If you’ve read much on the subject of money management, you’ve had certain things ground into your head. The most basic and most quoted is “never risk more than 2% of your account per trade.” Most infer from this that they should risk 2% per trade.

Wrong!

If you want to leave money on the table, this is a good strategy. Otherwise, it’s terrible. Let me give you an example so you can see for yourself.

Let’s say you have a $100,000 USD account. You risk 2%. You lose. Now you have $98,000. Do not take 2% of that and use it as your risk per trade. You should still risk $2000 per trade even though it’s greater than 2% of your current account balance. Why? Because let’s say you win on this trade. If you’d only risked 2%, now you’d have $101,136 (you won 1.6 more than you risked for the sake of this example. It’s the same no matter what numbers you use). However, if you’d risked $2000 to gain $3200, you’d have $101,200. By varying your risk per trade, you’re leaving money on the table.

But that’s only $64!

And that’s just a little example. If you continuously adjusted your risk on a percentage basis, that money would add up fast. And it will really hurt on a long losing streak.

Remember that if you lose half of your account balance, you’ll have to double your money to get back to even. If you continuous step up your winners by a percentage, it will take even longer.

Of course, you can’t keep the same trade size forever. After all, it would become dangerous or meaningless after a lot of winning or losing. So when do you adjust, and how do you do it?

See you in part 2 . . .



By: Nathan Pennington

Forex trading is risky and most traders simply can’t deal with the high risk that it presents. If you do then you can enter the elite minority of winners. Let’s look at some tips to manage risk…

Here they are in no particular order of importance there all important and will help you with your Forex trading Money Management!

Leverage

Today you can 400:1 leverage or more and most trader’s use as much as they can and get blown out the water. For a novice trader 10 – 20: 1 is plenty. Don’t over leverage or you will lose.

Every Trade Puts Your Money at Risk

There is no such thing as one trading opportunity being better than another they all put your money at risk and the fact is the more sure fire a trade looks the more likely it is to lose money. It’s generally the most uncomfortable trades that are the best. Always expect the worst and things can only get better.

Never Place Stops in Random volatility

Day traders and scalpers do this and lose. You may think you have low risk by having a tight stop but if its to close and your 100% guaranteed to get stopped out and that means a lose of your account equity to zero.

Risk has got nothing to do with your stop minus your target – that’s an opinion! Risk is related to probability and it’s a fact if you place stops outside of random volatility you have better odds of success.

In Forex trading you need to take calculated risks to make money. If you think you can trade with low risk and no drawdown, go and put your money on deposit – Forex trading is a big boy’s game.

Have the Courage to Accept Big Gains

It may sound odd, as we all want big gains but most people don’t have the courage to accept them. Why?

Because as soon as an open profit starts to get big, the trader wants to lock it in, before it gets away and puts his stop to close to lock it in and he does lock in a profit a minor one! He gets stopped out by normal volatility and then sees the trend continue and make thousands of dollars and he’s not in!

Have the courage to accept big gains and hold your stop back behind normal volatility and accept drawdown and open profit and keep your eyes on the bigger price at the end of the move. Sure, you give a bit back but you get more of the trend, if you don’t jack your stop up to close. Forex trading is about making money not perfection!

Putting it all Together.

You have to take risks – but you don’t want to lose too much or get too far behind. It’s a delicate balance and Forex money management needs to be taken seriously, its not an after thought, it’s the basic foundation of long term currency trading success, so make it part of your essential Forex education.



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By: Nidhi Bajoria

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Here we are going to look at some live examples and show you some techniques to enter and set stops to target low risk high reward trades.

Last week we showed you this in the B Pound and our view was right and we made a great profit.

Now let’s look at another live example.

1. Never Buy Dips without confirmation

One of the biggest mistakes novice traders make is to buy into dips or sell into resistance.

Most traders will buy into support even if prices are going down and then they hope support holds.

This is a great way to lose your money “hope” should not be part of any traders vocabulary.

2. Getting The odds on your side

Never ever trade unless price action or momentum supports your view.

If you want to buy into support or sell into resistance wait for it to hold and trade when the momentum turns – You then have the odds on your side.

It will also stop you trying to predict where price action may go.

We did just that shorting the B Pound US Dollar.

We waited for resistance to hold and then used the stochastic indicator (read up on it’s a great momentum indicator) to enter.

As soon as the stochastic indicated waning price momentum by crossing with bearish divergence we went short.

Put the stop behind the resistance and targeted the bottom of the range and thankfully it went well.

This trade had tight stop, price momentum on our side and clear target.

Why confirmation is so important

It stops you imposing your view on the market and will keep you out of losing trades.

A good example was last week we wanted to go short the Yen.

Pull the chart up at a chart service futuresource.com (is a good one)

Here we will use the futures IMM contract but cash is same logic.

We wanted to sell last week but prices rose but we didn’t jump in we need confirmation.

So we waited for stochastics to cross with bearish divergence.

It never came.

Prices broke through resistance and are going up.

The fact we waited for confirmation stopped us imposing our view on the market and saved us a loss.

Outlook for Yen

We are still interested in the short side of the yen and would look for the next level of resistance.

There is heavy resistance at the 8800 level on weekly and daily charts.

We would expect the rally to fail into this area and will look for confirmation from a stochastic crossover with bearish divergence.

