Most importantly, and if you remember nothing else from this lesson, your risk should never exceed what you are mentally and emotionally OK with potentially
losing on any given trade.
Being «right» about the direction of the
market on any given trade is not really relevant to your overall success or failure as a trader.
Speculative Forex trading is inherently risky; there is real and present danger that you could lose
money on any given trade you enter into, so practicing proper Forex money management is essential to long - term trading success.
As these things vary from person to person / trader to trader, the amount of money that you risk in the market and the amount you
risk on any given trade, has to be an amount that works for your personal situation.
The primary issue with never touching, smelling or seeing the money you lose or
win on any given trade, is that you become desensitized to the true, real - world significance of it all.
My suggestion is that you think more about the fact that it's very easy to lose money trading, rather than the fact that you MIGHT hit a big
winner on any given trade.
For proof that you should not worry about being right or
wrong on any given trade, let's discuss the topic of risk reward...
This is possible because the creditors have the mandate of furnishing all information to the credit bureau of an individual listed as a certified
user on any given trade line.
Traders don't really care if they are right or wrong on a demo account because they know they can not lose or make
money on any given trade.
In my own personal approach I take a more discretionary approach to how much I will
risk on any given trade, this is contrary to what the popular Forex web presence might say.
When you are using set and forget trading, your stop loss and profit targets are pre-defined, so you know what you stand to lose and what you stand to
win on any given trade.
You need to define the 1R dollar risk per trade that you are comfortable with potentially
losing on any given trade, and never exceed that amount.
My definition of over trading is risking too much money
on any given trade, for example if you are trading a $ 100,000 dollar account and you place a gold trade today you should limit your loses to 2 % of the account value which in this case is $ 2,000 which allows you to be wrong on many trades and still be around to play another day.
If we apply this rule to ourselves, then for every $ 5,000 we have in our trading account, we can risk only $ 50 — $ 150
on any given trade.
You see, while the market has the ability to take your money from
you on ANY given trade, YOU have the ability to decide how much you are willing to let it take.
It means that you simply are not going to make a lot of money
on any given trade, and it is going to take you a decent chunk of time to build up your trading account even IF you're doing everything right.
Nial «your risk should never exceed what you are mentally and emotionally OK with potentially losing
on any given trade» A superb and simple statement on money management.
The point is that in order to fully accept and understand what you're risking
on any given trade, you need to think in terms of money risked.