If you are new to trading and you are thinking of getting involved into the Foreign Exchange Market, it can be difficult to know where to start or who to trust as there is so much information available about the foreign exchange market. Foreign exchange trading is also know as FOREX or FX.
Bear in mind that there are a lot of marketing experts who are also involved in this industry as well.
You may have a lot of question at this stage, similar to what I had when I just started, that you would like to be answered. The information you find on this site will answer some of them as I have been there. I researched a lot of information, purchase software, books, attended webinars, etc. Most of the information was useful, but not relevant to my goal of becoming a technical trader. A trader that uses candlestick patterns, price action, etc. to trade. In other words, technical trading is mostly visual, that is, you will be looking for a picture/pattern to form on a chart at the right location that will result in winning trades most of the time.
My aim on this site is to provide you with information and explanation of the jargons used in the forex market and to keep you focused on relevant areas that will assist you on your journey of becoming a technical trader and let you know what must be included in a Forex Strategy.
To be frank with you there are three main areas that you will need to master to be a successful technical trader. The three main areas are as follows:
- You will need to learn and master a Forex Strategy.
- You need to learn about the Forex Trading Platform that you will be using to execute your Strategy.
- After you have mastered a winning strategy and know how to execute it on your trading platform, the third and most important is your Trading psychology.
In order to help you achieve the main areas mentioned above, you need to have an understanding of the basic information and jargons listed below that you will hear all the time as your learn.
What is the Forex Market?
The Foreign Exchange Market also know as FOREX or FX is just like any other market which involves buying and selling, but instead of the buying and selling of goods or services, this market is involved in the buying and selling of currencies.
The forex market is a decentralized or over the counter (OTC) market and is the largest market in the world by trading volume with an estimated trading per day exceeding $5trillion. Unlike other markets, the FOREX market is open 24 hours per day apart from weekends. It opens 10pm GMT on Sundays and closes 10pm GMT on Fridays.
On a daily basis individuals or companies all over the world are trading with each other. As a result they will need to convert their currencies into the currency of the country they are buying from in order to pay for goods and services. This will cause the demand for that currency to increase and will result in a movement in the price of that currency.
For example, if a company in Australia is buying goods from a company in the US, the Australian company will have to covert its currency into US dollars to pay for these goods. This will cause an increase in the demand for US dollars which will affect its price.
As a FOREX trader your aim is to benefit from this price movement as it happens.
Undoubtedly, you have a lot of players in the FOREX market all over the world such as central banks, investment banks, commercial banks, hedge funds, market makers, commercial companies and retail forex exchange traders to name a few. All these players in the market will cause the price of a currency to fluctuate significantly.
What is a Bull Market or Uptrend?
A Bull Market is a financial market that is going up. This move up is called an uptrend. A bull market or uptrend is one in which the forex market is going up and keeps on going up by making higher pivot highs and higher pivot lows..
Diagram 1 below shows a candle stick chart without any labels on it so you can visualize what an uptrend looks like. Diagram 2 points out to you where the pivot highs and pivot lows are located. This is just for you to visualise that each pivot high that is formed is higher than the previous one and each pivot low that if formed is higher that the previous pivot low.
As of result of this price behaviour a bull market or uptrend if formed. Remember technical trading is mostly visual, not theoretical, therefore you should spend time looking at different charts. You may also hear the term “the market is bullish” meaning it’s in an uptrend.
Diagram 1
Diagram 2
What is causing the market to move higher and higher?
This happens as a result of the market having more buyers placing buy orders than sellers who are placing sell orders at that time or over a period of time. Remember that the forex market is just like any other market in which you have buyers and sellers. For example, if you were selling a product and you have a lot of people wanting to buy this product, what would you do?
You would want to achieve the highest price possible for this product, therefore you would let the market decide what price you will sell this product for. You will gather all the buyers into one location and let them bid for this product in order to get the highest price possible. As a result of the bidding process, the price for your product will increase. As the price increase some buyers will no longer be interested until you reach a price in which you are prepared to sell. It’s the same thing that is happening in a bull market.
What is a Bear Market or a Downtrend?
A Bear Market on the other hand is a financial market that is going down. This move down is called a downtrend. A bear market or downtrend is one in which the Forex market is going down and keeps on going down by making lower pivot highs and lower pivot lows.
