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The Forex Market - Get Rich And Retain Your Sanity. PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Eather   
Friday, 24 April 2009 10:37
The foreign exchange market can cause extreme stress. You may be able to make money fast, but you can lose it just as fast. If you are a nervous person, this probably is not the place for you. The forex can make a person with the strongest nerves a nervous wreck. Even so, following a few basic rules can assist you in making the money you want while helping you maintain your sanity.
by JohnEather


The foreign exchange market can cause extreme stress. You may be able to make money fast, but you can lose it just as fast. If you are a nervous person, this probably is not the place for you. The forex can make a person with the strongest nerves a nervous wreck. Even so, following a few basic rules can assist you in making the money you want while helping you maintain your sanity.

So, you want to be a trader in the foreign exchange market. The first thing you must do is establish your boundaries and your goals. How much money do you want to make, over what timescales, and how much are you willing to risk? Are you happy that the upside is high enough to compensate for the possible downside? Once you are happy with this balance stick to it and donat be tempted to exceed your basic acceptable degree of risk.

A successful foreign exchange market trader is a cool trader. This means that you must distance your feelings and your emotions from your actions. In fact to preserve your sanity it is essential that you do so. Remember that what you are doing is applying logic and statistics to the maximisation of your profit. Successful trading is analogous to the professional poker player with a perfect knowledge of the odds and the ability to apply this knowledge with both a poker face and a poker soul.

Of course, nobody succeeds all the time in the forex trading market. Nobody is perfect! Be aware that you will make mistakes as that is just the way it is. Using the guidlines in the following paragraphs can help you succeed and maintain your sanity.

Your first plan of action should be to determine how you want to work it. Do not start without a plan in place because you do not want to fail. Start with your plan. It may not be the plan you end up with, but you need to start with one and make changes to it as time goes by.

What kind of things should be in this plan? Start with where your information will be found. What type of information will you be using in your plan? What tools will you implement to help in your decision making process? Who can you get accurate information from? This is an extremely important part of the plan, make sure these safeguards are in place before you begin.

There are two different directions you can attempt to go. There are a lot of differing opinions as to which way is the right way. Some people use an internal gauge (a gut feeling), however, those always remember to base these feelings on what is actually happening in the market, using analysis, trends and mathematical approaches to help in their decision making. The other way leans on using statistics. You need to figure out which approach will work best for you.

So, to summarise; you need to establish your basic goals and constraints, assemble your initial plan, decide on your approach, and go for it. By adopting these basic rules you will maximise your chances of making some real cash without compromising your sanity. Of course, you should also have some good fun in the process.

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