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All about Forex Day Trading

by SamIam on Nov.12, 2009, under Forex trading

The forex brokers do love the day traders and these are the traders that the brokers simply wish to have more rather than any other kind of traders. The forex day traders are cautious of the brokers as they feel they select their stops off and hence they like them- however, the real reason is: The forex day traders do lose their money surely without any assistance from the broker.
Below given are the reasons why the brokers love them:
•    Day trading does not work by its very nature- it is an effort to execute a trade in a short period of time of few hours or a day. The short term instability is random and the rates can fluctuate in any direction. A number of day traders are traded and not a single one does succeed in making money, they all do just lose. The logic here is that forex day trading is based on total flaw. Try this simple test. Go to any vendor and ask him for a real time track record and observe if you can get any. You will never. Most of them are just simple writers or unsuccessful brokers. They make the track records, sell them and then deal with a broker for a kick back commission. The commission here is however good.
•    Best Commission- day trading offers great commission as compared to equity and one can get much. It is great for the brokers as well. A lot of trade taking place, the ongoing account equity to zero and commission is being paid every day. It is better than the trader coming in and blowing off his equity in a number of trades. The market makers are also happy with this because they want the day traders deposit lost. Here, they do execute their trade against the client and no need to worry it would be son seen in the bank. Moreover, the day traders never make any great profits. The risk of handling a day trader on your own as a forex broker is very low.
Do the forex brokers hunt stops? The answer here is No. day traders feel it however the actual reason is that they do set up their stops to close.

Resistance and support and meaningless in a day session and hence the stops are struck all the time. This is not the broker’s error. It is all the fault of the day trader as he is being foolish and places his stops in meaningless time spans wherever the instability is random.
And this is the reason, why are the day traders being loved by the forex brokers. They are easy to deal with and make money.

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Tips to reduce the day trading losses

by Trader345 on Sep.04, 2009, under Forex trading

One must never risk more than 2% of his or her float in forex trading. In fact a lot of day traders find even 2% as a high amount. As per them only 1% or half or a quarter of a percent should be risked in forex trade or any trade for that matter. This is done so that you are not impacted much in case you end up in loss.

Various traders don’t value this rule. It is a fact that by just altering the sum of capital you peril in the day trading you can change a system from recurring 10% to recurring 100% per annum. It is true that by giving a rise to the risk and putting in more in a trade, you are also likely to boost your possibility for reward. However, the probability of loss also tends to increase.

As mentioned above most experienced forex traders and brokers recommend that you must never surpass a 2% risk. This logic behind this 2% risk is simple but still it is sometimes difficult to understand this. Investing small amount in day trading is always beneficial.

Following is an example of this 2% rule.

If a trader has a day trading float of $20,000, by means of the 2% rule he would set highest loss to be $400 on any trade. Keeping in mind the highest or maximum loss, a trader can afford to have 50 losses in a row. Now in nearly all trading systems the possibility of getting 50 losses in a string is extremely low. The probability of going bankrupt is even lesser. This is because when you apply the 2% rule properly, the computation is based on the existing float size. This means originally $400 is the 2% of $20,000. Now if you lose in the first trade, the amount left would be $19600; then the calculation is done on the 2% of $ 19600 which would be $ 392. Therefore, every time there is a loss, value of the highest loss on the subsequent trade will automatically reduce. And if you gain profit then of course the risk involved would move up.

Managing the risk becomes very important in the day trading. Since the amount risked is very less therefore, the losses incurred can be recovered easily. However, if the amount risked is high then it becomes very difficult for a trader to recover his loses.

It is often seen that the novice traders often risk a greater amount of money. They are of the opinion that investing a greater amount of money would mean high amount of profit but they forget the fact that it also involves high levels of risk. A trader must use good money management rules in order to succeed.

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