There is an old gamblers saying:

“There’s a time to hold them a time to fold them and there’s a time to get out of town fast”

If you think about this saying, it’s the perfect introduction to succeeding in card playing and forex trading.

Forget the gurus and the mentors (most who have never traded in their lives) who tell you that you can predict forex prices in advance or that they move to a scientific theory – they don’t.

Just like card playing forex is a game of odds not certainties – but just like the professional card player, you can play the odds and win.

“A time to hold them”

By studying the cards that come out of the deck the successful card player knows the odds of the cards coming next, he’s not certain but by counting the cards he knows the probability and this is true with forex.

In card playing you hold and play in forex trading when the odds are in your favour you execute you’re trading signal.

“A time to fold them”

If a card player has junk hands, he folds and passes the hand by.

Compare this to forex traders – many of them want to trade low odds scenario’s because they think they will miss a move if their not in the market, while others trade when the odds are never in their favour i.e. day traders and they lose.

The card player knows his winnings are not based upon how many hands he plays – but how good the hands are and how he bets only then and it’s the same in forex trading.

In forex trading you get paid for being right not how often you trade.

When you feel you have a high odds hand – bet and bet big.

You will see poker players back high odds hands with a cool head and large amounts of cash and you must do the same.

Forget about the myth of betting small 2% per trade which is a common accepted figure – this is ridiculous!

On 2% on a $10,000 account that’s risking just $200.00!

You won’t win much doing that- bet 10 – 20% if you have the odds on your side and have the courage of your conviction.

“A time to get out of town fast”

This applied to the old west and when your life was in danger – get out quickly!

In forex trading to preserve your equity you need to cut and run.

I heard a trader once say that if you want to win:

“You need to bet but you can’t, if you’re not at the table”

To stay at the table or trading, you have to preserve your equity.

That means rigid stops preferably placed before you enter the trade – no hoping a trade will turn around – if you life or position are in danger get out!

DISCIPLINE

All card players have this and you must to, as a forex trader.

Even the greatest card players have to lose hands to win longer term.

However if they can stay at the table and keep betting and play the odds, they can bet big on the high odds hands and win.

Of course you can do this to as a forex trader.

If you want to read an excellent interview with blackjack player come multi millionaire trader Blair Hull which expands on the above points get the excellent book “market Wizards” By Jack Schwager which interviews Blair and a whole host of top traders – its essential reading for all forex traders.

Finally! Remember:

Play the odds with discipline in forex trading and you can enjoy currency trading success.

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The result is a forex position calculator created from traders’ real experience – including successes and failures. The two key benefits of the Forex Position Allotment Calculator are its ability to prevent overleveraging and to remove emotion from forex trading. The Calculator gives the trader a snapshot of account dollars, maximum risk, and dollar risk – all at the same time. With this feature, the trader is able to avoid overleveraging and maintain untouched money.

Forex traders know that 90% of losses are caused by an over-emotional involvement in trading. The Forex Position Allotment Calculator introduces what Stevanovich calls a “set it and forget it” design, in which the trader can set buy and sell prices, stop prices, and limits without having to persistently manage trades. There is no manual writing and inputting of risk percentages with this design, either. The “set it and forget it” feature helps take fear and greed out of trading – and gives the trader a better idea of how to trade more efficiently.

Day traders, swing traders, and position traders are using the new Forex Position Allotment Calculator, according to Stevanovich. He also says that traders, on the average, have increased gains by 25% using the new calculator. Stevanovich adds that because of the input system on the Forex Position Allotment Calcuator package, errors are greatly reduced. “Using the Forex Position Allotment Calculator,” he says, “can save you ten times the amount of an error.” Experienced forex traders know that small mistakes, in addition to emotional trading, can cause large losses.

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Conversely, you probably also know what it feels like to have a string of massively winning trades, and few feelings in the world of forex can match the ecstasy of this experience. And I am sure that you have at least heard of some of those traders that seem to always experience this, those who have seemingly god-like abilities to create truly staggering amounts of money in a short period of time.

