Common and Obvious mistakes while Trading
by SamIam on Nov.18, 2009, under Forex trading
There are so many people who trade in the same market conditions and statistically, only 5% of them are successful. Now, the need to ask arises as to why do this happen? The same information is available to the traders all over the world, then why is it that a staggering 95% of them end up losing money in the market? And virtually similar trading tools are available to all the traders, then either the success rate should be 100% or the failure rate should be 100%. If the failure rate would have been so, then the Forex Trading Market would have closed even before it would have opened! The only difference here is the trader.
Ever heard of the cliché that ‘attitude is everything’? If one gets a chance to see a successful trader at work, then one would almost immediately observe that his attitude toward the trading activity is very positive and he treats it with high importance. He does not trade with the objective of making quick money in mind. If the investor has the objective of turning his fortune around within a day or two, then he is bound to lose whatever he has then. The investor has to be patient as the market generates money over some time. He also simply cannot expect some thing that is foolish from the markets. The investor has to chalk out a trading strategy to follow when in the market. Occasionally changing the same should be done to adjust to the changing market movement patterns and conditions. The technical term for the market patterns is Market Trends.
The liquid nature of the Forex Trading Market makes it very difficult to predict the next move the market might just make. So, taking risks in inevitable in the market and also in life altogether. It does not mean that one should put his life in peril in this case, money. But not taking risks is also considered to be taking a bigger risk. The risks taken should be calculated. Taking uncalculated risks mostly results in the investor getting caught unaware, if the trade goes awry.
The most common mistakes are observed in picking up the trade and the timing of the pick-up. The investor might just tend to pick up those trade deals that have lesser value, but ample time to expire. Remember that the Forex Trading Market is extremely volatile and unpredictable. The second thing where errors should not occur is that the trade picked up should be nearing its expiry date. This gives the investor an upper hand to getting the trade right. The upper hand is because the market is generally not expected to change from a mountain peak to its deep valley within a very short timeframe.