Your Way To A Successful Currency Forex Online Trading Career
Automation is in the world of Currency Forex Online Trading truly the lazy man’s way of trading the forex. And it’s a smart way of doing it. You might be wondering why? Because it nearly eliminates the biggest enemy you have to conquer in this process: Yourself!
After stumbling upon FX online trading in 2003, I’ve been through all the obstacles, currency trading has to offer. What can you do if you are not interested in having all these experiences on your own? So what are the differences between the minority of successful traders and the majority of those 95% who lose money in the forex market?
To make a long story short, there are some key factors which are absolutely crucial to your success if you want to survive in the sea of sharks (Brokers, Institutional Traders, Banks, Advertisers and most important: You. So here we go:
How to become a successfully Currency Forex Online Trading Expert
The 8 rules on how to become an effective Currency Forex Online Trading Professional
1. Don’t ever trade using funds you can’t risk to lose. When you are in a trade, you don’t want to be on pins and needles in front of your computer. Just say no!
2. At any time, you should not invest more than 3% of the remaining balance of your trading account. Your stop loss order needs to handle this condition at all times.
3. Begin with a sample/demo account for a minimum of 30days when you are a new to forex or try something new out. Most Automated FX Trading Software Systems require a minimum of 3-6 month testing time to get familiar with the software and the trading “habits” of it.
4. Don’t switch to real trading until you’ve seen at least a month of profitable trading. There should be a minimum of twenty trades, the more, the better it is. Don’t forget that these are the minimum requirements.
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. I would recommend to take out 50% of what you’ve gained each month.
6. Maintain a record of your trades. Always write down, or put your trading data in an excel file. A log file will be given to you by the MT4 broker in most cases.
7. Review and critique the trades made with the system. Understanding how to use your automated fx trading software is essential to your success. Systems weaknesses and strengths become more obvious as you notice similiarities in the trading. Your whole tradng will profit from it.
8. Stick to the rules 1-7. Take my word for it, this is the most difficult aspect. I have seen too many traders losing all their money only because they were not able to follow these simple basic rules.
This is all that is needed in terms of the fundamentals to begin. If you manage to follow these rules, you will do far better than most other traders struggling in the currency market. Get your homework done, stick to the basics and you are on your way to the top 5% who are making serious money with fx online trading.
How can I find an Automated FX Trading Software that will actually be profitable
You may have heard one of these stories where people tell you that you only have to turn your computer on, login to your trading account, start your trading robot and the money rushes in your account. However, is this a genuine situation or only a fraud, and the practitioners only con artists? Like always, you guessed it right, the truth lies somewhere in between.
So what do you have to do to find such a profitable Automated FX Trading Software?
Generally you have to test many systems before you can find one that will bring profits. In addition, it should be profitable over a longer period of time. Don’t get me wrong on this one. Forget about the hype in the ads and sales pages, the truth is mostly very sad. In fact after testing 79 Automated FX Online Trading Systems over the last 3 years myself and losing some of my hard earned money trading them, I can honestly say that 95% of them are pure crap when it comes to ROI (Return Of Investment) and RTR (Risk To Reward Ratio).
The majority of the Automated FX Trading Systems are working based on the Metatrader 4 platform which is very common in the industry. Inside the platform those forex robots are called Expert Advisors or short EA’s. Such an EA is nothing more than a software code, that gives the MT4 platform precise instructions what, when and how tor trade.
There is an enormous amount of information on this topic available on the internet. I am trying not to bombard you with an enormous amount of information at one time. That being said, I will go straight to the points of interest:
The 5 Rules to find an Automated FX Trading Software that really works
1. Any EA advertiser who mentions only about back test results is wasting a person’s money and time. Programmers use back test results to see if their work checks out. There are a lot of potential things involved that could make the results false. By using back test results, you can present trading results in a better light than by using live feed. This is a common ploy.
2. You should be depending solely on “forwad trading/testing results”. So forward trading results are simply actually taken trading results. Those are direct tests of a system under real market conditions and not tests with stored data, like back tests.
3. The Programmer/Trader/Advertiser should have a live stream of the trades. In this manner, a person can follow the trades, understand the methodology of the EA, and whenever needed see all trades taken by the EA.
4. The EA/robot ought to be simple to utilize featuring pre-arranged settings using an incorporated service to keep it current. That’s important, because otherwise you could spend a whole lifetime to optimize the settings and never get it right.
5 – A Money-Back-Guarantee for the trading robot. That way you can test it, demo first and if it’s not that good or you can not get it profitable, simply request a refund and you gained some experience but haven’t lost any money.
That’s all there is to it. If you only look for and follow these simple key rules, you are well ahead of 95% of all other traders out there. And isn’t this exactly what you want?