Forex Strategy Trading Tips: The Forex Trading Every Trader Should Use.

As I was planning to trade the Forex market today I followed my everyday pre-trading routine. I follow literally the same routine on a regular basis and it assists me to become more organized and proficient as a trader and as a businessman.

As part of my Forex strategy trading strategies I would like to share with you a checklist that every Forex trader should use in order to become more effective, more organized, and expand your return on investment.
Check your open trades and track their effectiveness: This should be the first step you take once you get to your computer. Check all of your open positions and rntrack their performance.

In a large number of occasions stop losses need to be moved to break even or you want to take profit early because of an incoming event (such as non- farm payroll). One of my mentors once told me that “everything that matters should be tested”, this clearly applies to spot trading.
Research the market before you place any brand new trades: I cannot accentuate enough that you need to analyze the market before you open any trades. When you are in a trade you are not the same. You are thinking about the trade all the time and you are more likely to make non-sense decisions.

In addition, you will be hitting your head if you see anything in the market that creates a conflict with a trade you already took.

Read the news or read a news calendar: I am most of a technical spot trader than a fundamental currency trader; nevertheless, I still try to stay up to date in what is going on internationally.

One of the resources that I implement to analyze the fundamentals of the currency market is the news calendar. A news calendar provides you with an overview of all the important events that are happening in the global economy. A number of them also tell you the expected influence that each specific news event will have on the currency market.

Check your risk, stop loss, and tale profit parameters: little things can make a major difference in foreign exchange trading and tiny mistakes can result on huge losses. This is the reason why I always check my risk, take profit levels, and stop loss levels. That’s the only way for me to make sure that everything is working fine and that I am going to meet my trading goals.
Never let a small mistake become a large loss: I decided to include this one as part of the Forex trading checklist because I have seen several traders lose money this way. We are all human and we will commit mistakes from time to time.

One of the most frequent errors traders make is taking a trade by mistake. I have done it and all experienced Forex traders have. This is not that big of a mistake unless you let run and become a larger loss. My advice to you is that if you ever take a trade mistakenly close it immediately, never let a small mistake turn into a big and unnecessary loss!
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To your trading success,

Jay Molinar
Pro FX trader & Educator