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12. The First Step In Your Trading Journey

Introduction

Trading the forex market involves high risk. As per statistics, 95% of the traders fail in this domain. Hence, having expertise and experience in trading is very necessary for staying away from the 95%. And in this course, we’re here to guide you on how to be a successful trader. So let’s discuss what your first step should be in your trading journey.

Demo Trading

As mentioned, forex is a very risky business. One must never enter the live market during their initially early stages. So, brokers help the novice traders by providing a facility to demo trade. With a demo trading account, one can place live trades in the market just like a real trading account. In this account, you get virtual cash to place trades on the live charts. Moreover, in this platform, you get all the features and tools that are available on a real trading platform. And the best part is that this platform is provided by brokers for free of cost.

Advantage of Demo Trading

Helps test your strategies and techniques

There is no strategy that will work with 100% certainty. So, testing a new strategy on the real account can cause damage to your account balance. But, with a demo account, you can test your strategies without any risk.

Gives you a hands-on experience on placing orders

In forex, there are different types of orders. With a demo account, one can test the working of all these orders without the fear of losing money.

Helps concentrate on analysis rather than emotions

Emotions play a major role when it comes to trading. Emotions in trading can lead to huge losses as it takes over the actual analysis. One can reduce emotions entering into them while trading, only when they start gaining experience. Hence, trading in a demo account can help you focus on your analysis rather than emotions taking over.

How to create a trading plan

Well, having experience in demo trading is insufficient to start trading the live markets. A systematic plan for trading plays a vital role, as well. Below is an example of how you can create a perfect plan for yourself.

Choose your time zone: Though the forex market is a 24 hours market, it is not ideal to trade anytime in the day. Hence, you must choose those zones which bring in great liquidity and volatility in the market.

Fix your timeframe: You must be firm on one set of timeframes because switching over timeframes is a clumsy way of trading.

Choose the right currency pairs: There are about 28 majorly traded currencies. Keeping track of all these is a challenging task. So, you must select only a few currencies and analyze them deeply.

Have one fixed strategy: Novice traders look for new strategies every trading day. But, this is completely the wrong way to trade as it becomes more like gambling than real trading. So, you must have one standard strategy in which you can keep optimizing with experience.

Maintain a trading journal: This can be the most vital plan in your trading plan. However, many take this for granted. With a journal, one can keep track of their past transactions and get a statement on the number of loss & win trades. It will give you a clear picture of your consistency. This can help you improve your trading by learning from past mistakes.

By following these steps, you can be sure that you are up to a great start on your trading journey. Take the below quiz to check your learnings.

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