Forex trading is a business and as a business, you can only succeed if you prepare yourself for it. Here are things that you can do to really make money in forex trading:
1. Get the right mindset.
This is the first and most important thing before anything else. You should know and understand that forex trading is not a business that can make you rich overnight or over a month or even a year. Forex trading is a business, a tough one and as with any other business, you will experience down times during the course of time. So if you are not patient enough to endure the difficult time you better stay out of this market. You must also have the correct attitude. Why? The reason is you will have to adjust yourself to the market and not the other way around. In forex trading, you can only make money when there is an opportunity to make money and you certainly can’t make money out of anything in this market. So, contrary to what most people say, this business is not a flexible business at all because you are not the one who can set your own schedule to do this business as in internet marketing. Yet, forex trading can be called a flexible business because while you are waiting for the opportunity that the market will give, you can do other things. The last but not the least is you should not leave your job for forex trading. If you are just starting out in forex trading it is far better to trade forex part-time. Forex trading has the potential to make you big money but it will not happen immediately. It will take some time before you can make a profit that can sustain your living so don’t quit your job yet. Some people still don’t leave their day job even though they make more money from trading than from their day job. The beauty of forex is it does not require you to quit your job.
2. Find yourself a mentor.
Do yourself a favor by not running around to forums or websites to look for a trading method or holy grail. Common sense is something so valuable will always have a price on it. Nothing is absolutely free. A great trading method might be available for you for free in some forum but you will not find the full explanation from A to Z about it over there. Moreover, even if you get the information for free you will not find a full guide on how to trade using it. Also, you will lose energy, effort, money and time if you go from one forum to another. Do you want to know why? It’s because you will have to try the trading methods one by one which will take time, effort and energy and also money (if you do use those trading methods one by one in your real account). Money can be replaced by time is something not even a trillion dollar can buy back. As you can see, the loss is far greater than the benefit.
3. Be disciplined.
Discipline is needed if you want to run a profitable business, any kind of business not just forex. People usually lose money because they are not disciplined enough to follow through a program or trading plan. For some people, discipline is not an issue but the same cannot be said for all people. It is important to follow the trading plan/trading method with strict discipline unless told otherwise. It takes time to build a successful business and you will not be able to achieve this without a strong discipline.