How to become a successful trader?

Discussion in 'Forex' started by Coner1980, Jan 21, 2021.

  1. maxinger

    maxinger

    be close to an unsuccessful trader.

    if he sells, you buy.
    if he buys, you sell.
     
    #141     Jul 14, 2021
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  2. Kalanim

    Kalanim

    Practice makes perfect.
    First of all, you need to realise that trading presupposes constant learning and constant improving. THe first thing you need to learn is the financial instrument that you intend to trade, because every instrument has its own pecularities and specialties. Like stocks and currency pairs behave differently at the same situations, for example. The nesxt thing is money and risk management. Market is too unpredictable and every sensible trader understands that they are highly unlikely to reach 100% success. That is why traders follow the principles of money and risk management in order not to loose everything at once and to understand and hedge the risks associated with the certain deals. It goes without saying, that you need to learn technical analysis, i.e. chart analysis, also fundamental analysis will be of great help to your trading results. Finally, train your psychology. From my perspective, the best way to avoid negative impact of emotions on trading is to create an accurate and strict trading strategy. This will help you to concentrate on the facts and forget about emotions, like you don't feel any emotions when you know that 2+2=4. The trading strategy should be as simple and accurate as this. It is hard to do, but you should aspire to that.
     
    #142     Jul 28, 2021
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  3. bublu

    bublu

    Still hard to find some lol but actually the forex market is crazy where many buying and others selling at the same time thinking they are more clever than others.
     
    #143     Jul 28, 2021
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  4. Mesida

    Mesida

    In a nutshell, it is quite ordinary: work hard and never give up.
    It takes a great deal of time and efforts in order to become a success in forex. You've to learn a lot about economics in order to understand the interconnections between different events and prices, you should also now hot the prices are formed and the financial instruments that you will trade. This all needs your time and your mental efforts to be absorbed and understood, otherwise, you are highly likely to blow your budget once and forever.
    You will have moments of total depression and dispair when you lose huge sums of money during a trading session. Everybody has such moments in their career and some of the people come back to forex and keep going while others give it up and return to the old jobs.
    Trading is like any other profession which requires certain expertise in order to be a success.
     
    #144     Aug 1, 2021
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  5. kroxobor

    kroxobor

    Yeah the path is thorny and fraught with losses, the goal is to minimise amount of money paid for the valuable lessons.
     
    #145     Aug 1, 2021
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  6. its a little bit true ,the traders who losers they fixed losing history on their mind and when trading psychically they cant come out from losses. mindset is everything.
     
    #146     Aug 2, 2021
  7. padutrader

    padutrader

    TRADING SMALL and more often only makes sense if you have an edge............most beginners do not have that so if they trade more they will lose but more slowly.
     
    #147     Aug 2, 2021
  8. kmschu026

    kmschu026

    I would say you should start by reading the Market Wizards books and start to explore what style of trading fits your personality and resonates with you as a trading philosophy. One thing you'll notice while reading those books is that each trader has developed a different trading style, but it fits their personality.

    You have to consider aggressiveness vs. cautiousness, high win rate and low profit factor or low win rate and high profit factor, frequency of trading, asset class, technical vs. fundamental, etc. Trading typically takes a long period of exploration to find what works for you, then you can begin the process of mastery in trading.
     
    #148     Aug 2, 2021
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  9. Overnight

    Overnight

    But you do not trade period, so why are you commenting? Since you do not trade, you are giving advice.
     
    #149     Aug 2, 2021
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  10. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    Trading large even more requires an edge, because of higher risk.
     
    #150     Aug 2, 2021
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