Risk and Your Forex Trading Style
The most critical part of any type of investing, is understanding your personal risk tolerance. Without a good understanding of this, the chances of you loosing everything are very high. Every Forex trading strategy carries its own risk parameters and these your choice will be defined by your risk tolerance. Then there is your personal approach to trading, conservative, moderate, and aggressive.
At the beginning you may decide to trade a day chart. The pip movement over a day can be hundreds of pips, so when you protect your position you have to assess what your drawdown risks are. If your money management dictates a 3% funds exposure, you will get into problems on day charts unless your account is significant.
The 5M or 30M charts maybe more suitable since the pip variation tends to be smaller, so your stop strategies can fall within your management criteria.
Yes, we all want increase our wealth from out trades, but risking ones account to large stop positions and vast draw-downs is going to wipe out your account and trading career in the blink of an eye.
A practical risk level is 3% or $300 on a $10,000 account. Convert this to pips, 1 standard lot ($100,000) has a pip value of $10 so if you trade end of day and your stop loss placement, whether count-back or support and resistance or any other, determines a 100 pip stop position, then you are not risking 3% but 30%! Three adverse trades and your account has vanished!
An aggressive trader is open to taking riskier trades that a conservative trader. Their tendency is to expose larger amounts of money in riskier trades with the hope of achieving larger returns – often over longer trading time frames but they may still use the similar strategies for shorter times as well. Very much the ‘out in a blaze of glory’ trader.
So where do you place yourself? Are you a level headed trader with good money management and risk rates, or a trader that will take high risks for big pips? If you are the latter, you won’t be around for long, that’s a guarantee.
If any of this leaves you a bit uncertain, you need to understand what you are about to do with your hard earned funds, so commence your Forex training with Top Dog Trading, you will learn a huge amount and it will help you trade with safety to win pips not risk everything.
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