You want to know the real secret to day trading forex currency? Well, here it is: Confidence and understanding of the market. There you go. There's your real holy grail. If you can accomplish these two feats then you can write your own paycheck. Happy? Ok, so you probably need a little more information. Fine. Here it is:
Confidence! I cannot begin to tell you how many forex traders in the world are having anxiety attacks watching their trades just as I am typing. If you can't handle a trade or trading or in general, then don't do it. You'll never have success day trading forex currency if you are watching every pip move like it's life or death. Emotions can destroy a trader. A trader's fear can cause him/her to hold a trade even though the obvious trend is going against them. It could also have the adverse effect in which a trader closes a trade WAY too early because he's afraid to hold it, even though all the signs are pointing in the right direction.
I could give you the greatest trading system in the world, but it won't do you much good if you don't have any confidence in trading it.
The understanding of the market goes hand in hand with the confidence. When I say understand, I mean just that: Understand what you are looking at. Don't be like everybody else who has to use indicators to tell them what the market is doing. Does anybody understand what these indicators even mean? Can you honestly tell me what using an MACD Divergence does? It's colorful and its pretty on a chart, but what does that have to do with the tea in China? Take the time to understand the underlying causes of price and market movement.
Take off the indicators on your charts and see if you notice some repeated patterns. If you can start to see them then you can be ahead of the other 95% of forex traders who end up losing money on the markets. After all how can you have confidence day trading forex currency if you have no idea what you are looking at.
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