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Trading Strategies
How to Know if a Strategy Works
The sure-fire way to know a trading strategy works, is to start using it and watch your account steadily grow. But how do we know if a strategy is going to work before we put money into it?
Well, we can't know for sure what will happen;…
Trading Like A CFO – Organizing And Directing
Once you've got your trading plan in place, it's time to put it in practice. This is the fun part that got you interested in trading in the first place, so you've likely already put a lot of thought into it. However, there are some ideas…
Trading Like A CFO – Planning
We already went over the similarities between trading and financial management. Now we are going to get a little deeper into each one of the elements of management that could help with your trading.
Planning to succeed
Having a plan…
Trading Like A CFO
For a lot of traders, trading is something of a hobby, and they approach it with the same level of disorganization that they do their stamp collection. On the other hand, some hobbyists take their actions seriously and act with…
Should You Let Your Trades Stop Out?
When to exit your trade is actually something of a controversial subject. There are some traders who insist that stop losses are there to be used - you should let your trade stop out if it's not going the right way. Other traders are just…
Size DOES Matter…
A phenomenon that a lot of traders notice - and you might have seen it yourself - is that when they increase the size of their trades, their strategy seems to stop working. For some, even just switching from their demo account to their live…
Avoiding big losses and trading consistently
It's normal for trades to end positively and negatively. No one has a perfect track record in predicting the market, and every consistently profitable trader will have regular losses. As a general rule, it's not these routine losses that…
Why Do You Need a Forex Trading Plan?
When it comes to Forex trading it is essential to maximize profits and limit losses in any way possible. One of the best ways to do this is to have a carefully thought out trading strategy and to stay disciplined throughout the trading day.…
Exit Strategy – Do you know when to leave?
A significant amount of experts in trading will agree that psychology plays a major component in trading. In other words, your success as a trader depends a lot on your mindset. Understanding this, it's logical to conclude that how you…
The Martingale Trading Strategy
The martingale strategy is an old betting strategy that's largely gone the way of powdered wigs and horse-drawn carriages. However, it's worth a mention because different incarnations of it keep resurfacing among people trying to impress…