Contrary to popular belief, trading using the Forex Made Easy method is very easy. Before I try to deconstruct this whole Forex business (and you know it is a business, don’t you?), I want to share some simple but critical Forex Made Easy bits of wisdom. I will refer back to this occasionally. They’re important not just as you learn to trade the Forex markets, but because they are quality principles to live by.
If you’ve been around any length of time, you’ve heard or read how the basketfuls of money we can make from Forex Trading (or FX Trading), so what are the tips and rules and strategies we can incorporate to make money from 4X Trading? Below are the seven Forex Made Easy Tips that the staff and management of Forex Made Easy (me) came up with to help make you money in this crazy but rewarding field of 4X Trading.
Tip #1: Don’t get greedy.
This is surprisingly simple. When you’re riding on a longish winning streak, it’s easy to think that you won’t be able to lose, but that’s a dangerous kind of thinking. Trading is easy, but you can quickly lose your pants, shirt, shoes, socks, and your growing bank account. Greed can consume your entire being and deplete your trading account faster than you can say “Where’d it all go?” Greed can hurt you rapidly.
Tidbit #2: Learn All You Can.
You don’t have to be a market genius to make money in Forex. The Forex Made Easy blog is here to help you with that. Anyone can learn how to trade and anyone can make money. You don’t need to spend long getting educated either, but having experience trading will be invaluable to you. Make sure you have a trading rules and a trading plan.
Forex Made Easy Tip #3: The Best Proven Systems are Simple
This tidbit is the most difficult to overcome because we like tools and programs and systems and indicators and gadgets. Use the KISS method: Keep it Simple Stupid. It still works (not only here but in many areas of life). Keep your “system” simple: use few indicators, and support and resistance. Don’t get complicated. Simple trading “systems” are far more robust and full proof than complicated ones. If you aren’t able to explain in a few sentences to an onlooker what your indicators are doing for you, then there’s too much on your screen.
Tidbit #4: Make Sure You Have Risk and Money Management Rules.
This Forex Made Easy tip is boring. Success in this business is built on risk management and money. Not risking more than 10% of your account on any one trade will take you far. No more than five percent is even better.
Forex Made Easy Tip #5: Discipline- Set the Rules and Stick to THEM
No matter how good of a trader you think you are (and you’re probably not all that…sorry), you will pile up losses. Even after you search this Forex Made Easy site for nuggets of insight and wisdom, you will still need disciple. So, let me repeat that, you will have losses; you will lose occasionally. But you need to have discipline to ride out the losses and come back. Know YOUR rules. Stick to them. Keep your emotions in check when trading. Leave nothing up to your emotions. Write your instructions down and follow them. I can’t emphasize this point enough, because if you don’t follow what you created when there was no pressure at all, then you probably will lose money.
Tidbit #6: Have A Blast.
Forex Trading can be challenging and rewarding. It can also be very exciting. Don’t take your losses or your gains so seriously. Don’t spend all day on the computer monitoring the markets. Relax. Get outside. Spend time with your family. The markets will be there tomorrow.
Tidbit #7: Paper Trade First Until You “Make Some Money”
Practice Practice Practice. There are software programs out there (and some that we at Forex Made Easy will recommend) to help you so that you won’t lose money quickly. You can test strategies, theories, and win a million dollars – all with no money changing hands! You need to do this.
We believe that anybody with even a little bit of courage and education can make money trading Forex. The effort you put in will be well rewarded. So don’t forget this rule: simplicity is best; stick with the plan you created for your own style. Simple, steady, and well-executed strategies will earn you a significant amount of money in the FX markets.
