good system.

But if you start out thinking you have got a fifty percent chance of success so that you can risk half of your funds on each trade, you would be making an enormous mistake. 50% winners doesn’t mean that every loss will be followed by a win and vice versa. There could be 2, 3, 4, maybe on occasion even 10 losses in a row. Or you might have five losses followed by a win followed by another five losses. At ten percent the trader would probably still be wiped out sooner or later. You can check this out against back tests, but always double the worst situation that you see because it is almost certainly not the worst that might occur.

Money management is something that must be learned by any beginner trader.

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