Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Forex Money Management

Arrange 2 greenhorn traders before the screen, furnish them with your top high-probability set-up, and for adept measure, let each one take on the opposite face of the trade. Most likely, both will end up turning a loss profit. Yet, whenever you get 2 professionals and let them trade the opposite way from one another, rather often both traders will end up gaining revenue - despite the apparent contradiction of the premise. What's the deviation? What are the most significant factors separating the veteran traders from the amateurs? The response is revenue management.

Much like dieting and figuring out, revenue management is something that more traders give lip service to, but fewer apply in actual life. The rationality is simple: just like eating wholesome and remaining fit, money management can appear like a taxing, awful activity. It pressures traders to perpetually monitor their holdings and to conduct requisite losses, and few folks like to do that. All the same, loss-taking is critical to long-term trading success.