Money Management for Profit in Currency Trading

Posted by LocalGov on July 29, 2010

What will we need from a currency trading tutorial and other forex courses? Just like with the drivers, knowing how to operate the system is only a small part of our training. Risk management is what is most likely to preclude us from finishing up in the ditch.

Let us take an example. Say you have a system that makes a median of 50 pips profit on winning trades and 30 pips loss on losing trades, including the spread. Around half of its trades are winners. It’s clear that this is a good system. It should make profits in the long run. But if you start out thinking you have a 50% chance of success so you can risk 50% of your funds on each trade, you’d be making a big mistake. 50% winners does not mean that every loss will be followed by a win and vice versa. There may be 2, 3, 4, perhaps on occasion even ten losses in a row. Or you may have five losses followed by a win followed by another 5 losses. A better risk in this situation would be five percent or even two percent. Cash management is something that needs to be learned by any newb trader. You can see from this draft why it’s critical to take a fx trading tutorial of some sort before you start trading.

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