How much can you make Forex Trading and how much do you risk?
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
, Posted by Ryanita at 11:59 AM
kasparov
how well the known systems work in Forex trading (carry trade,...) and how much do you risk applying them, and for how long?
Answer
Traditional trading of stocks on margin at 2:1 leverage is considered risky. Forex is leveraged at 100:1 and even 200:1 but few people take the time to understand this and simply focus on potential profits. All beginners focus on all the wrong things like "How much can you make?"
How much do you risk? Beginners risk their entire account and their house every time they put on a trade. How long? minutes. A leveraged position is almost impossible to hold more than an hour by anyone less than an astute trader. Most people don't have a clue what a trader is or does, but it takes many years to become an astute trader. There are no shortcuts. Most people think that if they work harder and learn more, they will eventually become successful at trading like they would any other conventional "job"; not true. Most very smart, hard-working people lose money trading.
Factoid: 90% of traders lose money, regardless of what they trade.
The carry trade is generally done only by institutions with millions of dollars to invest and need a place to park those millions.
Known systems? You mean that make money consistently? Myth.
Traditional trading of stocks on margin at 2:1 leverage is considered risky. Forex is leveraged at 100:1 and even 200:1 but few people take the time to understand this and simply focus on potential profits. All beginners focus on all the wrong things like "How much can you make?"
How much do you risk? Beginners risk their entire account and their house every time they put on a trade. How long? minutes. A leveraged position is almost impossible to hold more than an hour by anyone less than an astute trader. Most people don't have a clue what a trader is or does, but it takes many years to become an astute trader. There are no shortcuts. Most people think that if they work harder and learn more, they will eventually become successful at trading like they would any other conventional "job"; not true. Most very smart, hard-working people lose money trading.
Factoid: 90% of traders lose money, regardless of what they trade.
The carry trade is generally done only by institutions with millions of dollars to invest and need a place to park those millions.
Known systems? You mean that make money consistently? Myth.
What should I trade out of stocks or forex that would be easiest to trade and make the most money out of?
William M
I am going to be 18 in 26 days and I want to become a millionaire quickly by trading either stocks or forex. I want to know in your opinion which of them would make the best vehicle to trade to make the easiest, quickest path to wealth? Also, when I say easy, I don't mean that it would be easy to do, but easy in terms of currencies and stocks to choose from and the least complicated to research out of the two. Good, reasonable answers would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Answer
Both Stocks, options, or trading forex are not generally easy to learn right off the bat. It depends on
A. How much money you have to work with if you are trading stocks or options you should have at least $3,000 to $5,000 to start with. You want to use all you money to begin trading, in case you lose you want to have enough to keep going. With forex you can start out with less because you can leverage your account trading with a mini or micro account -- You can start out with $1000 some brokers let you start with $500.
B. You need to get educated about stocks and reading charts either way. Personally I spent thousands to learn how to read charts, manage money, how to set your stop loses, control my emotions while trading(VERY important), etc etc. Remember only about 3% or traders out there actually make money on a consistent basis. Thatâs because they under stand technical analysis, and fundamental analysis.
The pro's are just taking money from the people that don't get a good education.
The good part is once you learn this you know this and do it for a long time.
One way you can start learning is by paper trading to learn different strategies before you start the real thing. The down side is real trading is still a lot different from paper trading. I still do this if I am trying a new strategy.
One shortcut using Forex is to subscribe to a call service or forex signals. They will look at the markets and find a high probability trade and they will tell you where to enter a trade and where to take profit, and where to set your stop loss.
One service I found offers a 2-week free trial, to the service- you can paper trade it to see how it works. I think itâs the only one that has a free trial. He also shows how he made the trade so you can learn how to do this on your own.
Good luck!
Both Stocks, options, or trading forex are not generally easy to learn right off the bat. It depends on
A. How much money you have to work with if you are trading stocks or options you should have at least $3,000 to $5,000 to start with. You want to use all you money to begin trading, in case you lose you want to have enough to keep going. With forex you can start out with less because you can leverage your account trading with a mini or micro account -- You can start out with $1000 some brokers let you start with $500.
B. You need to get educated about stocks and reading charts either way. Personally I spent thousands to learn how to read charts, manage money, how to set your stop loses, control my emotions while trading(VERY important), etc etc. Remember only about 3% or traders out there actually make money on a consistent basis. Thatâs because they under stand technical analysis, and fundamental analysis.
The pro's are just taking money from the people that don't get a good education.
The good part is once you learn this you know this and do it for a long time.
One way you can start learning is by paper trading to learn different strategies before you start the real thing. The down side is real trading is still a lot different from paper trading. I still do this if I am trying a new strategy.
One shortcut using Forex is to subscribe to a call service or forex signals. They will look at the markets and find a high probability trade and they will tell you where to enter a trade and where to take profit, and where to set your stop loss.
One service I found offers a 2-week free trial, to the service- you can paper trade it to see how it works. I think itâs the only one that has a free trial. He also shows how he made the trade so you can learn how to do this on your own.
Good luck!
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