November 26th, 2008

4 of 10: NO-RISK Control

Written by Kirk | 2 Comments

Topics: Demo Trading Series, Emotions, The Disciplined Forex Trader

Awareness # 3- NO-RISK Control

Examples of no risk control are: jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet without a parachute, going scuba diving without air in your tanks, or going bungee jumping with out a bungee cord.  Trading with out any risk control will have the same disastrous out come.  To have a positive out come a trader needs, at least, a stop loss, proper lot allocation, good money management, and a good exit strategy.  Anything less is just plain trading suicide.

It is very tempting when trading a demo account to over trade the account.  Let’s go for broke, or it’s only a demo or we haven’t got anything to lose attitude.  This is where bad habits are formed and they do carry over to the live trading.  A trader can get carried away and be in a situation like driving a car without brakes or up a creek without a paddle, not having any control but just going where the momentum takes them.

If a trader is serious about trading then risk control is a must.  Risk control falls in the category as one of the basics to successful trading.  If a trader is controlling risk they are taking charge of their trading and not waiting to see what happens.


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2 Responses to “4 of 10: NO-RISK Control”

  1. Forextrading on December 2nd, 2008 5:11 am

    you have nicely explained what to do and what not to do while doing forex trading business. Thanks.

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