Wednesday 15 June 2011

How to Minimize Risk Factor in Foreign Exchange Trading

Foreign exchange trading is fascinating and risky at the same time. It is not possible to get guaranteed success all the time when you sell or buy foreign currency to trade. However, you can maintain overall good profit-loss ratio with the efficient foreign exchange trading platform. Trading platform should be design with the risk management strategies. Risk management is needed to minimize your losses but how this is conducted? Risk management is done by limiting trade size, hedging money and opting for day trading or trading during certain hours. If trader knows when to take losses and when to gain profits, he can certainly achieve long term success in forex market.

Traders sell or buy foreign currency in order to get the maximum profits but keep the focus off of the drawbacks. Traders take large risk and made the large size transaction to get the large gain. Due to this negligence, sometimes they loose big losses. Many traders think that is they are successful with the demo account, they can apply the same strategy in real scenario and gain profits. But, this is not the case, when real money and emotions enters, the whole trading scenario gets changed. The very first step of the risk management tactics is to minimize the losses to possible extent. Before you sell or buy currency, know when to cut your losses on trade and to do this, you can either use a hard stop or a mental stop. A hard stop is when you set your stop losses at a certain level as you initiate your trade. A mental stop is when you set a limit to how much pressure or draw down you will take for the trade. It requires detail understanding of market to stop losses and once known you can stick to it.

On Internet, you will see many lucrative ideas saying “Double your money overnight” or “Guaranteed monthly income” etc. All these are scam and keep yourself away from such traps. There isn't any magic key which offers 100% success in this field. All what you to do is trade with the correct lot sizes.Now, how will you decide that the lot size is correct? Well, there's no formula to decide the correct lot size but if you are beginner in foreign exchange trading then smaller sizes are recommended. Be as conservative as you can but don't open too many small size lots. You need to understand the correlation between currency pairs.You can keep the overall exposure limited when you sell or buy currency;this will reduce the risk while trading. To become a successful trader, never let your emotions enter into your trade, keep great self-constraint  and patience. Furthermore, trading is all about picking up the right opportunity at right time; don't miss any opportunity by delay in action.

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