Diagram 3 below shows a candle stick chart without any labels on it so you can visualize what a downtrend looks like. Diagram 4 points out to you where the pivot highs and pivot lows are located. This is just for you to visualise that each pivot high that is formed is lower than the previous one and each pivot low that if formed is lower than the previous pivot low.
As of result of this price behaviour a bear market or downtrend is formed. Again Remember technical trading is mostly visual, not theoretical, therefore you should spend time looking at different charts. You may also hear the term “the market is bearish” meaning it’s in a downtrend.
Diagram 3
Diagram 4
What is causing the market to move lower and lower?
This happens as a result of the market having more sellers placing sell orders than buyers who are placing buy orders at that time or over a period of time. At some point this move down will come to an end, pause for a while and will either continue down or change direction and move up. This pause is what is called consolidation.
What is Consolidation?
When you look at the charts you will come across areas on the chart in which the market is not in an uptrend or downtrend. When this is happening the market is in consolidation, that is, a period of time in which you have the same amount of buy orders and sell orders at that price in the market. This is also described as the market is moving sideways. See the diagram below that shows you what consolidation or a sideways market looks like. Again remember technical trading is mostly visual, I am sure you get this point now. With practice you will be able to spot these on any chart.
A consolidation can also come in the form of a trading range in that the price will move up to the previous high and then falls and then move down to the previous low and then bounce form that low. See diagram below that shows what a trading range looks like. You can see that every-time the price come to a pivot high (H) it falls from that point and every-time price goes down to a pivot low (L) it bounces from that point – thus forming a trading range.
BEAR IN MIND – as you will realize from the diagrams above, the market can only do one of three things, that is, move up, move down or consolidate/move sideways.
These market behaviour demonstrates how price behaves over a period of time in different markets. In other words, these charts show the price action of the different markets.
In the charts above the price action of a currency is demonstrated visually by what is called a candlestick.. Price action can also be demonstrated visually using a bar chart as well. The charts shown on this website will consist of candlestick candles..
Let talk some more about candlestick and what each point represents. I am not going into the history of candlestick here. You just need to know what the difference area represents. This will tell you who is in control at that time, that is either buyers or sellers.
What is a Candlestick Chart?
A candlestick is a chart that represent price movement or price action over a given period of time. Every candle stick will show the opening price, closing price, the low price and high price for that period of time which can either be a 2mins, 5 mins, one hour, 2hours, a day, a week, a month etc.
Let examine a candlestick more closely. The wide section of a candlestick is know as the body and the ends are known as wicks. See an example of a candlestick below.
Bull Candlestick or Bull Candle
If the closing price of a candlestick is above that of the opening price then this candlestick is called a bull candle, see example of a bull candlestick or bull candle below. This candlestick indicates that there were more (buy orders) buyers in the market than sell orders(sellers) for that time period and as a result the price rose and close above the opening price. Remember as long as the closing price in above the opening price then there is no question to be asked, that candle is a bull candle.
Note – don’t think that all bull candle are blue in colour. This is just the default colour in the platform I am using. You will be able to choose the colour to represent bull candle in the forex trading platform that you will be using. If you don’t want to change the colour you can use the default that is in the forex trading platform. In addition, as long as the candle close above the opening price that candle will have a body. the body may be short or long depending on the distance the between the opening and closing price.
Bear Candlestick or Bear Candle
If the closing price of a candlestick is below that of the opening price then this candlestick is called a bear candle. This candlestick indicates that there are more (sell orders) sellers in the market than (buy orders)buyers and as a result the price is falling , see and example of a bear candlestick below.
Neutral Candlestick
If the closing price of a candlestick is the same as the opening price then this candle stick is called a neutral candlestick, it lacks direction. This candlestick indicates that there are equal amount of buy order (buyers) and sell orders (seller) which results in the closing and opening price remaining the same. See an example below.
The high price will always be at the top of the candle and the low price will always be at the bottom of the candle irrespective of which candlestick is formed.
Having and understanding of what the candlestick or candlestick formations is telling you as a trader is VERY, VERY, VERY important for a technical trader. It is these formations that dictates where to place your stop loss order, when to enter or exit a trade in the forex market which you will learn in a forex strategy.
Support and Resistance
Let’s talk about support and resistance. These are possible areas on a chart in which the price will turn and go in the other direction.
What is Support?
