Forex Trading: The RIGHT Way To Trade

Forex Trading: The RIGHT Way To Trade

by Harold Hsu

Poor Forex traders like to spend most of their time looking for the "Best" trading system to work with... but unfortunately for them, this approach often causes them to eventually wipe out their trading accounts! Allow me explain why.

Most Traders Don't Understand The Nature Of Trading Forex

Many people think that Forex trading is just like any other form of trading. For example, some stock traders might mistakenly think that they can trade Forex in the same way that they trade stocks. I know of a stock trader who lost more than $50,000 before he began to admit that he didn't know what he was doing... so please don't make the same mistake!

The Nature Of The Forex Market

Now that you know that the Forex market is unique, let me share with you how it actually works...

Unlike most other financial markets, Forex is one of the most risky and volatile. This is largely due to the lack of a central authority to monitor the market and to and act in the interest of the traders. If stock trading is like fishing in a pond (for example), then Forex trading would be like deep sea fishing: the potential risks and rewards are both much larger!

How Poor Traders Trade

I'll tell it to you straight: Forex trading is a game of probabilities.

No matter which trading system you choose to follow, you are essentially trading based on trade-winning probabilities. All trading systems are based on something like: "if X happens, Y usually happens next".

Unfortunately many poor traders tend to read this as: "if X happens, Y Always happens". This results in these traders switching from system to system whenever Y doesn't happen for them.

The Good Traders

Good traders acknowledge the fact that there will be times when even the most reliable trading systems will fail for a number of consecutive trades. The good traders understand their trading systems well enough to know that even with consecutive losses, the system will usually result in an overall winning month for them.

You see, it's not about how many times you win or lose every few days, but how MUCH you win at the end of the month.