Business

October 30, 2008

Misconceptions of Forex Trading

by Joel Gardner

Of late, we have been reading people talk about how profitable forex trading is. This had prompted many people to venture into forex trading with no knowledge of anything but this misconception. The fallacy of forex profitability had resulted in many forex traders to hold back and for some quit all together due to frustrations.

Thus, before you venture into forex trading, here are a few things that you should know about.

The forex market is dissimilar from the stock market

There are many who thinks that by virtue of its similarity to the stock market, they are both the same. It goes to follows that the skills sets from the stock market is adequate to get one started trading on the forex market. This situation is like comparing shoe making skills with sock knitting skills. So just remember that the two markets are different and they both call for different skills sets.

You can trade whenever you want

The forex market maybe open 24 hours in principle as it is a global market. However if you wish to make profits, you will need the currencies pairs to have price fluctuations. And fore there to have price fluctuations, you need trading activities. But there is no trading activities if everyone is asleep. Therefore the window of trading opportunities is in fact much more narrower than what most people think. It is ultimately dependent on which currency pair that you are trading in.

Trading on the Forex has no commission payable.

In respect of commissions in the forex markets, there is indeed no commissions payable. However most people neglect to mention that there is the spread. The principle of the spread works the same way as the commission based system. The more you trade, the more you will pay in terms of spread.

Profitability is only achieved through predicting the forex market movements

If you think about it, this one’s pretty ridiculous. No one can predict the future no matter how long they analyze the charts. Attempts to predict what will happen with a particular currency pair are really nothing more than educated guesses-some better educated than others. Trying to always be one step ahead of the market will not only exhaust you, it won’t make you much money, either. What you need to do instead is “go with the flow” and learn to react appropriately to chances in the market. This skill only comes with experience.

Complex strategies are the way to go

The human mind is sometimes very hard to understand. People always assume that the more complex a trading strategy is the better it is. The reasoning behind this is that it must had become complex because its covers every contingencies. This is not necessarily true as sometimes complex strategies represent just a diversion from a simple solution which can accomplished the same thing.

All these misconceptions occurs because of misleading advertisements. These advertisements lead to people making the wrong conclusion about Forex trading. So before you starts to trade in forex, learn the truth about the forex market if you wish to profit from your trading.

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