This will if we can get it give us clear stop point and with price momentum on our side a target of the lows.

Even if were wrong this trade if the set up comes to fruition will give us low risk and high reward.

Money management is all about keeping risk low and profit potential high.

If you learn to wait for confirmation rather than jumping to soon you will have the odds on your side.



By: Sacha Tarkovsky

What is Currency Trading?

Currency trading is the buying and selling of currencies from around the world. It is the largest and most active trade happening, making trillions of dollars daily. Unlike other trade like stock exchange, currency trading has no specific time of trading. It happens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Currencies

In currency trading, there are currency pairs. A currency pair consists of two currencies, one of which is being bought and the other is the currency used to buy the other currency.

Take a look at this example: GBP/USD where GBP is the British Pound. The GBP is what we call the ‘base currency’ which has the initial value of 1. This is the currency being bought. Next is the USD or the US dollar. This is what we call the ‘quote-currency’ and has the value of how much one of the base currency is worth. For example: EUR/USD 1.2436, one Euro is worth 1.2436 US dollars. If you need 1000 Euro, you’d have to exchange it for 1243.6 US dollars. Other major currencies traded are Canadian dollar (CAD), Japanese Yen (JPY), Australian dollar (AUD, and the Swiss Franc (CHF).

The Spread

In currency trading, a currency pair has a corresponding ‘bid’ and ‘ask’ price. The ‘bid’ price is how much the base currency is being sold by the currency broker while the ‘ask’ price is how much the currency is being bought by the trader. The bid price is usually lower than the ask price and this is where sales are made by the brokers. The difference between the ‘bid’ and ‘ask’ price is called the ’spread’.

Changes in the Currency Values

Knowing how currency values changes is important in currency trading. In a nutshell, buy a currency when its value is low and sell it when its value is high. The changes in currency values depend on political and economic events. Foreigners going in a country triggers currency exchange as well as large purchases of commodity from one country to another. Also, we should not forget the influence of speculators in currency trading. They speculate on the increase or decrease of value of a currency therefore will make decisions in advance. It is important to be updated in these influences to the trade to be able to keep up with the fast-paced volatility of the currency trade.

Why Venture on the Currency Trade?

As mentioned, currency trading occurs 24 hours on a daily basis. Traders can decide when to trade their currencies. As changes could happen any time, the trader should always keep watch on the best time to trade. Currency trade does not need a big capital to start. Beginners can start with small amounts and eventually increase their trading resources. There is also no need to play on all currencies on the market. A novice can focus on two currencies at first while getting the hang of it and then expand later on for bigger profits.

Risks in Trading

Naturally, like all trading, there are risks. A trader should keep in mind that the risk in currency trade is high and wrong decisions could lead to losses. Playing safe is okay but the higher the risks, the higher the profit. Decisions are vital so it is best to ask advice from the expertise of brokers whenever necessary.



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Money management is a bit like sex, we all do it but we don’t talk about it much yet, if you don’t employ proper money management you won’t win. Let’s look at some basics to do with money management.

Money management is the difference between making stellar gains or wiping your account out. Here are some important points to keep in mind when adding it to your forex trading strategy.

Risk & Reward

Risk goes with reward this is common knowledge yet, many traders try to restrict risk so much they actually create it and ensure they lose.

For example day traders think their taking small risks as their stops are close but their 100% guaranteed to lose over time because all short term volatility is random.

The risk looks small but the odds are stacked against them.

Another example of trying to restrict risk to much is trailing a stop to close and getting stopped out by normal volatility and sees the trader get stopped out to soon.

These traders need to make a study of standard deviation of price part of their forex education.

Betting to Win

Just like the successful card player you need to load up your bets on high odd hands and fold losers quickly. When you have a high odds trade denoted by your forex trading system up your bet size.

You here many traders bang on about risking 2% per trade but this is ridiculous for most traders.

For example on $10,000 account that’s $200! How close would your stop have to be?

To close and guarantee your stopped out by volatility.

If you want to win bet 10 – 20% on your high odds trades.

Stop placement

In forex trading most traders like to trade with stops behind support and resistance and you will notice on many occasions how many times a price spikes through the stop in the day and then closes below it.

If you can always use a “stop close” this will prevent from daily volatility hitting your stop in the day session or if you cant keep an eye on the market use “at or in the money options”

Trailing a stop

If you are long term trend following you need to give the market plenty of room to breathe and keep your stop back. Don’t jack it up after a day or so like most traders do – leave it alone. When you have good profits move it behind key support say at 40 day moving average penetrated on a close basis which works well.

If you want to follow long term trends, you are going to have to accept that you will give a lot back at the turning point – but if you get 60% of the major trends you will do well.

Targets

I find stop trailing hard and like to work with a target and get out when its hit.

If the move carries on so what? I am happy, as I got what I want.

In shorter term swing trading, targets are essential as these smaller profits can disappear quickly.

Finally Remember This:

How you deal with risk, will be the difference between you losing or winning at forex trading. Try and restrict risk to much and you will guarantee you lose, but take meaningful risks at the RIGHT time, with courage and conviction and you could enjoy fantastic currency trading success.

Remember the old gamblers saying:

“There’s a time to hold them, a time to fold them and a time to get out of town fast”

Its very applicable to forex trading and money management!



By: Monica Hendrix