But what is it exactly that separates the highly profitable traders from the mediocre or novice traders? Do they maybe have some secret newsletter that they share amongst themselves that gives exchange rates a day in advance? Not quite. Actually the answer is surprisingly simple, but this does not mean it is exactly easy to implement in your own life.

The ability to consistently place highly profitable trades in the forex market comes from being able to completely separate your emotions from your trading, and to be almost completely detached from the outcomes of your trades.

I can pretty much guarantee that you will not find a single professional, profitable forex trader that obsessively checks his trades every two minutes, and then freaks out if they start to go down. If you find yourself doing this, then you have a high level of emotional attachment to your forex trading, and this is most likely the reason why you are not yet fabulously successful.

Now I am sure that if you are reading this article then you have at least some basic knowledge of the foreign currency market, and you will also know what a pip is. Forex traders have heard this funny little word before and are familiar with it, but I bet that if you went up to some random person in the street and said ‘Excuse me, can you tell me what a pip is?’ they would be tempted to laugh in your face.

The word ‘pip’ is actually an acronym for ‘price interest point,’ and it is the smallest unit that a currency exchange rate can fluctuate. For example, if the current exchange rate for GBP/USD (that’s the British Pound/Dollar cross, but you already know that) is 1.1800 and it goes up to 1.1850, then we would say that the price has increased by 50 pips.

So we have established that profitable forex traders possess a high degree of emotional control, and the key to getting to this level of emotional detachment when trading is to only focus on the PIPS rather than the MONEY. This is easy in theory, but when you are really at your computer placing those trades it can be alot harder. You need to change your perception of forex trading altogether, and instead of viewing it as a way to make money, try to see it as only a game where you try to accumulate pips, and the more pips you gather the better you do.

A really good way to begin to change your perception of forex trading to the point where you see it as only a ‘pip-gathering game’ and you are no longer blinded by emotions is to make extensive use of demo accounts. Do not overlook the importance of using a demo account to gain trading experience, because this is literally your roaming ground for learning how to place profitable trades without fear. After all, there is virtually no difference at all between the way your trading platform looks when you are trading a demo account, and how it looks with a real account.

It stands to reason that because a demo account and a live account are so similar, if you spend time getting to the point where you can trade a demo account profitably, doing the same thing with a real account will look and feel identical.

Mainly, it is this change in perception where you only see forex trading as a game that separates the men from the boys and the winners from the losers in forex. And the great irony is… the less you care about actually making money, the more money you make!

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Forex trading takes place directly between the two counterparts necessary to make a transaction, whether over the telephone or on electronic brokerage networks all over the world. This is a trade that includes simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another one. There are two reasons to buy and sell currencies. About 5% of daily turnover is from companies, and governments that buy or sell products and services in a foreign country must convert profits made in foreign currencies into their domestic currency. The other 95% is trading for profit, or speculation. The currency combination used in the trade is called a cross (for example, the Euro/US Dollar, or the GB Pound/Japanese Yen.).

The market is called the spot market because trades are settled immediately, or “on the spot”. One of the major benefits of trading forex is the opportunity to trade 24 hours a day from Sunday evening (20:00 GMT) to Friday evening (22:00 GMT). Unlike stock trading, currency trading on the Forex market is not cut short at the “close” of each day’s trading. The benefit of Forex being a 24 hour a day market is that there are little or no gaps in the market, meaning there is no chance that prices will close one day and reopen the next day. The fact that forex is often traded without commissions makes it very attractive as an investment opportunity for investors who want to deal on a frequent basis.

Since the market is always moving, there are always trading opportunities, whether a currency is strengthening or weakening in relation to another currency. When you trade currencies, they literally work against each other. Different currencies pay different interest rates. The interest rate differential doesn’t usually affect trade considerations unless you plan on holding a position with a large differential for a long period of time. This is one of the main driving forces behind foreign exchange trends. You can have both a positive and a negative interest rate differential, so it may work for or against you when you make a trade. It is inherently attractive to be a buyer of a currency that pays a high interest rate while being short a currency that has a low interest rate. Fortunately, there are no daily limits on foreign exchange trading and no restrictions on trading hours other than the weekend. This means that there will nearly always be an opportunity to react to moves in the main currency markets and a low risk of getting caught without the opportunity of getting out.

