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Behavior of the Top Forex Traders

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Trading the forex market is a job. It may not be a job in a sense of getting stuck in traffic and drinking coffee in under two minutes, but anyone who wants to profit from trading the currency market must treat it as a job. As a result, some forex traders are extremely successful, getting bigger and bigger “paychecks” every month, while others try to extract something out of their savings money. There are some special characteristics that make the top forex traders differ from the rest.

First, the top forex brokers know how to follow a system. Many beginner traders think the system is useless, so they ignore it and trade by their feelings. There is nothing worse than trading like that, at random. Currency trading systems are developed by people with many years of experience, and if the experts trade with them and make money, then everyone can. All a beginner has to do is follow simple orders, like buy and sell.

Top traders know where and when to place a stop loss order. Those orders cut losses of a trade at a specific exchange rate. This is a protection used by all great forex traders who know how much they are willing to risk in a given trade, but nothing more than that. People who do not use it usually get hit with very bad exchange rates and lose thousands in minutes.

Also, top forex traders are never tempted to end a position against the system’s orders, even if it is on a big loss. The best traders know that even if a position starts at a loss, it is limited by their stop loss order which will terminate the trade if it does not go well. Beginner traders often close a position when it loses and miss the big rally that comes afterwards. The top traders are the best because they can stand even hard situations.

In order to become a top trader, forex traders must practice discipline and forex knowledge. Ignoring a system and working without a stop loss order are two bad habits that explain the big failure rate - over 90% of traders fail within three months for their bad habits.

You can start becoming a top trader right now. All you need is to get yourself the best forex broker out there. In order to succeed, you also need the best forex trading system. With both of these, you are set for success.

About the author:

Nadav Snir is a stock market trader and forex trader. You can find more information about forex trading and forex brokers at his site at http://Great-Info-Products.com/Forex/index.html.

What Type Of Forex Trader Are You?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Are you an experienced or a novice trader?

How are you doing so far? Are you doing great? If so, that is freaking cool!

You happen to be one of the five percent of the currency traders that make it. You happen to have your stuff together and now make a decent living. You probably either do a daily scalp trading effort, where you wake up early in the morning, and trade the open intraday markets of Europe, england, and the US.

You profit off of the depressing decline of the dollar, and constantly hear the bickering of how your friend’s paychecks at their jobs are getting smaller.

OK!

Maybe you happen to be a long term position trader. You take a longer term bet, where instead of the previously mentioned scalp trader, you cast your bets on a currency pair that may have a movement in the longer term. You may either use more lots or less lots per position. You have decided that your days are better being spent driving your Mercedes-Benz, or Lexus to the Country Club, talking to real estate gurus twice your age, making fun of their horrible chip shots while eating some great club cuisine.

ALRIGHT FINE!

You are neither of the two previously mentioned, and maybe the other 95% which haven’t fared so well in their currency trading adventures. You probably have lost your shirt at least once, and you have either given up, or you are looking to keep your chin up and keep trying. You probably have another work-at-home income stream, or maybe working for another scumbag, making his egotistical self richer.

Believe it or not, there is one thing in common for the three of you… And that is all three of you are forex traders!

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3 Easy Ways to Earn Money

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

One day, not long ago, I was looking back on my experiences in the last 5 years and I came to an astonishing conclusion. I worked in a day job for most of my life and the long hours and small hourly rate helped me keep food on the table and keep a dry roof over my families head, however I clung to that fake security for many many years for absolutely no benefit at all. Looking back, I was washed around by the whims of the business owners who I worked for like I was in a turbulent sea.

I worked hard for these companies that owned my efforts for 8 to 10 hours a day 6 days a week. I knew even back then, that my efforts were paid at a fixed hourly rate that gave me a blanket of security, knowing that pay check would be there each and every week. I knew deep down that my efforts and skill was paying them triple or quadruple what I was getting but getting that steady pay check was always somehow a much more valuable proposition to me.

When I pushed my little boat from the shore (for the 5th time mind you, I had tried several business attempts before things started to work for me) I realized this time I would make it work and the following 3 points outline why this final attempt actually did work. Owning your own business truly is the best way to make easy money, because you are not being used by somebody else as leverage. You get direct access to the source of the business, the customer. Corporate money is a different world from hourly paycheck money. The ordinary individual would even feel guilt and consider they are being dishonest for getting so much money for such little time and effort. The average person has no real idea how real money is made because they pin the money they earn to an hourly rate. They cannot distinguish the difference between hourly money and solution money.

Solution money.