Imagine you are in a room with a tennis ball and you through the ball on the floor and it bounces off the floor. The floor becomes the support for the ball to bounce off. If forex, support is an area similar to the floor I just described, that is, when price comes down into this area of support it will bounce off and go in the other direction. Bear in mind that these are just areas on a chart that will form support for the price to bounce off. New support areas will form as price moves.
For example, a previous pivot high in an uptrend can form an area of support, take a look on the example below that shows this. As you will see the chart move up over the pivot highs and then comes back to that area and bounce off that area as denoted by the arrows labeled “bouncing off previous highs.”
A trend-line below the candlestick in an uptrend can be an area of support as well. See example below. The black line in the diagram is the trend-line, you will observe that as price comes back to the trend-line it bonces off it, that means the trend-line is acting a an area of support (floor).
Consolidation and moving averages can also act as areas of support as well.
Based on the diagrams above you should have noticed that a support (floor) is an area in which price is likely to turn(reverse) and go up when this area is reached or hit. Note, not all areas of support will cause the price to bounce (reverse) as some areas of support have a high probability than others. If this was possible then price would always be going higher and higher and you would not have a downtrend. Current price action will have to be assess when price come into support areas.
What is Resistance?
On the other hand if you throw the tennis ball into the air it will hit the ceiling and fall. Resistance is similar to the ceiling, that is, it’s an area on the chart where price will hit then falls from that area.
Bear in mind that there are different areas on a chart that can form resistance for the price to fall and new resistance areas will constantly be formed as price moves.
For example a previous pivot low in a downtrend can be an area of resistance. Notice the diagram below, point A shows the previous lows. You will notice that the price move further down below point “A” and then comes back up and fall as shown by the point “B”
A trend-line above the candlesticks in a downtrend can be an area of resistance as demonstrated by the black line in the diagram below. As price come back to the trend-line it falls, therefore the trend-line is acting as an area of resistance here.
An area of consolidation or moving average line can also act as areas of resistance as well in a downtrend.
Based on the diagrams above you should have noticed that a resistance area (ceiling) is an area in which price is likely to turn(reverse) and go down when this area (ceiling) is reached or hit. Note, not all areas of resistance will cause the price to turn (reverse) as some areas of resistance have a high probability than others. If this was possible then price would always be going lower and lower and you would not have an uptrend.
Demand and SupplyWhat is Demand?
This is amount of people wanting to buy a particular product, service or currency. For example, if you have one product to sell eg. A piece of rock from the moon and you have 1000 buyer wanting this product, you would want to sell this for the highest price possible because the demand is high. Therefore you can see that when you have a high demand for something the price is likely to go up.
If forex in you have a lot of buy orders (buyers) for a currency that exceeds the number of sell orders (sellers) the price will rise.
What is Supply?
This represent the amount of product that is available on the market to sell. If you have a lot
to sell and not many people to buy, then you will have to reduce your price to make it attractive
for people to buy. Therefore, you see that excess supply is likely to cause prices to fall.
In forex, if sell orders exceeds buy orders then the price of the currency will fall.
What is Time Frame?
A time-frame is a period of time in which something occurs or is planned to take place. In forex you will be able to chose the time frame that you want to use, normally the one that you think is best for your trading style. You can choose the 2 mins time-frame, 5 mins, 1 hour, 4 hours, daily, weekly, etc. What this means is that the price which is captured and demonstrated via a candlestick chart is done within that time. For example, if you are looking at a 5 mins time-frame the open, high, low and closing price of that candlestick was captured within 5 mins. Each candle stick captures the price within block of 5 mins and the price relating to the time frame will vary until it is closed and then another 5 mins candle will start.
Note – with a good trading strategy you should be able to use it on any time frame.
What is a Currency Pair?
According to the oxford dictionary, “a currency is a system of money in general use in a particular country.” As the forex market is involved with the buying and selling of currencies, this means that you will need to exchange one currency for another. Therefore, a currency pair is a quotation of one currency in relation to another.
Below is a list of some of the symbols used for the currency of different countries.
| Country | Currency | Symbol |
| England | Great British Pound/Cable | GBP |
| Unites States of America | US Dollar | USD |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Dollar | NZD |
| Australia | Australian Dollar | AUD |
| European Union Member | Euro | EUR |
| Japan | Japanese Yen | JPY |
| South Africa | South African Rand | ZAR |
| Canada | Canadian Dollar | CAD |
Let’s look at an example of a currency pair in which the rate of the GBP/USD is 1.3529. The first currency in the currency pair (GBP) is called the base currency and the second currency (USD) in the currency pair is called the quote currency. In other words the price quoted in this example (1.3529) indicates how much of the second currency/quote currency (USD) is needed to purchase one unit of the first currency/base currency (GBP). Therefore it takes $1.3529 US dollar (USD) to purchase one GreatBritish Pound (GBP).
