Forex Confessions Of An Over Trader

Forex Confessions Of An Over Trader

Hello everyone. I have a confession, I am an over trader. I often make too many trades per day and when I get bored I like to try out different trading ideas. This is the song of many who have and willing continue to lose money trading Forex. Over trading is one of the biggest issues that new and some experienced traders have. Unfortunately, the more many people trade, the more money they lose. Do you like losing money? I doubt that you do. This article will explain why you have to stop trading so much. This is your intervention.

The more decisions a trader has to make, the more mistakes he will make. This is a simple truth that you must understand. When it comes to trading, you want to make as few decisions as possible. You want your trading system to have already decided why you enter and exit a trade. More importantly, you want your money management system to allocate how much money you risk on each trade. These are the types of choices you do not want to make on the fly. You fail and the Forex bullies will have all your money.

Stop giving away your money to the Forex bullies!

Why do we over trade? I know that for me, I love the excitement of trading. I like trying to take money from the market and I love to tinker with different trading concepts. The problem is that I shouldn't be making any trades that do not fall within the confines of my trading system. To be a good trader is to be disciplined and to stick to your strategy. Initially, I lacked the discipline to do this but after blowing up several Forex accounts, I am discipline.

Please learn by mistakes and don't lose all your money like I did.

There is away to tinker!

Yes, we are over traders and we promise to stick to our system. We also need a place to test new systems and strategies. My suggestion is to create  a separate account with a small amount of money that you use to test out your new ideas. I always keep my trading size and leverage low in this account because it is more to test ideas than to make income. In this account I try my more riskier methods and I quench my thirst to trade and my need for speed. I suggest that you setup a similar account.

As you can see, over trading is a disease that many traders have. I am a sufferer but I am slowly getting better. We should aim to trade more so that we can stick to high probability trades and not waste away our account gambling and experimenting. I do understand that there has to be away to test out new ideas and because of this I recommend a smaller account that you use for research and riskier forms of trading. This gives you the best of both worlds.

Forex Is For Disciplined People

Forex Is For Disciplined People

I am not going to focus on the technical aspect of trading in this article. I think that too many people focus on the mechanics of trading and not on the mental side. It is my experience and belief that the mental side of trading is where most people need work. Sure new traders don't use a proper trading strategy but they also don't know how to think about the business of trading. They have faulty beliefs that will keep them in a state where they are losing money. Lets fix their head then their trading.

So what do I mean by lets focus on the mental side of trading? What I mean is that trading for many involves too many emotions. These emotions are would causes trader to make bad decisions in Forex. The more bad decision you make, the more money you will lose as a trader. It is my goal to teach traders to think about the game and how to think about each trade. By changing their internal representation of what good trading is first, then we can easily teach them winning trading system that will make them profitable and that will keep them in the black.

So what is good trading and what is bad trading? Most people who find themselves wanting to be a trader do so because they want money NOW. They don't want to wait the same amount of time that it takes investors to earn money. They want daily, weekly and monthly income from trading. There is nothing wrong with that and I share the same goals. Where I differ from the average trader is that I know that you cannot remove patience from the business of trading. It doesn't matter if you are day trading or investing.

Not only do these traders want income now, they also want to always be trading. They love the action of trading. My job is to replace their love of trading with the love of making money. Enjoy being profitable more than you love putting on trades. If they could learn this one thing they would lose less money. I also have to teach them that every trade has to be planned ahead of time. I don't want them making any gut decisions. The big banks use automated trading systems ran by super computers because they know how human emotions are not subjective.

If there is anything to take away from this article it is, focus more on how you think about trading. Do not allow Forex trading to become a game or a source of entertainment. Think of each trade you make as a major business decision that should be well planned and researched ahead of time. What if you are day trading? Of course in day trading your decision have to be made fast but your system will already have things such as lot size, entry point and exiting solves before you sit in front of the computer.