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July 20, 2009

How to choose your forex broker!

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Tips on Choosing the Best Forex Broker

Forex broker is an agent that does trading on your behalf. As such, they collect a spread everytime you make a trade no matter if you’re making losses or earnings. So, here are a few points to consider when you’re choosing a forex broker.

Reputation

Reputation of a broker usually exceeds them and it’s easy to see who makes money and who are experienced. In this case, you can check their record to see whether they are consistent in forex trading. In this part you should do a thorough check because it is important to see who you have as your broker.

Reasonable Deposit

One way of choosing a broker is by looking at initial deposit that they ask. Initial deposit is not needed as it is not for investment purposes, but just to pay the broker in case they’re not paid during the course of investment. The ideal payment should be between $200 to $500 depending on the market movement.

Good software

A good software should be simple, easy to use and at the same time is clear on the investment that you’re making. If you are new to forex trading, your broker should be able to let you trade on a demo account. A demo account works the same as a real software but it gives you the opportunity to test it before you actually make your first real trade.

Variety of Currency Pairs

Every good broker should be involved in different currency pairs and that makes them offer a lot of selections. So, choose at least a broker that has currency pairs that you are most interested in. Remember that every currency pairs have their own patterns in the market.

Customer support

With every currency pairs that you trade in, its actually different across the whole world. Therefore, you won’t want to call a broker who is sleeping half a world away when you want to make your trade. Therefore, it is vital to have a broker who can take your orders anytime you want. Try to contact the customer service desk and see how they respond to your questions regarding forex trading. Make sure you’re comfortable as these guys are who you entrust your money with.

Therefore, make sure you do enough homework regarding the aspects above before you really proceed into the forex market!

July 3, 2009

Top 10 Trader Mistakes

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There are reasons why some traders win in trading, and some are not because of mistakes. What are these mistakes? Here it is.

“Top 10 mistakes traders make”

1. trading with emotions

- our emotional  guidance system is really not quite enables us to trades successfully because when it comes to trading it is purely more visual and logical thing

2. not having discipline

- do not take the trading if you don’t know how to control yourself

3. not having a trade plan

-like every business activity, planning is a very important ingredient in trading because of these 2 reasons:

*It keeps you in the right direction

*Trading is a business and successful businesses ALWAYS have                     plans

4. changing the trade plan mid-trade

- this usually happens because of fear, a plan should be based statistics that work overall, not every trade will work out

5. proper money management

- trade 5% margin instead of trading 20% or more margin, and trade another day.

6. increasing your commitment with success

- When you see that you’re winning in the trade, you are tempted to add additional lots to increase profits. But look out, because market reverse right after.

7. adding to a losing trade

- If you are wrong on a trade, just take the loss and wait for another trade.

8. setting a stop loss based on risk tolerance

- A stop should be set to tell you if you were wrong, not on the amount you are willing to lose.

9. using a mental stops vs. stop loss orders

- You will lose more by not using a stop, so, place a stop farther away. This usually happens when you use mental stop is you say “just give it some time, it will come back” and it never does and you end up losing much more than you should.

10. Overtrading your account

- Have patience, you don’t need to trade everyday to make profit.

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