I bet you are eager to learn the secrets to be a profitable trader

Surprisingly most new traders jump on the forex market with no specific plan thinking that they will make thousands of Dollars in record time. You see trading is not that easy of a job. Yes it is a job, not a leisurely activity but simply a job which needs to have some strategic plan in place so that it may be performed properly.

In my early days of trading I did a common mistake that most new traders tend to be a prey of, which was ignoring my Money management rules. This one mistake was the cause of my failure in the currency market.

Quite surprisingly, being a good trader doesn’t require having an awesome system that wins 95% of the time. A lot of new traders get caught up in the hype of the amount of money they can make and forget about the proper trading size they should use per trade. This major mistake causes a lot of traders to blow their whole account in a matter of days. Simply because they ignored the Money Management rule.

Money management is in other words the back bone of your trading. Having well thought rules and sticking to them will help you stay in the FX arena for longer. Bear in mind that trading is to some extent a game of probability, a reason why to have a good money management rule in place.

To make things easier, I have outlined those critical Money Management rules below.

* Risk only 1-2% of your total account per day. (You will thank me for that)

* Your trading size should be less than 1/10th of your account size.

* Always use a Stop Loss when trading. Remember to place your SL at a decent swing low/high so that you do not get thrown out of the market too early by some stop-hunters.

* Always use a decent Stop Loss so that you are not thrown out of the market too quickly. I use a 15 minutes chart to access my SL when I trade off a 5 minutes time frame.

Those rules are ridiculously simple but heavily ignored by many new comers in the trading world. Following the critical points stated above will greatly help you in your trading. This will undoubtedly keep you in the game long enough to be profitable.

Below is a sample of trading lots you should be familiar with:

1 Lot = 100.000 Units of a currency. Pip value = 10 Dollar

0.1 Lot = 10.000 Units of a currency. Pip value = 1 Dollar

0.01 Lot = 1.000 Units of a currency. Pip value = 0.1 Dollar

Risking only 2% of your total equity will result in you having to pick the right lot size to trade.

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