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Your Essential Guide To Earning Financial Independence By Trading Online
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Is the state of the current economy making you worry for your future?Wonder why so many people are turning to online trading? This article will seek to answer those questions. You need to have an alternative to your main source of income, because in these uncertain economic times, you can never be sure of what forecasts may be ahead for you. Already, many large conglomerates and companies have laid off hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world and these are just the reported numbers. SME’s and private business owners have also been hard hit – and in some regions where the recession has not fully hit, the future is bleak.
It is always good to have an alternative source of income even if you are blessed with a hefty pay cheque every month. Massing up risk capital is always good – there is no argument against it and online trading is a great way for anyone to do this. You can do it from the comfort of your own home and with the proper practice and money management, you will have on your hands a viable secondary income stream to add that extra level of security to your life and those of your loved ones. Online trading is also extremely simple to do – it is unlike the initial systems and set ups that were required when it was first introduced more than a decade ago.
This time, you have a plethora of financial companies and brokerages who have tailor made online trading to the casual home user. From easy to sign accounts, interfaces made for the casual investor in mind, support structures that help you every step of the way, investment programmes that help you make complicated calculations to augment your investment decisions and the existence of dummy account setups for you to practice with as much as you want – going online to trade has never been easier and you will always be assured that there will be someone around to help you make that investment decision for you. The potential to make money online is phenomenal; with online trading in commodities like futures and the Forex trade.
Take Forex markets for example, a trillion dollar a day turnover market that is easy to trade in and is extremely liquid. With brokerages giving exceptional deposit margins as well as breadth of play to invest in any market 24 hrs of the day, your options are only limited by how much time you choose to put into the market.The Forex market is also easy to predict ; just follow up to the market psychology and you will realise that profit making is made possible, even in the toughest economic times. Online trading can be the turnkey for anyone who wants either an alternative income, or even a full time solution to their real life economic problems. Thousands out there have joined the FX market, and you should not be the last.
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Risk and Your Forex Trading Style
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009The most valuable part of any style of investing, is being aware of what level of risk you are comfortable with. Without a good comprehension of this, it will be way too easy for you to loose all your capital. Every Forex trading strategy carries its own risk parameters and these tie in directly with your risk tolerance. Then there is your trading approach, conservative, moderate, and aggressive.
Initially you may decide to trade a day chart. The bar movement over a day can be hundreds of pips, so when you protect your position you have to assess what your drawdown limits are. If your money management is set at a 3% funds exposure, you will get into problems on day charts unless your account is large.
The 5M or 30M charts maybe more suitable since the pip range tends to be less, so your stop strategies can fall within your management margins.
Yes, we all want increase our wealth from out trades, but risking ones account to large stop positions and large draw-downs is going to clean out your account and trading career in the blink of an eye.
A practical risk level is 3% or $300 on a $10,000 account. Convert this to pips, 1 standard lot ($100,000) has a pip value of $10 so if you trade end of day and your stop loss placement, whether count-back or support and resistance or any other, determines a 100 pip stop position, then you are not risking 3% but 30%! Three reversed trades and your account has gone!
An aggressive trader is open to taking riskier trades that a conservative trader. They will expose bigger sums or money in riskier trades with the hope of achieving larger returns – often over longer trading time frames but they may still use the similar strategies for shorter times as well. Very much the ’all risk’ trader.
So where do you think you sit? Are you a level headed trader with appropriate money management and risk rates, or a trader that will take over the top risks with all or nothing gains? If you are the latter, you won’t be around for long, that’s a guarantee.
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