One of the questions I’m often asked is what constitutes a good trading method (or how do I know if a trading method is really worth buying). In this article, I’ll show you what most methods look like (and why they are bad) and show you a simple way to evaluate a trading method.
If you take a close look at most of the so-called Forex trading methods and systems on the market, they consistently share the same shortcomings: Read more... (394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)
- They are incomplete. Too many courses teach hours of ‘in theory’ — but spend little to no time teaching a step-by-step plan to help you trade.
One phenomenon that derails amateur Forex traders time and time again is method complexity syndrome. They research a trading method, buy it and the minute they receive it, they jump ahead to what they consider to be “the guts” of the method. In doing so, they completely ignore all of the other aspects of trading, including risk management, discipline, and psychology.
They get into the “guts” of the method only looking for that big, mysterious, slap-your-forehead, jaw-dropping “secret” which will suddenly unlock the mysteries of the Forex universe and make them Master and Commander of every Forex pair. All too often, they find themselves completely disappointed or the “guts” reveal something they’d already heard about (but had not practiced). Amateur traders will then dismiss the method as ‘too simple’. Read more... (417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)
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