In the corporate world, a company that has a need will pay high funds (high funds is another way of saying “pay through the nose”) to get a problem fixed. It is all about the numbers. If you have high funds and you encounter a problem that you cannot resolve that stops you from earning gigantic funds, you are not going to quibble about a few hundred thousand dollars in an afternoon. Solution money is a world apart from hourly money. Solution money has nothing to do with time spent or effort exerted. Solution money is about fixing a problem that you currently have and if you find someone that can fix it for you in 10 minutes, then you will pay. That is how solution money works in the corporate world and that is why your hourly rate is nothing to a corporation earning solution money from employing your efforts.

To make easy money, like just about every single successful corporation on the globe does, all you require is to find problems that wealthy people have and solve them. That is it! Whether it takes you 3 minutes to solve or 10 days does not really make a difference to the asking price you request. Solution money is not time Dependant, but it is value Dependant. So if your solution does the job, it matters little how little time or effort you expended.

Getting away from the hourly pay mindset was the first step to my awakening. You may be wondering how little old you can get access to large paying corporations that have problems but really, that is not the question. The question is what do you have to offer and begin your search in that arena. Remember.,..David kicked Goliaths butt with a sling shot.

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Are You Aware of the Rules That Have Changed Our Money Management?

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

We receive little if no information from our public school education about managing money. Even if we have, most of us are not aware of the public policy changes that have been made that influence our current money management.The most recent change dates back to President Nixon, who in 1971. took us off of the gold standard. It has to be one of the biggest monetary changes that has occurred in world history. Many people alive today are not aware of the large impact that this move has made on our current world economy. After this move, the dollar was no longer money, but became currency.

What is the difference between money and currency?Currency, in order to survive, has to keep moving. If it quits moving, it loses value and then the people stop accepting it. The result is that the dollar will approach a value of zero. Before this move to eliminate the gold standard, the United States was one of the richest nations in the world. Now after this move, the U.S. government is in debt.

Another change that occurred in 1974. That was the move from the defined benefit retirement plan and to the defined contribution plan. The defined benefit plan guaranteed the retiree a paycheck for as long as he or she lived. This proved to be too expensive. The defined contribution retirement plan depends on how much you and your employer contribute. This contributes to one of the greatest fears of the current retirees. That is whether they will run out of money before their demise. Typical defined contribution plans include IRAs,Keoghs, 401[k]s.etc.

There are many of us who want to rely on the government to solve their financial problems. But how can they rely on an entity that is in debt and cannot solve its own financial problems. Thus, it is important to educate yourself as to how to actively solve your financial problems. Unfortunately, the poor and middle class tend to avoid or pretend that they don’t have financial problems. After all if the government is in debt, why isn’t okay for them to be in debt.

The trap to avoid is the scenario that begins with the ease of overspending your available budget. Because credit cards are so easy to use and can delay the responsibility of payment, one unpaid credit balance can lead to another unpaid credit balance. And then one has to take out a mortgage on his house to try to get out of debt. This is a vicious circle and one to best avoid in the first place.

The important lesson from all of this information is to learn to stay within your budget. Then at the end of the month you might have some money left over to invest for the future and retirement. You will find that you will begin to learn how to solve money problems rather than to be a victim of poor money management.

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Disadvantages of Day Trading

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

While day trading offers a lucrative opportunity, it still has some inherent disadvantages that are hard to get over for many people. Here are some of them:

Loss of money

The trade is very lucrative but is also very dangerous. Many traders walk out at the end of the day with a depleted account which would not even pass as a paycheck. Depending on the decisions one makes during trading, a person could lose several hundreds to thousands of dollars

Improper money management

Because this trade revolves around money, and the money invested here could be lost at any time of the day, a trader then faces the risk of spending the money he could not afford to lose. He might find the need to borrow money from lenders or use his money intended for bills as funds for trading.

Demanding Job

Day trading is not a laid-back type of job. You have to dedicate a certain time of your day to it with full focus depending on the income you want to achieve. Also, it is a highly stressful job which demands you always make make-or-break decisions while being time pressured. For people who find it hard to focus for lengthy period, they may find this trade a bit frustrating especially when very little is actually happening.

Huge stressors

Being a trader requires you to endure huge daily stressors, not only on the perspective of possible money losses, but also because the job will require you to give all your focus on what’s happening in the markets that could affect your trades. You will also have to constantly watch the fluctuations in the prices and the market plus the indicators that will help you decide where to put your next trade.

Overnight Gaps

Trading ends as the day closes so any market activities overnight won’t affect you in anyway- even if sometimes it could be advantageous on your part.

A moving market is not a guarantee

Sometimes, the market is so active but you’ll end up with a loss or a breakeven. This could be attributed to wrong decisions on what shares to buy or to sell or wrong timing in entering the trade.

Overtrading

Overtrading - is defined as either taking too many opportunities or trading too large shares - is very prevalent in day trading. Amateurs and emotional trades find it hard not to overtrade which puts them at a lot more risks than necessary.

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