Let’s look at another example in which the rate of the USD/JPY is 109.10. This means, it will take 109.10 YEN to purchase one unit of US Dollar.
You can look at other currency pairs and interpret them for yourself based on the information above.
Strengthening and weakening of a currency.
A currency will strengthen and weakens each day as its traded on the Forex market based on the demand and supply of that currency. Using the GBP/USD example above which was at 1.3529. Let say it now takes $1.3626 US dollar to purchase one unit of Great British Pound, then the Great British Pound is getting stronger as it takes more US dollar to purchase one unit of the Great British Pound (GBP).
On the other hand, if it now takes $1.3429 US Dollar to purchase one unit of Great British Pound, the Great British Pound is getting weaker meaning it takes less US Dollar to purchase one Great British Pound (GBP).
What is a Bid and Ask Price?
Two prices are normally quoted in relation to a currency pair. The first price in the quote is called the Bid Price and the second price in the quote is called the Ask Price as shown in the diagram below..
An ask price or offer price is the minimum price a seller will accept for a given currency at a given point in time. It’s clear from the table above what is the ask price for each currency pair. As you will notice the ask price is the higher of the two prices in the quote.
A bid price is the maximum price a buyer will pay for a given currency at a given point in time. It’s clear from the table above what is the bid price for each currency pair. As you will notice the bid price is the lower of the two prices in the quote.
Some trading platform makes this easy for you they have a “BUY” and “SELL” button for you to press.
What is a Spread?
A spread is the difference between the bid price and the ask price of a currency pair. The price of a currency pair is normally quoted to 4 decimal points, or 2 decimal points for currency pairs that includes the YEN (JPY). From the table above the prices are quoted to 5 decimal places, the 5th place is called fractional pip. This make the pricing of the currency paid more precise.
Let’s calculate the spread for the AUD/CAD. For ease of calculation we will only use 4 decimal places. Therefore, the spread for the AUD/CAD is 3 pip (.9639-.9336). This means that if you have an account in Canadian dollars, for every trade you place you will have to pay the broker CAD$3 per pip.
Now you can take the plunge and calculate the spread for the other currency pairs in the table above.
A small spread indicates high liquidity for that currency pair and a wide spread indicates low liquidity for that currency pair.
As a forex trader, the spread is what you will pay each time you enter the market, therefore you would want to trade currency pairs with small/tight spread.
What is a Forex Pip?
As a forex trader your aim is to capture as many pips or points as possible during a day, week or month. A PIP stands for Price Interest Point. It is the unit of measurement in a given currency pair. Most currency pairs are normally quoted to 4 decimal places and it is calculated based on the change in these numbers in the currency pair. Currency pairs that are linked to the JPY are quoted to two decimal places. For example if the GBP/USD moves within an hour from 1.3529 to 1.3579 then this currency pair has moved up by 50pips (1.3579 -1.3529).
Let’s look at another example, if the USD/JPY moves down within 5mins from 109.80 to 109.10, then this currency pair has move down by 70 pips (109.80-109.10).
Now that you know what a pip is you also need to know that the amount of money you will make from these moves will depend on the value of each pip for that currency pair. See how to calculate pip value
Risk Management
As you may have heard Forex carries a high risk and that mean you can lose more that what you invest. Forex is the most liquid market in the world and its very volatile. This along with leverage make it very risky. The risk will come about when you have very quick movements in the markets caused by macroeconomic news such as interest rates, inflation rate, GDP and unemployment rate announcements and other political and economic news.. All these announcement have the ability to cause prices to move quickly in a relatively short period of time. This means that if you do not set a stop and these announcement occur and cause the market to move against you then you can lose you entire investment and more. In addition you may set a stop loss and these announcements can cause the markets to go through you stop loss without it being triggered and you are likely to lose money. The converse is also true that if these announcements cause the market to move in your favor you can make a big profit.
How to mitigate the risk?
