Accounting for sudden velocity?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Lethn, Mar 15, 2010.

  1. Lethn

    Lethn

    I've been running into this problem time and time again where I'm actually making some decent money but then I end up losing quite an amount because of the value of my currency pair suddenly shooting up for no apparent reason and as I said I either end up losing money or in the kinder scenario I end up having to wait half the day for the price to fall again, sometimes overnight.

    I wanted to ask, is this simply bad luck and random chance that I have to account for? Or is it something completely avoidable that I'm missing entirely? Even if it is random chance is there any way I can avoid this type of problem?

    For the record this is the main thing that's been stopping me from making money so far. I doubt it's because of lack of capital. I'm currently trading in the USD/CHF.