Forex currency trading is now available to pretty much anyone with a home computer or laptop. It is not easy to learn but can be a way to make a living from home. You can leverage your ‘steak’ and make many times your steak money with forex trading. You can also lose big too and forex trading requires huge self discipline to win consistently. For those who stick at it long enough for it to pay off the rewards are huge.

Forex currency trading can be done from home using one of the many  spread betting companies available online. You simply register with a company and place some money in your account. Usually you are given a demo account which is an invaluable tool to learn how to use the program and how to place spread bets or trades successfully. There are limits to demo accounts though and they cannot give you the same experience which trading with real money will. They can show you how to place your bets with a spread betting company and whether or not your trading plan is going to work.

Once you start trading with real money you will soon find it much more difficult than using the demo account. Begin with small amounts and increase it very slowly. Trading with real money affects you greatly because your decisions can easily be affected when you see money either on the table or if you see yourself in the red (i.e. loss on the table). It is easy for a novice trader to take an early profit and miss out on a greater win, or worse still extend their stop loss and open themselves to a  greater loss.

A ‘stop loss’ is a way to limit your losses by automatically closing your position should your losses run too high when the position goes against you. If you are in a trade and the position goes against you you close at a loss. Often when you are in this position, especially as a beginner, it can be tempting to move your stop in order to allow for a greater movement in the market in the hope that it will return and go in your direction. This can work against you and you can be stopped out with a larger loss that you had previously intended. For this reason it is necessary to stick to a strict trading plan so that you can plan for losses and factor them in to your money management.

Good money management in forex trading means only trading a small percentage of your total bank (around 2%) on each trade, and only taking trades with a good win to lose ratio (2:1 for example). This means you stand to win twice the amount you could lose on each trade and therefore even if you only win half your total trades you will be in profit.

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