Even though you may have the expertise in Forex Trading, that is not the only factor that determines your long term success as a Forex trader. You may have all the knowledge and the know-how on Forex trading strategies, efficient and faster platforms and risk management but without knowing how to manage your emotions, you cannot become successful in trading Forex. Remember that precious money is involved while trading and it can be easily lost. In this blog, we will discuss about the kind of emotions that a Forex Trader should avoid to achieve success.
Greed
Greed is definitely a huge obstacle while trading. It is understood that one may get huge returns from Forex but one has to be cautious no to be greedy and try to get huge returns on every trade. This may lead you to blow your account. Risking your whole balance on an account for a single trade speculating an enormous return is not the way to earn from Forex trading. Forex trading is undoubtedly not a ‘Get Rich Quick’ scheme. If you want to get rich, you have to do it slowly.
To overcome greed, one needs to accept the fact that not all trades end up being successful. With this in mind, you know that the market is bigger than you and mistakes are bound to happen. Follow your trading plans instead of falling into greed. Make sure you always risk a small percentage of your capital in every single trade, and follow through this plan to the point.
Impatience
Depending on the type of strategy you might adopt to trade Forex, it should tell you when and where to get into a trade (Price action trading). At least this is true for us and is what we train our traders at Fourthstreet Consultants. You may jump into an entry point prematurely and miss a better entry point that would have earned a profit but end up finding yourself taking a loss.
If your timing seems inadequate despite adopting patience, adjust your strategy so that you may be able to observe more indicators. This will allow you to grow your patience and save you from entering into trades prematurely. This in turn allows you to earn more profit in your trades and make your trading less frustrating. You can only learn these skills from professional traders who have been successful in their trading career, and is what Fourthstreet.co.ke offers its traders/students.
Fear
Fear in Forex trading is understandable. Experiencing fear is normal. This fear understandably results from the increased possibility of losing money while placing trades due to certain uncertainties in the Forex market. This can happen to every trader.
For example, you hold a position and the price starts dropping. You start getting nervous about losing money considering your last trade was quite unsuccessful. You decide that you cannot keep losing money despite your adopted strategy encouraging you to remain resilient and you decide to close early. The next thing that happens is that the price support comes into play and the price also rises. This shows that your fear was the detriment to your trade and it forces you take a loss.
To avoid this, you need to identify the source of your fear and understand how to deal with them to become a better Forex trader. That way you will have turned your fear to a source of improvement.
Over-confidence
Having a series of successful trades is really good but this can also lead to over-confidence. You may think that you can’t lose and that there are absolutely no errors in your methods or strategies. Confidence is indeed quite important to become a successful trader. However, this is not the case when you think you know everything about the market. Over-confident traders tend to get into trouble by trading larger positions than they are used to or even overtrading.
A successful trader needs to always evaluate their trades despite having a long run at gaining profits from Forex. You also need to implement your strategy and implement the right entry points. Needless to say, you also need to limit your losses despite having earned a lot from the previous trades. If you are not careful, you may end up losing all your gains from previous trades.
Conclusion
Mastering your trading psychology won’t make you money in itself, but if you are not aware of the tricks your own mind is trying to play on itself, you will probably find yourself losing even if you are a good trader and are basically right in your trading decisions.
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