Set a daily risk level – if this risk level is reached during the course of the day then you stop trading for that day. The amount for this level can be 1-2% depending in the size of your account. If you have a £100k account this the amount that you would risk for the day is £1k to £2k.
Set a risk per trade – a risk level per trade is the amount that you would risk per trade. This could be a £ amount given the fact that you know your risk level for the day. For example you may want to risk a maximum of £200 per trade. Therefore given you daily risk level of £2k then if you have 10 losing trade you would have to stop trading for that day. For the following day you will have to do your calculation based on the balance on your account. If you have £98k left in your account then the 1-2% risk per day would now be £980 to 1,960 for that day ie (98k*1%) and (£98K x 2%)
Set a Stop Loss – a stop loss is a point in which you will exit the market if it goes against you. For example you may set a stop loss say 10 pips from your entry price. Therefore, if the market move against you by 10 pips you will lose £10 pound i the value of your position size is £1 per pip and the market does not move quickly.
Set a guaranteed stop – a guaranteed stop is a price that you will exist the market even if the market goes through your stop. Your broker gives you this guarantee that this is the price they will take your out of the market if the market moves against your. Therefore, what you have done is pass on the risk to your brokers. With these stops the broker usually determine how far from your entry price your stop should be. Not all brokers does this therefore you would have to resort to other means to mitigate your risk.
Reduce your position size– another way to mitigate your risk is to reduce your position size. For example, if you normally risk 10 pips per trade and trade 20 lots per trade then your total risk is pounds would be £200. If your risk per trade is still set at £200 but based on the trade you are about to enter your stop will be 20 pips away, if you are to maintain your £200 risk per trade then you would have to reduce your position size to 10 lots (£200/20 pips).
You may have a situation in which your risk per trade has reduced from £200 to £150 but your stop is 10 pips away in this case you can only trade 15 lots (£150/10 pips)
Limit your exposure in the market – this is basically saying you you should not keep your open trade for a long period of time. For example instead of keeping your open trade open for 4 hours you want to keep it open for an hour, 30 mins or 15 mins, etc. Bear in mind that your exposure to how long you spend in the market will depends on your trading strategy and the time-frame you are using.
What is Leverage in Forex
Simply put, leverage is the use of borrowed funds.
In forex this borrowed fund is provided by the broker.
Example 1
For example, you have a mini account, in order for you to trade one lot you will need to have US$10,000 in your account. If you should deposit all of this money (£10,000) to trade one lot then you would not be trading using leverage.
Instead of you depositing US$10,000, the broker provides this money for you to trade.
Before the broker gives you this money to control. They will require you to deposit money into your account. This deposit that will allow you to control US$10,000 is called the required margin. It is usually represented as a percentage which can be 2%, 1%, .5%, .25%. etc.
Therefore, if a broker requires a 2% margin before they give you control of US$10,000, you will need to deposit at least US$200 (US$10,000 x 2%) into your account.
If you only need to deposit US$200 to control US$10,000 then your leverage is 50:1 (10,000:200) the broker is putting up 50 times the amount you are depositing. Got it?
Example 2
You still want a mini account but the broker’s margin requirement is 1%. How much will you need to deposit and what would be your leverage?
You would need to deposit US$100 (US$10,000 x 1%)
Your leverage would be 100:1, that is (10,000:100)
You will observe from the examples above that a smaller margin requirement results in a higher leverage.
Now you are ready to calculate your deposit and leverage for the following margin requirements of .5% and .25%.
Your answer should be as follows:-
For the margin requirement of .5%, your deposit would be US$50 and leverage is 200:1.
For the margin requirement of .25% your deposit would be US$25 and leverage is 400:1.
Example 3
You have a mini account in which the margin requirement is 2% which works out to US$200. You deposit US$600 into your account and place one trade.
After you open the trade the broker will hold on to US$200 from your account as this is the margin requirement of the broker. This amount that the broker holds on to after you open a position is called margin used. You will get this back after you close your position.
For ease of calculation, let say you have US$400 left in your account as your deposit was US$600, The amount left in your account is called free margin or usable margin, meaning you are able to place more traders using this free margin or usable margin.
if you go ahead and place another trade, your margin used will increase to US$400 and your free margin or usable margin will reduce to US$200.
Reward/Risk Ratio
Your risk reward ratio is the amount you expect to earn compared with the amount you expect to risk. This can be calculated using the number of pips or using a $ amount.