A forex trading method with a high winning percentage is rewarding psychologically, keeps your morale high and is enjoyable to trade. A string of profits will build your confidence. Losses have to be kept small and wins should be larger than losses. You can make big money working only a few hours a day or week on your computer. You can trade from anywhere in the world where there is an internet connection.

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With the forex market being fairly complex in nature and with success in the market requiring education of the basics, it could be quite a drag on the individual who is looking to take on this opportunity. A managed trading account allows the traders funds to be monitored on someone who is a professional in the field of trading the market.

There are several types of managed trading accounts. One type is accounts that are controlled by computer programmed robots. A trader using this type of managed account has no human interaction with trading the market. This has advantages as taking away the emotional trading that could come into play when making discretionary trades. These automated systems are programmed by professional individuals and usually sold to investors looking to have their accounts managed. It runs completely off of technical signals that the professional programs into the system. This makes trading the forex market really simple.

Another type of managed forex trading account is where an investor lets a professional control their account. Every execution decision is made by a professional which basis his decisions on his expertise of the markets. The funds in the account remain the same as if the investor is trading the account themselves and can withdrawal their funds at any time. A managed forex trading account is not like mutual funds where you are pooling one investors money with a number of other investors funds to get profitable results. They are created to solely benefit the direct investor. This simplifies forex trading for the investor even further.

If you are trader looking to trade the forex yourself, then you must understand that you will have to educate yourself and follow the rules to successfully trading the market. Getting pointers or advice from professionals is usually highly recommended. Demo trading is a critical step into the learning curve of trading. Investing in a demo account allows you to invest in the markets with play money. This way you can learn to trade the market without risking you own real capital. This makes trading a little more difficult as compared to someone else managing the account for you.

With every investment there comes a risk. Forex trading can be risky if you do not know what you are doing. A managed forex trading account can place your funds in the hands of professionals with proven records of success in the forex market.

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Most foreign exchange brokers offer their clients software packages free of charge or as a part of the trading accounts they have signed up for. Generally, the software applications that come bundled with a trading account provides the bare minimum; the other features may be made available for a certain price.

Software packages offered by brokers should be considered as an important aspect when choosing a broker. Before deciding on a specific broker, try downloading the software or sign up for different packages using demo accounts. These will provide you a better look into the software package.

In general, there are two types of forex trading software available today. The first of these types of software is known as the service side software or the web-based software. As indicated by the name, this type of software application is a version of the software program available online, accessible via web browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. This software application works by having traders log into their account with the use of a user id and password. Once logged in, traders are then connected to the trading platform where they can perform operations associated with their respective accounts.

The other type of forex trading software is the client side or client-based software. You will need to download this application and install it onto your computer. Both types of forex trading software are very popular among traders as both allow forex traders to conduct transactions at any time of day from anywhere in the world.

There are several benefits and advantages to the use of forex trading software. Aside from providing traders the ability to conduct business and perform transactions, forex trading software applications offers traders access and information on the relationships of currencies and trading. These software tools also provide real time access to forex quotes and other vital information necessary to conduct trading successfully. Forex trading software also provides access to data on the historical behavior of currency rates. Charting mechanisms are also provided to help traders gain marginal profit.

You may be a bit apprehensive to use forex trading software due to some concerns about security. Forex Trading software are generally secure applications and you are assured of being protected; however, if you still have doubts about the levels of security, you can take some measures to protect yourself and your investment. Use passwords to protect your trading software as well as your personal data, back up your data on a regular basis, use anti virus programs that are up to date, and update your software regularly.

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The Forex market with its higher volume of transactions done on a daily basis, provides exciting opportunities to the investors. But it equally carries inherent risk of potential loss. One should learn forex trading well before actually venturing into it. The basic principle in the Forex market is that it deals with two currencies of different countries. One currency is bought against the selling of another currency. A single transaction in Forex is represented by means of two currencies as for example EURO/USD. In this notation it meant that Euro is bought against the sale of USD.

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