Firstly, never succumb to the 'gamblers addiction' when you are trading online in Forex. This is the downfall of perhaps hundreds of people who go into the Forex market without any sense of money management. Do not take unnecessary risks because taking risks means you are not thinking. You are not thinking about market psychology, prospects, the global political economic climate, market movements, currency behaviour and trends all over the world. You need to think to take calculated risks and there is no such thing as hope in the Fx market. Hope is the arena of the weak and the foolish because it has connotations of not knowing what you are doing. When you are dealing with your money, your time and the fate of your future, you have to know exactly what you are doing.
Do not be afraid to pull out when things go sour and save what capital you have left for another day of investing. Take advantage of the wonderful liquidity of the Forex market, pull out when the signs are bad and weather the storm from a distance. This is especially true if you are new at this game and are not experienced enough to spot the safety signs and capitalise on a panicky market. Assess the situation and your own expertise and make the right moves, even if the move is for you wait out and see. Once you are able to learn the inherent patterns of the market and how the psychology of the big players will affect market movements, then you can plan ahead and make bigger risks. Speaking of risks, you also need to have some sort of risk capital at the ready.
Disaster might strike at any time, that is the reality of any commodities investments, and you need to be prepared. It is like going into the storm without a raincoat. Have some risk capital on the side, preferably 20 - 30% of what you are investing and make sure you have great money management skills to go along side it. With risk capital you are able to pump in money on safe currency pairings when your risky moves do not go as planned. Recouping your losses is quite impossible when you have no more money to do so and owing money to your broker is quite a bad position to be in.
The last thing you need to know (in this article, there are plenty of other factors that need to be weighed in) is that the market is affected by a great many things, and you need to keep your finger on the political and economic pulse of the world. Inflation, price movements, consumer trends, political upheavals - they all play a part in influencing currency movements and exchange rates, and this is the bread and butter of your investment strategies. The best FX traders constantly are in the know about political and economic situations, and they can often predict the movements and growth of certain currencies due to their global analysis. This is the person you have to be in order to succeed in Forex online trading.