A normal ratio of 3:1 for short term trades or 5:1 for long term trade is a good benchmark to use. For example if you are risking 10 pips then a 3:1 reward/risk ratio means that you need to be aiming to achieve 30 pips (10 pips *3) , that is 3 time more than your risk. A 5:1 reward/risk ratio mean that you should be aiming to achieve 50 pips that is 5 times more than your risk.
Bear in mind that if you are using the pip method to calculate this, then both reward and risk must be in pips. If you are using the £ method to calculate this then both reward and risk must be in £ before you make the comparison.
Fundamental vs Technical Analysis
There are two types of analysis that can be done on the financial markets. They area Fundamental and/or Technical analysis.
Fundamental analysis is one in which the direction of the market is analyses using financial and economical factors from the Federal Reserve, Central Banks and marco economic news for different countries, such as interest rate, inflation rate, gross domestic products non farm payroll, etc. along with other factors. The analysis take a long term view of the direction of the market. This is normally done by investment banks, hedge funds, etc. Example of economic news that affects the Forex markets are as follows:
Most large financial institution based their trading using fundamental analysis. Traders who uses this method of analysis are known as Fundamental Traders.
Technical analysis is one in which the market direction if being analyses based on price movement represented by candlestick on a chart, chart patterns and the use of technical indicators. The need to be aware of when new occur but their focus in not to trade the news announcement. Traders who uses this method to analyse the market are know as Technical Traders and normally take a short term approach. Information on this website is focusing on those who want to be a technical trader. If you would want to learn more about fundamental trading, that trading like an investment bank please sign up below for further information.
Types of Traders
There are four categories of traders. There are the scalpers, day trader, swing trader and the position trader.
The Scalper
The scalper is trader whose aim is to capture a few pips/points in seconds to minutes through out the course of the day.
The Day Trader
This traders enter the market many times during the day but hold on to their trades for a longer period that the scalper. They may hold a trade for a few minutes to a few hours through the day.
The Swing Trader
This type of trader will hold a position for a few days
The Position Trader
This type of trader will hold a position for a few weeks or months.
Forex Trading Times UK
The Forex market opens 24 hours per day except on weekends. It opens at 10pm GMT on Sundays and closes at 10pm GMT on Fridays.
As this is the most liquid market in the world, you will have more people trading when market times overlap.
Based on the time difference for the different continent this usually results in an overlap or trading time. An overlap or trading times is where markets in both continent are open at the same time for a period of time.
These times are considered to be the best time to trade as there is a lot of volatility and liquidity in the markets during these time. This does not mean that you cannot trade outside these overlap times.
See diagram below that shows you when markets time overlap. The markets we are talking about is the Asian, Australian, European and the American markets. As you will notice for the diagram below, Sydney/Toyko overlap with London from 7am to 8am. The next overlap period is between London and New York from 12 noon to 4pm. During these time volatility and liquidity can be very high. Volatility and Liquidity is a traders best friend.
FOREX NEWS
There an news about an economy that will affect the price of that currency and sometimes other currencies.
Most sites that gives news information will give you the option or show you which news item have an low, medium or high volatility on the forex market. New that result in high volatility can sometimes move the price of a currency by 60-100 or more pips/points in a few seconds or minutes.
Your forex strategy will give you further information as to what you should do when a major news announcement are pending.
For now, as a new trader when major news are about to be announced, just sit back and watch what happens to prices after the announcements.
Some of the news items that can have big impact on the price of a currency are:
Changes in interest rates
Employment rate
Non farm payroll data and many more.
You can use this link to see information on the forex news
Most forex platform will also have information relating to forex news.
What is Trading psychology?
Read very carefully ignore at your own peril!!! Having a good strategy and knowing how to use you platform is very good. But in order for to constantly make money your trading psychology must be correct. Trading psychology has to do with your emotions and subconscious. The ideal trading psychology is that you always follow your trading strategy and be calm and collected when doing so and accept your loss. In other words, there should be no emotion involved in this process. This can be the hardest thing to achieve. If you are doing any of the following listed below, just to name a few, on a regular basis then this is an indications that your trading psychology needs to be improved, if this continues then you are going to BLOW you trading account, so you may need to get help from a professional.
- You don’t follow your trading rules
- Take profits too early
- Set your stop too close or set it too far away and
- Over-trade your account
- Enter a trade too late
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