There seem to be a lot of people out there who have decided that their mission in life is to make trading (whether stock or currency) look way harder than it really is. Well if you must know, it's really not as complicated as they want to make you believe, and you success really hinges on two key factors.
1) You need a strategy that allows you to identify the trades with consistent money making potential
2) You need to take emotions out of the picture
Winning Strategy. When it comes to the first point, it all boils down to research. Don't think that a "turnkey" system is going to fall in your lap, or that someone will come up with it and sell it to you. Think about it, if you had found a surefire way to make money trading, would you sell it to someone else and create more competition for yourself?
So you're going to be reading stock reports, stock charts, and also do something that most people underestimate: follow what's happening. Sometimes you can spot major earners just by listening to developments in various markets. Once you learn of something that can impact the market, then you take a look at the companies in that market to see which ones can be bought at a price that leaves plenty of room for growth.
If you're trading currencies, keep an eye out for Central Bank decisions that impact monetary policy. In general, look for information that impact the price of the currency, so you can correctly anticipate what direction it's going to take.
Emotions. Everyone can put together a winning strategy and follow it in a bull market. After all, prices in general are rising so it's easy. The test of who's in it to win it happens in bear markets. That's when you can easily deviate from a sound strategy, mostly because of fear.
Taking fear out of the equation goes hand in hand with the most basic investment principle, which dictates that you should never invest money that you can't afford to lose. Once you start trading with money that should go towards rent, food, or funding a college savings account, then you're really not in the right mindset. The risk is actually doubled because if you do lose that money, then you're gonna look for even riskier investments to recoup your money.
That brings us right into the second emotion you should do away with: greed. If you let greed seep into your investment decisions, you will lose a lot of money. You will go for very risky investments because you will be attracted by the high return, but more often than not, they won't pan out. And you will constantly deviate from your strategy because you're always going after that extra dollar.
Trading is really simple when you have a clear cut strategy, and the discipline to stick to it. Simple doesn't necessarily mean easy, though, and you'll still have to put in the work before you master it and start making good money with it.
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